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Durant is still a coward. Even if the Warriors win this series, he isn't even the best player on that team and no one is going to care.

Ohhhhhhh, come on. You know it's "rigged" for LeBron, going by his haters. 

LeBron and Shaq have a lot in common with their dominant play style.....

If you see footage of Shaq when he was with the Magic, he even LOOKS like LeBron. Before he put on all the weight and became a tank. 

LeBron/Shaq comparison - they both struggle with free throws...

LeBron with a dunk, yesssssss

If the Warriors get up big, I'm not wasting my time watching. 

Draymond Green is dirty as hell, wow. Getting away with some rough stuff uncalled. 

LeBron is 1-6 in game 1's of the Finals....But damn I want this, he's knocking Curry's punk aazz on the floor. 

Curry already acting hurt over his elbow. 

I know it's early, but the Warriors look panicked mentally...all the pressure is on them, it's reflecting in their play but so far both teams look kinda sloppy. 

Wow, they opened with Zaza on the court...watch for any dirty play. 

Ugh....that story about the hate painting on LeBron's house makes me sick. Racist cowards, I hope they are found and have massive charges pressed on them. It was classified as a hate crime. 

LeBron didn't same phased by this. He was in practice yesterday joking around saying "Guess who's back? Hell NBA Finals, I missed you" 

Just the reason most are scared of playing in Boston again...They're a dirty team. 

Just to warn you if I don't reply this evening, I went to lay down. I was forced to take some pain meds over that wreckage in my mouth. 

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This is by far the worst sports conspiracy of all time. Peyton Manning would NEVER have thrown a game. EVER. I know he is from NO and so is Wayne they act like they paired up to "design" a pick 6.

 

 

Right. Two of the best of all time said "Psst.......yeah like lets throw the Super Bowl now oh my god."

Yeah when I heard this conspiracy theory years ago, I was amazed...and I hoped it wasn't created by an upset Colts fan, cause the whole "Peyton and Reggie are from NO and have a love for the saints!" thing was blown out of proportion and it was just bad in general. I know the players are connected with our teams which make that a nightmare for Colts fans, I can understand that (on the flip side though, do know I have always loved Reggie Wayne as a NO native, and his stories of growing up and watching the same Saints players I watched like Eric Martin who was his favorite Saint player, that's something I cherish with Wayne)

After that game, Manning didn't even shake hands with anyone. He walked off the field...This bothered us as Saints fans, but if you need proof he did NOT throw that game; there it is. You can tell the pick six greatly disturbed him. Like when Bette Davis got her Oscar snub in front of Joan Crawford she didn't want to be around anyone that night she was so angry she lost it. 

That original pick 6 conspiracy theory though actually goes back to Niel O'Donnell with the Steelers. The reason I said I hope Colts fans don't believe the Pick 6 conspiracy is because back in the day, STEELERS FANS are the ones who came up with the "Neil threw the game", and it was their way of saying "we would've won if it wasn't rigged". 

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And if anyone dares try to tell me AGAIN that Kyle Korver makes them "a big 4" they are going to lose teeth by me.

Only on here. You don't see that on real basketball forums. 

Korver also is a bench player. He's not a big top starter....He's good but no need to get carried away, he's like Chalmers and Allen with Miami. 

This helps them both - 

Boston - confidence is not overly destroyed and tonight's performance should be a good statement to free agents like Paul George who may want to join. Also a confidence booster for Stevens; I like him as a coach and don't understand why people hate him when I read on other sites. 

Cleveland - time to regroup, shake off that Miami ego that came crashing down to earth tonight hard. 

Oh yeah, the Celtics went CRAZY with three pointers, it kinda bailed them out when everything was said and done. Cleveland struggled getting 3's in game 1, and this time it came back to haunt them. They went like 1 for 9 from down town range in the 4th. 

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My sister is a conspiracy theory freak who still thinks Lebron is in the illuminati. 

 

My sister thinks Cleveland is just playing around........or whatever her words were. She said the league told them to throw the game and for Lebron to tank.

 

I am so embarrassed.

