Jason Williams just won an NBA title. The NBA is dead.

Kapono has a ring! boom bitch!

"...how could this happen to meee"

that missed foul on the jersey tug is equally as egarious as the wade foul on dirk that somehow got called on dirk. and i hate the NBA and couldn't care who won. i just tuned in for the last 2 minutes since i saw it was a close game, figured it'd be interesting. interesting is one way to describe those calls. all i can think of this is karmic payback for the city of dallas after hull's skate in the crease vs. buffalo.

The finals ruined a absolutely fantastic playoffs. I would say that I'm swearing off the NBA forever, but that would be a lie. I certainly feel like I should. But I won't, I'm spineless.

It's safe to say that I won't care about the NBA for about a good five years after all this nonsense. A common theme seems to be that people don't care about either team, me included. So when I check it out and get riled about some referee injustice in the interest of creating a new non-Teutonic superstar, this is supposed to make me *want* to watch?

The real tragedy here is, of course, that Stephen A. Smith was 100% accurate in his choice of victor and how many games it would go. Today is truly a horrid day. "Click" last night and the Mavs lose tonight...I hate myself and I want to die.

dwyane wade clearly has the goods. but the obviously biased calls that even jordan never got just turns me off. i'll do what i've been doing for the past ten years or so: tune in for the finals, see the godawful officiating, conclude i'm not missing anything, and await the NFL and NHL seasons.

Someone take the shoelaces from David Hasselhoff tonight.

Figured I'd follow up my one period of hockey from last night with one half of NBA basketball tonight. (This just in: Cubs still suckin.) Get me an Elsinore, cuz the NBA is still unwatchable. THESE are the best two teams? Bleh. Loved it when Payton missed a pass because he was too busy whining at the ref. What a joke.

"They" say a series doesn't really start until the home team wins a game. Does that mean the NBA finals just started? Seriously, congrats Shaq, Dwyane, and fuck you Pat Riley. (Yeah it's a re-post. Eat my Knicks-loving anus.

So what do you think life is like in the Van Gundy household tonight? I see him sitting there in his wife beater and tighty whities and throwing his bowl of Chunky Monkey at the TV and crying himself to sleep. What say you?

egarious?

nowitski's 5th foul was absolute BS i am a fan of both teams and was psyched when they both made the championship, but the foul and ensuing 2 free throws were undeserved

This is painful...posting from Dallas...but what a great series. I'm sick that the Mavs lost (and for the way they lost -- seriously, 4 straight?) but this was good basketball, and it even took my mind off of the World Cup for a little bit. Glad you noticed Cuban being something less than a total dick, Will. He's not as class-less as he sometimes seems. Anyone want to buy Game 7 tickets? I'll sell a pair for cheap...

This is the franchise that started 0-17. I only hope they send a ring to Grant Long.

If Grant Long gets one, then what about my man Willie Burton? To say nothing of Rony Seikaly...

Dwayne Wade should play on the Italian World Cup team. He'd draw red cards on half the Czechs.

Who wants to sex Alonzo?

blogmaverick is down lol.

What are the odds that Michael Doleac pulls a Madsen and dances at the post-game parade?

I couldn't stop thinking of what Kobe Bryant was thinking. Maybe he should have just well not been Kobe Bryant....

egarious, you know, like amphibious.

It never fails to amuse me how so many people who "hate" the NBA still stay up late to watch (and then run immediately to their computers to describe how awful it was, of course). I don't love Dallas or Miami, so the finals were a little anticlimactic, but still: best playoffs ever.

I am absolutely thrilled by the win. I picked Heat in 6 and I am delighted that my not-so-secret wish for Riles to win sans Magic and Shaq to win sans Kobe came to fruition. D Wade came into his own in a big way on a national stage -- or as national a stage as the NBA playoffs can command. And, Zo finally got a ring. It's been a great year for Florida hoops.

I love the Mavs and was at the game and still have my day glo pom poms, so I know the mood in there after it was over. Great game and great play by D-Wade won it for the Heat, but the Mavs and their style of play is the future.

