they have a solid squad....people thinking it would be a sweep were silly
They do. I don't know why people were thinking a sweep would happen. OKC is not a pushover team.
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they have a solid squad....people thinking it would be a sweep were silly
They do. I don't know why people were thinking a sweep would happen. OKC is not a pushover team.
Definitely silly to think OKC would get swept. They're a monster team when they have that home court advantage. That crowd is the best example of a crowd being the sixth man.
Spurs will bounce back, we all know this to be true.
Hypothetically though, how unreal would that be in San Antonio had kept going undefeated and actually went 16-0 in the post-season.
I played pick-up ball with a bunch of guys tonight and we were talking about just that and began wondering if its ever been done before. Doesn't matter what the format is, but has any team ever swept the entire postseason? I can't think of one...
7/2/06 - Denver, CO
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
they have a solid squad....people thinking it would be a sweep were silly
what else were we supposed to think the Spurs hadn't lost in like a month+. either way these teams are sexier than the east.
The entire Western Conference is sexier than the East.
7/2/06 - Denver, CO
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
I played pick-up ball with a bunch of guys tonight and we were talking about just that and began wondering if its ever been done before. Doesn't matter what the format is, but has any team ever swept the entire postseason? I can't think of one...
'Lil Wayne is a 'Lil wrong when he says he was denied entry into tonight's playoff game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the San Antonio Spurs -- fact is, he just didn't have a ticket.
The rapper just tweeted, "Going to go to the Thunder game tonight but was denied by the team to be in their arena. Wow."
But a rep for the OKC Thunder tells TMZ ... "We did not deny him," adding, "His representatives contacted us about court side tickets and we told them we are completely sold out."
The rep says the team has no beef with the 'Lil one.
very rarely does a sweep happen in a confrence finals
lot of poeple have the spurs in the finals, and while they are a very good team, i still wouldn't count out OKC.
heck, take a look at least years playoffs to see what can happen to the spurs. they are very beatable.
Last year?? Are u kidding? Look at the rosters.... No Kawhi, captain Jax, Diaw, etc. plus health changes year to year
You can't say a teams beatable because last years results.... Than why not look at '07 or any other successful year they had to argue they'll win it based on that??
OKC is good, but let's not over react with one game
A series hasn't really started until a team wins on the other teams floor
very rarely does a sweep happen in a confrence finals
lot of poeple have the spurs in the finals, and while they are a very good team, i still wouldn't count out OKC.
heck, take a look at least years playoffs to see what can happen to the spurs. they are very beatable.
Last year?? Are u kidding? Look at the rosters.... No Kawhi, captain Jax, Diaw, etc. plus health changes year to year
You can't say a teams beatable because last years results.... Than why not look at '07 or any other successful year they had to argue they'll win it based on that??
OKC is good, but let's not over react with one game
A series hasn't really started until a team wins on the other teams floor
point was, spurs were the number one seed last year in the west. had a great regular season and bowed out in the first year. yeah, some players have changed, but duncan and parker were on both teams. they are clearly the backbone of the team.
this series can go either way and i would not be suprised by a OKC victory
Well, it sounded like a good idea at the time. A fabulous idea, in fact. A stunning, bold, unique and risky idea.
It was an idea so impossibly enormous that Dwight Howard might have bought into it and stayed in Orlando until his hair turned gray.
For the past few days, Phil Jackson was interested in the possibility of joining the Magic's front office.
Then, late Thursday afternoon, Jackson bowed out.
Magic CEO Alex Martins was formally presented on Wednesday with a scenario involving Jackson by Sam Vincent, who played for the Magic and Jackson.
"It drew some interest from Phil," Vincent said. "But in the end, Phil decided to go with another opportunity."
Jackson is apparently headed back to the NBA in some capacity, but he pulled out here before Martins had a chance to run it by owner Rich DeVos. Martins learned of Jackson's exit Thursday, but would not comment.
"Not because of this specific situation, but because I have been consistent during the search that I won't comment on specific candidates," Martins said in an e-mail. "I stand by my statement that we will put a premium on searching for Championship experience in the positions within in our search."
Vincent said Jackson gave him the impression that he doesn't want to coach anymore. But the Magic scenario would have involved Jackson as either the team president/ general manager or in a consulting role — sort of like Pat Riley looking down from his office at Erik Spoelstra in Miami.
Vincent said that Jackson, 66, was intrigued enough by the idea that Vincent and another intermediary were preparing to fly to Jackson's home in Montana to speak with him. And, if the talks went well, they would next approach Howard.
That intermediary with Vincent was a former all-star player and Hall of Famer who, in Vincent's plan, was to be the next coach of the Magic. Jackson would help mentor him.
