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As Charles Barkley once put it long ago, '' regular season is just preseason''

This is when you see what these amazing atheletes can really do. What a battle between these 2 powerhouse teams.

How about Lebron? What a monster. He has to have won over some haters. He played the whole game, made a couple big shots and was unstoppable when he drove to the basket. He is the KING. I think I heard he even admitted it was a mistake celebrating championships before they even won anything. That's old news imo. He deserves respect. Like him or not he is incredible. How about Bosh going 3 for 3 on the 3?

Thunder vs Heat going to be fantastic!
 

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I agree but only cause I wanted the Heat to win.

Doc Rivers is almost crying. As much as I wanted the Heat to win I still would have loved to see Doc win one more championship with the Celtics.
 

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I agree but only cause I wanted the Heat to win.

Doc Rivers is almost crying. As much as I wanted the Heat to win I still would have loved to see Doc win one more championship with the Celtics.

Yeah but screw the Celtics man. They are the first ones to start this ''arms race'' This fad of getting superstars together to win a chamionship. They won me over this year how they battled but I'd still prefer Heat or Thunder win it.
 

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You know what I just thought of right now?

How boring any baseball game is compared to the NBA playoffs. It's tough to watch any baseball game after watching something like this. I don't want this to be over.
 

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You know what I just thought of right now?

How boring any baseball game is compared to the NBA playoffs. It's tough to watch any baseball game after watching something like this. I don't want this to be over.

So true man. I will miss it.
 

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Yeah but screw the Celtics man. They are the first ones to start this ''arms race'' This fad of getting superstars together to win a chamionship. They won me over this year how they battled but I'd still prefer Heat or Thunder win it.

You not a fan of star players playing on the same team together or something? This post makes no sense to me.

I personally like watching great teams go at it. I guess you liked the Nets/Spurs finals in '03 though...
 

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Amazing game. One of the best I ever saw. I love when great players rise to the moment and lay it all on the line. Rondo and Lebron simply played to the highest level of competition.
 

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I looked at the boxscore and the last time Celtics scored was with 5:13 left in the 4th. Pretty incredible.
 

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You not a fan of star players playing on the same team together or something? This post makes no sense to me.

I personally like watching great teams go at it. I guess you liked the Nets/Spurs finals in '03 though...

No I'm not a fan of a bunch of star players getting together and saying, ''hey let's get together and win a championship'' In the old days it wasn't just about winning a championship it was about beating the other mega star in the league to get there. You wouldn't see Reggie Miller teaming up with Jordan and let's say Patrick Ewing and so on. Maybe a bad example but my point is today's NBA players just want the ring even if they have to shamelessly team up with other mega stars to get it. It's almost meaningless that way. I think the Celtics started this trend and I agree with Lebron when he said he had no choice after that but to do the same. Then the Knicks did it(of course it didn't work out very well)

No I didn'tenjoy Nets vs Spurs but I enjoy watching the Thunder, Spurs, Mavericks, even Lakers etc. Of course I enjoy watching Lebron and Wade kick ass and put on a show. I'm just saying it's not as meaningful as when stars back in the day won a championship.
 

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How about Lebron? What a monster. He has to have won over some haters. He played the whole game, made a couple big shots and was unstoppable when he drove to the basket. He is the KING. I think I heard he even admitted it was a mistake celebrating championships before they even won anything. That's old news imo. He deserves respect. Like him or not he is incredible.

So true. People hate on this young man for some of the PR mistakes he did 2 years ago. He should be forgiven and instead the haters should look at the premiere athelete he is.

I grew up in Miami and followed the Heat since they started in 1988. Having LeBron on my hometeam is absolutely precious to me as a loyal fan. I will get up at any time of the day here in Bangkok (due to time difference) to watch LeBron play.

We are all witnessing a "once in a lifetime" talent IMO. :grandmais

 
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Yeah but screw the Celtics man. They are the first ones to start this ''arms race'' This fad of getting superstars together to win a chamionship. They won me over this year how they battled but I'd still prefer Heat or Thunder win it.


100% ignorant bullshit.
 

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100% ignorant bullshit.

Is it? Well I could be wrong but as far as I remember they are the first to do this in the modern era. Who else did it?

Instead of posting an ignorant and idiotic, simplistic comment yourself, you should have posted which team did this first so I can be corrected.
 

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Is it? Well I could be wrong but as far as I remember they are the first to do this in the modern era. Who else did it?

