2015 nba finals: golden state warriors of oakland versus the cleveland cavaliers of cleveland

its not 100% bad luck

oh for sure, he fell awkwardly on a knee that was already messed up. it's not a given that he would have been as good in the next few games as he was coming off of like a week of rest.

I've got the Warriors in a bet with a kid in my class. He wins, the class gets a free period to play around on their devices; I win, he has to go a full day without talking.

The rest of the class seems conflicted on whether they want the device time or a day where he doesn't talk.

lol

Classic stakes.

maybe this is so obvious as to not need mentioning but i do feel it needs mentioning for ilh posterity: cavs played kyrie 44 mins in his first game back after a knee injury and he injured his knee

― lag∞n, Saturday, June 6, 2015 9:35 AM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's the finals and he was playing well though, i don't have much of a problem with it

yeha obvs this is for all the marbles but they def took a risk

yeah k3vo otm. they needed to win that specific game very badly, and if kyrie is gonna play in the series then he needed to play.

he can play w/o playing 44 mins, i mean was that their plan or were they just like fuck it at some point

maybe it was brons decision

they prob could have played more shump-jr-bron-thompson-mozgov lineups but i guess blatt wanted to play pretty small and... dellavedova is not good

also like, what's the line where it's too many minutes? 40? 38? 35? idk. maybe he just shouldn't have been playing.

the guy is getting like 45 million over 4 years. they pay him to play in these games if he can play

They gonna pay his next contract when he's washed up from injury at 27?

if kyrie is washed up from injury at 27 it's not going to be because he played 5 minutes too many in the nba finals at age 23

also like, what's the line where it's too many minutes? 40? 38? 35? idk. maybe he just shouldn't have been playing.

― J0rdan S., Saturday, June 6, 2015 11:40 AM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

35

Broken kneecap much better than ligament damage but the tendinitis is troubling

tendinitis generally goes away with rest tho can be chronic, broken kneecap shd heal fine, kyrie played 44 mins an is now out of the finals

If only shump made that putback

very close

My heart stopped

my heart grew a very high top fade

They gonna pay his next contract when he's washed up from injury at 27?

― tsrobodo, Saturday, June 6, 2015 11:50 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nope!

Chicago will probably be looking for a point guard by then

maybe this is so obvious as to not need mentioning but i do feel it needs mentioning for ilh posterity: cavs played kyrie 44 mins in his first game back after a knee injury and he injured his knee

― lag∞n, Saturday, June 6, 2015 9:35 AM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's the finals and he was playing well though, i don't have much of a problem with it

― k3vin k., Saturday, June 6, 2015 10:34 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I totally agree with both parts of this, I guess if he was cleared there shouldn't really be any restrictions (and it's the finals) and if he's not really right then they prob should have had a strict minutes limit. It was a total non contact deal though so who knows could have happened in minute 1 of game 2, it's not like an rg3 type situation where they obviously murdered him

It's strange that Steph curry once almost a sad chronic injury case has his team in position for the ring and it's the other team with the mangled high scoring point guard

Kyrie hasn't really been injury free since high school.

kyrie is made of glass sorry

It's strange that Steph curry once almost a sad chronic injury case has his team in position for the ring and it's the other team with the mangled high scoring point guard

― juice college (agent hibachi), Saturday, June 6, 2015 1:36 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and that bron left the head because wade's body broke down only to arrange to play with two superstars with 830 career injuries between them

the heat*

None of their injuries are chronic or recurring so I can forgive him for assuming they'd catch a break.

speaking of asterisks how about all the teams who didn't have to face the dubs with bogut last year

^5

haha what

There are still people bitching about the travel even with the GIF.

I kinda like the Warriors winning cos it's been 4 damn decades and I think the Cavs will have many more shots...until LeBron joins Ranger Varese

Def digging these

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/6/6/8741257/the-milwaukee-bucks-have-new-uniforms-and-they-are-awesome

sorry wrong thread

meh

14 years ago today AI made tyronn lue look dumb af, never forget http://uproxx.it/1JwqRwn

lol, blatt trying to blame klay for kyrie's injury rather than admitting a minutes limit might have been a good idea http://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2015/story/_/id/13024811/cleveland-cavaliers-guard-kyrie-irving-undergoes-surgery-broken-kneecap

Blatt added that he believes Irving's persistent tendinitis was not the direct cause of the fractured kneecap.

"You know, that's a doctor's question, but in my opinion, absolutely not," Blatt said. "It has nothing to do with it."

Blatt added that although he is "not a scientist," the activities of humans have "nothing at all to do," with global warming, which is "a hoax."

uhh klay pretty clearly hammered the side of his knee

question: is pivoting allowed after a jump stop? can't find it outlined specifically in the rules, and everything I read on it suggested "no", which would mean the controversial travel was technically two, possibly three travels in one.

uhh klay pretty clearly hammered the side of his knee

― micah, Sunday, June 7, 2015 3:24 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not saying klay and irving didn't bump knees, just hate that "i'm not an expert but here's my expert opinion" phrasing

yea it's just disingenuous of blatt to completely discount how much kyrie was played in game 1 with a dormant injury in his determination of what caused the serious reaggravation of said injury

man did they have to have Oakland PD bear the flag tonight

oh jesus christ, Carlos

carlos should shred this out for 12 minutes

that was DOGSHIT

Santana sounds more and more like a bored kid in a Sam Ash year after year. what was the point of having the drums? why was his tone so bland? will John McLaughlin play before Game 3?