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What player would you go after on the Mavs, other than Nowitzki? I wouldn't pursue anyone.
Oh man, I'd absolutely LOVE a big like Tyson Chandler on the Cavs.
I would take Jason Terry, or Tyson Chandler....in the right scenario it seems like even old man Jason Kidd could be worthwhile.
But yea, Chandler and Terry or Barea---I would welcome any of them.
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...and it became evident after halftime that when he got the ball, I wasn't that concerned.
That comment is huge. What other elite player would evoke such a feeling in a finals game? I felt the same way... I was hoping he'd get the ball and take a mid-long range jumper when they really needed points. It's almost like you knew he'd miss. Any other elite player on an opposing team, I'd be screaming to not let him get the ball.
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Players like Kidd, Barea and Terry only make sense on good teams who already have a star. That's not to discredit them as players but they fit perfectly in Dallas. On a rebuilding team, they'd just be vets keeping a seat warm. This is gonna be a great few weeks. LeBron and Co. are going to get blistered for the foreseeable future and Cavs draft #1 and #4 in 11 days. 
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Hard to say. I'd argue he's one of the biggest reasons for their success this year. They had guys like Desagana Diop playing the 5 before. Even after they traded for Heywood, he's not an intimidating big.
Is Tyson Chandler a superstar, max contract type of player? No, but if he was the missing link to a championship team I'd pursue him pretty hard.
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Lebron was right afterall ... brought a Championship celebration to Miami! 
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Lebron was right afterall ... brought a Championship celebration to Miami!
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Stat: LeBron's 9 point dropoff in scoring average from conference play to Finals is the largest ever for a player averaging over 25 in the conference tournament.
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Lebron was right afterall ... brought a Championship celebration to Miami!
Instant Classic!
You know my love will Not Fade Away.........
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1st you had "The Decision", now you have, "The Choke".
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy...
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But give me 2007-2008 Lebron anyday. Nobody knows where that guy is right now. He wasn't there in this series.
I keep shaking my head at all these pundants who say Lebron has no killer drive, he can't close out a series, and when the pressure's on he cracks. Did they already forget what he was like in the Detroit series back in 2007? Putting the team on his back, willing them to wins, scoring something like 25 out of the 27 points for the Cavs ...
But I agree ... this is a completely different dude now.
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I wanted to wait until the series was over before asking, but, if Miami doesn't win it all in the next couple seasons, do any of the 3 (they're not very big at this point) exercise those early opt-outs?
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If I were Dan Gilbert I would ask Chris Grant to call Miami tomorrow and ask if they are interested in trading Chris Bosh for the exception.
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if they don't win it next year, you could probably see them trade wade/james for paul or howard. No offense to the mavs, they're not the best team in recent memory. James has the mental toughness of a fausto carmona. I would keep wade, if it meant bringing in a paul or howard. When the pressure is on, James just passes the ball. He did the same thing against boston last year. if you're going down, you should go guns blazing.
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Wade would get shipped before LeBron. He's 30 years old and made of glass.
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Bosh played great, I thought. This series is all on Lebron. Guy was nowhere to be found. Heat would be crazy to get rid of bosh.
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After almost 50-70 years of missle crises and world wars, it only took Lebron to get Americans rooting for Germans and Cubans again.
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that's true, but as a player he is way more clutch than Lebron. I would take wade any day over Lebron.
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If I were Dan Gilbert I would ask Chris Grant to call Miami tomorrow and ask if they are interested in trading Chris Bosh for the exception.
That would be doing Miami a favor. Carrying 3 big contracts has been an obvious determent to the rest of their team. Their role players are awful and Dallas completely exposed that fact.
At this point, root REALLLY hard for a hard cap. If things like the MLE and BAE go away, Miami's roster is just going to be squeezed.
Realistically, in a hard cap scenario, Miami would have to trade one of their big 3. If they didn't, they'd honestly just have 9 other minimum salary players.
