How can you be honest with yourself and be cheering for this bullshit?

Great team doing legendary things. What's to hate?

It's fun getting random anons on /sp/ butthurt.

>>76371475
See
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sRcK6CCS1A

It's dirty as fuck. It isn't even fun. It's not competition.

Imagine if LeBron did this shit and joined a stacked team?

>>76371488
He just made agreements to make sure the team would get stacked before he signed.

Stop being an apologist...Lebron is getting LeSwept with the highest payroll in league history.

>>76371462

Durant joining this team was the best thing for haters.

Before that, you had a team winning a championship mostly through the draft, with the biggest free agent signing being Iggy and the biggest trade being dumping Monta for Bogut.

Then they make one big splashy free agent deal and the world goes nuts cause its unfair.

>>76371462
>bronosexual

Reminder that it's Chris Paul's fault that this was allowed to happen. He pushed for the cap to increase instantly instead of gradually

>>76371477

literally this

you guys are seething at a great athlete choosing to play for a better team

>>76371462
I don't understand the people who call it dirty or unfair. This teams been built well within the rules.

However it is boring and disappointing as a neutral. I also don't understand people who are somehow using this to discredit LeBron... That's just pure butthurt about an all-time great.

>>76371883
It IS unfair. People watch sports for competition, not this Socialist domination.

All the talent accumulating in one entity instead of being spread out is some bullshit. It's not fun to watch at all. The league should've vetoed the move of KD to GSW, like they did CP3 to the Lakers.

KD is a bitch for taking a paycut, so the NBA should have punished the Warriors for signing him. Taking away draft picks or fining them. No team should be allowed to have more than 2 all NBA talents.

>>76371964
So, you're complaining about "socialist domination", but want socialist solutions to what you see as an issue?

>>76372074
he's too stupid to understand that 'socialist nba' would mean the players own the league

>>76371462
If it wasn't for this team, LeBron would have won the last 2 championships and would be currently on his way to a third in a row, and everyone would be complaining about that. They're the only ones who can stop Cleveland from winning over and over. OKC and San Antonio wouldn't be able to.

>>76376746
Nobody has a problem with last year's warriors or the year before, just the warriors with durant

>>76371488
>kyrie
>k love
>smith
>thompson
>lebron doesnt have a stacked team

who the fuck are you trying to fool? warriors have a good team that works well together. basketball is a team sport. you need a good team to bring out the best qualities in any player. if KD had had a shitty dynamic with the rest of the team then it wouldnt fucking matter how good anyone is.

>>76377054
>Kyrie playing like shit
>Love is a meme and is worse than every single dude on the Warriors' big 4
>JR literally just made a three and never scored again so far
>TT grabbed 4 rebounds in game 1 and 4 rebounds in game 2

it's a good team but it's nothing compared to the Warriors

>>76371462
I cheer for them because I've hated lebron for a long time.

>>76371462

because I live in the Bay Area, and Lebron James can go kill himself.


Unless he wants to come to California and join my team in the offseason. Then I'll welcome him with open arms.

>>76377552
so there you go. the better team will win and should win.

Because they're facing LeBitch James.

>>76377552
Maybe LeBitch should've asked for better players instead of asking for his friends.

>>76371462
I started cheering for team because of posts like this. "Wah wah it's not fair" even though LeBron has done the same fucking thing, just not as good

>>76377552
Who's fault is that? LeBron's Fault, that's who. He built this team, the team with the highest payroll in the league, hand picked his players and coach, and they still suck. LeBron needs to take a fucking salary cut (he makes more than KD and Curry combined) if he wants to win. He won't though, he'd rather just bitch

>>76371462
If I was from the Bay Area, I'd be loving every second of it. This team would have to win literally 6 titles in a row for me to even think about getting bored.

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>he wants the bad guys to win

>>76371462
because I want to see 16-0

it's cool knowing you get to watch the greatest team to ever play and they'll you'll get to watch them for years to come

Did the season start yet?

>>76378253
that was a flop

>>76377015
>implying /sp/ wasn't completely assblasted by the Warriors last year
It created lelbron dickriders everywhere on here

>>76371462
I have friends in CA, they support sharks, GS warriors, SF giants and 49ers. what kind of people are they based on that?

