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Spurs never beat LBJ in game 6.
When the Spurs beat the heat in game 5, Lebron actually congratulated the spurs....
Everytime Lebron loses in the finals, history shows that when he and his team loose, he leaves the floor asap and never congratulated the winning team.
For the spurs however he stayed and said GG to everyone in the spurs. and for that I give him props
Spurs never beat LBJ in game 6.
ahhh you caught me, I updated it tho
After last year, how the Spurs handled it, he almost had to even if he didn't want to.
GTFO
Lebron is a pussy. He talks and then comes up with more injury/excuses than anyone.
The man is the best player on this planet and rarely ever talks
He tried didn't work, "Spurs hate them" had a problem with Duncan saying we'll win it this time. Tried we didn't bite.
made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7x_BytZOfc
runnin away like melo.... 4:04 the best.
We're 0-3 versus Lebron in Game 6 .
Lebron played a FANTASTIC Finals series that will forever be obscured by The A/C Game and the Spurs overall brilliance during the run.
He stewed on the bench during those final minutes go Game 5 while the Spurs were taking out their stars and getting ovations. He quickly made his rounds after the buzzer, going first to Duncan (who, obviously, he sees as a major rival now that he is 1-2 against SA in the Finals) and Kawhi. He then quickly made his exit, and who can blame him for that...he had just spent 5 games trying to drag a deadweight Heat team to another ring.
I have been a Lebron hater first and foremost for a while now...but nothing but respect for he handled himself in that Finals series.
Giving him major props for good sportsmanship most of us learn by the time we're 7 in little league. Setting the bar a little low for handing out props. In addition, the only reason he did it this time is because he has a brand to protect. He's gotten smarter, and has toned down some of the y behavior, but it's probably bubbling just under the surface. The lame Dirk mocking can be blamed on youth, to an extent, but it was still lame. Ironic, he was making fun of Dirk complaining about temperature changes affecting his health, I think - from 85 to 90 degree temperature change they said in the hallway walk. I'm going to go with "improved" behavior...improved all the way up on the spectrum to "normal". Major props? No.
Also, sitting out the last 6-8 minutes of game 5 was a little lame. It was an elimination game. Tracy McGrady 15 points in 38 seconds. He had 6-8 minutes. Surely the odds were 1000-1 against him or worse, but you take whatever chance you have in an elimination game, not sit on the bench and pout for half of the last quarter. You're not saving your energy for game six. I am not a Michael Jordan fan, but I could not imagine him sitting out the last half of the quarter, down by 15ish.
Last edited by littlecoyotecoin; 07-03-2014 at 07:44 AM.
Lebron and Wade is like merely saying congrat and good job to Kawhi.
But Ray Allen is like saying you are a bad bad man to kawhi.
That call was on Spoelstra, not Lebron. IIRC he pulled Lebron for Allen with about 6 minutes to go and the Spurs up 16, probably planning to buy him just a couple minutes of rest and seeing if Allen could get hot. Instead, Patty Mills caught fire, and the next thing you knew, the Spurs had blown the game open with a 20+ lead and there were only 3 minutes left on the clock. At that point, Spo threw in the white towel by pulling Bosh and Wade.
Could he have put James back in and let their Big 3 ride it out to the end? Maybe, but it would have been pointless. The Spurs were riding the crest of one of the biggest waves of momentum the Finals has ever seen. That was over. It would have just been degrading to leave their stars out there for garbage time and ovations, so they conceded defeat to the better team.
I understand that perspective, as well, but I find it hard to be sitting on the bench in that situation myself. Just my opinion.
Ive got no problem with his at ude, the guy seems to be a good sport and he is the best player on the planet right now. Its clear to me he respects the Spurs.
Why do people always say he is best player on the planet? Why not say the world? I mean I doubt they play basketball on any other planet in the universe, seriously. Saying planet is like hedging your bet, like you are affraid that some better player on Planet X567 will be insulted if we say Lebron is best player in the world.
he's a pussy. plain and simple. If you dont have a problem with that, it's cool, but Lebron is far from a class act. Anyone who talks about "haters" is a re .
Spurs (Mia/Clev) 2 Lebron 1
Mavs 1 Lebron 0
OKC 0 Lebron 1
Lebron is 2-3 in the Finals
Duncan is 5-1
ass Kobe is 5-2
Yeah I've actually always loved Lebron, and though sometimes he makes it kinda hard to root for the guy, he really did everything he could this year and just had no help. Honestly he even had less help than he did while in Cleveland. The guy put up 28, 8, and 4 in mainly uncompe ive games while scoring 19 and 17 in different quarters during the series, but it was never enough. FFS he dropped 19 in a quarter and the spurs still won the quarter by 5
Say what you want about Scott Brooks being a ty coach (because he is), but when he called timeout as they were about to lose the finals to the heat to give that speech about treating them like the champions and that they "won fair and square," I really think that shamed the out of Lebron and his actions in 2011.
All players should show sportsmanship after a game. You're taught that from your first time in any organized sport. So giving props to Le Bron for doing what he should be doing anyway is a bad precedent. After all, as the Best Basketball Player on the Planet he is the face of the NBA and should always be a positive image for fans, especially young fans who will (as he said prior to the 5th game) "follow my lead".
I respect Lebron's ability, but I can't stomach all the other bull that comes with it. Give him props for good sportsmanship if you want to, but it took a of a long time for him to show it after a defeat when he's been in the league for what, 12 years? The dude is 6'9" 250 with a 40 in vertical. He gets a run away dunk and scowls at the crowd? WTF? Acts like a friggin' baby running away from a call when it doesn't go his way. He knows where every camera is. And does the best player on the planet have to flop as much as he does? I don't recall Jordan flopping. , I don't even remember Kobe flopping.
I won't give him props for growing up and acting like a man, finally, after 12 years. I'll give him props for being a .
And now his free-agency trash again. Why does he have no concept of loyalty? I mean what type of person constantly runs from a challenge? His drama is the reason why he will never be considered, in my mind, a great. Great players put in time and dedication to be the best and beat the best, not watch the clock until their deal is up and then go to an easier place to win. I really dont know how anyone who likes basketball, or compe ion, could respect that. It's really baffling.
The sad part is, if he would have stayed in Cleveland and just won 1 ring, he would get more talk about GOAT no matter how many he wins now.
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