Stephen A. Smith picks the Spurs in 7.

[DMX7]

He had to take a deep collective breath and nearly puked mid-sentence, but SAS says he is going against his heart and picking the Spurs to win.

[MeloHype]

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[Spur|n|Austin]

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[cd98]

All these guys are going to abandon ship once the Spurs lose game one.

[davidbowie]

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[smrattler]

Against his heart? Really? THAT'S where his heart is, with the fake machine that is the Heat?

That just about sums up all you need to know about SAS. F* him.

[dbreiden83080]

His heart LOL he says he is a Knicks fan so WTF is that shit?

[Dro210]

Surprised Kevin Love picked against us on Mike & Mike, said Heat in 6... Jarrett Jack was also on the show and picked us in 6 fwiw

Thought it was cool what Stephen A. said about Shaq too. Said Shaq told him about picking the Heat, "You know better. You know better."

[TheGreatYacht]

Against his heart? Really? THAT'S where his heart is, with the fake machine that is the Heat?

That just about sums up all you need to know about SAS. F* him.
His heart LOL he says he is a Knicks fan so WTF is that shit? Don't forget that most of the people on ESPN are brainwashed by their own company. ESPN the leader in biased journalism always talks about the Lakers and Heat or whoever gives them ratings.

[TheGreatYacht]

All these guys are going to abandon ship once the Spurs lose game one. IMO I think Game 1 is almost a must win for the Spurs because of the home court. Just like the Spurs, the Heat have yet to lose consecutive games in these playoffs. I think Game 1 should be the game that the Spurs try to steal out of the first two because they are well rested and the Spurs can go in at 110%. Similar to Game 3 @ Memphis after the three day break. Not to mention the fact that 67% of the teams that won Game 1 of the NBA finals have gone on to win it all.

[SouthernFried]

I think Spurs will take 1 in Miami, 2 in San Antonio, and 1 more back in Miami. Don't know which actual games we'd win, so I'm thinking it could be Spurs in 6 or 7. I actually think we could do better than that, but this is my "safe" bet...lol

[BillMc]

Actually, I think Game 2 is more likely. We'll be rusty Game 1....

[KL2]

I'm expecting SA to lose game 1 quite badly. They'll be badly effected by rust leading to bad passes, which turn into TO's which equal easy fast break points from MIA. It'll be a huge adjustment getting used to the speed of both the game and the Heat.

[urunobili]

Total obvious jinx attempt by SA Smith

[SA210]

I just watched that. He also said Shaq told him he should know better and not pick against the Spurs, and Charles Barkley was hounding him too he says. :lol

He's truly disgusted. lol

Spurs better come correct :flag:

[Russ]

R.I.P. Spurs. :lol

[SA210]

Flo Rida on First Take. Flo Rida is an idiot.

[SA210]

He had to take a deep collective breath and nearly puked mid-sentence, but SAS says he is going against his heart and picking the Spurs to win.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6UMad9ku4Q

[SA210]

Oh God, Flo Rida is the perfect example of the idiot ignorant fan who knows NOTHING about basketball and just cares about showboating. He said Miami will sweep the Spurs, he loves gold, that he sits court-side so he knows, that Miami was playing around with Pacers, and Birdman will dunk on us. :lmao

Stephen A calling him out for being an emotional fan who has abandoned all reality :lmao

[tmtcsc]

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Right team, wrong number. They won't need 7.

[JR3]

Never, thought, I'd, see, the day!

[Legacy]

I give... 2 fucks.

[eyeh8u]

this is not good, way too many people picking the spurs, Way too many.

[Tbiggums47]

He had to take a deep collective breath and nearly puked mid-sentence, but SAS says he is going against his heart and picking the Spurs to win.

I laughed and Damn near fainted...

[spurspokesman]

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/250x250/34203123.jpg King kong aint got sh#@ on Stephen A Smith lol

[davidbowie]

this is not good, way too many people picking the spurs, Way too many.

yeah it's off-putting http://www.the-coli.com/images/smilies/lupe1.png

[biskvito]

Spurs are jinxed, and Spoelstra don't need to worry with motivation speechs anymore, because Miami have enough of their pride hurt by the mega bandwagon.

[roycrikside]

Stephen A's pick of Spurs in 7 makes no sense. No NBA or MLB team has won a Final on the road since the Pirates in '79. Maybe if LeBron picks up his third technical in Game 6 and is suspended for Game 7...

[roycrikside]

Some "expertise" from Smith there, predicting that the Spurs will go zone. Obviously he hasn't watched this team in ten years. They never use zone because they're absolutely putrid at it. Every time they've tried it over the years, it's been abysmal. I doubt Pop will suddenly install it and perfect it enough to trust it over a week.

[TheyCallMePro]

Sickened me listening to Stephen A. say the Spurs were only going to win because he doesn't trust Dwayne Wade's knee and Chris Bosh's game (wtf?). Dwayne Wade played GREAT in game 7 vs the Pacers. He was jumping through the roof for rebounds. DON'T TELL ME HE'S NOT HEALTHY. That's BULLSHIT. HE'S FINE. NO EXCUSES MIAMI.