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Bob Frantz says that since LeBron can't win a ring he's going to buy one off his buddy Terrelle Pryor.
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James talks big. But he is no leader. That's why he had to team up with Wade and Bosh...guys who were supposed to take the pressure off of him. James wilts under pressure. He shrinks in crunch time. He quits. Congrats to the Mavs.
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Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
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James talks big. But he is no leader. That's why he had to team up with Wade and Bosh...guys who were supposed to take the pressure off of him. James wilts under pressure. He shrinks in crunch time. He quits. Congrats to the Mavs.
You have to give James some credit. He did say he was going to help bring a championship celebration to South Beach.
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James tweeted shortly after the game....
"The Greater Man upstairs knows when it's my time," James tweeted. "Right now isn't my time."
God picks the NBA Champions?
James needs to look in the mirror...
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I have to give Bosh some credit.. he took abuse all year as the "junior" member of the big 3 and he's the only one of the group that actually seemed to step up his game in the finals.
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James tweeted shortly after the game....
"The Greater Man upstairs knows when it's my time," James tweeted. "Right now isn't my time."
God picks the NBA Champions?
James needs to look in the mirror...
Notice he said the "Greater" man up stairs.
As if he himself is great 
It would be poetic justice if Miami was to break up the team or the Big 3.
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Just clicking I'm happy for Dallas.. I wasn't going to ride Lebron this morning until I heard his presser after the game., What an Arse.. This is what he said that just made me think he's damn fool.. Quote:
And he said he wouldn't let it bother him that so many were so happy to see him fail.
"Absolutely not, because at the end of the day, all the people that were rooting on me to fail, at the end of the day, they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today," James said. "They have the same personal problems they had today. I'm going to continue to live the way I want to live and continue to do the things that I want to do with me and my family and be happy with that.
"They can get a few days or a few months or whatever the case may be on being happy about not only myself, but the Miami Heat not accomplishing their goal. But they have to get back to the real world at some point."
http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2011/06/lebron_james_on_losing_nba_fin.html
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Dan Gilbert tweets: There are no shortcuts to a Championship. None!
LMAO...U go "G"!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm gonna watch TV all damn day cause these chumps are gonna get torn apart today...
Love It...Way to go Dallas!!!!!!!!!!!
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And THIS is still alive...lol... Quote:
"I PERSONALLY GUARANTEE THAT THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS WILL WIN AN NBA CHAMPIONSHIP BEFORE THE SELF-TITLED FORMER 'KING' WINS ONE"
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as was said above, the biggest mystery in all of this is where is 2005-2008 LeBron? where is the guy who made sure the Wizards didn't knock us out, beat the Pistons, kept 2 games close against the Spurs when we should have gotten blown out 4 straight times. gave the Celtics all they could handle in 2008 (game7 was epic and he outdid Pierce...PJ friggin Brown). He gave the Magic all they could handle and we were a Delonte West rebound away from winning that one.
I don't know where that guy is, but hopefully he is gone. It was great seeing the Mavs win last night.
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Well back to the real world today ... Lebron too. At least we both have won the same number of championships. 
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as was said above, the biggest mystery in all of this is where is 2005-2008 LeBron? where is the guy who made sure the Wizards didn't knock us out, beat the Pistons, kept 2 games close against the Spurs when we should have gotten blown out 4 straight times. gave the Celtics all they could handle in 2008 (game7 was epic and he outdid Pierce...PJ friggin Brown). He gave the Magic all they could handle and we were a Delonte West rebound away from winning that one.
I don't know where that guy is, but hopefully he is gone. It was great seeing the Mavs win last night.
That is EXACTLY the problem with them...And if it keeps up they won't win anything...
Lebum is at his best when he takes over games...And he never does it now...
They look LOST on offense...
Some talking heads thought it would take a year before winning it all...WHY??????????