The former player has never coached before, but surrounded by Jackson and a coaching staff including Vincent — former Charlotte Bobcats coach — and a couple of Jackson's former Los Angeles Lakers assistant coaches — Frank Hamblen and Jim Cleamons — the hope was that he could learn on the fly.
I'd love to divulge the name of the former all-star player and would-be coach, but he's currently an employee of another NBA team.
Sounds like a gamble, but if Vincent's plan had come together and Howard was on board to play for a rookie coach, how could the Magic have said no? As long as Howard signs a long-term contract extension, the Magic might agree to let Chris Rock be head coach.
Besides, how could Howard have turned down Jackson?
Could you have imagined the Zen Master, the Hall of Fame coach with an unprecedented 11 rings, lending his Zen to the Magic?
If Howard wanted championship credibility in the organization, he couldn't have asked for a more credible character than Jackson.
With the possibility of Jackson and Howard on board, the hope was that their star power could attract free agents such as Steve Nash and Lamar Odom.
Vincent played for the Magic from 1989-92, one of the expansion franchise's originals. He still lives in Orlando and says a piece of his heart still belongs to the Magic. It's why he brought the Jackson proposal to Martins.
"In my capacity, I was trying to put together something that would be in the best interest of the Magic," Vincent said.
Vincent was excited early Thursday afternoon before learning that Jackson had passed on the opportunity to come to Orlando. Vincent still intends to present a variation of his plan to the Magic. It's a unique concept, picking men from the Jackson coaching/playing tree and presenting the staff for hire.
Vincent has some head coaching candidates for the Magic, including Scottie Pippen. "We lose a strong component in Phil, but it still has a lot of strength," Vincent said. "I wanted to have Phil in the group."
For a few days, the Magic's fantasy of Phil had taken flight. Ah, what could have Zen.
99.5% positive the un named hof rookie coach would have been pippen. i would have loved to seen this set up. stilll could happen.
Former Notre Dame and Chicago Bulls star Orlando Woolridge has died at age 52, officials in Louisiana told the Shreveport Times.
Desoto Parish Chief Deputy Coroner Billy Locke told the newspaper that Woolridge had been under hospice care for a chronic heart condition at his parents' home in Mansfield, La.
Woolridge was part of Notre Dame's Final Four team in 1978 as a freshman. As a senior, he hit a last-second jumper to end Ralph Sampson and No. 1 Virginia's 28-game winning streak.
Woolridge had a 13-year NBA career after being taken with the sixth overall pick by the Bulls in 1981. He played five seasons in Chicago, averaging 22.9 points per game in 1984-85, Michael Jordan's first in the league.
He signed with the New Jersey Nets as a free agent after the 1985-86 season and was suspended in 1987 for violating the league's substance-abuse policy. He went on to play for the Lakers, Nuggets, Pistons, Bucks and Sixers and finished with career averages of 16 points and 4.3 rebounds per game.
After playing overseas, Woolridge was a coach for the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks and recently coached Arizona in the ABA.
Woolridge was arrested in February for stealing aluminum tubing at a drill site in Desoto Parish. The material was sold for scrap
'Lil Wayne is a 'Lil wrong when he says he was denied entry into tonight's playoff game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the San Antonio Spurs -- fact is, he just didn't have a ticket.
The rapper just tweeted, "Going to go to the Thunder game tonight but was denied by the team to be in their arena. Wow."
But a rep for the OKC Thunder tells TMZ ... "We did not deny him," adding, "His representatives contacted us about court side tickets and we told them we are completely sold out."
The rep says the team has no beef with the 'Lil one.
go buy a ticket like the rest of us. :nono:
What a douche bag.
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Looks like we got homer refs for game 3 tonight. The fix is on our side it seems for once.
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'Lil Wayne is a 'Lil wrong when he says he was denied entry into tonight's playoff game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the San Antonio Spurs -- fact is, he just didn't have a ticket.
The rapper just tweeted, "Going to go to the Thunder game tonight but was denied by the team to be in their arena. Wow."
But a rep for the OKC Thunder tells TMZ ... "We did not deny him," adding, "His representatives contacted us about court side tickets and we told them we are completely sold out."
The rep says the team has no beef with the 'Lil one.
go buy a ticket like the rest of us. :nono:
What a douche bag.
Yeah, I just read this too. Apparently afterwards he said "Go Spurs!"
What a jackass. You're a shitty rapper, that doesn't entitle you to anything except for the opportunity to make bad music (my opinion, of course). Why do you expect to be given shit? Pay the price of a ticket like all of us and move on.
