You stupid..lolIts no joke to me when a CAC calls me a Nigga tho...
Im in a bad mood today...
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They gone need a whiteside for cavs anyways. They might of did something
@ IT IS WHAT IT IS being back on the Cavs wave after calling Bron a 4 time loser and washed up all season. Steph get hurt now he dont wanna be Ayesha no mo. Dude pick one team and stick with them, nobody respects all that dick hopping. 
Cuz soon as the Warriors sweep them you gon be back to that "this Steph era, Bron cant be mentioned with MJ even tho his numbers better" talk.
I call it as it is... Unlike a lot of you Dudes I call shit as I see it and can admit when Ive been wrong. The Cavs are playing at a high level and looking at LeBron objectively I can speak positively on him while still believing Air is better. Not so insecure that I cant do that, and i wont dream up fake ass pleas to cop to deflect shit. Im objective Bruh, a grow man that way. Still believe this is Stephs time as a player... So all that juvenile dick hopper bullshit doesnt move me lil fella. That pick a side nonsense is for little Niggas and children.. Im a little beyond that shit lil fella... Enjoy your lil lols tho... I know you live for that shit... Wont be going back and forth with you either. Gonna leave that to you and your little minions...
When Wade passed Pippen on the postseason scoring list the other day we didnt get the "but Pip got 6 rings hes 6-0 in the Finals, Wade can never be him" talk. When Duncan passed Havlicek this season we didnt get the "Hondo got 8 rings he 8-0 in the Finals, Duncan can never measure to him" talk. Theres only 1 certain shoe salesman that the fanboys say his team rings (that they pretend he won by himself) means numbers and stats dont matter and that makes him greater. So when it comes to "desperate plea copping" and the inability to be non biased, you and the other Jumpman dickeaters are the worst. But carry on, keep dick hopping and pretend we dont notice.
Who is the 3 all star caliber players that Russ plays with??
Where is RoadRage at???
I see your sarcasm...
He bolts when called on his bullshit Bruh. Dude is shitting on Russell, yet says Dame is balling out. When I called him on that shit to show Dames playoff numbers are worse than Russells, he comes up with some shit about how Dame is carrying a bum ass team in the playoffs and Russell has 3 all star caliber players he's playing with...
When I pointed out Dame ain't carrying shit, and his tough ass playoff run has been against a depleted Clippers team with their two best players out, and against the Warriors with the MVP out... and aske him who the 3 all star players Russ is playing with, he goes into some matrix deflection and bounces without addressing his bullshit...
Happens every other day with that guy...
All I want to hear from him is... who the 3 all star players he mentioned, and how is dame balling out but Russell is struggling, and Russells numbers are better, against better competition so far
He bolts when called on his bullshit Bruh. Dude is shitting on Russell, yet says Dame is balling out. When I called him on that shit to show Dames playoff numbers are worse than Russells, he comes up with some shit about how Dame is carrying a bum ass team in the playoffs and Russell has 3 all star caliber players he's playing with...
When I pointed out Dame ain't carrying shit, and his tough ass playoff run has been against a depleted Clippers team with their two best players out, and against the Warriors with the MVP out... and aske him who the 3 all star players Russ is playing with, he goes into some matrix deflection and bounces without addressing his bullshit...
Happens every other day with that guy...
All I want to hear from him is... who the 3 all star players he mentioned, and how is dame balling out but Russell is struggling, and Russells numbers are better, against better competition so far
Anybody listening to Bomani Jones!? Dude is dropping a lot of science on why LeBrons potential six straight trips to the finals needs to be respected, and anybody dumping on him are idiots. Plus he shed some light on the player that everybody including people here say possibly should be in the discussion for greatest of all time, Magic Johnson, and how he basically had a cakewalk his entire career out west because back then the Western Conference was weak even more so than the Eastern Conference LeBron is playing in. He made a really good Point. Can anybody name the great teams out west that Magic Johnson had to go through to make it to the finals all of those years?
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Raptors’ Valanciunas: MRI ‘wasn’t the best results we expected’
Michael Grange May 9, 2016, 1:35 PM
MIAMI – The Toronto Raptors’ best post-season performer to date was offered a chair to sit on when he spoke with the media at shootaround on Tuesday morning, and he refused it.
That’s about the extent of the good news regarding Jonas Valanciunas, the Raptors seven-foot centre who could stand on his sprained right ankle, albeit with lower leg encased in a walking boot, but can’t play.
Whether the Raptors advance to the Eastern Conference Finals by dispatching the Miami Heat in five games or if it stretches to seven, Valanciunas has been ruled out for this round at the minimum.
“Pain-wise, it’s okay but that can affect the future so you, so we’re treating, doing everything to get better, to heal and we’ll see day by day,” said Valanciunas, who twisted his ankle when he stepped on the back of Dwayne Wade’s foot early in the second half of Game 3.
He was trying to put an optimistic face on the injury, that has taken him from the Raptors lineup at the moment he was playing the best basketball of his career, averaging 15 points and 12.1 rebounds in 10 post-season games, and 18.3 points and 12.7 rebounds per game in three games against Miami, along with two blocks and two assists.
