This the one area where our country is still legit free. People with crazy ideas like this are still allowed to walk the streets.

it's much easier to add a top 3 player to a 70 win team and be great than to build a team essentially from scratch even though your top 3 players are all great.

BUMP.

Well a sweep looks quite plausible now. But maybe not cuz Chuck is an epic jinx.

I know Houston can do a little more off ball but it is a pretty limited team in terms of offensive attack.

All those wings just can't really get their shots off vs elite D. Mbah/Ariza/Tucker.

I actually could see CP playing much worse, he was working very hard for his pts out there. So was Harden as well obviously.

Who cares. It's an absolutely terrible analogy. Arguably the best guy in the league went to a 73-9 team. NOTHING compares to that.

Also Klay Thompson is the most awesome human ever conceived

Rozier/Smart on Steph
Brown on Klay
Tatum/Morris on KD

They have the team defense & the bodies to make it tough for Golden State to score, not saying they're going to lock them down, i'm just saying they will make it as tough as anybody will make it for them defensively.

Meh. I thought GS played pretty well, especially on offense. They didn't turn it over, and it's pretty much always gg when they don't turn it over.

I have a friend who thinks LeBron going to Miami was the most ***** made move ever.

Even worse than what Durant did.

Yes this is the same guy who would take Dipo over Kawhi too.

I try not to seriously talk sports with him anymore.

After both teams sweep , do the finals start right away or do we have to wait a week ?

Finals starts on a predetermined date, why they have the gap inbetween games from games 2 to 3 in both series. The rd 2 series ended too quickly.

I believe the finals starts June 2nd but don't quote me on that.

Starts may 31 no matter what

More time for Brad to Brad while Kerr Kerrs.

Meh, if Wade had held up better and Lebron didn't have that weird 2011 finals, the Heat likely would have "ruined" the NBA, and a lot of people hating on Durant would have enjoyed it. Lebron was clearly trying to form as dominant of a team as he could when he went to Miami, as he should have been.

The intent was the same, Durant just out-Lebronned Lebron. If you think Lebron cared at all about keeping the NBA competitive when he went all NWO on everyone, I have some swampland to sell you. If Lebron decides to go to the Lakers next, that would be fantastic.

*To clarify, I support what both guys did. I was critical of Lebron for doing "The Decision" special, but I have a natural bias towards players making the best decision for their own careers.

As I understood it, the league's idea was to slow the growth of the cap in a way that looks to me like an interest-free loan to the owners. If the owners really wanted cap smoothing, they should have offered the players more money, but I don't think they wanted the players to have a little bit extra in the bank in case there was a 2017 work stoppage. I think the players might have accepted some sort of cap smoothing if it had involved bumping up the 2015-2016 salary cap, but that would have required some fast negotiating.

I would give up all the money I won tonight $23.81 to see Durant off this team. Igaudala is probably a hall of famer still in his prime, and he comes of the bench. Get this trash out of here. Chris Paul basically ****ing sucks, and he is supposed to play goddamn Steph Curry. Shaun Livingston is probably better than him, **** Christ.

The Rockets shot 56% as a team, Harden had 41 and Curry was a non factor.

And they lost by double digits.

Maybe the NBA should rig a Boston Cinderella run to the title to prove it's not rigged so that people don't feel Durant on the Warriors has ruined the league. Or do people like you believe the only want the Celtics can win is if it is rigged? They certainly wouldn't be the favorite, but I don't think they are drawing dead to win a ring.

Yup. Durant was too good and our defense was dog ****.

lol

Feeling like a genius having gotten money down on GS to sweep. They def ruined the league might as well make money from it.

Good ****in job

You’re not a genius, your just some ******* with a beating heart. If I had a bankroll at all, I would have bet that. It’s compeltely obvious to anyone with a dick.

You don't know much about the NBA. They're gonna rig one for Houston in game 3 or 4, they're gonna rig one for the cavs when they go back to Cleveland down 0-2.