06-07 NBA Trash Talk

The Bulls are just plain out of their league here.

Do you have nothing to add to this Halberto?  Are you proud of your useless broken-down thugs, like Bowen and Horry?  It amazes me that sportsmanship seems to be irrelevant to so many Spurs fans.  All that matters to them is victory at any cost.  
 
I would advise the Spurs to get ready for a gigantic karmic kick in the ass.

Robert Horry is now officially the most worthless lying pile of shit in the NBA.  He has ZERO integrity and ZERO sense of sportsmanship.  He is utterly worthless, and his career is coming rapidly to an end.  What a legacy he is leaving...
 
http://www.azcentral.com/sports/suns/articles/0516horry-ON.html

I never thought of the Spurs as a dirty team, but this is just too much.  How can they suspend Amare and Diaw, I mean sure, it was wrong of them to leave their benches, but it is instincts.  You need to protect your teammates and this shit has went on for too long.  I just am disgusted not only by the Spurs, but mainly by the NBA for suspending Amare and Diaw.  I love tough and physical play, but there is a line whenever players are deliberately trying to injury other players.

I\'d say I believe everything Horry said about the situation, and that he deserved the suspension. But Amare and Diaw didn\'t deserve it.

Are the spurs a cheap team? No. But the suspensions made it seem that way.

You believe what Horry said????? Here\'s what he said:
 

"I was going to try and take a charge and then I thought, ssshhh, he\'s too fast," Horry said. "So I\'m like, \'I\'ll just bump him a little bit,\' and as you know, the great acting skill Steve has, when you hit the floor and flop, and he\'s like \'Oh, I\'m dying over here.\' ...

It was an intentional foul with 18 seconds left in the game. OK, that\'s fine. Happens all the time to stop the clock and force free throws. HOWEVER, an intentional foul traditionally involves grabbing the opponent, which is the safest and quickest foul possible. If Horry had a choice between taking a charge (an incredibly stupid idea against Steve Nash in the open court) and grabbing him, he should have grabbed him.
 
There was NO REASON to bump him. It served no purpose other than to release frustration, "send a message," or possible to injure him. It was completely unnecessary.
 
As for the flopping, that was irrelevant. Nash\'s only flop was remaining on the floor about 1 second longer than normal. Not much of a flop compared with the writhing and moaning the Spurs do on a regular basis.
 
It doesn\'t matter now anyway. It\'s history. Another black mark on Horry\'s career, and an ugly smudge on the Spurs\' franchise.

Nobody wants to see those boring ass spurs play basketball. The fans lose and the Nba lose. If it not for the pistons I woud be done. The spurs are just not fun to watch. They are a snore fest. The Suns might as well give it up. They blew it last year and again this year.

Spurs are getting their fourth championship in 8 years

No one gives a fuck. And that includes television viewers across the nation.

I could care less if nobody is watching. It\'s still happening

http://www.insidebayarea.com/sports/ci_6138062

Bogus Finals Stern\'s just reward for his playoffs sham
Column by Carl Steward
Article Last Updated: 06/14/2007 09:04:30 AM PDT
 
SOBERING THOUGHT: The Warriors probably could have beaten the Cleveland Cavaliers for the NBA Championship. Scary.
 
And if you dispute that, you know it\'s a slam dunk that the Phoenix Suns, the team that really should be on the cusp of winning it all tonight, definitely would have.
 
Instead, we have the San Antonio Spurs propped up once again for a continuation of their phony dynasty. Credit the Spurs for being ruthlessly efficient in achieving what everyone expected them to do, but let\'s be blunt: They\'re an uninteresting team about to win a tainted title, and doesn\'t care.
 
David Stern, the man with the sickeningly smug smile, is drowning in his own arrogance right now. The NBA playoffs began as a fun-filled blast but are finishing now up a flat-lining bore.
 
Ever since the Warriors and Suns went out, the postseason has been dreadful, almost unwatchable theater. If it wasn\'t for LeBron James, trying so admirably to win the whole thing singlehandedly, we\'d have switched over to the Home & Garden Channel long ago.
 
Ah, but at least Robert Horry will win his seventh ring after delivering the most infamousbodycheck in league history, the one that showed Stern\'s leadership of this league for what it really is — a hierarchy of haughtiness. so self-absorbed it is blind to the injustices and ills that afflict the league on a variety of fronts.
 
