After 20 years as a Mavs fan, I can finally rest easy. 
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The Heat quit tonight. With about 5 or 6 minutes to go, I expected the Heat to play with a lot more urgency and energy then they did and they quit. In a way, it reminded me of watching the deciding game between the Mavs and Lakers earlier this playoffs in that while things didn't come to blows, LA just packed up and gave up. Serves them right, and congratulations to Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks. Well deserved title.
I don't care about basketball, but I just read this:
Yes, god hates you, asshole. Is this the most conceited man in the world or what?
Yes, god hates you, asshole. Is this the most conceited man in the world or what?
Actually, loathe as I am to defend James, he's not saying God hates him with that statement. Only that God has a plan for us all, and him winning it all this year isn't in the plan. It's more of a platitude and an excuse, but he isn't really saying God hates him. Lots of religious people say that when bad things happen.
No, I didn't mean it like that, that was just my interpretation. 
Ahhhh. I see.
This article, right here, actually written before last night's game, expresses so perfectly why it was so important for the game itself for the Heat to lose the series and why, to put it succinctly, LeBron James is such an unbelievable putz.
LeBron could cough up finals
....Still, the biggest reason that they were so emboldened to mock Nowitzki is Dirk is an NBA star belonging to a growing minority within the league, and it has nothing to do with European roots, the way those players get openly mocked and ridiculed as soft, unworthy of franchise star status.
Increasingly, there are two NBAs: the LeBron-CAA NBA, and everyone else.
James has been a part of recruiting everyone else over to his side – Wade, Chris Bosh(notes), Carmelo Anthony(notes), Chris Paul(notes). And now, the New Jersey Nets’ Deron Williams(notes) is strongly considering joining up with CAA after firing his longtime agent. Within the NBA, this surprised people because Williams had always been so fiercely independent. He never star-gazed James like most of his young teammates, and never seemed inclined to follow.
“LeBron has almost become a movement within the league,” says a league executive who’ll recruit these players in 2012. “With Worldwide Wes [CAA agent William Wesley] and him, you’re making a decision as a player to be packaged the way they packaged him. They follow him.”.....
Makes you sick, doesn't it? I was saying it all along. It's important for the good of the game as a whole that Miami lost.
This article, right here, actually written before last night's game, expresses so perfectly why it was so important for the game itself for the Heat to lose the series and why, to put it succinctly, LeBron James is such an unbelievable putz.
LeBron could cough up finals
....Still, the biggest reason that they were so emboldened to mock Nowitzki is Dirk is an NBA star belonging to a growing minority within the league, and it has nothing to do with European roots, the way those players get openly mocked and ridiculed as soft, unworthy of franchise star status.
Increasingly, there are two NBAs: the LeBron-CAA NBA, and everyone else.
James has been a part of recruiting everyone else over to his side – Wade, Chris Bosh(notes), Carmelo Anthony(notes), Chris Paul(notes). And now, the New Jersey Nets’ Deron Williams(notes) is strongly considering joining up with CAA after firing his longtime agent. Within the NBA, this surprised people because Williams had always been so fiercely independent. He never star-gazed James like most of his young teammates, and never seemed inclined to follow.
“LeBron has almost become a movement within the league,” says a league executive who’ll recruit these players in 2012. “With Worldwide Wes [CAA agent William Wesley] and him, you’re making a decision as a player to be packaged the way they packaged him. They follow him.”.....
Makes you sick, doesn't it? I was saying it all along. It's important for the good of the game as a whole that Miami lost.
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Do you think LeBron and Wade pretended to hold up championship and MVP trophies after the game to mock Dirk?
Do you think LeBron and Wade pretended to hold up championship and MVP trophies after the game to mock Dirk?
No, James was too busy crying in his beer.EDIT--Oh, they're having LeBron James day today in Dallas. Everyone gets to leave work 12 minutes early.
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Appropos of nothing, Nowitzki bucks the trends again when it comes to famous athletes. 
His steady girlfriend is a gorgeous black woman named Jessica Olsson. Get this, she's a black, Swedish chick who lives in Dallas. Her brother plays soccer in Sweden. They've been together over a year.
His steady girlfriend is a gorgeous black woman named Jessica Olsson. Get this, she's a black, Swedish chick who lives in Dallas. Her brother plays soccer in Sweden. They've been together over a year.
Precisely how I took it, and I'm no fan of LeBron's either
^ The funnier interpretation IMO is Roger Wilco's, sorta. "Yes, God does have a plan - it's for you to never win a championship."
Anyway, HUGE congrats to the Mavs, they deserved it and I'm also very happy the Heat lost.
I'd never really cared at all for Mark Cuban, I think he's an obnoxious windbag. But he did two things since the Mavs won that have hugely impressed me. The first was having the original Mavs owner accept the tropy; the second is paying for the victory parade out of his own pocket rather than expecting the city of Dallas to do so.
Now can we please shut up about the Heat and their obnoxious "superstar" ethos, media?
