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yee yee lets go lakers 2-2 tonight

CELTICCCSSSSS tough loss agaainst thunder today for lakers CELTICS BEAT PHILY IN 6 THEY BEAT MIAMI IN 7 THEY BEAT SPURS IN 6

Predicting Heat will sweep but Indiana will make it close in each game.
Celtics underachieving, but win in 7.
Spurs sweep.
OKC in 6.

Heat beat the Celtics in 5.
Still indecisive about the rest.

i am a celtic fan for life and phily is easy, miami wouldnt be too hard, hopefully bosh's groin injury will be very serious lol

wheres da knicks fanz at

good win knicks

free metta world peace

bro the knicks have never won a championship for 40 yrs theyve only won 2 in their entire history

dw guys, we going back home for the next 2 games, i kno for sure the garden is gonna be killin on thursday

Celtics-so long asrondo doesnt get a long suspension - why? beacause then theyll play bulls (rose is out) AHAHAHAHAH Then theyll play miami(Theyve beaten miami 3 times in a row now) and yeh AND BTW NEW YORK IS SH - - CUS THEY CANT GET PAST MIAMI UNLIKE THE CELTICS

the celtics are going to have to get past atlanta first...

@Panicka: Spurs cannot win the big games. That has been their whole problem since last year. Even with Popavitch it's gonna be an uphill battle.

Spurs do have diversity in the team. However, their big problem is the same problem as the Celtics. The players are simply getting too old. Their rookies are great, but not in clutch time.

@Ldamplr: Morality is a big issue when it comes to playoff season. Embarrassing losses cause a lot of turmoil. Look at Bynum during Lakers and Mavs series last year.

28-3 run WOW! I know i'm late, I was at Jack in the crack after the game ended.

That's how you win a playoff game, good stuff Clippers!

Clippers in the western conference finals.

Choketastic Spurs and Thunders are gonna drop out in the 2nd round.
It's gonna be the battle of the city, Lakers vs. Clippers.

I used to like LeBron on the Cavs.
When he came to the Heat, he started dunking and getting to the rim less >_>...
Not a LeBron hater, but Game 1 makes a LeBron hater...

The Lakers started off this season very weak.

However with A. Bynum upping his game along with Sessions and Kobe Bryant still being able to dish out major points, the Lakers have become a serious contenders for the West. OKC vs Lakers IMO. However OKC will win most likely.

For the East.

With the tragedy of D. Rose, the Bulls lost their chances of winning this year. Even though Boozer has upped his offensive game, along with Deng playing a lot harder, they lost their main leader. I wouldn't count them out however, but they lost a serious gun in their arsenal of weapons.

The Knicks might have a chance if LeBron ends up choking this first round. Seeing as he's playing A LOT dirtier at the start of the playoffs compared to last year. Showing that the pressure is getting to him and he needs to get any form of points he can get.

I want the Knicks to win against the Heat, but sadly the Heat will win. Sad that they got placed together so early.

The Celtics are also a serious contender as they have such a great team. Plus their team have a great deal of veteran players.

Miami vs Celtics IMO. As much as I want it to be Knicks vs Bulls, with my two fav point guards sitting out for most of the season along with another major Knick player injury.. blehh.

[quote=Panicka]Couldn't help but role my eyes a little. Knicks fans kill me.[/quote]

Before you criticize someone else, roll.*

How bout dem Spurs <3

@Ldamplr : Indeed... He was without a doubt the Knicks' best defensive guard. Without him, D. Wade will have little trouble against the Knicks. Maybe Landry Fields can help play some good defense but Shumpert was leaps and bounds a better defender.

I am just going to hope for a better Game 2, not much can be done about Game 1 now. Time to enjoy the rest of this day of basketball hoping that the Lakers, Celtics and Grizzlies can win today. Glad the Spurs won so far.

[quote=cadillac]You just said everything almost word for word on my thoughts on that Broadway play o wait I mean basketball game. Flopping is by far the biggest piss stain on this great sport and referees need to get their heads out of their asses and learn that a) this is a contact sport no matter how hard they try to prevent it and b) realize this is not the academy awards this is basketball. I swear referees these days disgust me to the point where I agree with Jeff Van Gundy, who rants incorrectly all the time.[/quote]

Jeff Van Gundy is definitely my favorite commentator. He's funny and his "suggested rule changes" are ridiculous but he does make great points about the amount of flopping. Players SHOULD get punished for flopping like LBJ did in the first round. Although it wasn't JUST the poor officiating and flopping, it had a lot to do with it. With all those questionable calls, Amar'e and Tyson both had foul trouble. That led to a more bench-oriented offense which led to a blowout by the Heat. Let's hope the officiating will go our way when it's Knicks' homecourt.

