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NBA 2013?14 Season
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The NBA needs some shaking up, and the Spurs winning is the only way to do it. Pacers winning would have been a travesty for the league, as their team was not nearly as good as everyone gave them credit for. And I hope this is a wakeup call for OKC one way or another. Whether it's firing Brooks. Trading Westbrook. Or Durant deciding he should bail. Also want Spurs to win so the Big Three retire after winning one last championship. And hopefully that will push Lebron to leave Miami if they loose, since Wade is about done and Bosh has always sucked. Going into this post season the Spurs winning it all was really the only way for the league to move on from some entertaining, but stagnant teams.
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The thing about the Pacers is they're essentially the poster child for how every team that doesn't have a top 5 "this guy you can win a championship with for sure" player should build their team. Draft smart, don't overpay in free agency, and don't feel obligated to keep "your guys" just because you drafted them (a whole ton of teams fail on this last one. "He just needs time" as an excuse to hold on to someone you consider "yours"). I wouldn't be surprised if they let Stephenson walk. Dude is really, really good but I'm not sure worth the salary he's going to command. That team goes 9 deep of very quality players. The only move that was weird from them was trading for Turner, but it's not like they're going to resign him nor were they bring back Granger so whatever.
The truth is though, they lost not only because they hit a more talented team, but because they just straight up under performed. The only player on the whole roster that matched his regular season production was George and even that wasn't anywhere near how well he played during the first half of the regular season. All I'm really saying is that if 8 of the 9 core players on that team don't play sub par, we might be having a different discussion right now. That isn't to take anything away from Miami's 3 though.
Bottom line, Indianaisthat good. They're what the Raptors will be in 3 years. They just sucked balls in the playoffs.
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He and Stu are super Miami homers, but some of it was hilarious. The also gone missing, Roy Hibbert, joke was amazing.
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Some of you might remember Jon Bois' Breaking Madden article from last year (it was hilarious). Here's a new piece by him (also hilarious):
All is lost: In the series finale of NBA Y2K, we bear witness to the slow, miserable death of basketball - SBNation.com
All is lost: In the series finale of NBA Y2K, we bear witness to the slow, miserable death of basketball - SBNation.com
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GOLD
The last remaining skeptics now acknowledge that the Doomsday Phenomenon is very real. It must be, because the Atlanta Hawks have won an NBA championship.
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OU Ariakas
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Yeah, the gifs from their last game were gold, too. Not as golden as the final gifs/video though, of course.