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by jonne99 » Thu Jun 17, 2010 1:13 pm
by peeker643 » Thu Jun 17, 2010 1:30 pm
by diminishingskills » Thu Jun 17, 2010 1:36 pm
by Believeland » Thu Jun 17, 2010 3:00 pm
by Hikohadon » Thu Jun 17, 2010 3:38 pm
by Orenthal » Thu Jun 17, 2010 3:46 pm
by Cerebral_DownTime » Thu Jun 17, 2010 3:58 pm
Orenthal wrote:Agree Hiko. Think Kobe pulls that Game 5 act? Jordan? Thomas? Bird? Allen Iverson didn't quit against the Lakers when there was no freaking chance in hell his team would win that series...
by aoxo1 » Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:48 pm
by rebelwithoutaclue » Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:02 pm
Orenthal wrote:Agree Hiko. Think Kobe pulls that Game 5 act? Jordan? Thomas? Bird? Allen Iverson didn't quit against the Lakers when there was no freaking chance in hell his team would win that series...
by waborat » Thu Jun 17, 2010 7:42 pm
Believeland wrote:
1) Delonte / Gloria: Professional colleague called me up back on 5/21. I've known him for awhile and he has always come across as a 100% straight shooter and he knows how big of a Cleveland sports fan I am. He said that a close associate of Mike Brown, and also a friend of his, told him two things. a) Delonte was 100% sleeping with Gloria b) LeBron will not be coming back to Cleveland because the day before game 5 he found out about the Delonte / Gloria situation and also found out that the entire Cavs organization knew about the whole time and never told him. I believe this to be true.
by jerryroche » Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:41 pm
by papacass » Fri Jun 18, 2010 10:22 am
by papacass » Fri Jun 18, 2010 10:30 am
waborat wrote:Believeland wrote:
1) Delonte / Gloria: Professional colleague called me up back on 5/21. I've known him for awhile and he has always come across as a 100% straight shooter and he knows how big of a Cleveland sports fan I am. He said that a close associate of Mike Brown, and also a friend of his, told him two things. a) Delonte was 100% sleeping with Gloria b) LeBron will not be coming back to Cleveland because the day before game 5 he found out about the Delonte / Gloria situation and also found out that the entire Cavs organization knew about the whole time and never told him. I believe this to be true.
Did he leave ya with only this part of the story or did he include the preface that goes along with it?
by diminishingskills » Fri Jun 18, 2010 10:42 am
papacass wrote:Of course, if LBJ announces his intention to sign with the Bulls or Knicks over the Labor Day weekend, after a two-month tour of free agent suitors and enough publicity for even the biggest attention whore, I'll reserve the right to retract my statement.
by googleeph2 » Fri Jun 18, 2010 12:30 pm
by Fire Marshall Bill » Fri Jun 18, 2010 1:04 pm
rebelwithoutaclue wrote:Orenthal wrote:Agree Hiko. Think Kobe pulls that Game 5 act? Jordan? Thomas? Bird? Allen Iverson didn't quit against the Lakers when there was no freaking chance in hell his team would win that series...
Jordan, Thomas, Bird, no; Kobe, yes. Just look at Game 6 of the 2008 Finals; a 39-point drubbing. Also Game 5 against the Suns in 2006 when he blatantly refused to shoot for the entire 2nd half and they lost by 19.
by jb » Fri Jun 18, 2010 1:17 pm
by jb » Fri Jun 18, 2010 1:19 pm
rebelwithoutaclue wrote:Orenthal wrote:Agree Hiko. Think Kobe pulls that Game 5 act? Jordan? Thomas? Bird? Allen Iverson didn't quit against the Lakers when there was no freaking chance in hell his team would win that series...
Jordan, Thomas, Bird, no; Kobe, yes. Just look at Game 6 of the 2008 Finals; a 39-point drubbing. Also Game 5 against the Suns in 2006 when he blatantly refused to shoot for the entire 2nd half and they lost by 19.
by jb » Fri Jun 18, 2010 1:23 pm
peeker643 wrote:Well,he played Game 2 like he played Game 5 and in between he put on that display in Game 3. Hard to buy the injury (though part of me still feels that was a some part of it) as the whole story.
I think it was a culmination of all things in reality. Maybe being banged up but mostly being shocked/disappointed/angry with Brown and some guys around him. The body language, the shaking his head when passing Brown on the sidelines, everything just seemed to indicate he was resigned to the fact they weren't winning Game 5 or the series.
