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Wade bricked several big FTs in the critical moments of the game and kept BOS hope alive. Pierce put his team at risk by committing stupid fouls, repeatedly. KG was completely invisible in crunch time. If you look hard enough, everyone has rough stretches.
Wilbon is from Chicago...what do you expect?Way for Wilbon to diss the Heat in the 1st 10 seconds..."Not like the Heat with only a 20 year history" Mike, go bleep yourself buddy, Heat have a rich tradition and a title, way for Wilbon to show what a world class jackass he is on national TV. TNT rocks ESPN any day of the week.
He has slowly turned into a jagoff over the years. I think him working for ESPN and now with Magic Johnson has given him a huge head.
Change the channel dude. Everything bothers you. Turn on the local Miami sports radio station if you're looking for coverage.
LeBron had almost as many the entire Celtic team. 24 vs 29.
What is interesting... Stephen A Smith had an epic rant about how bad the refs were post game after the first Celts/Heat.... within 12 hours the link to the video online removed, no trace of it left behind. Obviously you are seeing a different post game tonight
To be fair I think 2 of those were on an intentional foul.
I don't profess to knowing much about the NHL but I can say one of the things that draws me in and makes me want to know more about the sport is the fact that a 6 or 8 seed routinely makes it to the Stanley Cup Finals. These teams are awesome, the level of some of the hockey has been thru the roof. I think it is one of the selling points. Problem in the NBA is that a few players dominate almost all the time so those players tend to make to the Finals and run away from the rest of the pack. In the NHL there are a lot of stars but also a lot of lunch pail types that grind it out on a nightly basis, the teams have 4 lines unlike B-Ball which has a 7 or 8 man rotation at most, hard to compare them really. Aaron would have an interesting take on this but I would bet he loves the fact that lower seeds can actually advance. It makes the 1st round of the playoffs so exciting in the NHL.
I seriously have not seen this all year. This is horrendous. Are these jokers doing the pregame for the Finals? It's like ESPN is just giving everybody a big middle finger now. "you'll watch anyways, #### you"
John Bender lecturing MOP...just turrible.Change the channel dude. Everything bothers you. Turn on the local Miami sports radio station if you're looking for coverage.
Chalmers getting 22pts sort of equalized that. I doubt thats happening again either.
Hockey is more of a team sport. HTH.
Good point Abe, why would anyone want the game to be called fairly... The other idea I had as well was for the visiting team to have to wear ankle weights
That's what I find wrong with the NBA. Calls should be made no matter where/who when they happen.
For ####s and giggles, I just did a search to see what Skip Bayless tweeted after the game. Firstly, he apparently goes by Real Skip Bayless on twitter.
Secondly, he tweeted this: Nightmare starts again for LeBron. Missed layup, easy jumper over 6-1 Rondo to win game in regulation. Rondo alone not enough in OT vs Wade.LeBron's old insecurity rears its ugly head: He was afraid to take Rondo to the rim at end of reg - afraid to have to shoot 2 FTs to win.' 
It's called a hard salary cap - no monkey business like the NBA - any team can build a winner and the differences are not that big - for LA their goalie is extremely focused in these playoffs and that is what is putting them over the top.
Welcome to MLB tonight, with your host, John Henry. Give it a break Earvin.
Quit being so dramatic. You are fooling yourself and being naivie of you think every call is always going to be 100% indisputably correct. I'm fine with the home team getting their fair share. And you will be too when Boston wins game 3 thanks to some sketchy home cooking.
Not to mention he owns Rent A Center, they steal millions from poor people every year
He loves it. He should buy that crappy Amscot place. Everytime I drive by there, it's packed.
Actually, no. Celts won Game 5 vs Philly and the calls were horrendously in their favor, was painful to watch. That is what you are missing... a true sports fan wants a fairly called game, seeing either team get an unfair advantage, whether it is your team or not, is not why we watch
The heat missed enough free throws that it didn't matter. Celtics had their chances and blew it.
Seriously. Bird has aged far more gracefully. Its embarrassing.
Stop it already. Wade and James were going hard to the basket almost every play. They were getting fouled almost every time because Boston has no way to stop them. They should've been shooting that many free throws. Did the refs miss a few calls, yes. They do every game. Sometimes it goes in your favor, sometimes not. However, if you want to force the refs to look at you closely, you have to be aggressive. Miami had two guys doing that on every play. Boston had one guy doing that half the time and the settled for jumpers the rest of the time. No big surprise that Miami was getting more calls.
Jon Barry thinks what he says is important.
I think everyone's been wanting to know that for a few months now.Wallace is a decent nba player, but of zero worth to a rebuilding franchise.
For what its worth, Miami should almost always have a significant FT advantage over Boston. The Celtics shoot lots of jump shots and the Heat go to the hoop a lot, because of that they'll get fouled much more often.
I'm not up on the NBA rules like most people in this thread probably are, but can any teams make a trade while the playoffs are going on? I would guess no.
I'm pissed off about it too! If it wasn't for that veto it would be the Lakers losing to San Antonio now, not Oklahoma City, dammit.
Why would they need Beal when they have a deadly sharpshooter like Kevin Martin??I'll hang up and listen.
Pete Newell just turned over in his grave.
Their post game show for playoffs have been bad for years. Who is on it these days?
Mike WilbonMagicSteve BroussardJon Barry
The absence of Stuart Scott has to be an improvement, or does he just show up for the Lakers to suck on on Kobe's ####?
Found it...ESPN has removed it, but someone had it on TIVOhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GqmoQPfISQ&feature=player_embedded#!
Keep hoping. Those picks aren't moving you up.
If nothing else (and I don't agree with kev at all), scoring in the post requires less energy and will put less wear and tear on him, allowing to play more minutes and extend his career.
Miami should have a FT advantage most games I agree. It's the nature of the team.But Rondo was attacking as much as anyone that game and Pierce was attacking a lot too. Pierce is only able to get to the line when someone other than James is in the vicinity so he'll get there a bit less. But even so the disparity was surprising because the Celtics were attacking a lot.
This is exactly what is wrong with the NBA. The officiating is a joke. Its not always against the Celtics, sometimes it is bad in their favor too, but it shouldn't be this God awful where it repeatedly has an affect on the outcome of games. The only good thing about the Celtics fading back to mediocrity for me will be that I can begin to lose interest in the NBA as a whole. Its nauseating to think that some people are ok with and even expect officiating to play a role in the outcome.