Best playoffs since Jordan turned in his Jordans (the second time), but we can expect much of the same in coming years. Baseball will be trying to figure out what to do with asterisks and HGH and bat-tossing super prospects, football will learn of the pitfalls of deporting the entire league to Canada, while LeBron and D-Wade will be dueling in the Eastern Conference Finals for the next 10 years. When David Stern's biggest problem is an owner getting too much publicity, he's doing just fine. Everybody in the bar, raise your Zimas high in the air for the return of basketball!

Winner of this series moves on to play Puerto Rico, right?

"...it's difficult not to be happy for the Miami Heat..." I must disagree. Pat Riley, rot in hell. The Knicks are coming for you--someday, somewhere, possibly in an alternate universe--but they're coming, and they will have their revenge.

Tug of the jersey around midnight. The NBA. It's fann-tastic. I tolerate this game.

Twenty+ seconds left, and Dirk is going to try and pass off to Erick Dampier?! I feel bad for Cuban, the Hoff, and any exercise bikes that Dirk shoved in the tunnel.

horrible. i hate officials. first the super bowl. then the italy match. now this. dirk's... what... push of? on wade? yeah.. perfect. has there ever been as bad a 5 month run for professional officials in America as we've just witnessed. c'mon. as Bill Walton would say, "That's HoRRRRRRRRRible!"

This is the greatest day of my life!!!!! I'm off to party on South Beach and find a couple of Brazilian chicks to hook up with. Like my boy Dwyane Wade, I'm feeling invincible!! HOOOOOO WAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At least Salvadore wasn't there, or else the Mavs would've had to play with four guys as if they were in World Cup.

Just remember Shaq, no matter how many titles you win- you still made Kazaam.

Wade is a superstar, no doubt. And the Mavs lost four in a row to a team they had routinely beaten in the regular season and playoffs, and that can't all be blamed on outside forces. STILL, as others here have said, that foul on Dirk with (I think) 24 seconds left was the worst call I've seen in years, and that's saying something in this league. Wade must have reached out a good two feet in order to throw his arm into Dirk's stomach, and Dirk gets called. Utterly, insanely ridiculous. I was on the fence about all the griping about refs until that moment. After all, Wade was very active in Game 5 -- unlike, say, Dirk -- and that was a big part of why he got to the line so much. But that call tonight in crunch time. Good god.

Dude: They were Brazilian, but they weren't chicks. Karma is a fast moving bitch, or in this case, a fast moving lady-boy.

CliffX--"Tug of the jersey around midnight. The NBA. It's fann-tastic. I tolerate this game." thank you for that.

Antoine Walker held the O'Brien Trophy ... the Apocalypse is upon us. For does it not say: Lo, in those Dark Days did men with shiny whistles decide unto all the outcome of contests and then also did those who did the dirty on their friends rise to great acclaim.?? And is it not also written In the ending of days shall the Great Fat Shimmying Beast rise up and blight the eyes of the world with his great fat shimmying?? No? Oh.

so...can shaq, zo, and payton retire now?

Gong Show, Dirk. Gong Show.

whatever. the whining and bad reffing are always bitched about, but you do it to during your lame pickup games. it was a great series between two great teams. Shaq can finally retire to his life of busting internet-child-pornography rings and we can all watch Dirk go up against Lebron next finals! "Cavs v. Mavs" just think of the headlines baby!

News reports out of Miami indicate that the victory parade will start by going through Erick Dampier's fingers.

That foul by Dirk on Wade was legit, whiners. Dirk's stomach clearly pushed Wade right in the fist.