NBA fans who love the game should never let Stern forget May 14, when the Suns were so unfairly penalized for reacting to Horry\'s pathetic slam on Nash while the Suns were closing out a Game 4 win of the Western Conference semifinal in

If it wasn\'t bad enough that the league meted out ridiculous one-game suspensions to Amare Stoudamire and Boris Diaw that wound up hurting Phoenix more than the Spurs, the pompous Stern went on the attack to defend the NBA\'s decision.
 
In a much-publicized interview with ESPN\'s Dan Patrick, Stern all but spat in Patrick\'s face when he dared to suggest the penalties were unfair. He resented even being challenged on it and taunted Patrick with insinuations that he was just being a troublemaker and didn\'t know what he was talking about.
 
But then the Spurs won Game 5 in by three points, a game the Spurs almost certainly would have lost if Stoudamire and Diaw had played. Maybe still might have won the series, but let\'s face it, the Spurs were facing two elimination games without homecourt advantage. Not likely.
 
Stern, of course, will hand over the trophy to the Spurs with that stupid smile and toast them as one of the great teams of all-time, if not tonight then some night soon. But it\'ll be a ruse of the commissioner\'s own creation.
 
I hate to be so hard on the Spurs because they play exquisite team basketball. They play terrific defense. They pass beautifully, post up masterfully. Tim Duncan is a future Hall of Famer, and Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker are superb, gritty players.
 
But it\'s all built on a foundation of good fortune that in any other league would amount to fraud. See, the Spurs never should have had . They got him as a result of another Stern sham, the lottery, by piling up losses in a year in which David Robinson was injured, then winning the lottery over the more "deserving" Boston Celtics.
 
Of course, the Celtics got hosed again in the most recent lottery disgrace, shut out of the top two franchise players, Greg Oden and Kevin Durant.
 
Welcome to King David\'s domain. The lottery came into being following Stern\'s rise to power in 1984 and has been an unjust carnival-act joke for much of its 22 years. But it remains because of Stern, and how dare anybody question any entity, however trumped-up, he presides over.
 
Stern has been hailed as a great commissioner by some, but beyond the financial growth of the league — which probably would have occurred for anyone riding the coattails of Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan and the explosion of the international game — it\'s tough to see.
 
The NBA is a league that has priced the average fan into the nosebleed seats, if they can even afford those. It is a league that used its financial clout to crush a promising women\'s winter circuit and create its own summertime farce. It is a league that has bastardized its rules almost beyond comprehension and allowed officiating consistency to deteriorate to an appalling level. Hey, nice arm-tackle on James by Bruce Bowen that concluded Game 3 Tuesday night to a no call.
 
In a more well-run league, we might have had the Warriors and Suns in a scintillating Western Conference finals spectacle, but at the least, we should have had Nash and . Unfortunately, the NBA cut off its nose to spite its self-satisfied face, if only to protect Stern\'s long out-of-control ego.
 
The only solace is that the commissioner\'s getting his just reward now — a bogus champion in an NBA Finals the nation has turned off out of disillusionment, disgust and disinterest. Nice going, Dave. Smile that autocratic smile for the cameras one more time, you charlatan.
 
Carl Steward can be reached at (510) 293-2451 or by e-mail at csteward@angnewspapers.com.

[Jumpman]

Yes Core we know nobody likes the Spurs. But that doesn\'t take anything from how good they are. The simple fact is the best teams go to the championship, and the Spurs are the best.

The NBA is supposed to be entertaining.  I for one lost interest in the Finals despite the fact I enjoyed seeing the cavs make a run to the finals.  Judging from the lack of enthusiasm from the general mass seems to make my opinion in the majority.  I don\'t care that the spurs are the best team in the NBA, if i\'m not entertained watching the games, something is fundamentally wrong with how the NBA is being run.

How can it be the NBA\'s fault that America doesn\'t like the Spurs? Do you want the NBA to decide on the most entertaining teams to go to the finals instead of letting them play it out? I don\'t know what to make from that comment.

Entertainment today seems to be big-headed players (Kobe or Shaq) or ones that start fights with people. The Spurs are the best example of teamwork and ego-less basketball. But since America could care less about those qualities they will always get low ratings.