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Dpride59
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Jul 12, 2010 09:14:37

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Originally posted by josephblitz
dpride gonna wear his jersey to the club* afterward

Gart was tellin the truth, bort hand delivers a diamond encrusted ring to your house via his private jet, which he keeps stationed on his 400ft yacht

Otega
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Jul 12, 2010 09:20:49

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Originally posted by Dpride59
Gart was tellin the truth, bort hand delivers a diamond encrusted ring to your house via his private jet, which he keeps stationed on his 400ft yacht

Hrm, so Bort's actually a military dictator with a single aircraft carrier... interesting...

BTW, well done. Was a good championship game.

Gratz on the first title!

Gart888
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Jul 12, 2010 09:55:56

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wtf? i got mine via ups.

JuniorMcSpiffy
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Jul 12, 2010 10:26:45

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Originally posted by Gart888
wtf? i got mine via ups.

Just cuz you gots a thing for guys in brown shorts.

joemiken
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Jul 12, 2010 10:28:01

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Blaze clearly temp boosted for that game. GJ nonetheless.

Drew Brees
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Jul 12, 2010 13:12:28

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Originally posted by JuniorMcSpiffy
Just cuz you gots a thing for guys in brown shorts.

Don't forget the brown socks...

jdbolick
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Jul 23, 2010 11:43:27

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Originally posted by Bill Simmons
As for me, I figured out why the LeBron/Wade alliance bothers everyone beyond the irrefutable "Jordan would have wanted to beat Wade, not play with him" argument. In pickup basketball, there's an unwritten rule to keep teams relatively equal to maximize the competitiveness of the games. That's the law. If two players are noticeably better than everyone else, they don't play together, nor would they want to play together. If the two guys have any pride at all -- especially if they play similar positions -- then getting the better of each other trumps any other scenario. They want that test. Joining forces and destroying everyone else would ruin the whole point of having the game. It's like a dad kicking his young son's ass in a driveway one-on-one game. What's the point? When LeBron and Wade effectively said, "Instead of trying to whup each other, let's just crush everyone else" and "If these teams end up being uneven, we're not switching up," everyone who ever played basketball had the same reaction: "I hate guys like that."

So when my wife asked in all sincerity, "What's the big deal if they play together?" I couldn't really explain it to her other than to say, "It's a basketball thing. You just don't do it." Your goal as an alpha dog is to assemble the best team you can and beat the other alpha dogs. There are five alpha dogs right now: LeBron, Wade, Kobe, Howard and Durant. If two ended up on the same team by coincidence -- like Kareem and Magic, Shaq and Kobe, or Michael and Scottie -- that's one thing. That's sports. S--- happens. But willingly deciding that it would be easier to play together than beat one another? Even two weeks later, I can't get over it. LeBron's last two Boston games were a massive disappointment to anyone who truly cares about basketball, but for me, copping out by joining forces with Wade was even worse.

tbsteel
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Jul 23, 2010 13:14:45

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Originally posted by Theodore Roosevelt
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Bladnach
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Jul 23, 2010 13:37:35

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Bill simmons is a hypocrite. His NBA book the big "secret to success" that jordan/bird/magic etc... all had was just wanting to win more than anything else basically. Yet he criticized to death kobe going 6-24 in the game 7 win and criticized lebron for wanting to join the best possible situation in terms of winning a title now and in the future.

magic over lakers in finals after magic trade vince's expiring deal at the february deadline ldo

Edited by chronoaug on Jul 23, 2010 13:38:44

Edited by chronoaug on Jul 23, 2010 13:38:09

tjsexkitten82
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Jul 23, 2010 14:38:51

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Originally posted by chronoaug
Bill simmons is a hypocrite. His NBA book the big "secret to success" that jordan/bird/magic etc... all had was just wanting to win more than anything else basically. Yet he criticized to death kobe going 6-24 in the game 7 win and criticized lebron for wanting to join the best possible situation in terms of winning a title now and in the future.

magic over lakers in finals after magic trade vince's expiring deal at the february deadline ldo

Bill Simmons has never been a great analyst or even a good sports reporter. All he is is a giant homer who panders to Boston area fans.

Aurorasdad
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Jul 23, 2010 15:27:38

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Originally posted by jdbolick
Originally posted by Bill Simmons

If two ended up on the same team by coincidence -- like Kareem and Magic, Shaq and Kobe, or Michael and Scottie -- that's one thing. That's sports. S--- happens. But willingly deciding that it would be easier to play together than beat one another?

So, it's wise for a GM to make his team the best by rostering as many great players as possible, but if players choose to do this, they are violating some stupid ball scratching, ass slapping, alpha dog bullshit code?

Let's get rid of team ownership altogether and make it an employee-owned league. GM's hired by the season ticket owners!

jdbolick
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Jul 23, 2010 15:37:38

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Originally posted by Aurorasdad
So, it's wise for a GM to make his team the best by rostering as many great players as possible, but if players choose to do this, they are violating some stupid ball scratching, ass slapping, alpha dog bullshit code? Let's get rid of team ownership altogether and make it an employee-owned league. GM's hired by the season ticket owners!
I think the analogy is more along the lines of "if this happens by serendipity then so be it, but if these elite players choose to come together then that's taking the easy way out and any championships that follow are cheapened as a result."

NiborRis
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Jul 23, 2010 15:54:32

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Originally posted by jdbolick

I think the analogy is more along the lines of "if this happens by serendipity then so be it, but if these elite players choose to come together then that's taking the easy way out and any championships that follow are cheapened as a result."

Yeah, but it's crap. The reasons the LeBron/Wade/Bosh situation was annoying is:

1) In retrospect it all looks staged - they tried to string everyone along that anything could happen, but really they probably all were going to go to the same team, and it was just a matter of which team could pay them all the most money, and even sign them all, and that was really just Miami.
2) Putting it on a TV special was pretty classless. Forcing Cleveland ownership to hear about it on TV instead of giving them a heads up ahead of time was basically burning bridges. LeBron showed he cared more about trying to sell his image then he did about trying to maintain good relations with his contacts in the league that wouldn't be in Miami. This may actually backfire and hurt his marketability down the road, but I don't know. LeBron I'm sure knows more about marketing than I do right now.

Everyone's signed killer free agents before for cheaper than cost to get them rings. All of them took a little bit of heat for it, but nothing like LeBron has. Boston and the Lakers have done it.

Personally, I don't think it's a big deal and it's not like they're head and shoulders favorites to run away with the league. They go and win the next 4 titles straight, then we can revisit about how this was beating up the playground scrubs, but I just don't see it happening.

No one's convinced me yet this won't be like Houston after the Barkley trade - good, but not as good as they were with Horry and Cassell.

Bladnach
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Jul 23, 2010 16:08:56

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dwight + cp3 +shard gonna beat up on miami

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Jul 23, 2010 16:39:16

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Originally posted by tjking82
Bill Simmons has never been a great analyst or even a good sports reporter. All he is is a giant homer who panders to Boston area fans.

He is humorous

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