I just flipped a coin to choose the team and the dam coin landed on it's side, I aint know wha fo do now?

How's dat for a sensible non-emotional reply kari?

I have been asking for sensible input for a very long time. Yet you keep ignoring my requests by giving your input.

Kari you want me take Kaz out back after I finish roll up my sleeves?

Cainsta, Shazama is just nervous as hell. If you we're to take him out back he might throw up on you 

Miami's penchant for overplaying on defense cost them 2 fouls. 

Pops wears the same face all the time.

both teams are sloppy with the ball. Maybe Game 6 effect will be more physical than mental

You gotta give Battier credit. Spurs doesn't look efficient when Duncan and Parker re resting. And Ginobli hasn't upped his game yet. Miami bench is  playing better than the Spurs bench. Miami up 1

Wade is on his game. Spurs playing sub-par but now up 1.

Miami is playing lights out (well except Miller) and the Spurs look like they just rolled out of bed. Yet Miami is up only 3

DWade making up for it. With this kind of effort he usually fades in the 2nd half, except in Game 4. Bosh has reverted to his funk. Bird man might actually be a lift for Miami but he can only play in spurts. 

On the Spurs side Manu and Green are not contributing and you have to think Parker and Duncan may need more rest. Miami should take advantage late in the 3rd setting up a terrific 4th qtr

The way the 1st half was played Miami should have been up by a dozen. 

Neither bosh or Miller has scored.

missed the first half (graduation dinner)...the way they were talking at halftime, I thought Heat up by 10 or more...

Spurs will win this I feel...

Congrats to the Graduand and the parents.

LeBron mekkin his 3s

I can't believe the Spurs has out scored the Heat 21 to 18 in the 3rd qtr after being outplayed and with LeBron giving an MVP performance.

Chalmers bank shot 3 at the end of the 3rd qtr looks like a good omen for Miami who was out scored by 1 in the 3rd Qtr

who will take it?

Spurs cannot win this game of attrition. Someone has to get hot or they'll get run out of the AA arena Someone has to get hot for the Spurs as they're beginning to look tired.

Tony Parker has no legs. He's not driving. Manu is back o his Game 6 eight-turnover form, and these are unforced turnovers.

Spurs has one more run in them so I won't be shouting from the rooftops just yet

Why do you have to be so devious? Keep it clean.

Duncan and Parker look real tired. They were forced to not take their usual strt-of-the-4th qtr rest. Pops learnt from Game 6 when the Heat took advantage nd went on an 8 to nothing run in te blink of an eye

2-point Miami lead with 39 sec to play. Boy sometimes you need a bit of luck and Duncan missed a point-blank shot that would have tied it. I said it's a coin toss. Looks like it. Miami can't shake these tired Spurs

Game over. Manu did his thing - a gift to LeBron. Miami survives

Time fuh Stingaaahh to exhale and give prayers that his Heat team survived.

And time for me to shut up.

LeBron has the highest scoring average in the history of the NBA in potential elimination games. That is clutch and he brought that to the bank tonight.  

This is the only sensible thing you have said for the past two months.

Even higher than Jordan. Killer genes. yeah.

Don't disturb me now Cainsta, I am too busy celebrating!!!!!!!!!!

Very big of you 

Kari is a very very decent human being.

Like you know a different one?

Chief, Al Ansar has Fun day at Cunningham park on Sunday. Show up.

So all this nonsense over the past two months is just acting? The man kept putting down the clearly better team all the way to the end. No doubt our team fell into a lil funk at the end but I kept telling him that talents have a way of rising to the occasion. And how did the source of so many peoples' hate did? He only ended up having the highest score by anyone in Finals history. Suh leh he keep on hatin' and he wil miss out on enjoying a special NBA player.

Ksaz LeBron is a great talent. He's in his prime. Let's see him do what the greats have done before we look at him retrospectively. He is the best player in the game today, but he looks demoralized at times - to wit, the look in Game 6 when he felt, like Stingaaahh, that it was over before the 5 point eruption in the last 29 sec to send it in overtime. HE also looked that way in the other losses to San Antonio.

As for Miami, this team as presently constituted may not make it out of the East next year as Chicago will get by Derek Rose and the Pacers can only get better. Meanwhile Bosh has shown he is ordinary and you can't bank on DWayne's knees. The Spurs stretched them and were dead tired at the end. Two bit players got hot at the right moment -Ray Allen and Shane Battier. Miami will have to reload- and they have a lot of salary committed.

What I'm trying to say is that Miami is what we thought they were - mortals - and not this juggernaut that the 90s Bulls were. There was a lot of hype and they have not dominated series like those great championships of past. They were tested and showed that they should not have been put on that pedestal as having championship rings pre-ordained. It's the hubris I reacted to. I love the underdog, and people who do not show off as LeBron did in 2010 with his not 1, not 2..... DWayne is a class gentleman. LeBron has learnt from his mistakes, and Ii expect him to be a better person. MJ had to deal with gambling and death of loved ones in the midst of his championship run and he took a sabbatical from the game. He is the gold standard that unfortunately LeBron will be judged against - just as Kobe was.

Just enjoy and bask in the moment of victory - a state that is muted because Miami SURVIVED more than dominate, as you and Brudd and Stingaahh believed. You were all taught a humbling lesson in how other teams play smart basketball with lesser talent and nearly pushed you off the cliff. In other words it is not this exhilarating moment by Miami's lofty standards.

