Collection of Thoughts After 2013 NBA Finals

[fairweatherfan]

It's so great that we get to cheer for loaded Celtics teams and Miami is left cheering for one-trick ponies, punks and doofuses [sic].

Not sure why the [sic] is there ... I spelled doofuses correctly.

I believe the plural is doofi.

[CelticConcourse]

Thoughts: Miami is terrible! 

[CeltsPride]

It's so great that we get to cheer for loaded Celtics teams and Miami is left cheering for one-trick ponies, punks and doofuses [sic].

Not sure why the [sic] is there ... I spelled doofuses correctly.

I believe the plural is doofi.

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[LarBrd33]

Further, I would argue that Oscar's achievement is even more impressive in idea than on paper--Simmons uses the correlation that you'd expect a Dwayne Wade to average a triple double if he was being guarded by a bunch of Goran Dragics as a negative, like it doesn't hold up to the league now.

My take on it is that it would be even more impressive to see someone like a Dwayne Wade playing in the league at that time, not only because it is absolutely incredible to watch someone so far ahead of everyone else within the confines of any sport, regardless of era, but especially when he was dealing with the incredible adversity of America in the 60's and 70's. It takes a real badass to go out and dominate while being hailed on by pennies and disallowed from eating with white teammates. He could've very easily hung it up (without being able to fall back on today's comfortable athlete's salary) and said "it's not worth it, I quit."

He didn't do that. Oscar Robertson is more important to basketball than LeBron James, and as such deserves, and will always deserve, a higher place on the NBA pantheon.

Yeah man I hear you.  It's a moot point.  LeBron isn't retiring yet... he's 28 years old.  When he does, he might be considered the greatest player to ever play the game.  We'll see what happens. We are watching a legendary player in his prime.  It's very exciting.

And still, if the spurs get a rebound or Ray Allen missed a jump shot people would remember Lebron differently...as amazing as you praise him for being the spurs were right there and let it slip away.

And still, if LeBron had a little extra help in 08 or Paul Pierce didn't have the greatest game of his life, people would remember KG and Paul as complete failures ... since they wouldn't have won game 7 vs Cleveland by a mere 5 points.  Slippery slope.

[rocknrollforyoursoul]

It's so great that we get to cheer for loaded Celtics teams and Miami is left cheering for one-trick ponies, punks and doofuses [sic].

Not sure why the [sic] is there ... I spelled doofuses correctly.

I believe the plural is doofi.

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Not according to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, though I'd be happy to admit I'm wrong if it's been changed since then (though I imagine that, even if "doofi" is now acceptable, "doofuses" would continue to be an acceptable plural form).