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

Kevin Durant is out for Game 1 of the NBA Finals

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) May 27, 2019

Guys, I talked to Transformer and turns out the games are cancelled:

The winner of the NBA Finals will be named on Saturday evening.

The NBA's commissioner will choose the winner in an event scheduled to be held at The Q in Las Vegas.

I'll root for Toronto. Hope Kawhi is healthy. GS without KD is a likeable team. I hope KD doesn't play, and then goes to the Knicks next year.

I picked GS in 6

Toronto is a lot more likable without the dude who fucked over the spurs

If the warriors win I hope KD doesn’t play.
If the raps win I hope KD does play.

Yes I’m a bitter, bitter man.

People really hate KD

heroes need villains

i do not hate future spur kevin durant

lol

kd will be fine again when he is on the knicks, the only franchise with a fanbase desperate enough to rehabilitate his image

idk the knicks roster is so bad that even if they land another allstar theyll still be not that good and if kd is on his own theyll be straight up bad

kd in san antone on the other hand......

is extremely good and wholesome, unites w pop, america's dad, and also is back near austin where he was an innocent college freshman just tryin to feel out this thing called life

i support it also he looks and plays like george gervin so maybe they cld go back to those sick unis from his era that say san antonio on them and kd cld maybe even wear gervins jersey and ppl cld start calling him george and he cld start a whole new life like being in witness protection

https://i.imgur.com/IRAIbSb.jpg

a new life awaits you on the off world colonies

Hm yes I welcome a sign n trade with the spurs ok I’m in. D white, dejounte, etc.

no

you're getting aldridge, sorry

uncle dennis is the funniest bit player the nba has produced in a while https://sports.yahoo.com/kawhi-leonards-uncle-dennis-hes-ready-for-this-moment-222416017.html

I’d take Aldridge for sure. A sign n trade is the next best thing beyond him re signing a long term. Doesn’t really matter what the dubs get back.

The whole Patrick McCaw thing is strange, too. Raptors collecting weirdo holdouts.

His twitter post was strange

Marc Gasol spent 10 days last summer on a refugee rescue boat. It's a part of who he is, and who he has become. https://t.co/xoRxVSUFor

— Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) May 28, 2019

a refugee?

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https://www.theringer.com/nba/2019/5/28/18642538/toronto-raptors-golden-state-warriors-nba-finals-five-questions

dubs in five if they win game one, which i think they do.

i consider any raptors boosterism on this board by non-canadians to be treason and a personal betrayal punishable by mean yellow cards and thread banning depending on the severity

― be the 2 chainz you want 2 see in the world (m bison), Sunday, May 26, 2019 3:10 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought your comment was somewhat off but held off till looking at the geotagged Twitter map. Not really accurate, I know, since it's based on just hashtags, but my initial gut reaction was that most Americans would root for the Raptors:

Sooooo...Everyone wants the Raptors to end the Warriors' dynasty? 👀 😶 #WeTheNorthAmerica

(📸: @SFGate) pic.twitter.com/QqQgpcOor3

— theScore (@theScore) May 29, 2019

https://www.sfgate.com/warriors/article/Warriors-Raptors-NBA-Finals-rooting-for-map-hate-13901937.php

ppl who dont have a natural interest usually root for the underdogs

people are probably just bored with the dubs' hegemony. tho i am certainly a patriot, i sympathize with that viewpoint.

The Patriots are way worse.

well, yeah

ppl who dont have a natural interest usually root for the underdogs

I root for whoever is down at the moment, so it can change a dozen times in the last couple minutes of a game lol. When asked who I'm rooting for I say it's not a who but a what: good basketball, exciting finish

yah exactly. (if my team isn’t playing)

tend to root for individual guys rather than players. portland series was weird cause I love dame so

rather than teams I meant to say

i'm in total dispassionate 'it will be interesting to see who will win the nba finals' mode for this one

idk I think it will be more interesting to see what happens with all the dubs players in the offseason if they do get another chip.

"steph is the reason why i play basketball"

"Steph is the reason why I play basketball." @andre explains to @Scalabrine and @TheFrankIsola why @StephenCurry30 is extending his career #DubNation #NBAFinals pic.twitter.com/re9T67ybeC

— SiriusXM NBA Radio (@SiriusXMNBA) May 29, 2019

CONTROVERSIAL OPINION: any basketball game is more interesting than offseason moves

otm

To clarify i meant that as reasons for why I prefer GS to win the series xp

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it's been decided, warriors will win the nba playoffs

how true. the drama and excitement will be in discovering exactly how they manage the feat.

This is the best finals matchup of the kd warriors era

i dunno if it's as good as the ones where the Cavs were healthy

i guess that was just one though

yall theres hoops tonight, and it is the final series of hoops

hoop morning!

wow didnt know lagoon was at the game last night

wanting dray to get ejected because he has a bad personality is people power actually

This sums up how much of a nightmare the parade (which ended with a shooting) was today:

http://torontosun.com/sports/basketball/nba/toronto-raptors/simmons-parade-was-a-disaster-on-many-levels

We brought the whole school down to the gym to watch it this morning, but because nothing was happening forever, the kids understandably got noisier and noisier, until everyone headed back to their own classes to watch. By mid-afternoon, the players were still making their way to Nathan Phillips Square.

dude - the sun?! we're better than this.

what a cluster fuck tho, seriously. on the bright side i got to leave work early because so much of downtown was fucked.

The Sun's terrible except for sports, where they tend to cover stuff much more in depth (for years, pre-internet, they were the only place you could get detailed baseball stats). I thought Simmons captured yesterday pretty well.

why is he so happy Brett Hull wasn't there? Huh?

There were 2 million people in the streets. The shooting was despicable but it was an isolated incident. Yes, it was hot and slow, but that all was forgotten once the buses crawled past and the crowd exploded in cheers. The feeling of community was intense; everyone decked in Raptors merch like it was the uniform in a communist country. It was thrilling; many workplaces (like mine) were empty most of the day, everyone watching from somewhere, and the good vibes lasted all afternoon. And fuck the Sun. They're probably bitter their boy was booed by 65K at Nathan Phillips and snubbed by Masai on the parade route.

nice

I wouldn't pin that on the Sun (again, I know the many problems with the Sun). I'm sure everyone experienced yesterday differently, and if you were there, I'm glad you had a great time. Watching on TV, though, they seemed quite unprepared for the crowd, the whole thing seemed interminable, and the shooting was the final negative, not the first.