****OFFICIAL 2012 NBA PLAYOFFS THREAD****

[dirk digler]

Great sports weekend with the draft and now the NBA Playoffs starting today

First Round Matchups Today:

76ers vs Bulls
Knicks vs Heat
Magic vs Pacers
Mavs vs Thunder

Sunday:

Jazz vs Spurs
Celtics vs Hawks
Clippers vs Grizzlies
Nuggets vs Lakers

[kcxiv]

I don't give a crap about hockey but I'm a Dodger lakers fan as well.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by okcchief

Perkins plays physical and with attitude. I've never seen him do anything to try to end a guys career and I've never seen him go in the crowd after fans. If he did what Artest did I bet you he would apologize. There is no competition for biggest douche in the NBA.

Perkins has attempted to injure guys plenty of times in his career. And as I say, he wins in a no contest if we're looking for the guy with the biggest douchebag attitude on a NBA court.

There is a difference between. being physical and a complete piece of shit. Also, I've meet Perkins a few times and he's nice as can be, all smiles and always with his kids. Ron Artest has crazy ass eyes and is only concerned about his street rep.

Oh, so you've met Ron Artest too, then, have you? Or is everything that you know about him coming through a media lens, as I suspect?

Calling yourself Meta World Peace will not change you as a person. If he handled this situation with a bit of class I would forget about it. When the guy is out of basketball his life will end badly. If he didn't make it in basketball he'd be dead or in jail. He does not deserve to wear the Laker jersey or even play in the NBA.

He's a fanastic basketball player. As such, he deserves to play in the NBA. There are plenty of guys in the league who would have ended up doing little else if they didn't have athletic talent, but they did. That's the name of the game.

My first reaction to this was I'd be ok with a few game suspension since Harden wasn't hurt. His comments last night showed he's not even trying to act like a decent human anymore.

For somebody that talks so much about Ron Artest, you apparently know little about him and his oblivious way of speaking. He doesn't "try to act" like anything. He just does and is, rarely ever thinking about anything he says (either before or after he says it). You're right, he certainly doesn't give a damn about what anybody else thinks of him, but I can't say I see a problem with that. I wish more athletes were even half as open as him to the media.

I have no problem with the Lakers in general. Kobe is one of the top 5 players I've seen in my lifetime and I respect the shit out of him even though I don't always like him. Artest plays with effort and is a good defender(used to be great) but he's a deplorable human being.

And yet Kobe once elbowed guy in the throat in a similar fashion to what Artest did to Harden in an attempt to injure and never apologized. He even once was accused of sexual assault before he paid the girl off in the end. But yeah, it's Artest that's the deplorable human being. Talk about looking through that media frame.

You are obviously a dickbag troll, and don't believe a word you say. So I'll just let you ramble for now on while I watch the Thunder win in 4 or 5 games.

So lashing out at my rather innocuous comment about the game and Artest's play is "letting me ramble on," now? I'd love to see what directly and personally attacking me means.

Personally, I don't see what you're upset about. The Thunder are still the better team than the Lakers and should conceivably get revenge on Artest for what he did. Makes for a far better series than Thunder/Nuggets, too.

KC CONNECTION calls himself a Laker fan that doesn't like Kobe much, but loves Ron Artest. Just another bitch with no life trolling message boards.

Emotional much? Once again, I like Kobe's game quite a lot actually (loved the game winner yesterday...the guy has no fear in those situations), but as I've said before, I've just never understood those that say he's better than LeBron overall. He's not. Nobody in this league is.

[okcchief]

Most people clung on to the Lakers, Celtics or Bulls in the 80s.

I was a Sixers fan Dr. J was the man. I hated the Celtics and liked the Lakers ok when they weren't playing Philly or the KC Kings. I really liked the Kings but the only year I remember clearly was their run to the WC finals in 81 when they lost to Moses Malone and the Rockets. When they moved they were dead to me lol

It's funny I don't mind the Celts today. I think it was the players on the 80s teams I hated so much.

[Ultra Peanut]

This game owns in an MST3K kind of way.

[okcchief]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Perkins has attempted to injure guys plenty of times in his career. And as I say, he wins in a no contest if we're looking for the guy with the biggest douchebag attitude on a NBA court.