[quote=pr3stig3]@YourPirateGuy: Cause the refs were responsible for their non-existent defense, pathetic offense and 30+ point blowout. *rolls eyes*[/quote]

They were responsible for the terrible foul calls that lead to foul trouble, which causes a team to play soft in a contact sport and therefore allow the Heat to walk into the paint whenever they wanted because you can't lay a finger on the player or its a blocking foul. It is a chain reaction that creates the problems, that began with flops and bad calls that allowed the Heat to do what they want.

And Jeff Van Gundy is the biggest troll commentator on the planet. Some of the crap he says though cracks me up.

[quote=cadillac]You just said everything almost word for word on my thoughts on that Broadway play o wait I mean basketball game. Flopping is by far the biggest piss stain on this great sport and referees need to get their heads out of their asses and learn that a) this is a contact sport no matter how hard they try to prevent it and b) realize this is not the academy awards this is basketball. I swear referees these days disgust me to the point where I agree with Jeff Van Gundy, who rants incorrectly all the time.[/quote]

Most of JVG's rants are funny and he trolls most of the time. He also over-exaggerates a lot.

[quote=YourPirateGuy]The Knicks backed off on defense in the 2nd/3rd quarter because they were calling ticky-tacky fouls. I don't care how strong you are, LeBron shouldn't be able to be pushed down to the ground with one hand. A referee should know when a player is flopping. LeBron shouldn't be allowed to flop, he's too bleeping strong. That shouldn't happen. The Knicks were called for 25 fouls. Some of those charge calls were horrible. One of them had Battier in the restricted area and the baseline referee saw everything. That pick that Chandler set wasn't a flagrant foul. He didn't know the pick/screen was coming so obviously he's going to run into it very hard. Let's be serious... Melo got a technical for passing the ball to a referee. Haslem and STAT were called for techs early in the game for TALKING to each other. It wasn't anything excessive. Now if they used expletives that's a different story. But, there was no indication of that. Officiating is a big part of the game, whether you get it right or wrong (Kings vs Lakers series). It's a rivalry playoff series, of course it's going to be physical... But, they didn't let them get physical at all. Most of these fouls were play-ons back in the 90s and early 2000s. As for their offense, Melo missed make-able shots and Amar'e/Chandler had so many questionable charge-calls. Anyways, congrats to LeBron on the Oscar. Hope to see him in game 3/4 in NYC.[/quote]

You just said everything almost word for word on my thoughts on that Broadway play o wait I mean basketball game. Flopping is by far the biggest piss stain on this great sport and referees need to get their heads out of their asses and learn that a) this is a contact sport no matter how hard they try to prevent it and b) realize this is not the academy awards this is basketball. I swear referees these days disgust me to the point where I agree with Jeff Van Gundy, who rants incorrectly all the time.

@Panicka: Come on Panicka, even you have to agree that the officiating was spotty...
Also Boston is lucky. If they get to the 2nd round, they don't need to play a Bulls team led by Rose.

[quote=gigantoguy]OKC vs Miami for Finals
OKC will win it game 6[/quote]

this , except Miami wins in game 5

Spurs on upset alert.

Have to agree, the refs in Knicks vs Heat was pretty horrible to a certain extent. Horrible foul calls causes the Knicks to be that much more frustrated, ending up with even MORE fouls and a terrible play. Hopefully they'll get different refs in game 2, seriously. And the Lebron flops thoughout the whole game. Lost all respect for him now, even though I almost never watch any Heat games anyway.

[quote=pr3stig3]@YourPirateGuy: Cause the refs were responsible for their non-existent defense, pathetic offense and 30+ point blowout. *rolls eyes*[/quote]

The Knicks backed off on defense in the 2nd/3rd quarter because they were calling ticky-tacky fouls. I don't care how strong you are, LeBron shouldn't be able to be pushed down to the ground with one hand. A referee should know when a player is flopping. LeBron shouldn't be allowed to flop, he's too bleeping strong. That shouldn't happen. The Knicks were called for 25 fouls. Some of those charge calls were horrible. One of them had Battier in the restricted area and the baseline referee saw everything. That pick that Chandler set wasn't a flagrant foul. He didn't know the pick/screen was coming so obviously he's going to run into it very hard. Let's be serious... Melo got a technical for passing the ball to a referee. Haslem and STAT were called for techs early in the game for TALKING to each other. It wasn't anything excessive. Now if they used expletives that's a different story. But, there was no indication of that. Officiating is a big part of the game, whether you get it right or wrong (Kings vs Lakers series). It's a rivalry playoff series, of course it's going to be physical... But, they didn't let them get physical at all. Most of these fouls were play-ons back in the 90s and early 2000s. As for their offense, Melo missed make-able shots and Amar'e/Chandler had so many questionable charge-calls. Anyways, congrats to LeBron on the Oscar. Hope to see him in game 3/4 in NYC.

