Riley vs his old team
LBJ vs his old team and coach
LBJ vs Riley

And how the hell did the 2019-2020 Miami Heat make it this far?

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

Well, Milwaukee was a basket case, all distracted from good citizen Jacob Blake, but Boston? That's a mystery.

Glad to see the Heat in the Finals (Bubble or not) they did it without "tanking"

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Hooray for them.

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Possibly the most unheralded Finals team since...the early 2000s Pistons? Even those guys had relatively more star power than these guys. Both Wallaces, Billups, and Hamilton were all-star caliber players. As was Prince to a lesser extent.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

Pistons had more talent this his team. This team is on the level of the 99 Knicks talent wise.

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Spoolstra. Best coach in the game.

Even then...Allan Houston was pretty good/dangerous. Sprewell was semi-all star type. Now that I think about it though it's probably a good example.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

I don’t think we know how good Bam Outofthebayou and Tyler Herro are going to be.

All those pistons and Knicks players were proven commodities.

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They are about the closest I can think of. Those Nets and Sixer teams were shitty too but they did have 2 Hall of Famers in Iverson and Kidd serving as the best players.

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With Bam I think we do know though. That guy is a stud. Herro not as proven but he has come up huge for them.

The Bam/AD match-up will the primary interest for me in this series. I would rather have seen Boston but watching Bam defend AD should be interesting.

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That matchup is Miami's shot at winning. I doubt there will be much zoning going on

I hope Bam Outofthebayou takes off as a nickname. Me and the wife have been calling him that for the past month or so ever since we heard Kendrick Perkins butcher his name that way. Then a week ago we saw Kendrick on the Jump and he still called him Outofthebayou. Love it.

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I heard it on Lebatard right before they brought Perkins on for an interview.

I assumed they created it, but it may have been Perk.

It is a great nickname.

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it was definitely Perk. I'm just glad to hear that others have picked up on his awesome mispronunciation of the name and are running with it. I thought it was just me and my wife who noticed.

I thought it was a one off, but then when he mispronounced it a month later I knew we had a keeper.

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i think its going to be a brawl. lakers have two guys better than anyone on the heat.. but i dont think miami is going to play nice.

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

Bam is better than I thought, significantly better..this will be a close series..Im pulling for Miami..I give them a 45% chance.

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Man I forgot how much Lebron tried to punk out Pat Riley in 2014.

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The problem the Heat have Butler and Bam will have to spend to much energy on the Defensive end...can't see them matching Ad and LeBron

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

I’m sick of the refs already.

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Theres little doubt they will make this a 7 game series

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

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That door implies the lakers will buckle

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

Idk man.

Dragic out.

Bam out.

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its not the lakers night. i mean the heats night. theirs not theres. holy shit i wasted twenty bucks

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

"terrific rejection"

"No shit he almost ripped his head off"

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.