Any NBA fans around?

hi guys im at vacation in the usa .. and im watching the nba finals. at germany its not so esay to watch because of the time difference. game 7 is running standing is 25:25

Congratulations David Stern and the refs. Your team won. I think I'm done with the NBA. The Lakers consistently get the benefit of the doubt from NBA refs. The refs let them play for three quarters and then suddenly they send the Lakers to the line 20 times (or close to it) in the fourth quarter. With fair reffing, the Celtics would have won. Yes, I do hate the Lakers, but I hate Boston as well so I'm relatively unbiased (in that I hate both teams equally). From my vantage point, the fourth quarter was heavily slanted in L.A.'s favor, and am I the only one sick and tired of them showing those celebrities in the crowd. I don't care about the bandwagon jumping phonies in L.A.

I thought there was no way the Lakers were going to win part way through the 3rd quarter, but a exciting series to finish the season.

after this year, lots of players will be leaving Celtics, not sure next year which team will try to stop Lakers keep winning, maybe the team James will work with

Lebron James cares about one person: himself. He's not a team player. He's a selfish ball hog that cares too much about personal stats. I hope he fails wherever he goes.

DYasha wrote:

I am so sick of hearing about King James and which team he will go to. Makes me sick and tired of the entire NBA with all the focus on one player, and as you said not a well liked player.

Gasol Rules!!!! If NBA were not all about money and merchandising, Pau would had received the MVP award, and not Kobe.

Talking about players who only care about themselves??? #1 is Mr. Kobe Bryant, not LeBron....

and now lebron James is going to the Miami heat . Dwayne wade. and Chris bosh . oh boy

Who on Earth will their opponents guard for Miami's last shot?? I do wonder if they will have too many "superstars" though.

DYasha wrote:

I echo that sentiment, particularly, after that spectacle last night. I hope Dan Gilbert is right, that the "curse" will follow Lequitter the rest of his career. He humiliated Cleveland fans everywhere with that infomercial last night and he destroyed his legacy and his image. Miami won't treat him the way he was treated here.

For the record, he quit Cleveland in the Boston series this year (particularly Game 5) and now, despite his claims (and tatoos) of "Loyalty," he quit Cleveland last night. The former King showed his true colors last night and I hope bad luck follows him the rest of his career.

The only question is who will come off the bench? Yeah, with the trio on the court they will be very tough to beat, but when their bench comes onto the floor, the other teams will massacre them. Bosh only plays 36 minutes a night, and there is no way James and Wade are playing more than 40 minutes each and every night, so who is going to play? Yeah, the Heat will be one of the best teams in the east but the East is so horribly bad. The Celtics are a year older and breaking apart, the Magic fall apart in the playoffs, Cleveland is toast, so that leaves Miami. The West has 6 or 7 top notch teams and whoever wins the West next year will steam roll Miami in the finals. I just hope that the idiots in the sports media can stop talking about Lebron every 10 seconds. The best scorer in the league signs a contract extension and no one bats an eye. Frankly, I'd rather have Durant on my team than James. Durant is a team guy who cares more about winning than padding his stats, and he's loyal to his teammates. Character does count and Durant has James beat by a country mile.

I read Cleveland fans are going to boycott their home match V Miami, leaving LeBron with an empty stadium when he plays. i think this is far better than merely booing him.

Cleveland and Toronto fans are going to do a lot of booing this year when the Heat come to town. And so they should. Both cities were jerked around by their respective star athletes. I think the three of them got together at the All-star game and decided they wanted to play together in Miami, if possible. After the all-star break, Bosh tanked and Lebron tanked in the second round. If I was a fan of either team, I'd be angry too that my star player seemed to have given up on my team.

I just have a question about the salary cap. How can the Heat be under the cap with so many big contracts? The NBA salary cap makes no sense to me. Mid-level exemptions? Trade exemptions? Sign and trades? I'm not entirely certain that the experts understand it either.

It seems that Derek Fisher is currently talking to the Heat to play with the "Big 3" in Miami. I don't know about you guys/gals, but I don't see Fish leaving Kobe in LA. And besides, does Miami even have the money to pay Fisher? I thought that as of now, they only had cap room for minimum salary players....

DYasha wrote:

I read all 3 players accepted less money than what they would have earned elsewhere so that they could play together.