I am gutted. Absolutely gutted. I have been a Mavs fan since the mid-80's when my grandparents brought me a Mavs t-shirt back from Florida (don't ask - I still don't understand why Goofy would not have sufficed for a pre-teen, especially one who wasn't into basketball at the time). It has been easy for me to continue to cheer for them, given that I live in the basketball hotbed of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. So, I was never close enough to Dallas for their years of futility to really bum me out, and I wasn't overly prone to the fawning over the Lakers and Bulls in the late-80s, early-90s. But I am gutted now. We got JOBBED in Game 5. JOBBED. We win there, it's a whole different story in Game 6. And last night's game ... well, so much for the ref's giving all the calls to the hom eteam. RE: Dirk's 5th - how is it possible for the attacking player to give the defender a forearm to the chest, and the defender gets called for the foul? Explain this please? But at this point? I am just too ... I don't even know. I don't have the energy to be angry. I don't have the energy to call "bullshit" one mroe time. Gutted. I am gutted.

apostle, just woke up. just checked. it is a woman indeed, my friend. a pretty hot one at that.

I'm just incredibly sad that Alonzo Mourning got a championship.

Although I thought the officiating in Game 5 was heinous, I didn't think Game 6 was "that" bad. Yes the foul by Dirk was total BS, but by the position he was in (may have been b/c of the forearm shiver) I would have put 90% odds on D Wayde making the shot anyway - fastforward he misses his next 2 foul shots anyway. Next chapter, if the jersey tug had been called Terry would have shot 2 - he wasn't in the act of shooting during that foul.

Then you truly are the dude, my man. And the Dude abides. Congratulations on all fronts.

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hear hear viceroy. It makes me sick that Mourning gets a ring.

Spine-- if i remember correctly, in pickup games you call your own fouls. plus you take the ball up top instead of shooting FT's. So you lose the "hack a shaq" send him to the line, but you also lose the 8 kajillion Wade FT's. And in a pick up game, some of those fouls...if Wade called them himself, man... i don't know if you've ever played someplace like Venice Beach, but if you called what Wade got, dudes would argue for hours, kick the ball, and you would never actually finish a game. No... it wasn't the same as a pickup game. It takes officials to really F$&# up a sporting event.

I'm impressed that Cuban didn't cry or throw a temper tantrum, but I'm not so clear as to why folks think so well of him. OTOH, I didn't much care who won.

thanks, apostle. seriously though ... I DID check. You really freaked me out there for a second. REALLY freaked me out ...

The Dirk foul was awful, but the refs gave the Mavs that awful loose ball nonexistent make-up foul within like 10 seconds. (The refs also called a Dirk foul or two on teammates to keep him in the game in the 4th.) Make-up fouls = shut up with the whining.

Holy Christ, I'm tired of hearing people put 100% of the focus in big games on the officials. Refs have always missed calls, refs have always favored superstars, and people have always made mistakes; why now do we have to turn every fucking important game into an excuse to excoriate the refs and to whine like 5 year olds who dropped their chipwiches in the dirt? Mavericks fans embarrassed themselves last night, booing every call, even the legit ones, whining because their doofus owner told them to, apparently throwing stuff on the floor, nd generally sounding as if they knew nothing about the game.

Oh, another thing: I hope Mavs fans realize that this victim act embraced by Cuban and Avery played a major role in their team's collapse. Even though Dallas was a much better team, they learned to make excuses and lose their cool. When they made mistakes, they found scapegoats rather than accepting responsibility. As soon as you pull that kind of high school mentality crap and refuse to acknowledge flaws in your game, you lose.

basketball is over!! sweet!!

dammit. i knew i should have used dictionary.com once google suggested 'egarious'. teach me to trust the net's spelling as a whole.

Right on, TMC. Cuban must be buddies with Mike Holmgren. Good teams don't put themselves in the position of letting the refs decide games. I don't know what's more pathetic...the Mavs whining about the calls, or Knicks fans swearing revenge on Riley. Let it go, just let it go.

The Dude: welcome to the club. Just don't let her stay a week. Trust me on this one.

TMC, you are partially right but in truth the victim card gets played every single year in the NBA playoffs, often by the team that goes on to win. it's gamesmanship as much as anything else. see jackson, phil.

i can't wait til next year. suns/cavs should be fun

Ha ha ... I did think about you, CC. But unfortunately, she was NOT Brazilian. She was Dominican .. which ain't all that bad either.

By the way, when I say I thought about you, I meant BEFORE I left my house to go party & celebrate. That's the ONLY time I thought about you the whole night, CC. I swear. Just wanted to clear that up.