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Jack's Flow posted:I still have his first ever NBA game, against the Kings, on DVD somewhere. And now he's this dude who has been around forever.. Good thing I did not age though! Suck it, Lebron. "DVD" PantsFreeZone posted:i love that my posting history shows that i was smarter than all of you. Forget all those posts you made about the Heat going to the Finals this year?
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Jack's Flow posted:I still have his first ever NBA game, against the Kings, on DVD somewhere. And now he's this dude who has been around forever.. Good thing I did not age though! Suck it, Lebron. The Kings starting lineup was Bibby, Christie, Peja, Brad Miller, Vlade, for reference on how loving long ago that was
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I don't understand basketball (or really professional sports). Why do people see these special rules that one person gets to play by as legitimate?
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Spacebump posted:"DVD" Also any post about Lebron, which is the other 80%
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cosmicjim posted:I was looking for ammo in the lebron vs Jordan debate and came across a game changer. During the 2 years between 3peats, losing Horace Grant hurt the bulls more than losing Jordan. It would be fascinating to see people's perception of Jordan if the Bulls had won the year after his (first) retirement.
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Mehrunes posted:I don't understand basketball (or really professional sports). Why do people see these special rules that one person gets to play by as legitimate? Because it's loving badass to see freaks of humanity do things that would have gotten armies to follow them in the past
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NickRoweFillea posted:Because it's loving badass to see freaks of humanity do things that would have gotten armies to follow them in the past You've got a point. I guess my I just don't have the right mindset to enjoy this.
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The NBA is essentially incapable of enforcing its game rules in real time with any consistency when the players are faster than white people from the 1950s. There is bias but there is also random middle aged dudes in striped shirts trying to figure out what the gently caress someone like LeBron just did that looks like a video game glitch. It was already turning into high speed guessing in the 1980s.
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Unrelated, imagine LeBron playing in an era that allowed players to push people around MORE, and everyone was a worse athlete. "BAD BOY" PISTONS ALL HOSPITALIZED, LEBRON SETS DUNKED ON A BITCH RECORD, BILL LAIMBEER NAILED TO AN INVERTED CROSS BUT NO FOUL CALLED
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Spacebump posted:"DVD" In the days before League Pass, you actually had to buy single game DVDs if you wanted to see full games over here. edit: I'll be damned, that company is still around. http://www.pontel.com
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Fox8.com will live stream the parade and I'm sure the other channels will b too. Expecting a million people.
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The metro area is two million so if they have one million at the parade, pretty impressive.
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sean10mm posted:The NBA is essentially incapable of enforcing its game rules in real time with any consistency when the players are faster than white people from the 1950s. Yeah I don't know how many of you guys have ever tried to actually officiate a game, but it is basically impossible even at low competitive levels. I can't even imagine how fast the pro game must be when you're 5 feet away from it.
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Bigass Moth posted:Fox8.com will live stream the parade and I'm sure the other channels will b too. Expecting a million people. Awesome. All this Cleveland celebration talk just reminds me of Lombardi Gras which is probably the biggest celebration the Gulf South region has ever had. And it lasted at least a week.
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Mehrunes posted:I don't understand basketball (or really professional sports). Why do people see these special rules that one person gets to play by as legitimate? It's been argued fairly convincingly that LeBron, as with the Jordan Rules, gets substantially fewer fouls called FOR him because it seems to have very little rebound effect when people slam into him and he keeps freight-training forward. His superhuman athleticism allows him to keep moving through contact and finish a play where a normal human would have been knocked to the ground and had to wait and see if the ref wants to blow the whistle. Have you ever seen an NBA player collide with a normal sized human like a ref or a fan? They look like a house is falling on them. He shrugs off that kind of contact with no whistle multiple times a game.
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It was always fun to focus on Shaq on the court, because the amount of punishment he received and dished out was just ridiculous.
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Jack's Flow posted:It was always fun to focus on Shaq on the court, because the amount of punishment he received and dished out was just ridiculous. Absolutely. Shaq got assaulted and would carry several men to the rim with him. I imagine Wilt was the same except fighting in basketball was different and he was allowed to hammer back if it got too blatant. oh man look at all the contact LeBron punches through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUMlLgrwzF0 Also holy cow LeBron is the greatest plus I'm super glad that people finally kinda respect Draymond Green as the Best Warrior
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sean10mm posted:The NBA is essentially incapable of enforcing its game rules in real time with any consistency when the players are faster than white people from the 1950s.
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If you aren't watching the parade it's been on for over three hours and they haven't made it to the podium yet because the crowd is so thick the cars can barely move.
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Cleveland not setting up barricades is the most Cleveland thing ever.
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I read there's like 1.5 million humans there
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DROSE TO THE KNICKS BABYYYY
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They made it to the podium. Earl is still shirtless. Kevin Love still has two wrestling belts. Lebron is wearing a Nike Air baseball shirt that I covet with all my heart
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Also Shumpert is shirtless and has removed the topknot in favor of Kid'n'Play.
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Official crowd estimates are ranging from 1.3-1.5 MILLION loving PEOPLE. I can't loving believe that this is real.
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I'm looking at overhead shots of the crowd with the baseball stadium adjacent. You couldn't fit the crowd in the stadium, even if they were standing shoulder to shoulder on the FIELD. And that's just the crowd around those couple blocks, it just keeps going.
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LOL The WWE Made a custom Belt for the Cavs/ Kevin Love. http://www.sbnation.com/2016/6/20/11978230/wwe-championship-belt-cavaliers-nba-triple-h
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Lifted some shots my friend took from her facebook:![]() 5 hours ago before the parade ![]() Lebron ![]() J R Smiff ![]() Machine Gun Kelly's float ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Tonight's Indians game will be lit as hell with a sellout crowd that has been drunk and high since nine am.
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Bigass Moth posted:Tonight's Indians game will be lit as hell with a sellout crowd that has been drunk and high since nine am. ![]()
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Got there an hour early and had to park 40 blocks away there were so many people. Insane. edit: People getting shot up in Cleveland now runaway pancake fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Jun 22, 2016 |
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He said motherfucker on live tv
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Parade was a blast. JR Smith is the loving best. Dude kept soaking in every goddamn thing about this, and would go into the crowd to high five people, sign stuff, etc Place was insane. Had to go though this is something I've waited my whole entire life for. Also LeBron coming back is awesome and I love it because it shits on Stephen A. .
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Was there live. It was cool. Was there on Ontario where shots were fired and SWAT/Armored vehicles strolled in. Wild day.
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MullardEL34 posted:LOL The WWE Made a custom Belt for the Cavs/ Kevin Love. They do that for every major champion now, he posted it on Sunday night.
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Absolutely unreal, the photos of the celebration are insane. At last count I heard it was estimated at 1.4 million which is a little over half the population of the county. I'm pretty sure LeBron could kill a man here and everyone would look the other way. I've never seen so much energy here and that includes the Indians in the 90s when people would come out to watch them coming back from being on the road.
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I was at the parade too. Finally slept today after 3 long days of partying. Played craps with James Jones and Damon Jones one of the coaches of the cavs. They were at the casino real late last night, they also said JR Smith was there somewhere but I never saw him. Now I know what is like to be around over a million people. Pretty crazy and when I left downtown this morning around 9 to go to breakfast a lot of the area was already starting to be cleaned up.
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https://twitter.com/MacDuber/status/746084391198277633
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