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Heard a better one from my friend on facebook ...

Lebron is taking his talents to Vancouver now, because he heard that they only need to play 3 periods in the NHL.

Why isn't LeBron married?

Because he doesn't have a ring to give.

Anyone expecting a refereeing team of Bennett Salvatore, Joey Crawford and Tim Donaghy on Sunday to stretch this series to 7?

Well, Crawford did game 5, so it'll have to be either Dick Bavetta or Violet Palmer instead.

is anyone not expecting a 2:1 ratio of Miami FTs to Dallas FTs in game6?

good news is that unlike the 2001 Kings, I don't think this Dallas team will get so dejected by it that they don't show up for game7.

If I had moeny to bet.....taking the Heat would be a no brainer. The NBA will do whatever it can to make sure this series see a Game 7. And yes, I'd also prop bet that the Heat match or break the Finals record for most free throw attempts in one game.

All class.

http://www.cleveland.com/ohio-sports-blog/index.ssf/2011/06/lebron_and_dwyane_wade_mock_di.html

LeBron and Dwyane Wade mock Dirk prior to Game 5
Published: Friday, June 10, 2011, 2:34 PM Updated: Friday, June 10, 2011, 2:34 PM

LeBron James and Dwyane Wade apparently were amused by Dirk Nowitzki's sinus infection and the ensuing storyline, writes ESPN Dallas reporter Tim MacMahon.

Following shootaround on Thursday, Wade and James pretended to cough and wheeze, smirking as they repeatedly covered their mouths with their shirts.

"Whoa, did y'all hear me cough? I think I'm sick," Wade said before turning toward James and chuckling.

This came two days after Nowitzki scored 21 points, including a critical driving layup in the last minute, while playing with a 101-degree fever during the Dallas Mavericks' NBA Finals-tying Game 4 win.

Wade, writes MacMahon, had already made it clear that he believed the story of Nowitzki playing through illness and injury -- the Mavericks' superstar tore the tendon in his left middle finger in the series opener -- had been overblown.

Something tells me Dirk won't be pretending to have a bad hip or be a wuss prior to game 6 . . .

At least Dirk didn't need a wheelchair to cart him off for an upper body injury.

In the 4th quarter, of LeBron's "Now or Never" game, Dirk had 8 points with a sinus problem and Wade had 10 with a bad him.. LeBron had 2 because he was tired... What a wuss.

Dirk and Jason Kidd should get off the bus in Miami and pretend to adjust a tampon.

Can't wait for Dallas to finish these guys off. I wonder if BSPN will come down hard on the Heat if they do end up losing?

what's funny is that when Dirk calls out Terry, he responds with his play.

when Wade (in-game), then Stevenson (to media), then Marion (in-game) all call-out LeBron (along with pretty much every writer) he doesn't respond.

I don't know what's going on because something changed the last year and a half. 2008 LeBron wouldn't have put up with this junk. Anyways, I hope he doesn't figure out what it is.

Yeah, remember 2008 ... Bosh's girlfriend starts trash talking Lebron, and he goes on to DESTROY the Raptors in the 4th quarter. Lebron was apparently neutered sometime in 2009/2010.

A few observations that will make me seem like a bitter Cavs fan.

I don't like listening to Mike and Mike but I actually had them on a few times in the morning this week (because I am like most of you and are totally into the finals)

But I don't know who said it, but they said something along the lines of lbj needs to get into the paint, and play that low post game and abuse the mavs, and he said it like he had the blueprint in his hand for the cure for cancer.

Let me do my best Herm Edwards impression. UMMM HELLO??

Have you not watched the Cavs over the last 7 seasons? Did you not watch the Heat this year? HE DOESN'T WANT TO PLAY IN THE PAINT! You think our ymca-level team we had around lebron was the only reason we lost? I swear, I think most of these bspn guys just watch the highlights and then comment on the game. Unreal.

The second thing is, I love the double standard with the idiots over in bristol. Lebron had a triple double last night, but anyone who watched the game knows he didn't have a great game. Someone said that he had a triple double which is great, but he's paid to be a scorer and not just a facilitator (which now everyone at bspn uses that word now, that's how it goes, one guy finds a word, they all repeat it)

Wasn't it last year in game 6, following the game where he played with a foot out the door, that he had a triple double (actually it could have been a quadruple double had he coughed up the ball one more time) He didn't play well. But no, after that it was all about how Lebron is playing with a bunch of guys from the monday night 6 feet and under league over at the church.

