Yup. Hell, in the last Heat season everyone was aware that the Spurs gave Miami all they could handle the year before. Then it was evident midway through probably game 3 that S.A. was just a way better team. You don’t feel that way with Golden State basically ever. Not even with Houston, pre Chris Paul injury.

LeBron never won it year after year. But his Miami teams, which came closest, were also never particularly loved. This whole trend towards pro-LeBronism is thanks to two things: 1) he has legitimately gotten much better on offense, which is insane; and 2) he’s been the underdog four years running (since the first…

[A]nd for a little while there it looked like we were on our way to talking about The Rodney Hood Game

I’ll just keep being bitter and note that I would have tossed Green out of the game in the second quarter.

That’s just because millennial liberals won’t buy a tv.

I try to live by the principle that men’s hearts are rarely as evil as their actions, and almost never as evil as their words. I am probably bastardizing that Tolkien quote, but that’s close. Typically, that means I am a little slower on the “race card” than some others.

I love Mugu. Co-signed.

Everybody knows its a damn long shot. And it becomes way, way longer if you give away the games you have a really, really good opportunity to win.

Fair question, though by then so much time had been blown it may not have mattered.

Split on the road, hope to split at home at worst, and have a shot in a 3 game series? Yeah, its a pretty big deal.

Why didn’t Lue call the TO?

Those are not the five largest cities in the US, though.

Tony Robbins IS scary. I don’t get it.

I think the only conclusion I can draw at this point is that you appear oddly and irrationally upset about this, and the focus on race suggests your motivations are sketchy.

No. Not melanin. Since I said exactly what I meant, that’s a hard one to misinterpret in good faith.

A lot has changed since then with how we act collectively on the internet. Plus Serena is a bigger star than Kim was to begin with, and people really love star worship.

I am not a neutral fan in this series because the Warriors are ridiculously good and rooting for ridiculously good teams is not fun. So I am in the Cavs camp. Which may make me unreliable. But this feels like the biggest screwjob since the Seahawks lost to the Steelers in 2005. Even outside of the replay issue (I…

Yes, precisely because it happened before. But maybe I am easily surprised.

What I meant was, someone responded to me saying “Christians ask for it in this country in a way others do not,” long post reduced to my take-a-way. Which may be true. But I don’t think so. In any event, it doesn’t get at the heart of the issue, which is that either one has a problem with zealots or not.

Yeah, and I have another reply already that justifies the difference.