[DAF86]

I like it better when most pick against us, tbh.

[BillMc]

I like it better when most pick against us, tbh.

The majority (and Vegas) still are.

[Budkin]

Stephen A's pick of Spurs in 7 makes no sense. No NBA or MLB team has won a Final on the road since the Pirates in '79. Maybe if LeBron picks up his third technical in Game 6 and is suspended for Game 7...

This is what I keep saying. I've heard a a good number of radio and TV personalities with this pick and it's like they're not even thinking about that. In the NHL though it happened in 2009 and 2011. Point is... it's rare.

[DAF86]

The majority (and Vegas) still are.

Yeah, I realized after I posted that. I meant "I like it better when almost everybody picks against us, specially the guys at ESPN and TNT".

[tesseractive]

My real question is whether he said the key to the series was TI-AA-Go Splitta. :lol

[Slutter McGee]

Stephen A's pick of Spurs in 7 makes no sense. No NBA or MLB team has won a Final on the road since the Pirates in '79. Maybe if LeBron picks up his third technical in Game 6 and is suspended for Game 7...

There have been only 3 NBA finals game 7s since 1989. Going back to 1979 that number only increases by 2. That's a pretty small sample size. Besides enough teams have closed out on the road in earlier games to make your argument kind of silly. Looks at the Mavs in 2011.

A game 7 road win isn't that far fetched.

Slutter McGee

[SpurPadre]

Surprised Kevin Love picked against us on Mike & Mike, said Heat in 6... Jarrett Jack was also on the show and picked us in 6 fwiw

Thought it was cool what Stephen A. said about Shaq too. Said Shaq told him about picking the Heat, "You know better. You know better."

Love is a punk bitch who complained about TD getting in the All Star game a couple years ago so it doesn't surprise me he picks against us. He's just a stat-padder who gets his numbers in blow out games when the real teams sit their best players when games are over and done with...that is when he's actually on the floor.

[SpurPadre]

My real question is whether he said the key to the series was TI-AA-Go Splitta. :lol

:lol Yup that's how that fool says it. Splitter might as well be Rasho Nesterovich as far as Smith is concerned. He thinks all white big men are pussies without actually mentioning their race.

[TheGreatYacht]

Love is a punk bitch who complained about TD getting in the All Star game a couple years ago so it doesn't surprise me he picks against us. He's just a stat-padder who gets his numbers in blow out games when the real teams sit their best players when games are over and done with...that is when he's actually on the floor. I don't know how Charles Barkley and other people have the wits to call him the best power forward in the NBA. I mean how can you be called the best power forward if all you do is jack up three pointers and not dominate your position then on top of that be on a losing team? If he were to go to the Lakers and replace Dwight Howard, he'd be like the third option.

[SpurPadre]

I don't know how Charles Barkley and other people have the wits to call him the best power forward in the NBA. I mean how can you be called the best power forward if all you do is jack up three pointers and not dominate your position then on top of that be on a losing team? If he were to go to the Lakers and replace Dwight Howard, he'd be like the third option.

The TNT guys are much more tolerable than most other NBA analysts and they respect the Spurs more than most of them but they flip-flop all the time on their favorite position players.

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

Stephen A. Smith: "The Heat are going to have to play at their very best 4 out of 7 games. Not like the Pacers where three games off got them the W." = perfect analysis

[I. Hustle]

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[Sean Cagney]

Flo Rida on First Take. Flo Rida is an idiot.

Is he as dumb as that WALE clown? I hate when they bring these clowns on that show and thats why I WILL NOT WATCH.

[TheyCallMePro]

Flo Rida really did look like a moron. Stephen A. and Skip kept asking him to explain why the Heat were going to win and he would just keep giving unintelligible responses and keep wearing his homer sunglasses.

Eventually they just gave up.

[Spursmania]

Piss off Smith.

[TampaDude]

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Right team, wrong number. They won't need 7.

^ this, tbh

Spurs in 5.

[hater]

Come on. Smith just priming himself to a win-win situation.

Heat lose and he'll say he was right. Heat lose and he'll go on and on why you never pick against Lebron, how he is the greatest thing ever and how the entire nation should have learned the lesson now.

kinda like a reverse timvp :lmao

[Embedded]

Wow, SAS picked us? Remember when he used to laugh at Tiago Splitter? TO be honest, I came into the playoffs only wanting my Spurs to win the West, I didn't think they could beat the Heat. Then I watched them shut down the Warriors and dismantle Memphis. Good gosh, they SWEPT Memphis? The Heat were on a mission last year. They really had to Win The Finals last year, can you imaging The Heat they would feel if they didn't win?!?!? It was their destiny. Well, I feel this year, it is OUR destiny. I think the Heat mistakenly left too much on the floor for that 27-game win streak.