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>>76377552
i don't see you complain anything about anthing when the Cavs nearly swept their way to the Finals, all you Cav fans do is praised Lebron and declare him Best of all time, yet when your team does'nt win anymore you proclaim that it's not fair. Do the Pacers, Raptors and Celtics fans bitch that it's not fair when Lebron and co swept them?

>>76378601
mexican

>>76378638
nah, they're italian. but there are a shit ton tof mexicans around them. that's pretty much all I saw when I was there

>>76371793
Yeah it's the highest right now, just wait until curry gets his deal this summer. the only reason GS isn't the highest is because the stars aligned for them with some of their roster on their shit deals still. no way GS will be able to keep that payroll going forever.

Durant going to GS was a bigger bitch move than LeBron going to Miami. Both were bitch moves, but Durant's is blatant ring chasing by joining a team he couldn't beat that was already stacked and would have probably won a few more rings without him He knows it too.

>>76377969
>>76378105
who are they gonna get? Thompson was drafted there, JR and Shumpert were traded, Korver was traded, Frye was traded, Deron is the only one they got through free agency and he's on a minimum contract

if LeBron didn't force the Cavs to pay those JR and Thompson they would have gone somewhere else, don't you remember how it took them forever to sign them because they wouldn't accept lesser offers? if they didn't sign them and let them walk like Delly and Mozgov what do you think would have happened? they were already over the cap and could only afford them because of bird rights, so it's either them or d-leaguers on minimum contracts

these players are what LeBron has to work with, he can't do much else

>>76378632
i'm not even a Cavs fan, i'm a Raptors fan
we know there's not much parity, the Raptors aren't good enough to go up against Cleveland, but at least least year there were other better teams who could have competitive fun series against Cleveland or Golden State, but now with KD's addition to a 73 win team there really isn't any team in the entire league who can beat them so the playoffs just become boring as shit

also when the Cavs had that run in the East LeBron was playing fucking great and he honestly was the reason the Cavs were winning because the moment he had a bad game they lost
the Warriors could sit KD all playoffs long and they'd still be favorites to win a ring

>>76371964
you know what? Fuck you. You sound like the kind of guy who would complain about anything when the odds are stacked against you.

So the warriors are loaded with talent. So what? They are beatable. The spurs showed the formula. Go big down the post, play slow and physical, and play superb defense.

What you are failing to include is Clevelands defensive woes this year. Cleveland was murdering teams last year from it's offensive punch and defensive discipline. There isn't any real defense this year, so expect to get swept. And to say that it isn't fair is stupid. Life isn't fair you fucking whiner.

>>76378845
This. This fucking guy here >>76371964 is a whining retard

>>76378105
btw, LeBron doesn't make more than Durant and Curry combined, at least not in a single year, and even then Curry is still on a horrible contract from years ago which ends this season

KD and Curry getting 25mil a year each next season would be taking a paycut and LeBron is making 30mil a year, so no, it's not like LeBron's contract is half of the team's payroll

>>76371917
Yep. Only /sp/ hates it.

>>76378845
There's also the fact that Ty Lue is total shit as a coach and it's really showing in this series. If the Cavs had Pop or Brad Stevens I bet they could win.

>>76378564
That came from retards who use fuse "meme" into words as insults.

>>76371964
That trade got vetoed because the NBA owned New Orleans at the time.

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>>76380977
>mfw he told ESPN that he's gonna continue playing up-tempo against GS for Game 3 despite what >>76378845 said about the Spurs.

>Everyone is wrong: The Thread
Golden state is the best run franchise in America outside of the patriots and that Cavs team minus LeBron wouldn't make the playoffs. That team is fucking garbage and kyrie Irving might be the most overrated person in human history.

>>76381107
You forget that everybody makes the playoffs
They'd be a 7 seed with 35 wins

>>76381083
Honestly, if LeBron wants to beat the Warriors next season he doesn't need CP3 or Melo, he needs Doc Rivers. And that's only if he can't bribe Pat Riley out of retirement.

>>76381125
This isn't the '80s anymore, man.

>>76381153
>doc
keks
he needs kawhi
I think he might be the only guy these playoffs with a positive +/- against the warriors
and that was what, +21?

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>>76381083

>tfw Ty Lue is a fucking garbage head coach and probably getting swept

>>76381175
Yeah but Kawhi by himself still wouldn't be enough. You need a high-level coach WITH high-level players to beat the Warriors, that's the whole reason the Spurs were putting up a fight before Kawhi went down.

