It is the 2018-19 NBA Playoffs discussion thread for hoops friends ONLY

lol congrats to the actual raptor

just want to say that im willing to root for the warriors if e40 does something even mildly bitchy to drake

i mean you all have to cheer for the warriors its USA vs Canada afterall

hmm that is true they are a slightly different country

drake must be stopped

lets gooooo
NBA FINALS 2019 |——| WARRIORS -vs- RAPTORS |——| USA -vs- CANADA

They may be headed for that moment in Ball Four where, when the Pilots start getting trounced by the league's best teams, Bouton says it was like recess in grade school when the big kids showed up, but for tonight exhilarating. (I wish I were downtown, Thermo.) I don't know if we share the American feed, but the endless shots of Drake after every single big Raptor play were somewhere between tiresome and nauseating. He's a fan, great, and sort of works for the team. But he surely realizes he's deflecting attention from the players. To know that, and be okay with that, makes him something of a vainglorious idiot.

vainglorious idiot
thats aubrey drake graham, former television star and current biggest rapper!!!

yeah i think it's pretty clear we can skip to the finals now

no shot at whoever wrote this way up above but i love it every time sports reminds us that games are won and lost on the court/field and nowhere else - not on twitter, not in a win probability statistic, not in comparing players' strengths and weaknesses, not in the halftime analysis of talking heads, etc., etc.

former television star and current biggest rapper!!!

He keeps getting rapper and Raptor mixed up.

TSN here ran the 7th game of the Raptors-76ers series last night. I'd forgotten that Kawhi missed a few shots down the stretch (manhandled on a couple of them, mind you), plus a foul shot that let Philadelphia tie it up. But then he made one.

I keep thinking about that super-sloppy double OT game 3 between Bucks-Raptors, when the Bucks were already up 2-0. So many shots could have gone differently and basically eliminated the Raps. The karma from every other playoff appearance caught up with them I guess.

I think they're working through the games one by one (along with Blue Jays WS games)...They had Game 1 of the Bucks series tonight, so Game 3 should be soon.

last couple games in that series were so much fun, for this bandwagoner

Canadian bandwagoners take over I Love Hoops for six hours.

lol i just took a quick glance over that finals thread....nostalgia is all we got!

It was sad :( that klay acl moment still haunts me

yeah I think I forgot just how much every GS player broke over the course of the series, until re-reading that thread

this is pretty big/baller

Potential No. 1 NBA draft pick LaMelo Ball and his manager Jermaine Jackson have purchased his Australian NBL team, the Illawarra Hawks, Jackson told ESPN on Thursday.https://t.co/Zy80ZmRpVu

— Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) April 2, 2020

realized I have a bunch of the big raps playoffs game still saved on dvr, along with the dame game, so that will be a nice quarantine rewatch