Girl.... Stop with the madness, OKC was founded in 2008. Cavs are not an expansion they were there since the mergers, but the market is small...not NBA finals level)
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The people who spent a decade saying LeBron James isn't in the same breath as wack ass Michael Jordan have no problem projecting a less accomplished Steph Curry over Magic Johnson because Steph is white passing, Magic isnt. It's the same reason why Steph fans don't want to pit his brand against another white passing player, Kobe. But that argument makes more basketball sense than pitting him against Magic.
People born after they were founded will be voting after the next election.
Nobody but elderly white folks in Boston think of the Thunder as an expansion team at this point.
Outside of Bronny, Amen Thompson prolly gets the 2nd most engagement as a rookie in this thread. But that's mostly from Rockets fans. No other fanbases are talking about or following him or posting bout him. I just saw a Rockets fan posting about Bronny tho. 
Bron haters don't know how to develop stars or draw attention to them. They only know how to clout chase off Bron. REDLINE made a thread celebrating Steph getting 4,000 threes yesterday, and it sank to the bottom. No one cared or wanted to discuss Steph outside of competing or measuring him with Bron. Same thing for Kobe, he had a CNN TV special that came and went because it didn't include LeBron. One thing Klutch does, is build up stars and make them household names. Bronny and Bryce James are already stars and will star in the NBA for the rest of this decade and beyond. Unless, you can get someone to take attention away from them of course.
Bron haters don't know how to develop stars or draw attention to them. They only know how to clout chase off Bron. REDLINE made a thread celebrating Steph getting 4,000 threes yesterday, and it sank to the bottom. No one cared or wanted to discuss Steph outside of competing or measuring him with Bron. Same thing for Kobe, he had a CNN TV special that came and went because it didn't include LeBron. One thing Klutch does, is build up stars and make them household names. Bronny and Bryce James are already stars and will star in the NBA for the rest of this decade and beyond. Unless, you can get someone to take attention away from them of course.
It was a lucky shotput shot by a lottery team.It’s so funny that I was reading somebody on Twitter say that if you let Jokic score 40 and keep him under 10 assists, you win the game.
Jokic had 40, 13 and 9 assists
That is one of those deviations that you throw out as an anomaly in statistics
It is a problem for it to come down to the last shot against a lottery team, doofus!!!
King gotta come back early because the white boy aint pulling his weight.
The nerve of you, blaming someone else for disrupting his intended in-season vacation, his cheating the fans.
Jordan gave the District 41 home games his last season and gave the rest of the nation 41 games as well. Jordan played every single game of his second three-peat-- LeBron has managed it just once.
Jordan played 82 games in 9 seasons, about 70% of the time. Over 95% of the time, your face of the league failed to deliver.
King gotta come back early because the white boy aint pulling his weight.
Basically. But I like that the white boy is showing us how racist and white supremacist Kobe's fanbase is. No matter how bad the white boy plays, Kobe's skin tone will not allow them to use his legacy to trash to him. And when I say the white boy is better than Kobe, their whiteness will not allow them to disagree, only deflect. The Lakers bringing in Luka is gonna destroy Kobe mythology, which is why his wife doesn't go to games or publicly support the franchise like she does the Dodgers and USC.
You right..my fault. I will start to respect Bronny's game and post every time he scores 5 points and shoots 20% from the field,Outside of Bronny, Amen Thompson prolly gets the 2nd most engagement as a rookie in this thread. But that's mostly from Rockets fans. No other fanbases are talking about or following him or posting bout him. I just saw a Rockets fan posting about Bronny tho.
Bron haters don't know how to develop stars or draw attention to them. They only know how to clout chase off Bron. REDLINE made a thread celebrating Steph getting 4,000 threes yesterday, and it sank to the bottom. No one cared or wanted to discuss Steph outside of competing or measuring him with Bron. Same thing for Kobe, he had a CNN TV special that came and went because it didn't include LeBron. One thing Klutch does, is build up stars and make them household names. Bronny and Bryce James are already stars and will star in the NBA for the rest of this decade and beyond. Unless, you can get someone to take attention away from them of course.
Then go nuts when he hits his only shot ( in the entire game) in the face of a "real player".
I got you!!!
If you’re a betting mf
More of them should be fired. Hopefully this would force them to call fouls fairly but I doubt it. We'll see.
@jack walsh13
This should be a sign to stop
Who's the "Nobody"
Cavs/Thunder would be a great NBA finals with great basketball being played.
You are not an employee of the Cavaliers, Thunder, or the NBA, nothing they make or lose will affect you. You are a viewer (or at best) a customer of the NBA.
I don't bet, that's the reason why I hate refs so much who rig the game with bullshit calls.
It's in the money. It is not about fans of those two cities...it is about what two teams would generate the money
Jordan retired 3 times.. quit and cheated the game... not to mention the fans.. He played on a shit Zards team where his teammates hated him.. he was statistically the WORST player at his position, barely won 30 odd games, and shot 40 percent from the field. Never mention that yallow eye coon again.
Why does that matter to you, you won't be getting one cent of whatever is generated.
As a fan, you should want the best match-up and the NBA should do better in marketing itself and its product to promote the best teams in the league. It's a basketball league, not a groupie travel league.
The money generated goes to pay the league and the players.
The money is exactly what it is all about "Good matchup world wide".....Man this not make a wish.
The Playoffs are about the best of the best.
You can't market teams that have not been there...it takes time for teams like that to have fans outside of their market.
ok how the mighty have fallen.....
