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Born Rebel

No no no - Rocket survived. It was Benny who died.

So, like us, one minute your team is up 4-2 in Game 1 of your second-round series, the next minute you’re in the locker room, bleeding from the head after a hockey puck smashes into your face.

For as the old saying goes, “One minute, your team is up 4-2 in Game 1 of your second-round series, the next minute you’re in…

I made a fuckin’ meme.

Becky mean head brah, he ain't get hacked. Trust me.

This article was written in 2007 and Rick Reilly just did a CTRL+C, CTRL+V, right?

Uh buddy am I missing something? The NBA playoffs are almost always dominated by the top few teams and have a shitload of also-rans. Here, check this out:

This is rich. Especially, coming from a guy who advocates for cilantro in his avocado salsa. You can’t even get salsa right, let alone basketball hot takes. Fuck on outta here.

There’s just something about how the guy operates that makes me wish he would go down as the most overrated superstar in basketball history. If he never wins another title - and especially if he didn’t win one in Cleveland - there’s a possibility history books won’t remember him as fondly as all the other greats.

Sorry your $10 is in danger.

The Cavs won 2 of 3 against OKC this year, but the likely scenario is they would beat the Cavs for a title? By what logic?

I was riveted by your gambling scenario and your feelings about LeBron. However, I’d like to know more about your fantasy teams.

Not only up 2-1, but a missed LeBron shot at the end of regulation in Game 1 away from being up 3-0. Maybe Games 2 and 3 play out differently if he makes that shot, but if not the Cavs would have been in great position to win it all.

Hey, remember when your colleague Sam Eifling or whatever wrote that horrendously stupid column after Game 1 about how the Cavs were in trouble and the Heat looked like the best team in the East? And how he cited Detroit shooting the lights out from deep, because he somehow failed to grasp that the Cavs were trying to…

I think they’re way undervalued as it is though, and the recent developments just reinforce that they’re still one of the most plausible — if not now the most plausible if Curry stays out for a while — title contenders.

This just in: shameless homer for Warriors makes Cavs post all about the Warriors.

You sleep with your hand caressing your ass?

It strikes me as really important to remember that sportswriters fundamentally are entertainers deriving their usefulness off the work of other entertainers. An elite athlete’s job is much harder to be good at than theirs (hence the pay gap). Athletes are also held to a more objective standard than writers are.…