****OFFICIAL 2013 NBA PLAYOFFS THREAD****

[-King-]

2012-2013 NBA Champions:

[tredadda]

Originally Posted by Chiefs Pantalones

@BestVlNES: Roy Hibbert says "No Homo" during the press conference http://t.co/ymXUn2Zuv3

[Rudy tossed tigger's salad]

Wade's comments:

"We've got to do a good job of making sure me and Chris have our opportunities to succeed throughout the game," Wade said. "That's something we're going to have to look at as a team."

"We've got guys individually who want to play better," Wade said. "But we've got to try to help each other out in this locker room and not leave it up to the individual to self-will it."


We all know how sensitive LeBron is, so his approach to game 7 will be interesting. Hope he tries putting it in his teammates' hands.

[MIAdragon]

Originally Posted by Rudy Was Offsides

We all know how sensitive LeBron is, so his approach to game 7 will be interesting. Hope he tries putting it in his teammates' hands.

As do I, please put Indiana in the finals.

[Mr. Laz]

go pacers

[dirk digler]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

They all complain. It's just some (Durant and Kobe) do it more than others (LeBron and Wade).

Yeah I don't think so. I think they equally all complain some just get called on it more than others or maybe it is how or what they say

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by Rudy Was Offsides

Wade's comments:

"We've got to do a good job of making sure me and Chris have our opportunities to succeed throughout the game," Wade said. "That's something we're going to have to look at as a team."

"We've got guys individually who want to play better," Wade said. "But we've got to try to help each other out in this locker room and not leave it up to the individual to self-will it."


We all know how sensitive LeBron is, so his approach to game 7 will be interesting. Hope he tries putting it in his teammates' hands.

Terrible comment by Wade and terrible timing. But so was LeBron's comments about doing everything by himself and that he was basically playing on the old Cavs teams.

This is one of many reasons I know the guy is a great player, but I can never like the guy.

[kcxiv]

Lol wade crying that others aren't involved. Wasn't the heat something like 6-24 in the first half. What the **** is lebron supposed to do then. I seen this shit with Kobe before. U try to get our team involved but when they miss over and over what is the superstar supposed to do? Does he let his team figure it out and by that time they are down by 20?

Yeah I'm defending Lebron. It feels weird lol

[-King-]

Originally Posted by Fruit Ninja

Lol wade crying that others aren't involved. Wasn't the heat something like 6-24 in the first half. What the **** is lebron supposed to do then. I seen this shit with Kobe before. U try to get our team involved but when they miss over and over what is the superstar supposed to do? Does he let his team figure it out and by that time they are down by 20?

Yeah I'm defending Lebron. It feels weird lol

This.

[-King-]

LeBron James needs help from rest of 'Big Three' for Heat to advance to NBA Finals
13 hours ago


LeBron James reacts in frustration during Game 6. (Getty)

INDIANAPOLIS -- As the final buzzer sounded, these Miami Heat pushed to the brink in the Eastern Conference Finals, LeBron James refused to wait a moment before beginning a determined and deliberate process of elevating his decaying Miami Heat. One by one, they walked out of the failure of Game 6, into the uncertainty of a Game 7, and James stood at mid-court clapping, cheering and cajoling his fading, failing teammates as they passed him on the way into the losing locker room.

"This is where your brotherhood gets strengthened," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.

Or, perhaps, this is where the team that was supposed to be basketball's greatest modern dynasty lets a championship destiny perish for the second time in three years.

After a 91-77 loss on Saturday night, the Heat march into a Game 7 with an understanding that they're no longer constructed for victory unless LeBron James plays out of his mind, plays out of this world. That happens – happens a lot – but this becomes a slippery slope for the Heat's championship chances when that becomes a necessity for victory.

[Related: Pacers ride stifling defense to dominant Game 6 win]

Three years ago, the Big Three brashly introduced themselves on a rising stage, stepping out of the smoke and into the clear. Now, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh come out of the smoke coughing and wheezing and doubled over, no longer standing shoulder to shoulder with James.

The best player in the world remains relentless in his public support and belief of his co-stars, but he didn't indulge his close friend's delusion of the circumstances of the Heat's playoff demise. Dwyane Wade reacts during the second half of Game 6. (AP)

"We have to do a better job of getting opportunities for me and Chris to succeed," Wade said.

Wade missed layup upon layup, leaving eight, maybe 10 points on the floor. Over and over, Wade reached the rim, but couldn't close on the most elementary of finishes. Better job of getting opportunities for him? That's a code for blaming his coach and sparing himself the reality of his responsibilities.

James refused to play the part of an enabler on Saturday night. This is time for self-reliance, time for truth telling. He's lent himself to be a cheerleader, to keep encouraging his teammates, keep telling them that he believes in them. His job isn't to tell lies or manufacture fairy tales.

