grishnak boss wrote:WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE BEST PF OUT THERE!!!
No further action taken against Pietrus
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By Marc Stein
ESPN.com
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- The NBA on Friday quickly completed its review of Mickael Pietrus' two-handed shove into Pau Gasol's back in the final seconds of Game 4 of the NBA Finals and ruled that no further action will be taken against the Orlando Magic swingman.
A next-day video review of the play was automatic because Pietrus' shove was deemed a flagrant foul, with league rules mandating that all flagrants are subject to review for possible fine, suspension or reclassification.
Although it was initially believed that the Frenchman was at risk for nothing worse than a fine, Pietrus' foul -- the first flagrant foul of the NBA Finals -- could have resulted in a suspension for Sunday's Game 5 in the worst-case scenario.
I'm stunned. If this were anything but the Finals it'd be a one gamer.
YEAH IT WAS A FLAGRANT. HE SHOULD BE SUSPENDED....THERE GOES THE STERN FAVORS LAKERS THEORY
grishnak boss wrote:
YEAH IT WAS A FLAGRANT. HE SHOULD BE SUSPENDED....THERE GOES THE STERN FAVORS LAKERS THEORY
Stern favors milking the Finals for as much as he can get. I expect most of the calls to be in the MAGIX favor tomorrow night.
Hopefully we can pull it off with the refs help, but who knows....it didn't work so well for the LeBrons , did it?
Greazy, thanks for the pics, I do enjoy 'em. I just fuckin' love good hard nosed ball and that's what the Magic always deliver. I can just look at b ball pics all day. It's cool. The right team from the East is representin'. They're fantastic. I know they'll go down this year but that doesn't mean they're weak, they just have to keep it up. Nobody's gonna wanna play these motherfuckers next year. Shit, I can't wait!
So, the Magic jumps on the Lakers in Sunday night's first quarter, scoring 15 of the game's first 21 points en route to.......
AN L.A. LAKERS CHAMPIONSHIP!!!
THAT'S RIGHT QUEERS!!!
WHERE'S LEBRONZE?!?!? LICKING HIS WOUNDS TO THE BRONZE MEDAL HE HAS BACK AT HOME! WHERE'S SUPERMAN?!?! ENJOYING THE KobeRYPTONITE!!!
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
----------- L.A. LAKERS NBA 2009 NBA CHAMPIONS
The Lakers handled the Magic to become the first team since Detroit in 1989 to win the championship the season after losing in the Finals.
The Lakers trailed halfway through the second quarter, 40-36, but took off on a 16-0 run that seemed to stun the Magic. Trevor Ariza had seven points during the run, and Fisher had five as the Magic went 4 minutes 25 seconds without scoring a point.
Orlando made a brief run early in the third quarter, cutting a 10-point deficit to five, but Odom answered with three-pointers on consecutive possessions and the Magic never threatened again. Odom had 17 points and 10 rebounds. Gasol had 14 points and 15 rebounds.
The victory marked the culmination of a twisting, turning postseason. The Lakers looked uninspired in getting past Utah in the first round before being taken to the maximum seven games by an undermanned Houston team.
But they won the Western Conference by breaking a 2-2 series tie against Denver with two impressive efforts.
Then came the Finals, and the restoration of the Lakers as a championship franchise.
BASH IN THE GLORY OF THE LAKERS, ASSHOLES, BECAUSE THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF A NEW DYNASTY!!!
As much as I hate to do it because I hate that fucking team almost as much as I hate the Yankees, congrats to the Lakers and kudos to Kobe. He played out of his mind.
Lopes wrote:No Kevin Garnett for the Celtics means Lakers are only interim champs.
Keep dreaming.
Celtics n' cavs both dismantled by the lakers during the regular season - the outcome would have been the same.
From an article:
As much as the Lakers are truly despised, they just completed a fantastic playoff run, and controlled the Finals in dominant fashion. It’s not that the Lakers deserve special treatment, that they alone should be the ones to benefit from the “Day After Rule.” Hardly. The day after the Finals, we, as a collective (I’m not even sure who all that encompasses) should try our best to appreciate the winners for what they were able to accomplish this year.
In the context of league history and individual histories, the Lakers accomplished a lot last night. But to boil down that championship run as Kobe’s first without Shaq, or another paperweight for Phil, or the emergence of Pau Gasol as whatever you didn’t think he was before…just seems wrong. Focusing on individual storylines and details can be a fantastic enterprise, but in this case I truly think it disservices the bigger picture: the Lakers kicked ass in these playoffs. They forgot who they were for a minute against the Rockets, but on the whole we’ve seen some terrific basketball from L.A.. Good enough, in fact, that today I don’t care to think about Phil vs. Red, or what this means for Kobe in the grand scheme of things. We’ve got a long summer ahead of us, and there will be plenty of time for that. What I want today is a proper acknowledgement that the Lakers weren’t just a really, really good team, but one that happened to trump the Magic with superior will.
The Finals weren’t a case of divine right trumping hard work. The Lakers definitely have the world’s largest silver spoon in their collective mouths (try wrapping your head around that), but the Finals were not an exercise in complacency. The triangle dismantled one of the best offenses in the league, and though having a Kobe or a Pau around doesn’t hurt things, the team executed from top to bottom. Trevor Ariza thoroughly embarrassed the Magic for their poor decision-making both on the defensive end, and in trading him to the Lakers. Luke Walton gave quality minutes to the cause, exploiting mismatches in the post and working the ball around. Lamar Odom did what he was designed to do when he was Frankensteined in a lab all those years ago. Derek Fisher, who is probably too slow to still be a starting point guard, showed that at least he’s not Rafer Alston. Business was taken care of.
These are your 2008-2009 NBA champs, and they were brilliant. How else do you describe Kobe’s performances? The ball movement? The Staples Center crowd?
…Okay, maybe not that last one.
Look, nobody is crazy about the idea of the Lakers winning it all. But that doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate, in typical playoff fashion, the last thing that we saw. We saw a better team execute at an incredible level against an elite defense, we saw the elevation of games on a personal and team-wide level, and we saw the Lakers perform in a manner all series long that should remove any doubts to their worthiness. The Lakers accomplished a singularly great thing last night: a pretty damn good team playing to its potential. As such, we should appreciate their accomplishment with blinders on. Phil’s tenth, Kobe’s first P.S., that all can wait. This is a day for the Lakers as a team/organization and Los Angeles as a city, as it’d be a pity for this singular success to be overlooked.
Out Of The Cellar wrote:I'm rootin' for the Magics, but I don't see them winning the trophy with that Van Gundy dude.
Stan the man is the #1 reason they got as far as they did. And he'll get fucked over again by a whiny ass team that want's to be treated like divas more than they want to win.
GrayAntiMatter wrote:Great win by the Lakers and the dominate performance by Kobe puts an end to any of the silly criticism he has endured in recent years.
Apparently you don't sell Amway. What a fucking faggot ass stadium. Any good goddamn arena that was built on a rip off pyramid scheme and suck cat piss.
STAPLES CENTER, THE MARK OF EXCELLENCE ON EVERYTHING CONCERNING SPORTS, WILL ALSO BE THE LAST PLACE WHERE MILLIONS OF DRONING FANS WILL SAY THEIR LAST GOODBYE TO MICHAEL JACKSON.
I'M STARTING A PETITION SO THAT THEY ALSO INCLUDE A MOVIE OF THE LAKERS 2009 CHAMPIONSHIP RUN, RIGHT BEFORE THEY BRING IN THE CASKET!!!