What a load of you know what. Double freaking standard.

I believe 15-10-10 (I'm not gonna give LeBron those two garbage-time points) is what they call a "Jason Kidd triple double".

$110 billion? Got a link for that?

Whatever happens, this game tomorrow night will probably be a barnburner. It's going to come down to role players...whichever team's guys who do the dirty work show up is gonna win. Dirk, Wade, Bosh, maybe LeBron will all get theirs. Biggest difference is that Miami is facing an elimination game, and Dallas isn't. Do guys who have never been there, like Chalmers, Miller, Anthony, even Bosh, step up or does the gravity of the moment get to them? None of those guys have had their backs against the wall on the NBA's biggest stage. How they respond is going to be the key.

Me? I'll continue my routine of surfing the Internet while switching between the game and Family Guy reruns. It's worked so far.

I think that the one-side officiating is going to put LbJ in foul trouble early, and this will help the Mavs, as James won't be able to attack the basket.

IMO, the NBA doesn't want to see the Heat win. And the calls are going to reflect that. They want to show that colluding and trying to take the easy awy out isn't going to get you a championship. But paying your dues and doing it the right way---as Dirk has done, will eventually be rewarded. This game is pretty much the forces of good vs. the forces of evil--in a universal battle for what is right.

I got the Mavs finishing this thing up in 6. And hopefully light will triumph over darkness.

On a side note: I am still bitter, I don't ever want LbJ to win anything....ever. And once he is an old, broken, and ring-less stooge he can wake from dreams of his unfulfilled basketball career in a panicked sweat and know that he failed.

Yep, I hope he fails and it haunts him until he dies......

Pretty bitter.

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I read somewhere that a Game 7 would make Disney an extra $110 billion.

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That was in the last Bill Simmons column and it was a joke.

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ABC & ESPN: Don't tell anyone, but if there's a Game 7, Disney makes an extra $110 billion (all numbers approximate). You might see everyone on Dallas foul out in Game 6. I think Tyson Chandler already has 2 fouls and the game doesn't start for another 48 hours.

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Grantland.com

Obviously they would make more money, but it wouldn't be that much.

Oh okay, I read it on another message board. Had no idea where that number came from. I thought $110 billion was a little ridiculous haha.

How do you know you've found LeBron James cell phone?

It'll vibrate and receive calls, but it doesn't have a ring.

Just clicking TD16

The officials won't be as blatant as to just call 2 to 1 fouls for The Heat,they will be more slick about it. They will control the flow of the game for Miami, if Miami gets a lead and Dallas starts to rally they will kill the rally with a few calls against Dallas, if Miami is down the refs will help Miami with calls but in the end they will be able to point at the stats and claim that the game was fairly called because of those numbers

King

I will be watching the game........first, 4 wheeling with friends, then back home to get the mitt and balls and daughter and wife and some other kids - off to the park for batting practice.......then the game. And if they game isn't called fairly, I will be ticked off. If the game isn't called fairly, I will let the nba know that I, personally, won't give a dead deer's ass about the future of the league.

Call it fair. If they don't, then call it what it is - a rigged system.

If some of you guys believe the NBA is fixed, why do you even watch it?

For the first time in like, years, I'm actually looking forward to watching an NBA game tonight.

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/story/15223...than-act-itself

Maybe you missed the latest, where LeBron and his partner in dumb, Dwyane Wade, mocked Dirk Nowitzki for daring to be sick during the NBA Finals. That twosome was caught on video walking around the Mavericks' home arena -- Dirk's house -- with shirts over their faces, coughing, asking each other, "Did you hear me cough?"

And giggling.

And when I say they were "caught," that's not really accurate. They weren't busted. They walked out of their locker room Thursday, saw the cameras, and on cue broke into the Walking Flu act. It was choreographed, obviously.

And they did it again Saturday, when the media found the time and place to ask James and Wade -- and also Nowitzki, who was understandably put off -- about the video. James and Wade met the media individually, each spending roughly 10 minutes in front of cameras. Wade was asked 15 questions. James was asked 11.

Both players coughed while listening to one question, and only one question. You know which question.