[Budkin]

Love is a punk bitch who complained about TD getting in the All Star game a couple years ago so it doesn't surprise me he picks against us. He's just a stat-padder who gets his numbers in blow out games when the real teams sit their best players when games are over and done with...that is when he's actually on the floor.

I heard that this morning too but too be fair he also said good things about us and said that if Miami wasn't firing on all cylinders then they were in trouble. But yeah, fuck that bitch. :lol

[Budkin]

Wow, SAS picked us? Remember when he used to laugh at Tiago Splitter? TO be honest, I came into the playoffs only wanting my Spurs to win the West, I didn't think they could beat the Heat. Then I watched them shut down the Warriors and dismantle Memphis. Good gosh, they SWEPT Memphis? The Heat were on a mission last year. They really had to Win The Finals last year, can you imaging The Heat they would feel if they didn't win?!?!? It was their destiny. Well, I feel this year, it is OUR destiny. I think the Heat mistakenly left too much on the floor for that 27-game win streak.

EXACTLY how I feel. The Heat looked unbeatable... until the playoffs. The Spurs looked totally vulnerable... until the playoffs. The reality of the situation has changed completely.

[Skull-1]

Let's not forget that in 2007 this douchebag proclaimed as loudly as possible that there was ABSOLUTELY NO WAY THE SAN ANTONIO SPURS WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP.

I was among those at Game Six in SA who booed him with unhinged fury.

So, if he is as right now as he was then....we are done.

[therealtruth]

There have been only 3 NBA finals game 7s since 1989. Going back to 1979 that number only increases by 2. That's a pretty small sample size. Besides enough teams have closed out on the road in earlier games to make your argument kind of silly. Looks at the Mavs in 2011.

A game 7 road win isn't that far fetched.

Slutter McGee

I have to disagree. If the Spurs win it will most likely be in 6 or less. Game 7 on the road is a tough game to win.

[Spurs and Mavs fan]

All these guys are going to abandon ship once the Spurs lose game one.


:lol :lol :lol :lol The Spurs won game one.

[hater]

He had to take a deep collective breath and nearly puked mid-sentence, but SAS says he is going against his heart and picking the Spurs to win.

:tu

me and Stephen A got this

[Robz4000]

God damn, it's come down to this? Tomorrow night could result in something much harder to deal with then last night.

Guess I'll endure it if it means the Spurs win...

[Sean Cagney]

God damn, it's come down to this? Tomorrow night could result in something much harder to deal with then last night.

Guess I'll endure it if it means the Spurs win...I hope after last night they redeem themselves and win that game! I don't want to have this bad of a week from a sport.

[Spursmania]

Is he still sticking with the Spurs now after game 6? I know he picked the Spurs in 7 before the series started and only because of Wades health. Does anyone know if he has come out after game 6 to stick to his original prediction?

[hater]

good question. I don't listed to his show. I'm gonna say he probably is but already sucking on Lebron's dick?

[DMX7]

I picked Spurs in 7 too.

[soxxx]

He said hes sinking with the ship, and his basis for spurs in 7 was because he felt that they would head back to Miami up 3-2 and not blow 2 chances at winning the championship.

[hater]

He said hes sinking with the ship, and his basis for spurs in 7 was because he felt that they would head back to Miami up 3-2 and not blow 2 chances at winning the championship.

good thinking. Very logical thinking. Too bad the nancys in this forum are too stupid to figure this out :lol

[Harry Callahan]

Most people (of course) pick the cHeat to win. I guess that's logical. All I know is miami is very beatable and should have been on vacation 36 hours ago.

Spurs------Finish them!!!!!!

[mudyez]

Lets do this for Stephen and Kobe!



This is how low we sank :)

[Aztecfan03]

Lets do this for Stephen and Kobe!



This is how low we sank :)

Stephen Doesn't think the Spurs will win. He just "predicts" they will win because he doesn't want to switch his pick. At least to me that is what he seems to be saying.

[mudyez]

Stephen Doesn't think the Spurs will win. He just "predicts" they will win because he doesn't want to switch his pick. At least to me that is what he seems to be saying.

so either way he will look smart....clever son of an amish.

[UZER]

Stephen Doesn't think the Spurs will win. He just "predicts" they will win because he doesn't want to switch his pick. At least to me that is what he seems to be saying.

so he wins either way. Sounds about right. But he wants the heat to win...really bad.

[ironman2886]

He is questioning how the spurs will perform physically. Stephen, skip, and Magic Johnson all agree though that Wade and Ginobili are the xfactors. How will Wade feel physically with both knees injured and very little rest? Will Ginobili bounce back and just not turn the ball over for Christ's sake? Magic Johnson said Manu should stop passing when he's in the air. Manu needs to redeem himself. That was the most pathetic game he has ever played.

[Aztecfan03]

so either way he will look smart....clever son of an amish.

haha. That's exactly what skip just said on spurstalk. But Stephen says he wouldn't do that if the heat win.

[chrhawk]

I like Stephen A., he is a charismatic dude. But if put him next to a calm, collected and rational basketball mind, he looks like nothing more than a hype man tbh.