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7/2/06 - Denver, CO
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
Looks like we got homer refs for game 3 tonight. The fix is on our side it seems for once.
David "Satan" Stern wants a game 7 to make his wallet even fatter.
7/2/06 - Denver, CO
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
What a nice friend; charges you $4.50 to get your money out. He's got a bankers instinct.
7/2/06 - Denver, CO
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
Yeah, I just read this too. Apparently afterwards he said "Go Spurs!"
What a jackass. You're a shitty rapper, that doesn't entitle you to anything except for the opportunity to make bad music (my opinion, of course). Why do you expect to be given shit? Pay the price of a ticket like all of us and move on.
No, he's awful.
There's a perfect "Curb Your Enthusiasm" moment that OKC's front office could have done: give Lil' Wayne nosebleed seats, like the NBC exec did to Larry, where Larry thought he was going to have court side seats.
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"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Looks like we got homer refs for game 3 tonight. The fix is on our side it seems for once.
I would be shocked if they weren't. No way Stern wants the Celtics to go down 0-3
1998 - Noblesville 2000 - Noblesville 2010 - Noblesville 2011 - EV solo St Louis, PJ20 Alpine Valley 2012 - San Fran (Oracle) 2013 - Wrigley, Pittsburgh, Buffalo 2014 - Cincy, St Louis, Detroit 2016 - Lexington, Wrigley 2018 - Wrigley 2022 - Nashville, St Louis 2024 - Noblesville, Wrigley
I hope the crowd is completely swarmed with these.
7/2/06 - Denver, CO
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
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"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Definitely silly to think OKC would get swept. They're a monster team when they have that home court advantage. That crowd is the best example of a crowd being the sixth man.
Spurs will bounce back, we all know this to be true.
Hypothetically though, how unreal would that be in San Antonio had kept going undefeated and actually went 16-0 in the post-season.
I played pick-up ball with a bunch of guys tonight and we were talking about just that and began wondering if its ever been done before. Doesn't matter what the format is, but has any team ever swept the entire postseason? I can't think of one...
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
The entire Western Conference is sexier than the East.
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
Closest was in 01. Lakers were 15-1
05 White Sox and 99 Yankees went 11-1
every year in the nfl
i think the best in the nba is two losses.
89 pistons, 91 bulls and 99 spurs all went 15-2
i forget what the best is in the current format of 7 games series for all rounds.
last time a team went undefeated appears to be 59-60 canadians at 8-0
Cha Ching for me $$.
Spurs needed to lose a game, not saying they lost on purpose.... But they knew they were steeping into a buzz saw
Spurs in 6
go buy a ticket like the rest of us. :nono:
Last year?? Are u kidding? Look at the rosters.... No Kawhi, captain Jax, Diaw, etc. plus health changes year to year
You can't say a teams beatable because last years results.... Than why not look at '07 or any other successful year they had to argue they'll win it based on that??
OKC is good, but let's not over react with one game
A series hasn't really started until a team wins on the other teams floor
point was, spurs were the number one seed last year in the west. had a great regular season and bowed out in the first year. yeah, some players have changed, but duncan and parker were on both teams. they are clearly the backbone of the team.
this series can go either way and i would not be suprised by a OKC victory
99.5% positive the un named hof rookie coach would have been pippen. i would have loved to seen this set up. stilll could happen.
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/blog/eye-o ... l/19226138
atm is sort of cool....the outfit, not so much
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Yeah, I just read this too. Apparently afterwards he said "Go Spurs!"
What a jackass. You're a shitty rapper, that doesn't entitle you to anything except for the opportunity to make bad music (my opinion, of course). Why do you expect to be given shit? Pay the price of a ticket like all of us and move on.
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
David "Satan" Stern wants a game 7 to make his wallet even fatter.
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
What a nice friend; charges you $4.50 to get your money out. He's got a bankers instinct.
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
There's a perfect "Curb Your Enthusiasm" moment that OKC's front office could have done: give Lil' Wayne nosebleed seats, like the NBC exec did to Larry, where Larry thought he was going to have court side seats.
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
I would be shocked if they weren't. No way Stern wants the Celtics to go down 0-3
2000 - Noblesville
2010 - Noblesville
2011 - EV solo St Louis, PJ20 Alpine Valley
2012 - San Fran (Oracle)
2013 - Wrigley, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
2014 - Cincy, St Louis, Detroit
2016 - Lexington, Wrigley
2018 - Wrigley
2022 - Nashville, St Louis
2024 - Noblesville, Wrigley
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/06/01/t ... aghy-mask/
I hope the crowd is completely swarmed with these.
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2