>>76381125
Eh the Cavs are like 4-21 or something when he doesn't play since he came back. I'm not sure.

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>>76381211
I've been calling a gentleman's sweep ever since Game 1 of the WCF but now it's starting to look mroe and more clean.

>>76381125
the 8th seed in the East won 41 games so no they wouldn't be a 7th seed with 35 wins

like >>76381169 said this isn't the 80s with MJ's Bulls making the playoffs barely winning 30 games

>>76381169
>mid 80s nba
>play 82 useless games
>23 teams
>still let 16 in
Bad enough now what in the fuck was the point of the regular season back then. I know hockey was the same thing.

>>76381332
$
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>>76371462
Are they the most millennial team ever?
>No one is particularly alpha.
>Everyone tries to shortcut their way to success without going through the lumps.
>All the players are soft-spoken and autistic, except Draymond who's a loudmouth donkey
>Most entitled team in NBA history
>The """face"" of the franchise is a spoiled rich mullatto kid who never knew anything close to a struggle in life. If he never made it into the NBA, he would've been JUST fine as his dad made $42.8 million in his career
>His "splash" brother is another rich kid of a millionaire basketball player who tries too hard to act like a spacey pothead, but really is covering up the fact he has absolutely no fucking personality besides being a fucking spacey pothead
>Their """""defensive""""" anchor is a loud-mouth nigger piece of shit who talks a lot of shit but rarely backs it up and the only reason why anyone pays attention to him is because his teammates bail him out since he has no offensive game
>Their newest free agent acquisition is a bitch and coward of the highest order, betraying the very principles we all hold dear in the world by being a fucking traitor
>Their coach is a loudmouth SJW who can't keep his fucking mouth shut when it comes to things that don't involve basketball. Let's see how he would react if any of his family members got killed by terrorists.

t b h nothing short of a fundamental transformation would save basketball at this point. start by getting rid of the three point line. its the dumbest rule in sports bar none. the DH makes 100% perfect sense compared to the three point line.

>>76381352
Yeah I get that my question was more of how cucked of a fan do you have to be to go to those games and spend money? On top of it the Lakers and/or Celtics made the finals every year that decade.

It's funny when I hear people complain about the regular season being useless now like it's a new thing.

>>76381367
It is and I agree with everything but draymond. Draymond is based and I'm not fond of darkies or warriors.

>>76381367
>millennial

yeah they're my team. I'm technically a millennial from Gen Y.

Warriors are /myguys/

>>76381401
Hometown loyalty can trump logic when it's game-time. I mean, hell, it ended up working paying off for Bulls and Pistons fans.

>>76371462
People like to feel confident in their choices. Frontrunners don't root for a team to be losers.

>>76381367
why hasn't australia been nuked yet

>>76371488

bill burr is a cuck

>>76381107
>3 years of success
>best run franchise in America
west coast bandwagoners are the absolute worst

>>76381421
>Draymond is based
>kicking people in the balls is based
hello middle school

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>>76371462
Remember last year when GS was up 3-1 in the finals?

>>76371462
IS There a reason why there are so many foreign GSW fans?

>watch an NBA game at golden state
>half the crowd is white, the other half asian
I thought basketball was a black people sport, /sp/ lied to me

>>76386028
They aren't fans, they just want to watch the best players/teams, and GS are objectivelly the best team right now

t. foreigner

>>76386042
ITS funny because California doesn't have too many white or Asian people

>>76371462
Because I've been cheering since I was like 11 and I know who the fuck Andris Biedrins is. I know so many people are cheering for them now and I always ask them if they either know what "We Believe" is or if they know Jason Richardson, Baron Davis, Mickael Pietrus, and Biedrins are.

>tfw your mom sold your We Believe shirt at a garage sale and now she bandwagons the Warriors
Fuck the bay desu

>>76386104
>California
>Doesn't have too many Asian people
Are you retarded?

>>76386837
Compared to the East Coast like New York City? I doubt it

>>76387007
California has a larger population and a higher percentage is Asian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_California#National_origin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York#Population

Granted the one for New York is from an older census but I seriously doubt it changed that much in seven years to come close to over taking California.

>>76387070
Yeah but California is also so Mexican you don't notice that Asian people live there

>>76387854
If you only ever go to southern California then yeah you might be right but other than Oakland having a lot of blacks and hispanics it's almost all asian and whites, especially SF

>>76387899
Southern California has 57% of California's people though. SO any stereotype about LA applies to California as a whole

Lebron is a self important nigger

>>76387934
LA is a Shithole don't lump the rest of California with them. Northern and Bay area are completely different from Socal.

