Congratulations to the Miami Heat.

[Reyquila]

Did you watch all winners and all losers congratulating each other last night? They showed "class". Good to find out what having class means; example: Larry Bird always had class.

[ChainSmokingLikeDino]

Celticsblog: Ruining the rep of C's fans around the country for all!

Newsflash:NE sports fans were hated before the Cheat came into being by a lot of people around the country.

Umm, I never maintained there was a causation relationship there. Merely, a further example.

Congrats to The Heat, conspiracy all you like they won the title fair and square and deserve congratulations for their accomplishment. I can dislike a team, a player or a coach or owner and not have it become some all consuming rage that governs my life or my attitude towards the game of basketball. The LeBron hatred is as much a media driven phenomenon as the LeBron adulation. I'll prefer to stick to my own take.

[Edgar]

 

[slamtheking]

I still won't like them, and will root against them even harder next year, but I tip my cap to a very good performance.  They just kept getting stronger as the playoffs progressed, and they seem much more like a team now than just the James and Wade show.

Lebron James has exercised a lot of demons.  Good for him, I guess.  He was positively Rondoesque in these last two games.  Great performance.

can't express my contempt for this thread enough. 

Great players/teams don't need help from the officials to win.  cheapest/most-worthless championship ever. 

[angryguy77]

Congrats to Miami.

The Heat handled their business nothing more to say.

This reminds me of the time I got really excited when the 92 US Dream Team beat Angola in the opening round. They totally took care of business.

Loll. I see your roll has carried over from yesterday

[gar]

screw the heat

TP

They got their win, hopefully don't have to listen to LeBron this and LeBron that any more.

[Eja117]

I'd congratulate the following before I would the heat:

The maker of the  Hindenburg
The Capt of the Titanic
The creator of New Coke
The architect of the leaning tower of Pisa
Capt. Custer on a job well done at Little Big Horn
Decca Records eye for talent
Ford on creating the Edsel
Russell Westbrook on his understanding of how the shotclock works
Bob Gibson's clock management skills
LBJ on a great job in Vietnam
Harry and Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber for not getting on that bus
Japan's decision not to surrender
Stu Inman's decision to pass on MJ
Neville Chamberlain's wonderful foreign policy

Ooo oooo ooo...Let me try. Let me try.


Ryan Leaf for that great pre season game he had.
Al Gore for his Nobel Peace Price
Henny Kissinger and Le Duc Tho for their Nobel Peace Prize
Barak Obama for his Nobel Peace Prize
Elizabeth Warren for advancing the cause of Native Americans.
Bill Clinton for teaching us that love conquers all.
Peyton Manning for one whole Super Bowl win against Rex Grossman
The Academy for choosing Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan
The electoral college for including all Americans in democracy
Joey Crawford for an excellent job in the 2002 Western Conference Finals
David Stern for running an NBA lottery beyond question
Academia for keeping college affordable and accessible to everyone
Ben Rothlisburger for...no...I'd congratulate Lebron first

[GreenFaith1819]

Congrats to MIA - and to BOS.

I'm sure it's been mentioned on here, but looks like we gave MIA their best challenge this post-season.

Bosh being back helped them a lot, but boy if AB hadn't went down, and if LeBron hadn't went Superman on us in Game 6...

But anyways congrats to MIA.

[crownsy]

Whats the point in congratulating the Miami heat on a celtic forum? they beat us weeks ago....congratulate them then and focus on the offseason, who cares

uhh because we're internet posters and they just won?

Your "focus" doesn't matter one iota to the future prospects of the Boston Celtics. Do you think Danny's gonna log on here and be like "shoot, thank god Jerry reminded me to focus on building a contender next year, I'd have taken a vacation till early august!"

I don't think a combined 3 minutes of forum posts really affects the focus of the boston celtics or myself as a fan, i think they'll get by just fine.

[NoraG1]

Did you watch all winners and all losers congratulating each other last night? They showed "class". Good to find out what having class means; example: Larry Bird always had class.

People are still whining about this. really? Get over it!

[crownsy]

Celticsblog: Ruining the rep of C's fans around the country for all!

Right, because it's impossible to be a "true fan" unless you subjugate all objectivity to the cult. I'm not allowed in anyway to break ranks. every foul called against us is the commish screwing us, every loss is someone else's fault, every player on every other team is a scumbag while ours are pure as the driven snow warriors who never take a play off.


Everyone just go "baaaahhhh" with the crowd and not discuss anything objectively.

no thanks, I'll have my own opinions and thoughts, sorry if i don't meet your definition of a "fan"  

[indeedproceed]

Did you watch all winners and all losers congratulating each other last night? They showed "class". Good to find out what having class means; example: Larry Bird always had class.

People are still whining about this. really? Get over it!

Sportsmanship is an important facet of any sport to a lot of people, and displaying poor sportsmanship offends some more deeply that you realize.

And if his post was whining, yours wasn't any better. The tone was very similar.

[NoraG1]

Did you watch all winners and all losers congratulating each other last night? They showed "class". Good to find out what having class means; example: Larry Bird always had class.

People are still whining about this. really? Get over it!

Sportsmanship is an important facet of any sport to a lot of people, and displaying poor sportsmanship offends some more deeply that you realize.

And if his post was whining, yours wasn't any better. The tone was very similar.

I guess I just don't get being offended about it weeks afterword. It happened and it is over with. Just like the Heat winning. Nothing can be changed about it now.

[indeedproceed]

I guess I just don't get being offended about it weeks afterword. It happened and it is over with. Just like the Heat winning. Nothing can be changed about it now.

True. There is nothing to be done about it now.

[tgreanier]

Here is the thing. I am convinced the Heat got help during the playoffs, especially against Indiana and Boston. This is not "poor loser" syndrome (some of you may recall I picked Miami to beat Boston in 5 games).

But the finals ending in 5 games makes NO sense for the NBA...assuming they are actively controlling series for their benefit. I 100% expected this series to go 7 games, with the first 6 games engineered to end up 3-3 and then game 7 would be just a game, no interference.

Why would the NBA not ensure the Finals go 7 games when it had such massive ratings? The fact it didn't really lets the air out of the theory that the NBA is messing with the flow of the game intentionally, for profit.

I am so confused.

Is it next season yet?