@YourPirateGuy: Cause the refs were responsible for their non-existent defense, pathetic offense and 30+ point blowout. *rolls eyes*

Does anyone know the name of the referees who will be officiating: Game 2 Knicks vs Heat?
It's probably the same refs...right?
I have a feeling this is going to be like the Kings vs Lakers series... It's going to go to 7 games with blowouts both ways... >_>

that really was a crazy game, dallas was up almost the whole game, and durant was having a bad night until the last shot, which didn't even look like a good shot, yet it still went in so good win for okc

That was an insane game. Then again, all season long OKC and Dallas had some crazy games.

Durant is clutch...

Sucks Derrick is out.

Sigh. such a shame for Derrick Rose.

yea.... so sad that rose and shumpert got injured, doesn't mean anything if you win against a team if they don't have their best player, especially if it is in the playoffs. sucks for the bulls, drose has been out for a lot of the season b/c of the injuries and now he is out again, very unfortunate since this year they had a very good chance of making it to the conference finals and maybe winning the championship. the east is very weak now with the bulls out, pretty much the only competition miami has now are the celtics. interested to see who will come out of the west tho, dallas is winning against OKC right now and who knows, they might beat them again like last year

i say my guesses
1)thunder beat heat in 6
2)thunder beat bulls in 5
3)bulls beat thunder in 7 (yes with out rose)
4)spurs win finals

im a bulls fan

OKC vs Miami for Finals
OKC will win it game 6

Without Dwight Howard, Magic aren't gonna go far, even though they beat the pacers first round. Just sayin all u Orlando Fans.

[quote=pr3stig3]@FlyUnion: Don't worry, my friends hate me for it too. It's just that Dwyane Wade's my favorite basketball player, while the Celtics are my favorite team.

I supported Dwyane Wade since he was drafted back in 2003, and then absolutely fell in love with his game in the 2006 Finals. I've supported him all this time, and I will continue to. Even if he gets labeled a "sellout" for teaming up with LeBron and Bosh.[/quote]

he's not really labeled a sellout. he's labeled a sellout because he didn't come to his home town and play for the Bulls.

@FlyUnion: Don't worry, my friends hate me for it too. It's just that Dwyane Wade's my favorite basketball player, while the Celtics are my favorite team.

I supported Dwyane Wade since he was drafted back in 2003, and then absolutely fell in love with his game in the 2006 Finals. I've supported him all this time, and I will continue to. Even if he gets labeled a "sellout" for teaming up with LeBron and Bosh.

[quote=bojl]wow magic beat pacers[/quote]
shocker, right.
maybe with dwight they could win the series...but eh

wow, how about the Magic up by 3 in Indiana

go lakers!

My brothers only gonna watch to see CoD: Black ops 2 reveal trailer:/

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@Ldamplr: wow dwight's out, dang it's going to be boston vs miami in eastern conference finals. I'm going with Miami as always. I hate this matchup though, my dad and I watched th celtics win it all in 2008 we loved it so much. We also watched miami win it all in 2006. But where ever d-wade is, is what team I root for. Anyways, the way the heat played such aggressive defense, I really don't think any teams stand a chance.

[quote=Panicka]Yeah I don't get what it is with Basil and the Knicks.

The Bulls needs to pray Rose is ready to go next season. ACL's are nasty. If they aren't then I go back to what I originally posted and put them square into the middle of the Shabazz Muhammed lottery.[/quote]

He'll be good about 30 games into the season. I don't think they'll be in the lottery.

Also, Panicka... I'm a Knicks fan and was born&raised here. With Rose's injury, that puts the Celtics/Hawks in a better spot. They'll probably play the 76ers in the 2nd round. Looks like Heat/Knicks winner will determine ECF champ...

All Thibodeau's fault why Rose got injured. Why would you let him play the final minutes when Bulls are up by 10+ in an obvious win.. smh

tyson did absolutely horrible cuz he had the flu, shumpert got injured, heat had 2 good defense, nobody on the knicks did anything at all, 2 many turnovers, bad game all around, nothing more to say bout this game, surely the knicks will step it up next game