The Heat are defending champs tho
And they got the best player in the world. Not to mention BK been in that Miami ass all season too so it's a bigger deal than okc losing the first game.
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And they got the best player in the world. Not to mention BK been in that Miami ass all season too so it's a bigger deal than okc losing the first game.
Figdcotton
Why are you mad at a real niguh??
If the clippers at least make it to the finals they will get Melo or rudy gay in the off season and then the clippers will be the best team in basketball in 2014-15 hands down.. So winning the ship or losing the ship is win win for my nikkas..
The clippers aren't the grizzlies who go almost entire quarters of scoring droughts. 
You can't count on playing catch up against LAC like you could against memphis
You can't count on playing catch up against LAC like you could against memphis
Figdcotton
Why are you mad at a real niguh??
No disrespect, but who the fukk are you?
I'm Donald sterlings tranny
.. Wtf does who I am have to do with my nba knowledge and knowing how the free agency process usually shakes out?? 
Becuz I've never seen you in here bruh. That's all.I'm Donald sterlings tranny
I'm a bron fan but you sound like one of those Bron haters Pre 2011 who were likeI honestly don't seen any team being lead by such a meek person ever winning a title.
I'd say Westbrook, but I'd rather have a guy who consistently goes ham, maybe strong and wrong sometimes, than a guy who is passively right sometimes and ghost when needed sometimes. PLus, I think it'd be easier to build around him with what the Thunder already have. Just an opinion.
He has been in the league 7 years. Still no championships. Still the same player. MVP every year is great, but that's an individual accomplishment that doesn't necessitate a championship. It's definitely not happening without Harden, who was a more aggressive player (offensively). It's only so many times you can make it to the playoffs until it becomes amoment for your team. Somebody gotta go (if a championship is not won this year, an dI don't think it will be).
"Bron ain't winning shyt"
"He is a choker"
"Lebrick"
Kd is 25 dude will eventually win, just growing pains
At some point this summer he will change and add a post up to his game
Figdcotton
Why are you mad at a real niguh??
Becuz I've never seen you in here bruh. That's all.
Ohhhh yea I only been on here for 3 months.. I just drop gems from here to there.. I was in the lac vs gs post a few times.. I'm a clipper fan but I'm a realist too unlike da laker fags/Kobe stans.. But da melo cp3 Blake thing looks very real now
Your nobody till you smash a coli chick
Figdcotton
Why are you mad at a real niguh??
DaChampIsHere
Survive the drought
The only time I "disliked" Bron was post-2012, mostly cause I was trying to figure out why the nikka had left his team just to accomplish the same shyt.
Can't say nothin' about the guy now though and other than that, never really had anything to say.
He wasn't beatin' any of my teams prior to the decision so I was good. 
I'll believe in KD when I see it though. Nice guy. BUt he's been at the edge of winning too long for me to wait on it now.
fifth column
Superstar
The coaching is so lopsided in favor of the Clips. This series might be curtains if Brooks doesn't step up his adjustments in game 2. OKC cannot afford to go down 0-2 against the Clips.
Sam Peel
Banned
Raised in Rotorua, New Zealand, Steven is the youngest of 18 children (between 5 different women) born to Sid Adams, a near-seven-foot-tall English Navy man and a Tongan mother. The elder Adams moved from the UK to New Zealand in part because of the fact that his abnormally large frame made him a target of ridicule in post-World War II-era England.
“He went through a pretty rough time,” Steven said of his father’s treatment. “That was when they were discriminating against ‘freaks’ – that's what he called himself. He was really, really tall, and they'd tease him.”
But Sid’s atypical size proved to be a blessing for his 18 children.
On average, the males in the Adams clan stand about 6’10”, and the women, 6’5”. Six of Steven’s brothers have played for New Zealand’s national basketball team and his half-sister, Valerie Kasanita Vili-Adams, is a 2008 Olympic champion and a three-time world champion in shot put. Amazingly, despite his 7’0”, 255-pound body, Steven did not begin taking basketball seriously until 2007.
The story of Adams’ meteoric rise, from basketball dilettante to potential lottery pick, is one of resilience and rebirth.
Steven Adams moved from Rotorua to Wellington, New Zealand, as a 13-year-old
In 2006, Adams’ father, then in his mid-70s, died. At just 13 years of age, Steven, who doesn't have the greatest relationship with his mother, became disillusioned and began to act out.
“When I lost my dad, that was a big hit for me,” he said. “I didn't have that parental guidance, and I kind of took advantage of it because I was a stupid idiot. I decided not to go to school a couple of times, go when I felt like it. I always lied to my brothers and sisters. They’d ask: ‘Are you going to school?’ I’d say ‘yeah’... They eventually found out.”
His 37-year-old brother, Warren, a former member of the New Zealand National Basketball Team (1989 and 1997), offered to take guardianship of young Steven in Wellington, New Zealand, where he would be exposed to a better school system and fewer negative influences. The move proved to be a godsend for young Steven. Wellington’s superior schools gave him the academic structure he needed, while Warren and his friends provided an outlet for him outside the classroom – basketball.
"Steven had to learn how to learn" Kenny McFadden, a friend of Warren and the director of a basketball academy in Wellington, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "We had to establish good habits with him. At first, it was culture shock for him.
“We wanted to get him in an environment where it was school-first. He had to wear a suit and tie every day. He had to shine his shoes. The biggest challenge for us early on was finding size-18 dress shoes for him."
McFadden embraced a mentoring role for young Steven, picking him up every day before school for 6AM basketball practice and training him in the early evenings, as well.
Adams and mentor Kenny McFadden
“He was the hardest worker I had ever seen," McFadden said. “He [had just been] missing discipline and an education [before].”
It became clear to McFadden almost immediately that Adams was destined for professional basketball, but concerns remained about his ability to gain academic eligibility at a U.S. college.
But Adams excelled both on and off the court at Scots College, his high school in Wellington, earning accolades and a scholarship offer to Pittsburgh. After graduating from Scots in December of 2011, the lifelong Kiwi traveled to America to attend Notre Dame Prep in Fitchburg, Massachusetts for one semester, in an attempt to prepare himself for the pace of the American game.
Adams attended the University of Pittsburgh in 2012–13 where he made the Big East All-Rookie Team. During his freshman season, he averaged 7.2 points on 57.1% FG, 6.3 rebounds and 2.0 blocks in 23.4 minutes per game. His field goal percentage ranked 1st, blocks 2nd and rebounds 6th amongst first year players in Pittsburgh's history. He declared for the draft following his only season at Pittsburgh stating, “I decided to leave Pittsburgh early mainly to help certain family members [from a financial standpoint],” Adams told the media at May’s NBA Draft Combine in Chicago. “[My family didn’t ask me to come out]. It was strictly a personal decision.
On June 27, 2013 in Brooklyn, New York, Steven became the first New Zealander to be selected in the first round of an NBA draft when the Oklahoma City Thunder chose him with the 12th overall pick.
Adams with his brothers at the NBA draft
DoubleJ13
Smooth sailing from here on out...
Honestly, if the Thunder don't win this series, I'd be looking to trade Durant for some valuable pieces/picks.Dude is consistently weak as fukk when needed. It's like he has no heart. He's just good because he's good. Not because he wants to be. Smh.
The Coli never fails
duckbutta
eienaar van mans
Bron was all of these things, until he went to Miami and studied under the feet of Riley and played with Wade, who already had a title and new what it took to get over the hump...
Think Bron has a ring if he stayed in Cleveland?
KD is the same way...he is going to need a certain type of coach and certain types of players around him to win a chip...I don't think OKC has those players now and I sure as hell don't think they will pay the money to get those players...