LAKERtown!!!!

I'm not a Laker fan, and I'm less of a Kobe fan, but that was quite a beating they doled out. Looking good for them to take the title. Cleveland isgoing to be lucky to make it to the finals, and extremely worn out if they do. Orlando will continue to get no respect if they make it, and up against theLakers, it's probably well deserved.<br><br>Mike<br>HWsMinis

go Cavs...

<blockquote> <strong class="quote-title">loaf7 wrote:</strong> <hr> go Cavs...</blockquote><br><br>Cavs........ RIP!!!

No better entertainment than NBA playoffs!<br><br>Come on Thursday night!!!<br>

Thuggets are posers- never had any doubt they were going to fold to the Lakers!<br><br>Looks like the Cav's have a way to go before they're ready for prime time - puleeeeeese!<br><br>Ah well Tom Brady and KG both back next season!

NEXT year??? LOL!!! That is a lifetime away my man, the SHOW hasn't even started yet, tune in for some real basketball, not next year's PIPE DREAM!!!!

Sorry.. but haent been ont he computer much this weekend.....but I'm here now.. Yes, NUGGETS looked terrible, and Lakers looked great the last 2 games ofthe series. The way we played, we did not deserve to win.<br><br>As for dirty plays...Every team has dirty plays and or players.. I've seen Kobe get away with lots of "sly" slaps, punches, pushes and so on...I'll admit the Nuggs had some dirty plays.. but anybody that can say NOBODY on thier own team plays dirty at 1 point or another (whether it gets called ornot) is in denial. All teams do dirty things, some get away with them, some don't.. it's all part of the game.<br><br>Overall, I'm very impressed with the turn around the NUggs had this year.. they went from not being able to make it out of the first round year after year,to taking the best team int he west to 6 games in the conference finals...<br><br>I personally don't think the Lakers can cover the Magic on the 3 point line.. so I'm guessing Magic in 6. Sorry, Kobe can't do it without Shaq, ashas been proven time and time again...<br><br>Now flame away! hahaha

<p>Since most people think only the Nuggets ever have dirty plays, and that Kobe is the golden boy and never does any wrong.. here's video of the veryobvious Fisher dirty play - at about :45, and less obvious, yet even more dirty play by Bryant - at about 4:04(that wasn't seen..of course, nobody eversee's Bryant do anything wrong...)..<br><br><br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G52-luC-j8s">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G52-luC-j8s</a><br><br></p>

Naaa...... No flaming here, the Lakers needed those last two games to set their tone for the finals.<br><br>As for the Nuggs? They are done..... Sorry Tom, too many teams have been down that road of being white hot and "almost" making it, only to be knockeddown another peg the next year and after that to oblivion, just look at Golden State, Dallas, Spurs, Suns etc. That breathing anticipating air for "nextyear" will never come, this is the closest Denver has ever come and will ever be again........ Chances are fleeting, EXCEPT when it comes to the LAKERSBABEEEE!!!!!!! 30-Finals........wow.

From this article:<br><a target="_blank" href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/steve_aschburner/05/08/kobe/index.html?eref=si_writers">http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/steve_aschburner/05/08/kobe/index.html?eref=si_writers</a><br><br>"Repeat offenses make this easy, too. And let's be clear, Bryant is a serial transgressor. <strong>He has been accused constantly of little nasties inhis physical contact with opponents, as payback or otherwise</strong>. He has been caught on video numerous times and even held accountable by the league onmore than a few occasions:<p>-- In April 2000, Bryant received a one-game suspension for retaliating and throwing a punch at <a target="_blank" href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/teams/knicks">New York Knicks</a> guard <strong><a target="_blank" href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/players/2996">Chris Childs</a></strong>.</p><p>-- Bryant got suspended for two games in March 2002 after throwing a punch at Indiana's <strong><a target="_blank" href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/players/231">Reggie Miller</a></strong> at the end of a Lakers-Pacers game.</p><p>-- In December 2005, an elbow to Memphis swingman <strong><a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/players/3404">MikeMiller</a></strong>'s throat cost Bryant another two games to league sanction.</p><p>-- Within the first six weeks of the 2006-07 season, Bryant was suspended twice (one game each) for flailing his shooting arm into the faces of SanAntonio's <strong><a target="_blank" href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/players/3380">Manu Ginobili</a></strong> and Minnesota's <strong><a target="_blank" href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/players/3429">Marko Jaric</a></strong>. Despite his protests to the contrary, the NBA sheriffs saw no naturalfollow-through in that move, which looked like a more aggressive version of a jump shooter creating contact with his body. Bryant's maneuver seemeddesigned to punish rather than manufacture free throws"<br><br>I'm in no way saying the Nuggets didnt have some dirty plays.. but before jumping on the "Thuggets being dirty" bandwagon.. check out your ownteam.. and the golden boy himself. Lakers live in a glass house.. they shouldnt throw stones..EVERY team has dirty plays, and likely always will. Regardlessof how good they are, how many rings they have, or how blind people are to it.. it will happen </p>