“LeBron James stands at the cusp/doorstep/brink/edge/diving board/gates/feet/nipples of greatness,” the copy editors are shouting this morning, as sports fans everywhere eagerly anticipate what will be a moment of celebration for some and Armageddon for others. Unless the Oklahoma City Thunder pull off a miracle comeback never before seen in NBA Finals history, James will have his first NBA Championship, undoubtedly paired with a Finals MVP.
Join us tonight as we wait to see if the man who dubbed himself King James has taken the correct does of Midol to rid himself of the cramps he suffered late in Game 4. Will Dwyane Wade overcome his child custody issues that have barely been mentioned (myself included, whoops) to help push his best friend over the edge of greatness? Will the haters finally be silenced and bow down before their ultimate NBA overlord? Will Scott Brooks learn how to coach the Thunder? Will someone explain a shot clock to Russell Westbrook?
Answer these questions and more with us tonight at 9 PM ET (on ABC, of course) for our Game 5 live discussion. And share this post on Facebook and Twitter to unlock tonight’s “Reminder” Badge, just in case James does end up celebrating with his legions of Uggs- and white sunglasses-wearing #HEATBROS in South Beach tonight.
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Is this that tipping point moment when the nWo become cool, and begin their interminable descent into split ups and infighting?
With a little tweak, that analogy can be spot on.
Consider the Big 3 model the nWo. The NBA WCW.
Right now you have the Heat as the King of the NBA (shut up Jarrett)
But everyone else is trying to do it to.
And eventually half of WCW was the nWo.
And everyone stopped caring…
NBA needs to be careful..
I’m glad I had you guys in this (darkest) time…
Because OH MY GOD ProBasketballTalk is FULL of Heat fans jerking LeBron off..
It’s sad.
YOU GUYS… ALL THE SAND FELL OUT OF MY VAGINA!!!
congrats!!!
Jesus Christ, Skip Bayless and Mark Cuban are debating tomorrow.
I think you mean Skip Bayless will be talking about how great LeBron now is while Mark Cuban screams incoherently..
LOL at how many fans have LEFT THE ARENA DURING THE CELEBRATION.
haha motherfuckers, embarrassment? It was embarrassing to go to the finals and lose?
LeBron James has become John Cena.
agreed.
+1
Hooray! The lesser of two evils won!
LeBron just got married, and has multiple children by the way…
“Will the NBA Championship and the MVP Title replace your soul that you sold to go to Miami.”
ANSWER: Fo Sho
Nike was hella quick with this, and hella mean to Cleveland.
Spo’ with a Pacman joke no one got..
Jesus, the way they’re talking about last year you’d think they didn’t even make it to the playoffs or something.
Will someone call Akron and tell them to go check on Cleveland. I’m afraid they’re going to hurt themself.
Sadly this is for the best, now we just won’t care.
Pat Riley has been dipping into Miller’s stash.
Pat Riley asking if it’s ok to have a party.
Fuck all of you.
Seriously.
I’m being told we are required to now love LeBron, because he smiled and hugged people.
AND HE ACKNOWLEDGED HOW HE WAS IMMATURE WHICH MEANS HE IS NOT NOW
I HOPE THERE IS AN OPEN DISCUSSION FOR THE UPCOMING GAY SKINHEAD FIGHTS THAT ARE ON TOMORROW AND SATURDAY AND THAT EVERYONE SHOWS UP FOR THEM! OPEN DISCUSSIONS ARE THE BEST
Are they really homosexual Nazis? If so, I’ll watch.
Might be a few? I know there was one guy with white power tattoos on a Strikeforce card a while back, and there’s one guy that was “gay for pay” in some dude-porns.
This is the Darkest Day in the History of the… opps! Sorry, wrong Discussion Thread.
FUCK THAT NIKE COMMERCIAL SERIOUSLY.
WHERE ARE THE SHOTS OF MILLER??????
Live blog the complacency. We’ll get these fuckers off the rails yet.
WOW.
Jeff Van Gundy with a HUGE fuck you to Seattle calling Clay Bennet a great owner.
As long as Bennett is a ringless owner, I’m (somewhat) content.
And fuck Jeff Van Gundy.
Oh man….Durant almost got me.
Well, it was fun while it lasted. The new whipping boy is Dan Gilbert.
I hope Wade taunts Lebron with his Two rings everyday
GAME SIX ON SATURDAY CAN’T WAIT WHAT A GAME YOU GUYS
WOOOOHOOOO!!!!
