How much of the Finals will you watch?

[cltc5]

As a basketball fan you have to be really excited about this one.  The next era of the NBA... Durant vs LeBron.  These guys might meet in the finals a half dozen times.  Fantastic.

I'm all Miami in this one.  LeBron has definitely paid his dues... and Oklahoma City is filled with a bunch of gloating ****s:  http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlesports/2012/06/12/thunder-fans-to-seattle-you-had-your-chance-and-you-failed/

I badly want Thunder fans to suffer.

Are you playing a character or are you really this much of a debbie downer?  serious question.

[chambers]

All of it. I'm interested to see if the Heat can win more than one game against the Thunder.
Their strategy of chucking threes game after game is going to catch up with them- and it's going to be tough to get inside against the Thunder.

I want to see what strategy Brooks involves to beat Miami and stop Wade and Lebron penetrating. Looks like he's copying Doc and willing to let them shoot from outside. Should work very well.

[Cman]

As a basketball fan you have to be really excited about this one.  The next era of the NBA...

meh, what if you don't like what the NBA has become?
Stern has turned this into a game that favors dunks, fast breaks, highlight plays, etc. over team play. T

he "hand check" rule is really what did me in on this league. I love the Cs, will always love them, but, and I hate to say this, I dont know that the NBA is my favorite pro sport anymore.
 
Each year, I feel that tne NBA is more and more becoming like pro wrestling. This isn't an accident or an old geezer shooting off his mouth. This is a plan on the part of Stern and cronies to try to retain eyeballs. I think it is the wrong strategy.

Anyway, back to the question at hand, I like Durant and Perk, hate LBJ and Wade, I hope the series is over in a four game sweep of the Heat, but suspect it will be instead a six game Heat win.

I dont have any plans to watch any of it.

Yes, Im a grumpy old man.

[Celtics4ever]

I am boycotting the finals since my C's were beat by the refs and won games 2-5.

[Kiorrik]

What finals?

I'm with quite a few others here, in that I really don't care about the finals.

I used to always say "Basketball before Celtic Basketball", but this season, this playoff run... it left me with this feeling of finality. It's almost like the moment we've dreaded is there, the end of an era of success.

Into the limbo of rebuilding we go.

[Kane3387]

As a basketball fan you have to be really excited about this one.  The next era of the NBA... Durant vs LeBron.  These guys might meet in the finals a half dozen times.  Fantastic.

I'm all Miami in this one.  LeBron has definitely paid his dues... and Oklahoma City is filled with a bunch of gloating ****s:  http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlesports/2012/06/12/thunder-fans-to-seattle-you-had-your-chance-and-you-failed/

I badly want Thunder fans to suffer.

Thunder get this in six. Harden was a no show today. KD is by far the best individual player James has ever played. He has no edge in this series like every other series he has played. KD is not afraid of failure like James is and that will be the difference.

[Change]

I can't I can't I can't.... I couldn't bring myself to root for Heat. I felt dirty. Go supersonics. Best them Heat.

[Kane3387]

I can't I can't I can't.... I couldn't bring myself to root for Heat. I felt dirty. Go supersonics. Best them Heat.

Seattle didn't want to get a new stadium. It's their own fault the team left. They had a lot of chances to get a new arena and didn't want to because they had just given the seahawks and mariners new arenas.

Simply the tax payers didn't want to have to pay for another new arena. Now they regret it.

[garz]

None. Are you serious? Chunder v. cHeat = pure garbage.

[Celtics18]

As a basketball fan you have to be really excited about this one.  The next era of the NBA... Durant vs LeBron.  These guys might meet in the finals a half dozen times.  Fantastic.

I'm all Miami in this one.  LeBron has definitely paid his dues... and Oklahoma City is filled with a bunch of imbred gloating ****s:  http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlesports/2012/06/12/thunder-fans-to-seattle-you-had-your-chance-and-you-failed/

I can't get excited over watching Lebron play 48 minutes, dominate the ball, guard the opposing teams best player all game, & get called for 0 fouls while shooting 20 free throws himself.

I'd rather watch a re-run of Kris Humphries on 'Keeping up with the Kardashians'

Wha...

Bron and Durant are both the faces of the NBA at this point.  Let's just assume they both get favoritism from the refs and it will cancel out.  From the league's standpoint, it makes little to no sense to favor LeBron over Durant.  And all of that apparent "ref favoritism" hasn't seemed to help LeBron (best player in the league) win a title in the past... you'd think it would, right?

Fact is, we're watching the two greatest players of this era clash for the first of many times.  The start of the new NBA rivarly.  This league belongs to LeBron and Durant now... might as well sit back and enjoy the two megastars going at each other.  Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett are rolling over in their graves.

 I was starting to get a little excited about these finals, then I read posts like this one, and I get unhappy.

Don't get bummed.  Those guys will retire eventually.  LeBron is 27 and Durant is 23.  This will only last 15 years at the most... unless stem cell research of the future allows guys to play into their 50s... in which case, maybe they will invent some anti-aging juice and we might be able to bring Kevin Garnett out of retirement to make this interesting.

I'm not bummed because I think either of these teams will be unbeatable by anyone but each other over the course of the next decade.  I'm just bummed because too many folks will continue to buy into this myth that full court, professional basketball is a one on one game between a couple of superstars.

That was a great game one, though.  Go Thunder!!!