Talk about hating. Jay Leno said that while the whole country was glued to the basketball last night his viewership actually went up in Cleveland!

They were rooting AGAINST the Heat.

Wade played through his injuries. If Wade was the Flash of 2006 the series would've been shorter. Much shorter. And when you talk of MJ and the 90's Bulls, they did not have to live up to microanalysis. The pressures now is more than at anytime. Make one mistake, one bad play and Twitter is abuzz. If you looked at the comparison chart they showed on ESPN you would notice that LeBron is ahead of MJ in more category than one. Playoff Shooting percentage, championships at the same age, MVP's at the same age etc. And back then salary cap was not an issue. Now you have a cap AND luxury tax. Back then you could have a big payroll and have the best players. You know the rest. So comparing MJ to LBJ is not a smart thing. You can justify all you want, it's not the same. If Bron continues as he's playing, when he retires MJ would be a footnote.

Bai, you been announcing the Heat demise this year even during their 27 games win streak so this nonsense about they didn't have the good and are lucky to win is just that, nonsense. I have been telling you that Miami had the talents and while it has been a struggle, we can still count on that talent when it is needed. Miami does not like to beat up on teams. They are happy with just a win. How many times Wade and especially LeBron was taken out of games over the past two years when him staying in could give him a chance to make individual history. Even this past year, he should have been told to not take any more shots to preserve his record of 30 plus points and 60% shooting like the managers do with baseball players to preserve their batting averages at season end. That is not our style. We are South Beach. Live and let live. Come have some fun in the sun here. Our guys even had Danny Green at their celebration on Thursday night.

But back to the topic. Miami is fortunate to have LeBron here. He is a class act with talents and skills to match. He gives everything he has to make himself, his teammates and team better. He does not hog the ball and try to put up 50 points every game. He begins by sharing the ball to get his teammates involved and only takes over when it becomes clear that he has to now carry the load. And more times than not he carries that load. Plus he is given the role as point guard only because he has the best ability to distribute the ball effectively. And when Spo wants to shut someone down, he put LeBron on that person like how he shut Parker down the past two games. No different than how he shut Rose down in the ECF two years ago. So this nonsense that Rose would be a stumbling block to LeBron is just that, nonsense. LeBron shut him down during his MVP year when his Bulls team's season was on the line.

Now back to LeBron's talents. He can effectively guard all five positions. Know anybody else in history who can do that much less do it effectively? He was charged with the responsibility to shut down whoever was hot for the game in the Pacers series like he was for the Spurs series. What about ya'll poster boy Danny Green? Notice how quick he gets shut down the last two games when talents was guarding him?

And now for how the Heat team is constructed. No doubt we are not conventional. This is South Beach and the only thing conventional about here is that people are expected to have a good time. We don't have a big and it affects our ability to get rebounds. But with the way that James and Wade plays, a big would affect their game. And since they shoot at a high level it does not affect our ability to win without a big. Bosh is just getting way too much undue criticism by people who don't consider that he gets the scraps that James and Wade throws away. It is to his credit that he was able to adapt to a third place position but I doubt he is complaining. He is paid more than James and Wade and won two titles over the past three years with this group as a third place player.

But his effort in game six is what makes game seven and the championship possible. He made the two biggest blocks and most critical rebound in that game. So we are not complaining here. If you pay attention, you will find that it is only the outsiders who see a problem with how our team is constructed. Wonder why. Remember the Qur'anic verse that speaks about how mischievous people first seeking to set strive in people's mind in a way to destroy them. Same here. Others wants to see this team dismantled because they find it difficult and over the past three years, almost impossible to overcome.

So my friend, my advise to you is sit back and enjoy the greatness of LeBron. Just like I had the opportunity to do when Jordan was playing. Because, great players like LeBron don't come around often. Don't waste your time with the hate stuff especially since LeBron said himself - I AIN'T GOT NO WORRIES!!!!

Like these people? The math seem incorrect on one of those signs.

What y'all have to note is that MJ was a two-guard and LeBron is a forward in the mold of a Magic Johnson. Given his rebounding prowess and better jump-shooting I'd say he's more like Bird.

Magic needed the parts around, like LeBron got. Bird too. MJ did not have the parts that those Celtics and Lakers teams had or what LeBron got with the Big 3. MJ had a gerowing star in Scottie Pippen and bit players. Grant and Kucoch rose to the level at times.

So when I speak of carrying a team, MJ had to do more of that with his scoring and drawing defenders and kicking out. LeBron works more with sets in his passing. MJ had more freedom with the triangle.

What we can debate ad nauseum is who had the killer intangible, and if you poll people 9 out of 10 will say MJ. The man was an assassin.

BTWI rooted for LeBron when he first came into the league because of Kobe's cocky attitude and his sexual assault issue. It was when the ?Heat was microwaved under Pat Riley and he made that immature not 1, not 2....statement and the whole ESPN setup that I began to look more at his intangibles and how he looked lost under adversity. Even when MJ's teams were losing to the Bad Boys he never looked lost or befuddled. He was always going down with his guns ablaze. That's the kind of intangibles Ii speak of. LeBron needs a Big 3. MJ couldn't care less.