"I am able to replay a lot of plays in my head," James said, and soon he started to list – one by one – the circumstance of every, easy Wade miss on Saturday night. No video clips needed, James remembered them all.

Above everything, James understands that even his greatness can't overcome Wade and Bosh missing 15 of 19 shots for the game, a formula for failure with the way the Pacers pound the Heat on the boards, pound them inside.

"We can state the obvious: They're both struggling," James said.

Yes, Wade's knee has been troublesome for weeks; Bosh turned an ankle in the series. They're still commanded to find a way, because champions do.

"My rhythm seems off," Bosh said. "It's been like that the whole series."

This is no time for rhythm, only results. The Pacers' David West played with a 103-degree fever, a league source told Yahoo! Sports, and somehow he delivered on a night that started out with him missing seven straight shots, with his coach telling him, "You have nothing tonight" and trying to take him out of the game.

West refused to sit and played his part in pushing the Heat back to Miami for a Game 7. If the Heat are still going to get past Indiana on Monday night, there promises to be a terrific toll taken on them with the San Antonio Spurs awaiting in the NBA Finals. Yes, Boston pushed Miami to a Game 7 a year ago, but Bosh had returned late in the series and Miami gathered momentum as those conference finals unfolded. Now, they gather doubt.

[Video: Pacers' Paul George delivers crushing dunk on Heat's Chris Bosh]

Chris Andersen comes back for Game 7, and history suggests that Wade loves creating these desperate scenarios for himself – only to rise again to the cheers of the adoring South Florida masses. And yet, to watch these Heat now, it is impossible to imagine how they won 27 straight games this season. That feels like a different team, a different season.

This is a grind for Miami, dominance left far, far back in the distance. This is sheer survival now. So yes, James played the part of the cheerleading, optimist leader late Saturday night, professing a belief in his heart when perhaps a different truth about his teammates exists in his eyes.

"Those guys are professionals, as championships, we'll figure it out," James said. "And me as the leader, I'll have to help them figure it out."

David West battles for the ball with LeBron James during the second half. (AP)Whatever revelations transform Wade and Bosh between games 6 and 7, whatever they draw upon to salvage this series, make no mistake: The burden on LeBron James to carry this roster has never been so extraordinary, the presumption of Heat victory never so uncertain.

Before they left the floor, James had started to prepare these Miami Heat for Monday and a most unmistakable mission: Sparing themselves the embarrassment of a second collapse in three seasons, sparing themselves of history remembering this team not as a dynasty for the ages, but one of sport's great disappointments.

Three years ago, the stage rose, and the smoke spit out and the Big Three emerged to change championship basketball forever in the NBA. Only now, Miami is wobbling the way those old Cleveland Cavaliers used to this time of year, when the genius of LeBron James couldn't overcome the pedestrian play surrounding him. He's far more equipped to handle all that now, but rest assured he never came to Miami believing that he had to pitch perfect games to advance in the Eastern Conference playoffs.

So here comes Game 7 for the Miami Heat now, here comes everything for a franchise fighting to hold off the Indiana Pacers and advancing age, fighting to hold off 2014 free agency and a forever feeling of failure should they let this series – and maybe this entire era – slip away.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--le...065701885.html

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by Fruit Ninja

Lol wade crying that others aren't involved. Wasn't the heat something like 6-24 in the first half. What the **** is lebron supposed to do then.

LeBron was 6-17 shooting at one point.

He had a shitty game.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by Fruit Ninja

Lol wade crying that others aren't involved. Wasn't the heat something like 6-24 in the first half. What the **** is lebron supposed to do then. I seen this shit with Kobe before. U try to get our team involved but when they miss over and over what is the superstar supposed to do? Does he let his team figure it out and by that time they are down by 20?

Yeah I'm defending Lebron. It feels weird lol

I hate Wade, but even still, this seems unusual for him to make these kinds of comments at this point in time. Yeah, I really don't like LeBron either, but no player should have to deal with this kind of drama going into a critical game.

It will be interesting to see how LeBron responds. Does he go into attack mode in game 7 or become a distributor? Because he should do the former, not the latter.

[-King-]

Roy Hibbert got fined 75k for saying "mother****er" and "no homo"

David Stern is a joke.

[kcxiv]

Tax write off the money goes to charity.

Remember when urlacher got fined 100,000 for wearing that vitamin water hat lol

[Chiefs Pantalones]

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[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Branden Albert's Huge Balls

LeBron was 6-17 shooting at one point.

He had a shitty game.

Shitty game? LeBron went for 29, 7, and 6 on 10 of 21 shooting. He's the only one on the Heat that did anything at all last night.