2015-16 NBA Thread (feat. the Wives)

I must have missed whereJanes called them a fluke or insinuated they were. Can you please show me where he did this?

 

LTL, the Warriors can never rise to the Patriots' level of douchebaggary. The fanbase accounts for 90 percent of the team's perception.

 

A technical assessed after the game and has no affect on the outcome. See also: Slap, wrist.

 

This pretty much says everything about where you're coming from. The Dellavedova move was apparently intentional, none of Draymond's THREE nut shots were.

 

All right, make it a flagrant. What effect does it have then?

 

Do the Warriors try an goad James into being a douche tonight or do they just kick the shot out of them?or both?

 

I imagine a 73 win team is focussed on winning

 

None. Which makes this whole thing ridiculous. If LBJ was really interested in taking the high road, he could have gone around Green. He didn't, spend the next two days playing the poor me card and gets away with it.

 

I love how the pro-LeBron narrative is either 'Gee, he's so smart that he had the wherewithal to goad Green into a suspendable act,' 'He's completely innocent, just respectfully deferring to the league, and played no role in the organization's pressuring of the league to suspend,' or some combination of the two.

None of us can know what's going through LeBron's head, but you can argue that his sensitivity to being called a bitch was a combination of frustration over yet another Finals loss heading his way and his compulsive need to maintain a likable brand. Furthermore, if you think that there's no blood on his hands regarding a lobbying of a suspension you must conclude that rumors of the Cavs pushing the NBA to act were false or that reports of LeBron's influence over the front office is greatly exaggerated, if not altogether fabricated.

 

You mean organizations try to pressure leagues to get their own way? Wow, when did this start happening?

 

Whether the Cavs pushed for it or not, Draymond Green was suspended because Draymond Green had one flagrant foul left before a suspension was coming and he chose to commit a flagrant foul.

I don't think anyone here is saying LeBron didn't do something dickish. They're saying that blaming Draymond Green's actions on everyone but Draymond Green is dumb.

 

This. The Cavaliers have no way of stopping the Warriors on the court, so why not pretend to be the game's moral guardian.