tonight's the night..

[Gypsiyee]

nba finals, yay!

i'm excited, though I'll probably fall asleep =( stupid 5 am work.

here's to hoping ray allen plays like ray allen and not tony allen >< ah, the forgotten allen.

[Phlegm]

It's about time. The hype of this series on ESPN has been nauseating.

[Zanchief]

I think Doc would rather have Tony Allen playing defense on Kobe than Shuttlesworth.

I see Posey getting a lot of burn in this series.

LA in 6.

[Kramer]

yeah the networks have been splooging themselves.

it's tough to tie this to an era of basketball that was essentially it's Golden Age.... with gigantic whiny biotch phockups like Kobe Bryant on the court.

though the thread about KG winning one finally is tolerable.

[recks]

Boston in 3.

[brinstar]

It's about time. The hype of this series on ESPN has been nauseating.

seriously

i am sick to fucking death of the NBA in general, especially the playoffs/championships, which last about 4x longer than they should

terrible-ass sport

[Evermore]

It's about time. The hype of this series on ESPN has been nauseating.

seriously

i am sick to fucking death of the NBA in general, especially the playoffs/championships, which last about 4x longer than they should

terrible-ass sport

qft

[Zanchief]

seriously

i am sick to fucking death of the NBA in general, especially the playoffs/championships, which last about 4x longer than they should

terrible-ass sport

It lasts just as long as the NHL playoffs. I'm sorry you don't know how to judge good sporting events.

How about baseball playing 12831983 games every day and taking up almost all the damn sports ticker so I can never get the score for real sports that aren't played by fat alcoholic roid heads.

If every single baseball player died of a horrible disease the world would instantly become a better place.

Now fuck off and get out of a thread you shouldn't be reading.

[Harrison]

Or a bunch of gangbanging rapists?

Take your pick.

[Zanchief]

Can you name me one convicted rapist in the NBA?

[Gypsiyee]

silly zan, the majority is black. of course they're rapists!

[Zanchief]

Oops I forgot about that Gyps~

[Phlegm]

Or a big ass faker like Pierce.

[Gypsiyee]

oh give me a break

what the hell does it even matter? he's not the type of player to do dramatics like that, but even if he was, who cares? if the lakers are going to cry about a guy coming back and playing his hardest against them and scoring on them, it's going to be a long ass series for them. he's a starter, he's going to get heaps of floor time. whether he 'fakes' an injury and comes back or not, it doesn't matter. he played hard, he scored the points, he didn't cheat. it's not an excuse for losing.

[Harrison]

Yeah.

[Zanchief]

But he didn't rape a white girl~

[Gypsiyee]

http://www.courttv.com/trials/bryant/090104_ctv.html

dismissed being the key word here.

you're a fan of football, are you not? how can you say something so blanket and wrong about basketball when there's a whole pot full of convicts (actual convicts here, not media hyped ones) that play football?

[Harrison]

I'm just being a dick for the sake of being a dick.

I don't give two fucks one way or the other. Hence the raspberry...

[brinstar]

seriously

i am sick to fucking death of the NBA in general, especially the playoffs/championships, which last about 4x longer than they should

terrible-ass sport

It lasts just as long as the NHL playoffs. I'm sorry you don't know how to judge good sporting events.

How about baseball playing 12831983 games every day and taking up almost all the damn sports ticker so I can never get the score for real sports that aren't played by fat alcoholic roid heads.

If every single baseball player died of a horrible disease the world would instantly become a better place.

Now fuck off and get out of a thread you shouldn't be reading.

i know it is as long as NHL playoffs. the reason you don't see me complaining about that is because a) NHL is NOT a terrible-ass sport like NBA and b) the clowncunts at ESPN don't overhype it to death like they do NBA

i am sick of the sports ticker too. there are important baseball games going on every day, but instead i have to suffer through a 90-second drama update about how some mask-wearing nancy got a hangnail or how some other jackass yelled at his mom or which cockslap team has the most sneaker endorsements

[Zanchief]

ESPN hypes the shit out of it because most people understand the appeal of the best sport on earth. Football isn't a terrible ass sport? They play about 10 seconds for every 5 minutes of downtime? How that sport got so popular is a testament to alcoholism. No one can appreciate something so boring without being inebriated.

Also, there are no important baseball games, because all of them are baseball games.

[Harrison]

Basketball is alright, but I played football a lot more and was really good at it. So, I enjoy watching it more.

I was good at basketball, but it bores me.

[Tikker]

ESPN hypes the shit out of it because most people understand the appeal of the best sport on earth.

espn doesn't hype hockey, wtf are you talking about



basketball is what you do when you get cut from all the other sports

[recks]

ESPN hypes the shit out of it because most people understand the appeal of the best sport on earth.

espn doesn't hype hockey, wtf are you talking about



basketball is what you do when you get cut from all the other sports

I would love to see a baseball/football player, like a fat ass pitcher or OT, get cut and try to make it into the NBA. I would argue that basketball is the most physically demanding major sport, on par with soccer -- you're always moving. There's no constant break after 5 secs of play like football.

While I'm aware that you gotta be able to take a big hit to play football, I still think you need to be in better shape to play 30-35 mins of Bball.

Football isn't impressive, although it's fun to watch when they're actually doing something. Rugby is pretty similar and they wear no protective gear and there's no time-out's every 5 secs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqA_hHZjJec&amp;feature=related

Football = soft compared to rugby

[Tikker]

no, hockey wtfpwns basketball

find a non-canadian nba player that can make it from side of the rink to the other, then you can talk~

[brinstar]

i saw a sport science show once that determined that the physical punishment to the players is the same in football as it is in rugby

in football, they hit a LOT harder, because their pads protect the hittER and give him more mass, but the hittEE takes less damage because of HIS pads

in rugby, they don't hit nearly as hard as in football because they don't have the added mass of the pads-- but more importantly, because the hittERs aren't protected either, and that changes how you hit.

makes sense imo, althought rugby certainly looks like it hurts more