Just as the savage must wrestle with Nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do so in all social formations and under all possible modes of production. With his development this realm of physical necessity expands as a result of his wants; but, at the same time, the forces of production which satisfy these wants also increase. Freedom in this field can only consist in socialised man, the associated producers, rationally regulating their interchange with Nature, bringing it under their common control, instead of being ruled by it as by the blind forces of Nature; and achieving this with the least expenditure of energy and under conditions most favourable to, and worthy of, their human nature. But it nonetheless still remains a realm of necessity. Beyond it begins that development of human energy which is an end in itself, the true realm of freedom, which, however, can blossom forth only with this realm of necessity as its basis. The shortening of the working-day is its basic prerequisite.
And with that, I bid you all a fuck you.
And a grand fuck you to you sir.
:)
Seriously, you guys are rad. You just happen to live on a planet that let LeBron win a ring.
When Aliens invade to overthrow us, well, now we know why…
Bad trolling makes me sad, you guys.
I’m sorry, are you a fan of the Heat and the villainous bourgeois class?
Hey if I can get used to assholes like Big Ben and Hines Ward having rings, you can get used to that asshole LeBron having a ring.
I don’t even really care about LeBron winning a ring, he’s a great player and there were some flashes of brilliance during this series that rank as some of the best basketball playing ever. Shit, I could forgive Mourning for going to the Heat after playing for Charlotte, ya know?
I just hate what the Heat have become. They represent everything that is wrong with this country.
Congratulations LeBron, you finally won that title you said you’d bring to Cleveland…
Oh wait…
I hope they asterisk the hell out of this as it was a shortened season.
THIS.
I’d settle for “Grats on winning from the ladies tee.”
Spolestra smiled. Riley will kill him now.
I hope LBJ drops the trophy on live TV.
Is it possible to vacate an NBA season?
Durant just became a sith. Shit’s gon’ be fucked up next year.
NO ONE WANTS TO HIGH FIVE YOU, EDDIE CURRY!!!
Political Economy has indeed analysed, however incompletely, value and its magnitude, and has discovered what lies beneath these forms. But it has never once asked the question why labour is represented by the value of its product and labour-time by the magnitude of that value. These formulae, which bear it stamped upon them in unmistakable letters that they belong to a state of society, in which the process of production has the mastery over man, instead of being controlled by him, such formulae appear to the bourgeois intellect to be as much a self-evident necessity imposed by Nature as productive labour itself.
Well thanks for the live blog, like MST3K, it makes watching something terrible, bearable.
Watch the Backup Thunder go on a game winning 20-point run against the Backup Heat in the last two minutes.
The worst part about all of this is I won’t be able to watch MNF now. ESPN will be completely unbearable for the next ten years.
When was ESPN ever bearable.
MNF has been unbearable since it moved to ESPN.
On mute when the football was playing on Monday nightn
A philosopher produces ideas, a poet poems, a clergyman sermons, a professor compendia and so on. A criminal produces crimes. If we take a closer look at the connection between this latter branch of production and society as a whole, we shall rid ourselves of many prejudices. The criminal produces not only crimes but also criminal law, and with this also the professor who gives lectures on criminal law and in addition to this the inevitable compendium in which this same professor throws his lectures onto the general market as “commodities”.
So you’re saying the best career path is criminal? I’ll go for it if I get some assistance.
Yes. Let’s do it, the two of us can run this city.
Hooray for crimes!
Burnsy start a separate thread where I can gloat
It’s over at Smoking Section.
Poor Joel is still on the bench.
holy shit i called it!
I miss the Lakers.
Trade Harden and Ibaka for Dwight Howard.
Westbrook for Rondo.
Profit.
I hope Boston isn’t that dumb.
Oh they’re not.
But just think had the midseason trade went through…
How good OKC would be with him…
UGH.
The Charlotte Bobcats are already trying to trade the No. 2 pick for Eddy Curry and Mike Miller.
My home team is terrible, but damn. I don’t think Meth power would change that.
COLE ALDRICH ON THE COURT!
What is free trade, what is free trade under the present condition of society? It is freedom of capital. When you have overthrown the few national barriers which still restrict the progress of capital, you will merely have given it complete freedom of action. …
But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.
Meth wearing off?
Yeah :(
Call Mike Miller!
More blood in the head than the penis. I blame Harden.
yo i think it’s time for that OKC Masterpiece comeback
Now I want some BBQ sauce.