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Some thoughts and rants...

* I do not like Prince James (and refuse to call him King James ever).

* I hate the referees' obvious and blatant bias towards him (and his team). Yes, superstars normally get calls that regulars don't but LeBron gets calls that Kobe, D-Wade, Duncan, Shaq, Howard, Pierce, Nowitzki RARELY ever get. Anthony Johnson's "flagrant foul" on Mo Williams last night was crud because EVERY NBA player does that elbow move to clear space when driving to the basket. LeBron's block on Lee was a goaltend. LeBron bulldozing over Pietrus in the last 2min of the game was an obvious charge but was called blocking instead. And the worst one was the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year, Dwight Howard's obvious clean block on James' 3-pt attempt being called a shooting foul. ZERO respect for Howard while protecting the league's Chosen One.

* His game-winning shot on Friday is the most over-hyped, over-exaggerated, over-praised shot in the HISTORY of the NBA. He had a WIDE-OPEN look and won a game TWO in a best-of-7 series. Andre Iguodala, Glen "Big Baby" Davis, Hedo Turkuglu and Carmelo Anthony have all hit game-winning shots this playoffs yet only LeBron's shot gets this much media attention (not to mention the sacrilegious attempt at comparing that shot to MJ's shot over Craig Ehlo 20yrs ago. Jordan's shot won a playoff SERIES and his Bulls were easily the underdogs in that series which made it far more memorable and important).

* It's a matter of opinion but I don't get how people are putting LeBron over Kobe as the game's best player, much less on Kobe's level. Kobe is the better defensive player, has far more offensive skills, has a killer instinct that LeBron still lacks, and has 3 championships to LeBron's zero. Kobe's resume is simply far more expansive than LeBron's. What's even funnier is how Jerry West said "LeBron has surpassed Kobe but I still want Kobe to take the last shot." Umm, don't you normally go to the best player for the final shot? If you want to put someone on Kobe's level, put D-Wade. Flash has already won a championship, a Finals MVP, and has both offensive and defensive skill that are on par with Kobe.

-- so as not to seem like I'm just drinking LeBron haterade lol, I will say that he has a chance at being the best ever after all is said and done (yes, even better than MJ), but as of right now in 2009, I wouldn't even call him the best player in the Eastern Conference (Dwyane Wade is).

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* Once Dwight Howard has a few low post moves he can go to, he'll be unstoppable (think a bigger, faster and stronger Tim Duncan). Right now, all he's doing is just try muscling his way to the basket, no footwork, spins, hooks or moves involved.

* Can Denver ever complete an inbounds pass?

* Lakers-Nuggets will be done quickly. I don't see them slacking off against a "legit" team as they did against the undermanned Rockets last round.

Hopefully the Magic will come within one game of eliminating the Cavs tomorrow!


http://sports.yahoo.com/n...;prov=yhoo&type=lgns

Once again, LeBron is searching for LeHelp.

"There's only one of me," James said in the locker room shortly before Game 3. "… If I could clone myself, we'd be all right."

In rushing to catalog LeBron's Game 2 miracle among the greatest playoff shots ever, the NBA world overlooked one important fact. To be one of the greatest, one needs to win. Michael Jordan's shot over Craig Ehlo was epic because it came in the clinching game of the series. San Antonio celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the Memorial Day Miracle because Sean Elliott's tippy-toed 3-pointer vaulted the Spurs into the NBA Finals and onto their first championship.

LeBron had already decided Friday to reserve his place in history, declaring, "That's a shot you'll see for a long time." So long, in fact, it could end up on NBA Entertainment's cutting-room floor by the end of the week.

Monee A wrote:

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^^Totally with you on all of this. I didn't think I'd ever meet someone as anti-LeBron as I am. Thank heavens!

You know, I didn't like him even when he was still in high school simply because he was called King James already. My friend and I had a conversation about how we would both trade his @$$ away if we were the owner of the Cavs because of the blatant lack of respect that LeBron has for the team and organization when he was embracing all the talk about possibly going to the Knicks when he becomes a free agent next year. The owner and the GM is doing everything they can to surround him with the talent needed to win a championship and he repays them by talking about the possibility of joining another team at the end of next year?

Goodbye Queen James and don't let the door hit you in the @$$ on the way out.

LoudOne28 wrote:

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excellent win tonight by Orlando. they owned Cavs this entire series so it makes me happier than hell to see them advance and knock out Princess James. he's a sore loser...didn't even give props to Orlando after the game. he also didn't speak to the media. someone's embarrassed......

an Orlando/Lakers series is gonna be goooooood! i'm so excited!

Seriously! I wonder how many excuses the media will make for him. All this talk about him getting "no help" again is bullcrap. He certainly had enough help during the regular season to get 66 wins. You either have help or you don't. How about giving credit to, oh, I don't know, the Orlando Magic for simply OUTPLAYING the Cavs? They created match-up problems, shot better and defended better than the Cavs. But of course, the media would have none of that.