>>76371488
>remove the Warriors from the NBA
>Cavs steamroll the entire league instead
>this is ok for some reason

The only team that the Cavs can't demolish in a series is the Warriors. If it wasn't the Warriors doing this it would be the Cavs. The only reason games 1 and 2 were blowouts was because Durant is playing better than Lebron right now.

>>76389589
>Spurs

>>76389589
And also:
>The only reason games 1 and 2 were blowouts was because Durant is playing better than Lebron right now.
*+ most of their bench + JR & Thompson is MIA

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>>76378845
>they are beatable
>14-0

Nice take millenial

>>76389589
>the Spurs don't exist

>>76389589

what are you talking about?

Had durant stayed in OKC you would have had Golden State, OKC, Spurs, Cavs, and maybe even one or two other teams all playing at around equal level. It would have been a pretty good era.

>>76389832
best timeline would be Durant going to Washington

>Wall, Beal, KD, 6th man of the year Porter
>2 contenders in each conference
>not shit playoffs

>>76371462

I tried cheering for Lebron i really did. Especially after the did the impossible last year and Durant became the new LeBitch with the switch to GSW. But GSW are very entertaining to watch unlike the Cavaliers who seem to struggle with every offensive move and just try to brute force points.

>>76389894
>i'm a bandwagoner

>>76389832
>OKC, Spurs, Warriors,

Yea all the best teams would be in the West and Lebeta would just destroy the entire eastern conference, stroll right into the Finals and rest for a week or so while whoever makes it out of the West is completely drained. Lebron cares just as much about parity and competition as Durant. They were the clear favorites to come out of the East and mid season Lebron was still crying about needing more talent.

>>76389855
I'll agree with that. However I think Lebron and the Cavs are just as much to blame for these shitty playoffs and the state of the NBA as Durant and the Warriors.

>>76371462
why is /sp/ basically a lebron nuthugging board these days?

>>76371488
>Imagine if LeBron did this shit and joined a stacked team?
like he did with miami?

>>76389978
Miami was nothing like the Warriors, people overrate that team desu

they had close series against the Spurs, the Celtics and even the fucking Pacers

>>76371462
Some people just want to watch the world burn.

>>76390015
but lebron went there for the same reason. less money but a chance for a championship.

>>76389915

I have been watching the nba for 22 years now. So fuck you, underage cunt.

>>76390051
but that team was nothing without LeBron

the Warriors won 73 games without KD and right now he could sit his ass on the bench the whole playoffs and the Warriors would still be favorites to win the title

>>76390060
how does watching the nba for 22 years exclude you from being a bandwagoner? you're rooting for the better team because they're playing better

>>76390099

Its the finals you fuck only 2 teams play. What are the odds that my favorite team is in the finals. I have to root for someone or whats the point in watching otherwise.

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>>76371462
>It's another LeBum excuses thread

I can't wait to see the shitshow when the Silicon Valley Globalists sweep LeBitch and co. in 4.

>>76390142
yet you're still bandwagoning the memeiors just because they're better

if you don't root for the /goodguys/ don't (you) me

>>76381367
>Their coach is a loudmouth SJW who can't keep his fucking mouth shut when it comes to things that don't involve basketball. Let's see how he would react if any of his family members got killed by terrorists.

fking idiot, why speak of things you know nothing about

>>76389919
>Yea all the best teams would be in the West and Lebeta would just destroy the entire eastern conference, stroll right into the Finals and rest for a week or so while whoever makes it out of the West is completely drained.
Have we been watching the same playoffs since LeBron returned?

>They were the clear favorites to come out of the East and mid season Lebron was still crying about needing more talent.
And now you're being disingenuous. Needing a playmaker obviously had to do with facing the behemoth hyperteam known as the Golden State Warriors, not the Celtics/Raptors/Pacers/whathaveyou.

>>76389795
>Boohoo! They're playing good, why can't teams that play superb ball lose a game!

Cry more retard.

>>76389961
>

>>76390153
>It's another "Anon who thinks everyone who hates the current iteration of the Dubs is a Cavs fan" episode

>>76390051

and had Lebron went 16-0 and won 67 games while injured the first year he joined miami people would be pretty fucking pissed at him too.