James went even farther. As the question unfolded and he heard the magic words about "a video circulating that's gathering buzz," James sniffed loudly. Then he grabbed his shirt and pulled it over his face. Then he turned and coughed.

You see what's happening, right? James and Wade think they have this inside joke, this secret little gag that nobody else is smart enough to pick up on. Then when the world does pick up on it -- because they're just not that clever -- they get defensive.

But mocking Nowitzki? Him? He's the nicest guy on the floor, and he's playing with a torn tendon in a finger, and he played Game 4 with a 101-degree fever. And Nowitzki has downplayed both issues, saying the injury and the illness would have no bearing before the games even began.

When he was asked Saturday about being mocked, Nowitzki also had a physical reaction, though he didn't theatrically cough as James and Wade had. He smiled. Broke into a big ol' grin, just for a second, then swallowed it.

Then he devoured James and Wade in eight words, speaking as he has been scoring. Efficiently. Brutally.

"It was a little childish," Nowitzki said. "A little ignorant."

Childish fits, seeing how James is Peter Pan, living in a make-believe world where sycophants kiss his ass. He never grew up, and maybe never will. Sadly, classy Dwyane Wade hasn't been a good influence on James. Nope. James is dragging Wade down to his level. They're Peter Pan and Tinkerbell.

These are your best players, Miami Heat fans. This is your team. You damn well better like them.

Who else could?

I wonder if LeBron, after this season, had an hour long special on ESPN dubbed "The Apology" and said to Cavs fans, his former teammates, and Dan Gilbert how he regretted his actions over the past year and he realized now that he was misled and he wanted a second chance "to do things right" with the Cavs; would we take him back with open arms? If it went down like that, I would.

Of course this will never happen. Go Mavs!

That's the only way it could ever happen. He'd first have to have a sit down 1 on 1 with Dan Gilbert, and they could work out their issues. Then he'd have to have a press conference where he sincerely apologized for the way he's acted, how he acted during his free agency, and everything else.

Some Cavs fans won't admit it, but I can. If that were the case, I would welcome him back with open arms.

It'd be the only way I'd ever forgive him for game 5. I have no problem right now if he said to a reporter with a camera and a mic, "Hey I'm sorry Cleveland, for the Decision, it was wrong, hope you can forgive me" I'd easily forgive him. It was a mistake, he was misled by the people closest to him, and the wordwide leader should've known better than to let that whole thing happen. THAT wasn't all him.

Game 5? That was on him, and him alone. As a Cavs fan I won't ever forgive him for it, unless he came back and made good on his promise from years ago (about getting a parade for the city)

You really wonder if that guy will ever "get it" though. Seriously, that article is right. If Dwyane Wade is going to act as dumb as he is now, who's gonna tell him what to do? Pat Riley? Everyone is afraid of that guy.

As much as we all hated Deshawn Stevenson, I do admire him for being a player in this league who isn't afraid to speak his mind about the guy. I think the majority of guys in the nba are afraid to say anything about him for fear of never getting to ride that gravy train. True story.

On some things, I'm a "forgive and forget" kinda guy.

Now, I'm not a huge NBA fan....not that I dislike it - I just don't watch many games. However, I am a HUGE Cleveland fan in general - because of the Browns. I think of Cleveland, and all that's in it, as my second home town. For one reason: The Browns.

With that said - I wouldn't want him back on the Cav's - I don't care if he groveled. He had a choice. He made the choice.

Correct me if I'm wrong - but he left Cleveland to pursue what was at the time considered a "guaranteed" ring. On the team he's on now, he's shown he's not even a Scottie Pippen type player.

Like Pryor - he has all the athletic ability - but he has a "give me ......I deserve..." mentality. And people like that? I don't care for. Class is something you have, or you don't have. He doesn't have it.

JMHO.

Yeah but what if he came to his senses, realized what he had, and was truly sorry, with a new drive for winning for cleveland.

and he was sincere about all of it? you'd take him back.

Yeah, I don't know if i would be all that happy to see him back in Cleveland.

I'd rather shove it straight up his .... well .... by winning a championship without him .... especially since we could not do so with him.

The guy isn't coming back so we don't need to worry about it

He did say that he wouldn't rule out returning to the Cavs one day. He said it would be a "great story".

I agree though...he ain't coming back.