With Valanciunas out Bismack Biyombo is expected to get the start at centre. The Raptors were 16-6 with Biyombo as a starter.
The Raptors haven’t announced the severity of Valanciunas’ injury, but there was word circulating that it’s a third-degree sprain which usually requires 30 days to recover and often more. After Game 3, Valanciunas seemed upbeat about the possibility of returning for this series but that changed after testing was completed on Sunday.
“We did MRI and we saw the results and it wasn’t the best results we expected,” he said. “We’re just going to see what’s happening, it’s already got a little bit better over night, the plan is ice, keeping high and resting. You do this and see what happens.”
Still Valanciunas said he was hoping to play if the Raptors should get past the Heat.
“I have faith in my teammates and they are doing a great job, I think,” he said. “And I’m going to be cheering, going to be doing what I can do to support them and hopefully they’re going to win this series and next series I can help them.”
Michael Grange May 9, 2016, 1:35 PM
MIAMI – The Toronto Raptors’ best post-season performer to date was offered a chair to sit on when he spoke with the media at shootaround on Tuesday morning, and he refused it.
That’s about the extent of the good news regarding Jonas Valanciunas, the Raptors seven-foot centre who could stand on his sprained right ankle, albeit with lower leg encased in a walking boot, but can’t play.
Whether the Raptors advance to the Eastern Conference Finals by dispatching the Miami Heat in five games or if it stretches to seven, Valanciunas has been ruled out for this round at the minimum.
“Pain-wise, it’s okay but that can affect the future so you, so we’re treating, doing everything to get better, to heal and we’ll see day by day,” said Valanciunas, who twisted his ankle when he stepped on the back of Dwayne Wade’s foot early in the second half of Game 3.
He was trying to put an optimistic face on the injury, that has taken him from the Raptors lineup at the moment he was playing the best basketball of his career, averaging 15 points and 12.1 rebounds in 10 post-season games, and 18.3 points and 12.7 rebounds per game in three games against Miami, along with two blocks and two assists.
With Valanciunas out Bismack Biyombo is expected to get the start at centre. The Raptors were 16-6 with Biyombo as a starter.
The Raptors haven’t announced the severity of Valanciunas’ injury, but there was word circulating that it’s a third-degree sprain which usually requires 30 days to recover and often more. After Game 3, Valanciunas seemed upbeat about the possibility of returning for this series but that changed after testing was completed on Sunday.
“We did MRI and we saw the results and it wasn’t the best results we expected,” he said. “We’re just going to see what’s happening, it’s already got a little bit better over night, the plan is ice, keeping high and resting. You do this and see what happens.”
Still Valanciunas said he was hoping to play if the Raptors should get past the Heat.
“I have faith in my teammates and they are doing a great job, I think,” he said. “And I’m going to be cheering, going to be doing what I can do to support them and hopefully they’re going to win this series and next series I can help them.”
Amar'e starting tonight 
Amar'e starting tonight
This some funny shit...
They were playing good ball when Amare was starting during the season
Ohio Lottery Winning Time: Pushing the Right Buttons
When the Cavaliers brass replaced the squad’s head coach in late January with an East-leading 30-11 mark, some fans and pundits might have been shocked; others saddened and angered.
But nobody – nobody – doubted that Tyronn Lue would master the job in almost exactly the way he has since taking over. And if someone back then suggested that Lue would take the first eight games of the Playoffs and push all the right buttons along the way, that same group – nobody – would be surprised.
The Cavaliers haven’t just won the first eight games of the postseason. They’ve won them in record-setting fashion.
On the way to their sixth Eastern Conference Finals in franchise history, the Cavs – who’ve never faced either Toronto or Miami in the postseason – set the NBA’s all-time mark for back-to-back three-point shooting games and canned 77 triples in the series, two fewer than the 2013-14 Hawks, who did so in seven games.
They were the first team in NBA history to can at least 15 treys in four straight (regular or postseason) games and went 77-for-152 in the series, canning an average of 19.3 per contest. Through only eight games, they lead the 2016 Playoffs with 134 triples made (28 more than the team they just eliminated) and are 26 percentage points better than the next-shooting team, San Antonio, shooting at a .462 clip.
Kevin Love has doubled-up in all eight games of the postseason – averaging 19.0 points and 13.0 boards per. Kyrie Irving has topped 20 points in seven of those eight games. And LeBron James has been … LeBron James.
On Sunday, James posted another masterful performance – nearly netting his first triple-double of this year’s postseason with 21 points, 10 boards and nine assists. He went 10-for-23 from the floor, which is slightly deceiving, considering that the game’s greatest finisher missed an astonishing fourstraight point-blank attempts at the rim with 1:17 to play (something that had to be perplexing, even to him.)
Kevin Love’s monster third quarter was the difference, as the Big Three all topped the 20-point mark for the fourth time in this year’s Playoffs. Kyrie Irving didn’t have his usual outburst on Sunday. He was just deadly all afternoon long – illuminated by his incredible lefty layup after driving right baseline late in the third.