Yes Lebron WANTED to form a stacked team and probably actually thought they'd win 7 chips, but in practice the heat had their flaws and they weren't really a super team so much as a really good team.

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>be Lebron James
>take terrible terrible team to 2007 NBA Finals
>get swept by Spurs
>play your heart out just to fail against other more stacked teams like Boston and Magic
>decide to leave shit franchise, because GM doesnt know what he's doing
>Join Heat that comes of a 43 win season and got routed by Boston in the first round
>Join D Wade and Chris Bosh, both allstars (not superstars, top 5 league)
>wonky first season because Lebron wasnt full alpha yet
>Heat becomes really fucking good because LELbron
>become 60-65 win perennial contender team
>team you left behind became 20 win leaveland
>indeed confirming lelbron literaly was the Cavs


>be Kevin Durant
>be on OKC, go to finals in 2012
>get rekt by LELbron
>most analysts predicted OKChoke to win
>commence 2016
>win 55 games in tough west conf
>Beat 67 win Spurs team
>meet Warriors in WCF
>have all the answers to beat them
>3-1
>commence Durant natural choking motion
>instead of trying again because you were really close to beating the warriors, why not join them lmao
>top 2 player in the league joins 3rd best player in the league on a already 73 win team that was 1 game away from going back to back in NBA championship that also include 2 other all stars, one that is DPOY and one that, when on fire, is setting modern era NBA point records
>btw that team Durant left still made the playoffs and top 10 defense in the league

>somehow people compare Lebron's move with Durant's move

>>76390316
Hardly, I just get tired of the endless excuses that LeBron nuthuggers spam for why the Cavs cannot seem to put a winning gameplan together.

>>76390344

explain why anything Durant did was bad. You're just mad he did exactly the same thing Lebron did, but was more intelligent in his approach to winning

>b-but they're winning too much!

Oh you mean they're doing exactly what they're being paid to do?

>>76390418
>LeBron joins team so he's actually able to compete
>KD joins team so he doesn't have to compete anymore
>huurrr duurrr same thing

>>76390418
>explain why anything Durant did was bad.
He just did.

>You're just mad he did exactly the same thing Lebron did, but was more intelligent in his approach to winning
No one cares that he did "exactly" the same thing. People just hate that GS fans/LeBron haters/whoever use Tu quoque to justify KD's move as if Bron created the NBA's first-ever superteam back at the start of the decade.

>>76381367

every time

>>76390503
>He just did.

no, he didn't. He just used a bunch of green text to summarize shit that everyone already knows.

>>76390483
>>LeBron joins team so he's actually able to compete

No, Lebron joined a team because he didn't want to compete either. He literally thought they would just hand him 8 rings in a row. Durant did the same thing, only his team is more super than Lebron's.

Again, this isn't Durant's fault. Lebron started it, Durant is just giving him a taste of his own medicine.

>>76390344

bosh was an all star but wade was the considered the second best sg at the time

>>76390629
did LeBron have close competitive series against the Spurs, the Celtics and the Pacers? yes
has KD had any competitive series? no

the 8 rings thing was obviously just playing around, him, Wade and Bosh were all laughing when he said it for a reason
do you really think he expected to win his 8th ring at 33 years old with a 36 year old Wade and a 34 year old Bosh?

and don't act like LeBron started the superteam thing
all the way back in '82 the MVP Moses Malone joined a Dr J led 76ers team in free agency who just had lost in the Finals and they ended up winning 65 games and a title with a sweep in the Finals

>>76390750
oh wait, my bad, for his 8th title he'd be 34, Wade would be 37 and Bosh 35

silly me

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> this is not even the dirtiest player on the team

I don't I hate both teams. Not because of their players, or their fanbases. We have to deal with only 2 good teams in the entire nba, with only the finals to look forward to for the entire year. And what do we get? Another blowout. The playoffs sucked. The regular season sucked. Now the finals suck even though it was hyped up for the entire fucking year. And the worst part is it doesn't fucking matter. The ratings are higher than they've been since Jordan's 98 finals win. People complain about the league but silver doesn't care because they watch it all the same. At least we have furpuck during this time.

>>76390260
beacuse they are unfairly stacked

>>76386028
Plastics everywhere

>>76394093
Define fair in this instance, who is being purposely disadvantaged?

>>76371488
>It isn't even fun
love seeing queen james getting fucked in the ass