Oh, so you've met Ron Artest too, then, have you? Or is everything that you know about him coming through a media lens, as I suspect?


He's a fanastic basketball player. As such, he deserves to play in the NBA. There are plenty of guys in the league who would have ended up doing little else if they didn't have athletic talent, but they did. That's the name of the game.


For somebody that talks so much about Ron Artest, you apparently know little about him and his oblivious way of speaking. He doesn't "try to act" like anything. He just does and is, rarely ever thinking about anything he says (either before or after he says it). You're right, he certainly doesn't give a damn about what anybody else thinks of him, but I can't say I see a problem with that. I wish more athletes were even half as open as him to the media.


And yet Kobe once elbowed guy in the throat in a similar fashion to what Artest did to Harden in an attempt to injure and never apologized. He even once was accused of sexual assault before he paid the girl off in the end. But yeah, it's Artest that's the deplorable human being. Talk about looking through that media frame.


So lashing out at my rather innocuous comment about the game and Artest's play is "letting me ramble on," now? I'd love to see what directly and personally attacking me means.

Personally, I don't see what you're upset about. The Thunder are still the better team than the Lakers and should conceivably get revenge on Artest for what he did. Makes for a far better series than Thunder/Nuggets, too.


Emotional much? Once again, I like Kobe's game quite a lot actually (loved the game winner yesterday...the guy has no fear in those situations), but as I've said before, I've just never understood those that say he's better than LeBron overall. He's not. Nobody in this league is.

Im not concerned with the Lakers in the least. I just think Artest is a classless punk and don't see how anyone can defend him. You respect him for not being fake? Great! He's a piece of shit and makes no apologies.

Perkins definitely tries to bait people and punk on them. I don't claim to know his whole career so show me an example where he has tried to injure a player. There is a difference between being physical and throwing a full force elbow to get someone off of you. If he was fighting for a rebound it excusable. He was trying to hurt someone.

I know all I need to know about Artest by his actions and the crazy look in his eye. He's mentally ill and shouldn't be on the court.

I never said Kobe was a model citizen, and I don't like him, but I respect him as a basketball player. I don't know the elbow you're talking about, but if he's trying to make a play it's completely different than what Artest did.

Show me examples.

[okcchief]

If you are worried about personal attacks on a message board stop trolling or stop being a sensitive ****. You have to respect me for speaking my mind right? Or does that only apply to Ron Ron? What a hypocrite.

[Ultra Peanut]

Hamed Haddadi ****ing owns.

[Ultra Peanut]

CHRIS PAUL I AM A SOCCER FAN AND YOU'RE MAKING ME EMBARRASSED TO WATCH BASKETBALL

YOU DICK

[okcchief]

Originally Posted by Ultra Peanut

CHRIS PAUL I AM A SOCCER FAN AND YOU'RE MAKING ME EMBARRASSED TO WATCH BASKETBALL

YOU DICK

No shit.

[Chiefs Pantalones]

Originally Posted by L.A.Chieffan

The colors were pretty

Woman

[kcxiv]

Originally Posted by okcchief

Most people clung on to the Lakers, Celtics or Bulls in the 80s.

I was a Sixers fan Dr. J was the man. I hated the Celtics and liked the Lakers ok when they weren't playing Philly or the KC Kings. I really liked the Kings but the only year I remember clearly was their run to the WC finals in 81 when they lost to Moses Malone and the Rockets. When they moved they were dead to me lol

It's funny I don't mind the Celts today. I think it was the players on the 80s teams I hated so much.

J was born inLos Angeles its why I like the teams I do. Used to be an L.A Rams fan as well. Ut once they were leaving had to find a new team. Loved me some Derrick Thomas so I started following the Chiefs.

[Ultra Peanut]

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[Pasta Little Brioni]

Originally Posted by L.A.Chieffan

KINGS AND CLIPS TONIGHT, LAKES TOMMOROW, DOYERS IN FIRST.

LA TOP OF THE WORLD BABY

Doyers won't win shit, like always

[MIAdragon]

James flops like a pussy

[In58men]

Lol @ LeBrick James