Anyway, HUGE congrats to the Mavs, they deserved it and I'm also very happy the Heat lost.
I'd never really cared at all for Mark Cuban, I think he's an obnoxious windbag. But he did two things since the Mavs won that have hugely impressed me. The first was having the original Mavs owner accept the tropy; the second is paying for the victory parade out of his own pocket rather than expecting the city of Dallas to do so.
Now can we please shut up about the Heat and their obnoxious "superstar" ethos, media?
Terrific defensive performance by the Mavs. It seemed like in the half court, every time a Heat player (any Heat player) brought the ball as deep as the the free throw line, he was met with a focused wall of 3 players. Nearly every time, the Heat player would dump the ball into the corner and they'd have to swing it around and start their offense over. This useless activity ran the shot clock and frustrated the Heat. By the 4th quarter, their will to win had been destroyed.
The Mavs surprised me. I didn't think they had it in them to win two road games in the Finals. That was HUGE and the key to their championship. Before the series though, I did feel that if the Mavs were to win, it would depend on the "other guys". They came up huge - Jason Terry in particular. He carried the Mavs in game 6 until Dirk could get his shot going.
On the other side, look out Eric Spoelstra. LeBron has made it a habit of blaming others when he loses. In his post game comments, LeBron said something about being confused about how to play on offense when Wade is in the game. THAT is a veiled attack on the head coach ing a whose job it is to see to it guys aren't confused on the court. Prediction; if the Heat don't win it next season, Spo is history.
Cuban allowing the former owner to accept the Larry O'Brien was so classy, as was the offer to pay for the parade, I thought maybe the guy isn't as much of a loudmouthed idiot as I thought -- but no. He is. He is now telling the media he may not buy rings for his players (he is lying) because it's "old school". Here is another guy with a sense of entitlement. Instead of savoring an accomplishment his team has never before achieved (and will very likely never be repeated), he decides to grandstand and show us all how it's done. He couldn't keep up the act for long. What an ass.
All in all, a sublime win for the Mavs who of course will be one off champs, now that the Lakers know who it is we have to take it from next season.
The Mavs surprised me. I didn't think they had it in them to win two road games in the Finals. That was HUGE and the key to their championship. Before the series though, I did feel that if the Mavs were to win, it would depend on the "other guys". They came up huge - Jason Terry in particular. He carried the Mavs in game 6 until Dirk could get his shot going.
On the other side, look out Eric Spoelstra. LeBron has made it a habit of blaming others when he loses. In his post game comments, LeBron said something about being confused about how to play on offense when Wade is in the game. THAT is a veiled attack on the head coach ing a whose job it is to see to it guys aren't confused on the court. Prediction; if the Heat don't win it next season, Spo is history.
Cuban allowing the former owner to accept the Larry O'Brien was so classy, as was the offer to pay for the parade, I thought maybe the guy isn't as much of a loudmouthed idiot as I thought -- but no. He is. He is now telling the media he may not buy rings for his players (he is lying) because it's "old school". Here is another guy with a sense of entitlement. Instead of savoring an accomplishment his team has never before achieved (and will very likely never be repeated), he decides to grandstand and show us all how it's done. He couldn't keep up the act for long. What an ass.
All in all, a sublime win for the Mavs who of course will be one off champs, now that the Lakers know who it is we have to take it from next season.
I don't think Wade was mocking Dirk like Dirk was faking his injury. I believe Wade was making a dig at the press and their tendency to go overboard for a perceived "story". It would make no sense for Wade to accuse Dirk of faking an injury when Wade himself has been caught up these "injury stories" himself as has just about every NBA star. Hell, the press was getting cranked up to blow up Wade's non-hip injury. The only thing that stopped it was the Heat losing to the Mavs. Dirk didn't fake his injury, the press did.
Had the Heat won, all we would have heard about was how courageous DWade was, fighting through his "injury" for the ring. But because Dirk won, we get to hear about him fighting through his "injury".
Oh, and:
Had the Heat won, all we would have heard about was how courageous DWade was, fighting through his "injury" for the ring. But because Dirk won, we get to hear about him fighting through his "injury".
Oh, and:
Haters gon' hate -- even when my boys aren't in the Finals. Love it.
I've barely posted in this thread and now I'm a hater? Ok then.
That line about losing and that I am still me, THE KING suggest that you little people should go back and eat at McDonald's.
Its not the rings that care about but I would go to Nike, Allstate and McD's and they should be looking at their celebrity endorser in my opinion.
BTW, I'm surprised at how little grief Wade is getting. It was his Miami Heat too (honestly, since Lebron actually seemed to defer to Wade and get him involved, it was arguably more his team). He didn't really show up in the fourth quarter either. Really, he deserves quite a lot of the blame if one wants to give blame to the Heat instead of credit to the Mavs.
In America we really don't understand the King and Prime Minister relationship
. King James makes it sound like he is The Man. McDonald's uses him to sell burgers because of the perception that he is the man, not the locally colorful wingman of The Man.Similar threads