Defensively, the Cavaliers weren’t at their best in the early-going on Sunday afternoon in Atlanta. But as they usually do, the Wine and Gold got better with age – improving as the game went along.
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After killing Cleveland with 15 points in the first period, the Cavs held Paul Millsap to just four more points and no field goals for the rest of the way. They held Atlanta to just 19 points in the third and every player not named Dennis Schroder to a combined 4-of-11 shooting in the fourth. In the regular season, the Cavs allowed the fewest fourth-quarter points in the NBA (23.7) and have been even better in the Playoffs (21.6).
All those numbers add up to another piece of the record books – with the Cavaliers notching their 12th straight win over Atlanta in the postseason, tying the mark they set against the Pistons one series earlier (and the Lakers against the Sonics in the ‘80s) for Playoff domination against one franchise. Last season they beat the Hawks by an average of 13.25 points per game; this season, it was 12.5.
”You have to give them credit, they had an answer for everything we tried to throw at them,” said Atlanta’s Kent Bazemore. “LeBron did a tremendous job of getting his guys shots. Kevin Love was on fire tonight. He did exactly what we dared him to do. They have a special group over there, they’re peaking at the right time. You have to give them credit.”
So how does this come back to Tyronn Lue?
Just about everything Lue and his staff has done has worked to perfection.
“(Lue) just kept us even-keeled,” praised LeBron James. “Anytime we come to a timeout, if we’re up or down, or if the game is close or if it’s a game of runs that a team is making on us, he’s always talking about the next possession. ‘Let’s not worry about what happened the previous possession or a couple of possessions before, let’s try to figure out how we can get better’ and he keeps us calm in those moments.
”It’s definitely beneficial for our team.”
Players at all levels crave a coach that doesn’t rattle easily and Coach Lue – blessed with a veteran roster in which Kyrie Irivng is its youngest player – is as cool as they come.
On Sunday, he was asked if anything dents that placid exterior.
”When we’re not playing the right way – when we’re not competing, not sharing the basketball – that’s what gets me mad,” he replied. “Though the course of the game, there’s going to be turnovers, there’s going to runs, there’s going to be missed shots. It’s part of the basketball game. But if we’re playing hard, playing the right way, I’ll stay the same. If we’re not competing and sharing the basketball, then I can get upset.”
Eight games into the Playoffs, he’s gone with a steady nine-man rotation – and all nine have produced consistently.
Among the second unit: Richard Jefferson shot 75 percent from the floor (9-of-12) and 83 percent from deep (5-of-6) against Atlanta. Channing Frye averaged 13.8 points per in the series, highlighted by his 27-point Game 3 outburst on Friday night. Matthew Dellavedova handed out 13 assists and committed just two turnovers – continuing to lead the Playoffs with a 9.63 ratio. Iman Shumpert lead all reserves with 10 points on Sunday, held Kyle Korver to 1-for-4 shooting to follow up his Dunk of the Year entry from Friday night.
Lue used the Hack-a-Drummond strategy to great benefit and avoided being stung by the Hack-a-Tristan strategy in the Second Round, subbing his offensive rebounding machine for Frye down the stretch. Cleveland’s small lineup flummoxed the Pistons and its frontline was too big for Atlanta, with LeBron, Love and Tristan Thompson dominating the boards over the last two games, each grabbing double digit rebounds.
The coaching staff’s X’s and O’s have been outstanding throughout the Playoffs, although especially in the Detroit series – when they executed one critical out-of-bounds or end-of-quarter play after another, culminating with Kyrie’s Game 3 triple to beat the shot clock and give Cleveland an eight-point edge with 43 seconds to play.
Catchers often make good managers in baseball because they see the entire game from the point-of-attack. It’s why point guards like Lue – and his mentor Doc Rivers, among countless others – have been so successful in the head coaching profession.
He won two titles as a player. He’s played with and coached superstars like Shaq, Allen Iverson, Kobe and Kevin Garnett. His staff includes a pair of coaches who’ve helmed a team before and one (James Posey) who won two titles as a player. There’s nothing that the NBA life can throw at Tyronn Lue and his staff that they haven’t already seen and/or experienced.
And if you don’t think all that adds up in a big way when the NBA’s final four line up next week for a shot at the Larry O’Brien Trophy, you might want to pick a new sport to follow.
Once again, the Cavaliers have to play the waiting game as Toronto and Miami duke it out in their Conference Semifinal series.
The good news is that both teams could be a little beat up by the time they reach the Eastern Conference Finals. The bad news is that the Cavaliers are a combined 0-4 this season in both of their buildings this year.
One last impressive thing about the Cavaliers head coach is how he deals with the media. When he gives an answer, it is the answer – no frills, no asides.
So on Sunday, when someone asked Tyronn Lue the age-old and almost-unanswerable question of which team he wants to face in the Eastern Conference Finals, his response was predictably short and sweet.
“The team that wins.”
And so … as we asked two weeks ago today: Who’s it gonna be?
That fool was a rookie to this post season shit, before that fucker applied that UFC move & took him out
Valid point. The West was pretty bad in the 80's. Consistent cakewalk for the Lakers
McBob does nothing
Ninja is useless might as well give Wright his minutes
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