09 playoffs thread

lamar odom is thinking about candy

yah this felt more like kobe "i humbly would like to reclaim my birthright" while standing on a pile of bodies versus KG's inner five year old discovering ice cream, dinosaurs, campfires and boobies all at once

so businesslike and joyless. it's like they're not winning the championship, they're being commended for excellent community service.

more sense of relief than actual joy

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-06/47502627.jpg

si.com's PURPLE REIGN headline is pretty dope

police having trouble containing rowdy lakers fans gathered at the staples center.

KG's inner five year old discovering ice cream, dinosaurs, campfires and boobies all at once

^holy shit, nearly spit my cereal all over keyboard reading this, and it rings so true. MAMA PEANUT!!!!

LAKERS WIN LAKERS WIN

looooooooooool jordan thank you thank you thank you most of all

http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/ChickHearn.jpg

ALL OIUR LOVE ALL OUR LIVES

good job orl you did your thing la got love for you and that's all that counts

@THE_REAL_SHAQ: O yea congrats to u to adam morrison

the best was "congrats to mbengaaaaaaaa"

wow kobe is just a destroyer man, an dhe's so goddamn happy as a human being when he was smiling and jumping it was nice to see, y'know just genuinely nice. just genuinely nice and i'm so glad for him and fisher, the hero and certified laker legend and pau smash!!! lamar odom is just acting a fool out there man its the nba finals ariza!!!!!!!!!!! what a wonderful guy get at me hedo sasha

i wish mbenga got to do a patented turnaround

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBwIs2IggwA

if you want to see what jordan was talking about

this will be a subject of much controversy over the summer, your NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers have much to answer for

0_o

sorry dude! i just don't buy the idea that the lakers are a loving cohesive team celebrating together after a slogging through war together - most everything that kobe says to me rings hollow. i'm sure they are all proud of each other and happy for each other and stuff but i just rolled my damn eyes at the celebration is all. not taking anything away from their winning it or something just that i don't buy them \(o_O)/

but kobe was SCOWLING ALL PLAYOFFS as stuart scott so helpfully pointed out 15 times tonight, so what do i know

surely thinking kobe is a huge phony is not an unusual opinion at this point in time

i dunno man here's to doing it wrong or something this isnot a night for arguing

otm

i wonder if the celebration would have had more oomph had their Finals opponent been the cavs or celtics (in a non-injured kg universe that is). the cavs b/c it would have looked like kobe outdoing lebron, and the c's b/c it would have meant beating the champions, and wreaking revenge on a team that embarrassed them last year. the lakers deserved this win, they were the best team in these playoffs no doubt, but there's ways in which this victory might have tasted sweeter.

after all part of the thrill of last year's championship for the c's was that they had to go through lebron and the arch-rival lakers

there were a couple other reasons too...

pfft your team would have got handled. it would be more likely a hard 6 games

orl was no patsy but they were def. starstruck or something

hollinger put the lakers on the top of his list of franchises. trapped in his own web of stats

lol

i wonder if the celebration would have had more oomph had their Finals opponent been the cavs or celtics

simple fact that it was an away game takes any celebration down a notch

congrats adam morrison

didn't stop these guys
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef01157112e870970b-pi

The 2000 lakers riot makes this shit look like romper room.

Ha,yeah! I remember walking out of staples after that game and it was crazy!they were showing the game on the jumbotron outside to a few million people.

pfft your team would have got handled.

i don't completely disagree with this, esp. if you're referring to the actual, kg-less version of the celtics. even with a healthy kg and powe, i didn't see the c's beating this year's lakers (would have been a gnarly series though). but to me that's kind of beside the point. all i'm saying is that regardless of the fact that neither the c's nor the cavs turned out to be a playoff threat to the lakers, the fact is that the presence of at least one of these teams in the finals would have made the win more satisfying to LA. that's all.

just for the sake of the way this board would have been blowing up if the lakerss played the c's. i can agree with that.

it's all been downhill since bos/chi imo

^yeah but that's like top 5 sports series i've ever seen tho, tough act to follow

also feels like a century ago. so long ago one could wax nostalgic. "yeah, and remember when that kid rondo pretended he was a fishing lure dangling from that big white dude's mouth? whatta series!!"

i don't completely disagree with this, esp. if you're referring to the actual, kg-less version of the celtics. even with a healthy kg and powe, i didn't see the c's beating this year's lakers (would have been a gnarly series though). but to me that's kind of beside the point.

in lieu of revenge ^ this is my point and i'm sticking to it :)
yeah obv. before the injury we wanted the c's then the cavs distant 2nd, then i would have still wanted the kgless c's if they were good enough to have scraped through to the finals but i thought orl made an ok plucky upstart foil, better than any of the early 00's ecc's anyway. got some close games out of it but people might just remember 4-1 and the bookend games, its all good

so frustrating, cuz it could just has easily have been 3-1 orlando but for an awesome inbound pass play that didn't finish and a total meltdown in the last 30 seconds of game three
could shoulda woulda

What the hell am I supposed to do with no basketball, no hockey, no Lost, and with the Padres out of contention in June?

Maybe I should take up knitting.

http://media.nbcaugusta.com/images/wagt_wnba.jpg

lol

simmons' column otm imo

better counterfactual than kg: would yao have beat LA? I kinda think yes

simmons nailed it

all there in one article, something to be said for that

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-simers-lakers15-2009jun15,0,4342696.column

here u guys can have this dude gratis. hates phil > kobe > the lakers in that order. has had to sit through 4 big ones, 'simering'. cracking up over here

So glad the "Chinese Magic Johnson" won an NBA chip.