OT: Kyrie Irving Has Fractured Kneecap
BREAKING: Cavs PG Kyrie Irving will miss rest of NBA Finals with a fractured left kneecap. pic.twitter.com/HornHxYJS9
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LeBron will go down in History!
Safe to say he's already going down in history...
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I had the Cavs in 7. I now have Golden State in 6 possibly 5, but I'll say six.
Matthew Delladova is a quality player
The Warriors better watch out for their knees...
but now will say Warriors in 5.
Warriors didnt' play all that well offensively IMO and still won the game. Once they hit on all cylinders, the Cavs dont' have a chance.
Poor Cleveland fans...can't catch a break.
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Yeah, the break they caught was in his knee cap.
so I'm not too sad for them.
Why?
So this series is now almost literally LeBron vs the Warriors. Well, if Cleveland wins this now I would be very impressed.
Lebron better pray JR Smith's bipolar game is on fire for the next few games all while Lebron himself averages 40 pts / 10 assists / 10 rebounds a game.
LOL
I watched the Cavs a lot this year (in my market) and Tristan Thompson has looked great in the playoffs. They are not the deepest team but this is not Michael and the Jordanaires by any means.
the Bulls had Pippen and made something like the Eastern finals w/o Jordan (retirement).... they had a solid supporting cast
I actually thought that there were times in the last series where Cleveland looked better without Irving as crazy as that sounds. It forced Lebron to play like a giant PG and he's an excellent distributor. But it may not work out that way against GS.
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Now I say Warriors in 5. It's a shame because Kyrie is a great player and I looked forward to watching that PG matchup.
Who picks the scoring slack to help Lebron? Magic famously lifted the Lakers to victory, but that was without one important piece. Two is nearly insurmountable.
Magic could make up for Kareem, but if he had to lose Jamaal Wilkes as well history would have been different.
One thing is for certain no one can blame James for not showing this time if they lose. Just simple rotten luck for the Cavs.
What was amazing about that Magic's debutante debut game you reference was how Jamaal Wilkes scored the quietest 37 points you'll ever witness.
Lakers lost Magic and Scott...could not beat Pistons...Tony Campbell was not going to beat them.
Ouch
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Poor Cleveland fans...can't catch a break.
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We have a saying and it, once again, applies: "Only in Cleveland.."
to hell with Cleveland.
Cavs still have a legit shot with LeBron on this team. He can will this team to still win.
With that said, I'm not sure Smith/Shumpert can continue the hot shooting they showed in Atlanta. I'm fully sure Delledova will be diving at someones knees in the 1st half on sunday.
it's now Lebron James and a bunch of guys from the local Cleveland YMCA vs. the Warriors?
Smith/Shumpert/Thompson are legit NBA players, I'm sick of this narrative. It's not the big 3 heat or anything but those guys are legit players.
Problem is that, out of those guys, only Smith can create anything on his own, and Smith creating is almost as likely to hurt as help his team. If the Cavs win 2, it will be a remarkable achievement.
Shumpert has averaged 7.7 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2.1 assists over his career. He's practically the definition of a generic player. You could grab any random guy off any bench in the league and get those kinds of numbers if you play them enough minutes.
Thompsons' career numbers are better, as he averages 10.1 pointes and 8.4 rebounds. He's only averaging 8.4 points this year, but at least he still rebounds.
J.R. Smith can play, but usually his "playing" involves taking lots of shots that don't go in. He's actually doing better since being traded to Cleveland, as his 3-point shooting has been up.
If those are the guys you are telling me are James BEST options, then sheesh, this is probably the worst Finals team in NBA history.
Shumpert's value is his defense, not his offense.
This team is much better than the 06-07 Cavs and definitely better than the 01 Sixers with Iverson. So no not even with their injuries is this the worst team to be in the finals.
if the Cavs lose the NBA will give them the #1 pick in next years draft since they seem to do that every year for them.
that's not even logical. might as well have just said "derp."
And if the Cavs lose, it will be because "Lebron can't win the big game/choked/etc..".
People forget Jordan lost every year before he got Pippen and a barely sub-all star player with quality shooters.
Jordan had to get through a damn fine Pistons teams, no like Lebron and the Cavs werent through anyone in the sorry ass east.
Atlanta had 4 guys hurt. Gasol missed significant time in the Bulls series. You could argue the only reason they got there was because of injuries..
Every single one of their opponent's starting point guard was either out or less than 100%.
They avoided a nightmare matchup with the Spurs as well. The Spurs are a better version of Golden State.
Also the West was highly overrated given how these once great teams played in the playoffs.
Golden State has caught numerous breaks.
"They avoided a nightmare matchup with the Spurs as well. The Spurs are a better version of Golden State."
The Spurs team that lost in the first round... No, the Spurs are not a better version of Golden State this year.
If I recall correctly, the past two years, Golden State lost David Lee one year, an Andrew Bogut the next year in the playoffs, so they have had their fair share of injuries in the playoffs, just not this year.
losers whine.
I like LeBron and all, but to say he hasn't consistenly had an easy path to the finals is to ignore reality...and the west over-rated? 4 of the top 5 teams were from the west this year, easily.
Lebron has been in the east his entire career. A majority of that time the East has been REALLY bad. Kobe and Tim Duncan have been in the best conference I can remember for the past 10 years
The Cavs had Kyrie and Kevin Love out. Arguably a top 5 PF in the NBA and op 5 PG in the NBA. This ain't about the Thabo Sefolosha's of the world.
Golden State was going to win in 5 anyway.
Cleveland really is cursed. Game 1 was their best chance to steal a road game. Wouldn't be shocked to see them get swept now.
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Kind of ironic how LeBron's last trip to the finals as a Cav was basically him vs. the Spurs. Looks like he'll be hero balling it again.
poor dude. poor city. it's like every franchise cleveland ever had is the detroit lions.
I'll take it.....
From what I heard, they are talking surgery and 3-4 months out (unfortunately for Cleveland now, but fortunately during the summer, I guess) for Irving, or at least that's what the Washington Post was reporting this morning. It seems like this is the sad culmination of problems he has had with that knee, but all the same, hopefully he can get through it.
I didn't see a way Cleveland could win even with Irving, and given what we saw yesterday I can't imagine GSW will take more than 3-4 more games to win this title.
Cleveland didn't want to play Dalledova a significant minutes because Curry or Thompson would have their way with him guarding either of them. Blatt had to play Kyrie 30+ minutes because he had no choice if he wants to win.
Now that Dalledova will see significant PT which means one of the Splash Bros will have a big game.