I've heard many, many conspiracy theories about rigging in the NFL and NBA, but this is one I never can understand. No one can convince these guys intentionally throw games, cause I just don't believe they would do that. 

LeBron is an amazing competitor, I can't see him throwing a game ever. These guys are crazy competitors, like not just LeBron, I can't imagine ANY OF THEM wanting to lay down and throw a game.  

Some conspiracy theorists said this about the Saints/Colts SB, that Peyton Manning "intentionally" threw that pick to Porter and that used to bother me cause I know it was a bad interception but still, that man WANTED to win that game and accusing him of throwing the game is practically an insult to his competitiveness. No way he did that on purpose. 

They used to say stuff like this about Favre's playoff losses too. I even seen it back in 2007, that the NFCCG, that bad interception at the end was "fixed" some how. 

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I just texted and talked fast after eating with some people I know who watched the game tonight and they all have different opinions.

 

My parents: Celtics can still go to the finals and beat the Warriors! (they are so stupid)

My sister: Cavs clearly threw the game and the league wanted them to so they could make the series longer for ratings.

Also from my sister: Lebron clearly threw the game. CLEARLY.

Mark: I just wish they lost, I want the agony to end. Now the agony of losing the series goes longer.

Omg, holy crap.  You get the BEST reactions out of people, omg....I'm laughing so hard. 

Your sister thinks it's rigged.  People accused LeBron of throwing the 2011 Finals vs the Mavs with those ugly games he had at the end. 

I'm with Mark; it's agony what's going to happen to them in the next two games with a recharged Cavs team that is refocused. 

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ugh thats what happened. I mean back when I was a Miami Heat Lebron hater I would be getting off to this game.

Yes, me too!!! It's what I remember; the Heat would lose a few here and there against a specific team in the playoffs; usually the Pacers, and then everyone would go through this OMG THEY'RE SO VULNERABLE THEY CAN BE BEATEN phase, only to be disappointed when they exploded and won a blow out game to close it. 

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I am going to eat something. Be back later and doing the message and will scream and yell more.

I probably am going to head to bed to try and fight off this hay fever junk. Ugh, it comes and goes in waves. This has been off and on for almost a whole now. Wish we could have winter come back, cause that's easier to deal with than spring and all the pollen and crap in the air. 

I'm bummed out but maybe the Cavs needed to lose...they seemed to overconfident tonight; showing flashes of the old Miami Heat's over confidence. 

One thing for sure after tonight - the Celtics looked waaaaaaaaaay better without IT in the lineup and that shocked the hell out of me. 

Old Testament Isiah Thomas >>> Little IT. 

Falcons  I know it wasn't all that surprising with Atlanta cause they did that multiple times during the year, but it's still pretty damn shocking...The other night I went back and was re-watching the SB, and I didn't notice it before, but Ryan was leaving around 15-20 seconds on the play clock before snapping the ball. They probably left at least 3 minutes on the clock just from doing this...

I still can't get over that choke job. It's the greatest thing ever.  New Orleans has removed ALL confederate memorials and those horrible statues to those traitors, and I am hoping we can replace them with something that says 28-3 so future generations can know. 

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They were cocky tonight. Lebron was laughing in warm ups and they all were like heading to the beach or something the way they appeared.

Miami Heat cockiness...They needed to come back down to earth. 

I think the Cavs have sorta taken over the old Miami home court thing too. People used to get really high on Miami losing at home in the playoffs. We heard it for 4 years straight about the "bandwagon Heat fans" who would walk out of the game in the 4th quarter and leave...The Heat at times had problems at home and I think the Cavs do too when they haven't played at home in so long. 

The Warriors would be down 1-2 right now had they not intentionally injured the Spurs best player....They would've lost the other night cause they didn't look all that great for most of the game. 

They looked so over confident tonight....

It reminded me soooooo much of those Heat teams that would get upset. And back then, everyone would get high on some team who upset Miami in a playoff game. The Pacers took them to 7 games twice, and it was always over this; "they won in Miami!!" and then the Heat would blow them out hard the longer the series went.