Instead of posting an ignorant and idiotic, simplistic comment yourself, you should have posted which team did this first so I can be corrected.

I think, at least part, of Zit's thought is that the Big 3 of Allen, KG, and PP were put together by a GM, via trades. They weren't free agents like in Miami, and didn't "agree" to play together. It's not really the same situation at all.
 

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I think, at least part, of Zit's thought is that the Big 3 of Allen, KG, and PP were put together by a GM, via trades. They weren't free agents like in Miami, and didn't "agree" to play together. It's not really the same situation at all.

I'm pretty sure they had a big say in it and agreed to it. They knew what they were doing. Goin for an ''easy championship''

Yes it was different in Miami's case them being free agents but as Lebron said, they really had no choice. They had to keep up. He wasn't going to sacrifice the best years of his career trying to win with that crappy Cavs team against that Celtics team.

Doesn't matter who put the team together, it was put together and it started the trend of putting all stars together in that fashion. Celtics were the first one. Only then did Heat, Knicks follow.
 

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I'm pretty sure they had a big say in it and agreed to it. They knew what they were doing. Goin for an ''easy championship''

Yes it was different in Miami's case them being free agents but as Lebron said, they really had no choice. They had to keep up. He wasn't going to sacrifice the best years of his career trying to win with that crappy Cavs team against that Celtics team.

Doesn't matter who put the team together, it was put together and it started the trend of putting all stars together in that fashion. Celtics were the first one. Only then did Heat, Knicks follow.

what "fashion" ? One team was put together through trades the other through free agency... I don't get what you're sayin.

Just pointing out that it wasn't really a similar situation... Ray Allen was a drft-day trade, so no - he, PP and KG never talked about it beforehand. Was Barkley going to the Suns the same..? If not, why not? What about Shaq and D-Wade? or Shaq and Kobe for that matter? Drexler joining Hakeem? Walton joining a stacked Celtics team? And don't get me started on the Lakers of the 80s... If you you don't like great players getting together to win a championship I'd suggest it's the wrong sport for you to follow.

I don't care who plays for who, and the only thing that bothered me about the Hat joining forces was the party they had before winning anything.
 

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I don't care who plays for who, and the only thing that bothered me about the Hat joining forces was the party they had before winning anything.

This is what pissed off me and most of the rest of america.
 

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what "fashion" ? One team was put together through trades the other through free agency... I don't get what you're sayin.

Just pointing out that it wasn't really a similar situation... Ray Allen was a drft-day trade, so no - he, PP and KG never talked about it beforehand. Was Barkley going to the Suns the same..? If not, why not? What about Shaq and D-Wade? or Shaq and Kobe for that matter? Drexler joining Hakeem? Walton joining a stacked Celtics team? And don't get me started on the Lakers of the 80s... If you you don't like great players getting together to win a championship I'd suggest it's the wrong sport for you to follow.

I don't care who plays for who, and the only thing that bothered me about the Hat joining forces was the party they had before winning anything.

Don't tell me it's the wrong sport to follow. I've been playing ball and watching the NBA for 2 decades. The fact remains, IN THE MODERN ERA, Celtics are the first team that put together a team of 3 all stars or future hall of famers. Just threw them together to try to win a championship. It doesn't matter how they did it or if the players requested it, it was done. That's all I'm saying. That the Celtics were the first ones to do it in the modern era.

All I'm pointing out is that they were the first ones to do it in the modern era. Shaq and Kobe? Where's the 3rd superstar?

It's pointless talking about Barkely etc because I'm talking about in recent times. I agree that the Heat did it differently by the players pretty much putting it together themselves but it doesn't change the fact that they did it to keep up with the Celtics who were the first ones to do it.
 

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You know, ok I agree it's fun watching superstars playing together. Okay I will give you that.

I'm still maintaining that the Celtics were the ones to start the trend recently of putting 3 stars together in one team. That's just my point. Heat and other teams had no choice but to try to match the talent if they were to stand a chance. That's all. That fact can't be argued. I'm not saying it's the players that are 100% at fault but it was done. Shaq and Kobe? That's only 2. Celtics put 3 together and that's tough to beat. 2 superstars is reasonable. You always have Penny and Shaq. Kobe and Shaq. Magic and Kareem etc.

Putting 3 bonafide superstars together is tough to beat and when the Celtics did that it fueled other teams to do the same. That's my point.
 

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