The Process and last year's NBA finals seem like a decade ago.
RIP.
Grand opening Grand closing!!
RIP to those "Fallen" soldiers....
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I want to see the best two teams playing the best basketball in the Finals no matter who it is.
Impressive win for the Magic in Cleveland.
Bullshit
The NBA is a billion-dollar operation, they should have the ability to sell America and the world on OKC and Cleveland as a finals match up.
Draymond Green has a national commercial with his daughter for Kia vehicles. Klutch is all about Black American family. Unfortunately, Draymond's daughter isn't half white or light skinned, so Draymond doesn't get celebrated as a family man by BGOL.
Tough loss for the home team.... live by the 3, die by the 3 ....10-40 is not gonna cut it. But also, being down by 3 with 40 secs left, was not the time to force a 3. They passed up 3 or 4 different 2 pt opportunities.....to force up some 3s. Then it was 20 secs left with Banchero at the line to make it a 5pt lead.....
Gotta keep your cool in the stretch, get the 2 and lockdown defense and if necessary send someone to the line for 2 high pressure FTs..... I'd rather be down 1 with 20 seconds left than down 5.
Nonetheless,
STILL THE BEST RECORD IN THE LEAGUE!!
Let's Go CAVS!!
Gotta keep your cool in the stretch, get the 2 and lockdown defense and if necessary send someone to the line for 2 high pressure FTs..... I'd rather be down 1 with 20 seconds left than down 5.
Nonetheless,
STILL THE BEST RECORD IN THE LEAGUE!!
Let's Go CAVS!!
I've been saying OKC vs Cavs is what I want to see in the finals. These are the 2 best teams in the league.
Y'all can't win them all.
That loss means nothing..
Still the best team in the East regardless.
I’ve been saying this on BGOL for 20 years now and have been attacked by the stans quite a bit. But with all things in life, time reveals all
RIP to the most overrated player in NBA History
Played long enough. He just put up too many bricks
Can Kobe Bryant pass Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and claim NBA’s scoring record?
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Dan Feldman
Published December 15, 2014 05:20 AM
AP
Kobe Bryant has scored more points through his age-36 season than anyone else in NBA history, and he still has more than two-thirds of the year remaining.
He’s not limping to the finish, either. He’s nearly averaging the most points per game in a season for anyone so old.
And, most importantly, he’s healthy.
Kobe, who just passed Michael Jordan for third on the all-time scoring list, has a real chance to overtake Karl Malone and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for most points in NBA history.
Here’s how the career scoring arcs of all four players compares:
Kobe had a nice start, entering the league as a teenager and racking up points while learning on the job. He held his lead on everyone who’d come before him through his age 26 season, and then he started scoring at a Michael Jordan pace to keep up. At the age Jordan left to play baseball, Kobe took a big lead.
Meanwhile, neither Abdul-Jabbar nor Malone topped Kobe’s pace through his age. But both kept steadily producing late in their careers, especially Abdul-Jabbar, whose post-40 scoring was remarkable.
Here are scoring leaders after age 40:
Only Robert Parish, who played 116 more games than Abdul-Jabbar after 40, comes close. Abdul-Jabbar himself has more than a quarter of all points by players in their 40s.
Abdul-Jabbar really took the all-time scoring title with his late work, and that’s why passing him so difficult. Plenty of players have scored as or more proficiently than him early in the career, but nobody can match him late.
Here’s how many points per game Kobe would have to average from here – if he plays every contest – to match Abdul-Jabbar’s career record based on number of seasons he plays after this one:
One: 43.4
Two: 27.4
Three: 20.0
Four: 15.7
Five: 13.0
Scoring 20.0 points per game between the rest of this season, in which he’s averaging 25.4, and three more afterward seems to be the sweet spot.
But Kobe’s contract expires after next season, and he said he can’t see himself playing beyond this deal. He also said he COULD physically play beyond next season, so who knows? His general manager thinks Kobe will retire in 2016, but his coach thinks Kobe might keep going. Kobe himself has taken a firm middle ground.
This is where it gets hard. Abdul-Jabbar showed an incredible desire to keep competing, and he had the good fortune to remain healthy. It’s a combination few can match.
Will Kobe pass Abdul-Jabbar? Probably not, but he’s given himself a fighting chance, which is pretty incredible.
Can Kobe Bryant pass Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and claim NBA’s scoring record?
Kobe has more points than Abdul-Jabbar (or second-place Karl Malone) had at this pointwww.nbcsports.com
Gen X in Latin means "underachiever"
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I want Warriors/Cavs Part 5... Kenny Atkinson's New Warriors vs the rejuvenated real thing...
The league can’t sell us anything, the public decides on who they like watching play. The league didn’t sell us Steph, Steph starting making crazy 3’s which drew fans and public interest.
You can’t manufacture a connection to people and a connection to people is what OKC and Cleveland don’t have. If I knew how to make people connect to them I’d sell that information to the NBA!
Jayson Tatum’s a multiple year All-Star, Olympic gold medalist… even though he didn’t play
defending NBA champion who wants to be the face of the league.He’s recently complained about not getting the respect or recognition that he deserves for what he’s accomplished.
The NBA has been trying to sell him to us for years and do you know why he feels the way that he feels?
Because people/fans don’t have a connection to him so no one cares.
He’s a good player but most fans aren’t checking to see what Tatum’s doing or watch him play, he’s not must see tv.