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When the NBA Finals are tied 1-1, the Game 3 winner went on to win the championship 92% of the time.
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Sadly ESPN will some how credit Tim Tebow for the win.
 
RR7 said:
When the NBA Finals are tied 1-1, the Game 3 winner went on to win the championship 92% of the time.
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One of the 8% was the Mavericks who lost Game three but won the series. Against Miami. So Miami knows its possible. Except Dallas was at home for Games 4 and 5. Miami isn't.
 
KingSpeed said:
That never happened. By the way, this season, we gave a record beating to the Spurs in their building.
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OK...... remember the laugher when Boston scored 148 points against the Lakers, were up by over 40, ended up winning by 34 and ....lost the series?

Better?
 
Pinwheel1 said:
OK...... remember the laugher when Boston scored 148 points against the Lakers, were up by over 40, ended up winning by 34 and ....lost the series?

Better?
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Yes. That happened. But now what you said before. I don't get why people bring that up every time there's a blowout though. That happened once. Usually, when you get smoked, you get smoked.
 
KingSpeed said:
Yes. That happened. But now what you said before. I don't get why people bring that up every time there's a blowout though. That happened once. Usually, when you get smoked, you get smoked.
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I hope to hell that SA finishes them off in 5. But when a team kills you by making a record breaking amount of 3's, it doesn't impress me as much. Because you know that won't happen again. I still think Miami pulls out a win in Texas, then will end up winning game 6 too. And then it will be a very interesting game 7.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
I hope to hell that SA finishes them off in 5. But when a team kills you by making a record breaking amount of 3's, it doesn't impress me as much. Because you know that won't happen again. I still think Miami pulls out a win in Texas, then will end up winning game 6 too. And then it will be a very interesting game 7.
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It's not like they needed those threes to win a close game. They shot 50% from 3. If they only shot 20% they still win.
 
On ESPN.com it said that San Antonio hasn't hosted a finals game since 1997... I know they've been champions since, so how does that work? Did I miss something?
 
SheedSoNasty said:
On ESPN.com it said that San Antonio hasn't hosted a finals game since 1997... I know they've been champions since, so how does that work? Did I miss something?
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Since you saw it on ESPN.com, do you have a link?
 
NOVoodoo said:
Since you saw it on ESPN.com, do you have a link?
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No joke. I just went back to retrieve it and it was updated to 2007. Either I read it wrong or someone edited it just now. It is on the game summary where the box score is located. I figured it was best to come back with this explanation than the actual link... :)
 
SheedSoNasty said:
On ESPN.com it said that San Antonio hasn't hosted a finals game since 1997... I know they've been champions since, so how does that work? Did I miss something?
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It means they don't provide bottled water and clean towels in the locker room. The Spurs are notoriously terrible hosts during the finals.
 
Also from the ESPN.com recap:

The previous NBA Finals record for a team was 14 3-pointers, held by three teams. ... Miami's first victory in San Antonio came on Dec. 23, 1996, in its 11th try. David Robinson broke his left foot in the second quarter of the Heat's 90-79 victory, missed the rest of the season, and the Spurs fell into the lottery, which they ended up winning so they could take Duncan with the No. 1 pick in the 1997 draft
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A Spurs title would be a nice little round about way of thanking/screwing the Heat all these years later.
 
If Miami doesn't come back to win the series, would LeBron have the worst Finals winning percentage of any of the players widely considered for greatest ever honors? Series, not wins. Losing 3 out of 4 times doesn't look so hot.
 
handiman said:
If Miami doesn't come back to win the series, would LeBron have the worst Finals winning percentage of any of the players widely considered for greatest ever honors? Series, not wins. Losing 3 out of 4 times doesn't look so hot.
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I bet Jerry West would be in that discussion. I think he lost about 6 times to the Celtics. Won once against NY.

And Elgin Baylor too. Not sure he ever won.
 
Good call, any of the greats that faced that Celtics dynasty would have a lousy winning percentage.
 
handiman said:
Good call, any of the greats that faced that Celtics dynasty would have a lousy winning percentage.
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Weren't there only like 8 teams total in the NBA during the Celtics 'dynasty'? Not impressed. Now there are 29 teams to wade through year after year to get to a championship.
 
Today in assholery, a bunch of racist tweets directed against the cute Hispanic-American boy who sang the National Anthem.

Pathetic.
 
Eric Koreen ‏@ekoreen 28s
Last night was just the 2nd time in 95 games this year LeBron had fewer points than FGA. (Jan. 10, 92-90 loss in Portland, 15 pts on 6-16)
 
crandc said:
Today in assholery, a bunch of racist tweets directed against the cute Hispanic-American boy who sang the National Anthem.

Pathetic.
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Yes, there are racist morons out there. Many of us just ignore them and live our lives, knowing that racist assholes will always be racist assholes.
 
Boise Blazer said:
Eric Koreen ‏@ekoreen 28s
Last night was just the 2nd time in 95 games this year LeBron had fewer points than FGA. (Jan. 10, 92-90 loss in Portland, 15 pts on 6-16)
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Nic Batum - The LeBron Stopper!
 
BBert said:
Weren't there only like 8 teams total in the NBA during the Celtics 'dynasty'? Not impressed. Now there are 29 teams to wade through year after year to get to a championship.
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8 teams at the beginning, but up to 14 by the end. Fewer teams also meant less dilution of talent. Of course, the Celtics with a roster full of future Hall of Famers also benefited greatly from that lack of dilution of talent.

BNM
 
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Anyone see this article? LeBron's dad was in jail the same time as MWP's brother?

So, as a fan, sometimes to see LeBron not take over, I'm kind of like, 'Come on, let's do it.' His pops went to jail with my older brother. My brother spent 10 years in jail, they were locked up together. I'm a fan of LeBron, so I always want to see him do well and sometimes I'm like, 'Step it up! Start playing
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http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/...ngeles-lakers-says-miami-heat-want-given-them
 
Hilarious, Boise Blazer! Good illustration of hype.
 
After suffering a Grade 1 hamstring strain, Tony Parker will play in Game 4 of the NBA Finals.

“I’ll be ready to go," Parker said at Thursday morning's shootaround.

The Spurs will look to take a commanding 3-1 series lead over the Miami Heat.

“Same as any other player,” Gregg Popovich said of Parker. “I want him to do his job.”

I doubt Parker even pulled his hamstring. It was a good acting job is what it was.I bet this was all part of the game plan.
 
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