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I was a Heat fan, now i'm a Heat fan more than ever haha

Lets Go Lakers!

Right now, Bynum (healthy) + Gasol + Kobe > O'Neal + Bosh + Wade...but of course there's the whole Lebronze addition. Mr. Artest will have to step up his game even more if the Lakers are to three-peat.

Assuming the three of them can co-exist and Lebron is okay with not being number 1 on his team every night, they'll still be hard pressed to get past the Celtics.

No way that those three get along. They'll struggle and fall apart. Lebron's too much of a dickhead and far too self-centered to play second fiddle to DWade. When he finds out what it's like, he'll pout like a bitch.

Michael Beasley has huge potential as well. The big three in Boston has turned into the Rajon Rondo show with 3 old guys, so it's basically LA/MIA finals for what 8 years?

All Miami needs now is a centre, I betting Shaq/Wade reunion.

they may win once or twice, but they might not. as talented as they are, Wade and LeBron both need the ball to be effective. LeBron will have to play PG...we'll see.

hopefully, he will get a career ending injury.

All this proves is where games 3, 4 and 5 of the Finals will be. That's assuming the Heat can sign enough players to be eligible to play.

Fuck all this whining. Bosh-Wade-James will own the shit out of the Lakers and the Celtics!

Spain or Netherlands on Sunday?

As a Toronto resident who never really cared about basketball or the Raptors after Vince Carter missed that buzzer-beater against the 76ers, fuck 'em all.

Also Netherlands all the way, Spain are a bunch of wankers. Well most soccer players are and some Dutch ones are certainly too, but they're somehow more loveable. Plus Dutch girls are hot.

And the circus is over. The NBA's a really bizarre league that this could happen, where three players can almost decide the fates of so many different teams.
I would have liked to see them all remain with the teams that made them stars, but I guess with the league's future so uncertain, they gotta get while it's there to be got.

I just hope they deliver on their awesome promise, or this has all been really silly.

I think that Boston's still the team to beat in the East. It's up to LBJ/Bosh/D-Wade to co-exist after being the go-to guy on their respective teams for their entire career. The Allen/KG/Pierce trio showed that they can adapt to a team game after coming from some pretty garbage teams, but Lebron is on a completely different stratosphere of ego compared to them.

As much as I hate the Celtics, everyone thought they were done this year and they came a quarter away from winning their second championship in three years (and if Perkins was healthy, the Lakers probably wouldn't have grabbed 50 offensive rebounds to stay in the game). Pierce is still an All-Star, Allen and Garnett are still great players even if they're on the decline, they just grabbed Jermaine O'Neal (who is a better fit for them than Wallace, IMO), and Rondo can develop into the best PG in the league if he ever develops a perimeter jumper. Everyone was predicting their demise after 2008, but as a collective team, they're still very tough to stop.

Bruins wrote:Michael Beasley has huge potential as well. The big three in Boston has turned into the Rajon Rondo show with 3 old guys, so it's basically LA/MIA finals for what 8 years?

All Miami needs now is a centre, I betting Shaq/Wade reunion.

Beasley was traded to the Wolves today, which leaves Chalmers and the trio as the only players that will be under contract thus far. So they need a centre and seven bench players to sign.

And I think Shaq burned some bridges when he left Miami the first time, so I don't know where they stand with him.

ESPN.com

Comparing The Pieces

When LeBron James joined Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in Miami, it drew instant comparisons to the Celtics adding Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen to Paul Pierce three years ago. A comparison of each trio's combined numbers before uniting under one banner:

-------------Heat Trio---Celtics Trio
Seasons------------21 32
All-Star App.-------17 22
All-NBA 1st teams--6 3
MVPs-----------------2 1
NBA titles-----------1 0

Bruins wrote:ESPN.com

Comparing The Pieces

When LeBron James joined Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in Miami, it drew instant comparisons to the Celtics adding Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen to Paul Pierce three years ago. A comparison of each trio's combined numbers before uniting under one banner:

-------------Heat Trio---Celtics Trio
Seasons------------21 32
All-Star App.-------17 22
All-NBA 1st teams--6 3
MVPs-----------------2 1
NBA titles-----------1 0

All of those accolades are great, but the Celtics have shown the ability to play as a team and also have some pretty good bench/role players.

Until Miami does both things, they're playing an uphill battle.

But, that said, Riley's too smart of a basketball man to not know that. He'll patchwork the roster with lots of unselfish veterans and good defenders. Throw in a spot-up shooter and they'll be ready to go.


I couldn't care less about the NBA. But as a Clevelander, I'm saddened for the sports landscape in this town. I'm a die-hard Indians fan and we blow more than a sorority girl with a high sex drive locked in a frat house, the Browns are staring at another 4-6 win season. The Cavs, while they have plenty of salary cap room, will undoubtedly finish behind at least Milwaukee, Chicago, Miami, and Boston and be a first round exit in the best-case scenario. The downtown scene, which is pathetic enough as is, has taken an enormous hit.

The Indians are lucky to draw 15k for weekend games anymore. Cleveland Browns Stadium is too far from the bar districts and is only a once-a-week event 8 times a year and mostly tailgate-driven. Lots of bar owners are about to face a ton of hardships.

For a town that has been kicked around millions upon millions of times just in the last 10 years let alone dating all the way back to when the manufacturing sector died out, we're really up Shit Creek now.

Basketball? What's that?

Go Dutch.

SharksGM wrote:As a Toronto resident who never really cared about basketball or the Raptors after Vince Carter missed that buzzer-beater against the 76ers, fuck 'em all.

Also Netherlands all the way, Spain are a bunch of wankers. Well most soccer players are and some Dutch ones are certainly too, but they're somehow more loveable. Plus Dutch girls are hot.

but Spanish women are also fairly attractive. i am rooting for Holland as well because of the country, and because they are exciting. Spain is now getting farther than they used to, but have turned boring.

as far as the Heat goes, they won't win the title this year, and next year comes the lockout. hopefully, the new CBA will make it hard for them to collect the right supporting cast, but who knows. now i just might be dreaming

seems like everyones forgotten that they all have co-existed together before as part of the olympic team when they won gold...not to mention the fact that they made their alleged pact to play together during that time span. I'm sure they will know how to play with each other...especially now with Miller and Big Z

StarStruck wrote:seems like everyones forgotten that they all have co-existed together before as part of the olympic team when they won gold...not to mention the fact that they made their alleged pact to play together during that time span. I'm sure they will know how to play with each other...especially now with Miller and Big Z

ABOUT TIME YOU SHOWED UP GARDICK

StarStruck wrote:seems like everyones forgotten that they all have co-existed together before as part of the olympic team when they won gold...not to mention the fact that they made their alleged pact to play together during that time span. I'm sure they will know how to play with each other...especially now with Miller and Big Z

That's a once-in-four-years event where they are playing for something bigger than themselves.

To co-exist every night, for 82 games plus playoffs, I can't see it.