These guys had all damn year to jell...They're good but they r far from great...And I think it's gonna stay that way because they won't get anything better than they have right now for 2012...
This new CBA might just FORCE one of em' out the door...Please Please Please!!!!!!!
And if Chicago keeps loading up???...Miami won't make it out of the East next year...
Go Browns!!!
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what was strange was when Dallas was starting to pull away (but hadn't yet), LeBron kept passing even when he had open shots. on a drive he had the rim and he passed for a missed layup (he did get the rebound and putback), then he had a wide-open 3 and he passed to Chalmers (who passed it an d eventually a turnover). it wasn't until the game was essentially over did LeBron start taking 3's.
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James tweeted shortly after the game....
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God picks the NBA Champions?
James needs to look in the mirror...
Notice he said the "Greater" man up stairs.
As if he himself is great
That's what I was thinking... pretty self centered...
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Good job, LBJ.
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as was said above, the biggest mystery in all of this is where is 2005-2008 LeBron? where is the guy who made sure the Wizards didn't knock us out, beat the Pistons, kept 2 games close against the Spurs when we should have gotten blown out 4 straight times. gave the Celtics all they could handle in 2008 (game7 was epic and he outdid Pierce...PJ friggin Brown). He gave the Magic all they could handle and we were a Delonte West rebound away from winning that one.
I don't know where that guy is, but hopefully he is gone. It was great seeing the Mavs win last night.
This isn't a big mystery, and I'm not sure why people think it is.
It's much easier to perform when you're not supposed to win anyway. It's much easier to step up and be a hero when if it doesn't work out, you're not supposed to win. The Cavs weren't supposed to beat the Pistons, they weren't supposed to beat the Spurs. If LeBron fails, he wouldn't have gotten blamed anyway so go down with no bullets in the gun. The Cavs were supposed to beat the Celtics last year and they were supposed to beat the Mavs. It's a different pressure when you're the favorite and when you're the underdog. When LeBron has the most to lose is when he tightens up and gets petrified. When win or lose he'll still get praised is when he is relaxed and plays aggressive.
By the way, Cowherd, who is a blowhard and diehard LeBron supporter, just ripped him a new one. Much of it is saving face for himself, but it was pretty entertaining. He's acting all surprised that LeBron tightened up last night ... as if there weren't any signs of that coming. What an idiot.
As for Bosh, I'll give him this. While completely overrated and somewhat of a baby, that guy faced the music with the media all series, all season, and gave honest answers. He faced the media alone while his partners in crime had to come to the podium holding hands (does anyone quite understand this? ... cause I don't). Bosh seems like a stand up dude. Not sure he'd be good for the Cavs, but he seems like a stand up dude. He'll never be the first or second best player on a championship team, but he could be a nice piece.
LOL - The Rish will be upset with this news as well. KS just doesn't prioritize winning...
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Had they just lost, it would have still been sweet redemption. But they way he played in the Finals is a juicy cherry on the top. leFraud played scared. he didn't want the ball and you could really see what he meant about leaving for "help"........he didn't want help, he wanted someone to do the work for him. he wanted to just graveytrain his way to a ring. Like Gilbert said, there are no shortcuts. leFraud thought he could score 15 a game and get a easy 2-6 rings. Turns out, the Heats needed the 05-08 leFruad to win this series......exactly what he didn't want to do, which is make an effort. He took the easy way out, he played the villian all year, and now the whole country is putting the blame on his shoulders (and he deserves it all). Come on, he had 18 4th quarter points ALL SERIES! That's awful (well, it's kinda awesome  ). I'm happy for the Mavs, Cuban, Terry, Dirk, Kidd, and Marion. Cuban stood up for the Cleveland fans before and after the decision...he's alright in my book. And yes, like someone said above. Bosh was cracked on all year for being the soft 3rd "star"....he was the one that actually played well. Oh well. Game 6 for the Stanley Cup Finals tonight.
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