Captain America

Love opted out of Cleveland I read?

I think teams should be really wary of giving him a max deal.  He seems like a flat track bully to me.  It's easy to put up huge stats when he was in Minnesota because there was no one else on that team.  He's a good player but not a max contract for me.

Can't believe Winslow dropped to 10!

Looks like a steal for Miami.  Especially if they can retain Wade and Bosh is back.

That Liverpool team on paper looks good going forward and shite at the back, but that's what they had the year they finished second as well.

I still think they'll be 5th unless they buy two new CBs and a goalie.  I guess they'll spend big on one more forward as well, surely they'll take City's 50 million for Sterling.

Blackhawk fans are the NHL version of Seahawk fans.

LIFE LONG FAN BLACKHAWKS DYNASTY!

Fuck off, Chicago hated hockey until 5 years ago.

I'm still glad a Florida team didn't win.

Steve Ballmer has started the rebrand on the Clippers.

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/13104164/steve-ballmer-los-angeles-clippers-owner-unveils-new-team-logo-late-night-show

It's a good move, if it was me though I think I'd rename the franchise.  Clippers are just synonymous with being the Lakers shit brother.  I'd have a fresh start.

Still really like that new Clippers text logo (on the white jersey), not sure about the C with LA in it, it looks weird on the red one.

Bucks killed it with their new unis.  They look amazing.

Glad to see the Warriors get it.  

Great season.  Looking forward to the draft and seeing how the teams stack up heading into next season.

Lebron MVP whether they win or lose?

For me MVP should be on the winning team so if they win he's 100% MVP.  If Golden State close out then it's probably Steph (unless someone else goes huge in game 6/7).

Late Tradesmen.

I'll be there at 8:30.  Ok, I get up early to be awake for the arrival.

They arrive at 11.  When I'm supposed to be out at an appointment.

Fucking plumbers, they do what they want.

"You want a good girl but you need the bad pussy", might just be the single worst line I've ever heard in a tv show ever.  Jesus Christ.

These recaps this guy does on reddit are great though.

Spoilers obviously.

http://imgur.com/a/5jFLz

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Good sign.

Poor Stannis. 

Could the unsullied use their fucking short swords in these close combat bits.  No wonder you're losing you knob, you're trying to use a spear when he's right on top of you.

Unsullied are meant to be super soldiers, masters of spear and short swords.  In this show its just bloody spears all day.

We got a series boys!!!

The worst thing about series for finals is the articles in between games.  

Steph is getting killed in the media after the last two games.  Worst MVP in finals history, how many MVPs don't even make the finals!  

Hope he has a good game 4.  Really has been a great series so far.

Lebron was amazing and I think they'd have won it in regular time if the refs had called some pretty blatant fouls.

Lebron is going to have to do so much lifting to win this series though.  Steph missed 18 shots last night and Cleveland won by 2.  The rest of the team need to do even more if they are going to win the series.

WHY IS MY WHOLE TEAM RETIRING!!

Jesus someone help Lebron and Kyrie.  9 points from the entire bench in an OT game isn't going to make this easy.

Hope Kyrie is ok for the series.  I don't want the finals to be decided by injury.

Is Kyrie 100% though?

I'd call a Cavs win if Kyrie was fit but he has a knee and foot injury.  No way he's healthy.  

I don't see Cleveland winning every game at home, no way you can keep those shooters down every game.  I don't see them taking both games in 2 of the 3 in GS.  Can't see it ending in 5.  6 minimum for me if Cleveland do win.

Do we have enough for a small fantasy football league next season?  We'd probably need to do an offline draft unless we find a time that's also good in Poland.

In any case...DELLY FINALS MVP

They certainly have the advantage in that category!  That's the best category I've seen.

I reckon we're going to 7 games.  Cleveland to win if Lebron plays to his usual level, experience will win out.

I want Warriors to get it though.

Yeah those are good points, I don't know how the East hasn't bounced back in honesty.  They get good draft picks but the teams that get them never seem able to build on them.

I'd say the major common factor is that the Cavs have gone all in to build the team this year because they have Lebron.  They wouldn't have traded for KLove or have JR if Lebron wasn't there and they were 100% sure they'd be challenging.

That could be used as another argument for Lebron again, teams that have him are so confident of competing that they can go all in.

I'm not anti East.  It's just been a weak conference for close to a decade.  

I've read quite a lot recently about Lebron and what he's done where he's played, so many conference finals, 5 straight championship games.  I just think it's ignored how they got to those games, usually the first 2 rounds would be against teams that wouldn't have made the playoffs in the West or at least wouldn't have got out the first round.

Some guy has done even more numbers here.  

http://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/37lwdl/jordans_east_vs_lebrons_east_an_elo_ratings/

It's not damning and I'm not saying he's not great but you certainly make finals easier in that conference.  The average rating of the teams Tim Duncan has played to get to finals is much higher for example.  I just find it interesting to go back and look at all this stuff.

Saw this on reddit today.  I think media types can stop comparing the East to Jordan era East now.