Also, the fact he may have been hurt doesn't mean he still didn't quit. It can be some of both too.
by Spin » Fri Jun 18, 2010 2:02 pm
jb wrote:No names please.
I had a friend in college who played for one of the more storied coaches in Ohio high school history at one of the high profile AAA programs in the 70's and 80's. His senior year they had a dynamite team and made it to the state finals. Morning of the finals, some of the guys were doing what cats did in that day. Think "Dazed and Confused". Their stud player decides to partake .... for the first time. And he looked alot like Bron in game 5.
So that's my theory. Bron was stoned.
by jb » Fri Jun 18, 2010 2:04 pm
Spin wrote:Hydrocodone for example, part of several popular pain killers, causes drowsiness, dysphoria, confusion, weakness, mood changes, sedation, among other things.
by peeker643 » Fri Jun 18, 2010 2:10 pm
jb wrote:Spin wrote:Hydrocodone for example, part of several popular pain killers, causes drowsiness, dysphoria, confusion, weakness, mood changes, sedation, among other things.
That happened to me during game 6 !
by Ziner » Fri Jun 18, 2010 2:16 pm
jb wrote:peeker643 wrote:Well,he played Game 2 like he played Game 5 and in between he put on that display in Game 3. Hard to buy the injury (though part of me still feels that was a some part of it) as the whole story.
I think it was a culmination of all things in reality. Maybe being banged up but mostly being shocked/disappointed/angry with Brown and some guys around him. The body language, the shaking his head when passing Brown on the sidelines, everything just seemed to indicate he was resigned to the fact they weren't winning Game 5 or the series.
Also, the fact he may have been hurt doesn't mean he still didn't quit. It can be some of both too.
There was some unofficial word I hear that he took the needle for game 3 and you could only take the _______________ (prednizone? cortezone?) with a few days in between, and the number of days didn't exist for game 5 and the treatment wore off.
Just what I'd heard. still baffled and we may never know.
by Cerebral_DownTime » Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:16 pm
jb wrote:Spin wrote:Hydrocodone for example, part of several popular pain killers, causes drowsiness, dysphoria, confusion, weakness, mood changes, sedation, among other things.
That happened to me during game 6 !
by Frank Duffy » Sat Jun 19, 2010 2:39 am
by OldDawg » Sat Jun 19, 2010 2:48 am

by Spin » Sat Jun 19, 2010 6:53 am
by googleeph2 » Sat Jun 19, 2010 10:08 am
by OffBase » Sat Jun 19, 2010 10:39 am
OldDawg wrote:So in order, who is LeBron most pissed at?
#1
a) Mike Brown
b) TMLP / Dan Ferry
c) Redz
d) The whole organization for not telling him
e) Gloria
by papacass » Sat Jun 19, 2010 12:05 pm
OffBase wrote:OldDawg wrote:So in order, who is LeBron most pissed at?
#1
a) Mike Brown
b) TMLP / Dan Ferry
c) Redz
d) The whole organization for not telling him
e) Gloria
My fear is that the answer to 1 is (d). The organization probably figured that they should cover up the incident and not let LeBron find out until after the playoffs were over. Win the championship first, and deal with it later, but the plan backfired.
by OffBase » Sat Jun 19, 2010 2:24 pm
papacass wrote:OffBase wrote:OldDawg wrote:So in order, who is LeBron most pissed at?
#1
a) Mike Brown
b) TMLP / Dan Ferry
c) Redz
d) The whole organization for not telling him
e) Gloria
My fear is that the answer to 1 is (d). The organization probably figured that they should cover up the incident and not let LeBron find out until after the playoffs were over. Win the championship first, and deal with it later, but the plan backfired.
We're all starting to look for neatly-packaged reasons to justify why LBJ would want to leave, so that we can do our best to not be shocked/appalled/hurt if and when he does sign elsewhere. We can just say "Bron's teammate was banging his mom, and it's obvious the whole organization knew about it and tried to hide it from him. I probably wouldn't want to come back either."
That's a conveinent way of tainting the whole organization, so that no matter who is shown the door this offseason -- Roker is gone, Ferry is gone, Delonte will likely be dealt -- Bron is still furious with anyone who remains, all the way up to Gilbert, and the betrayal theory still works.
In reality, if LBJ goes elsewhere, it likely has less to do with anything that happened in Cleveland and far more to do with him believing that the grass is greener elsewhere and that it makes better business sense to go to a bigger market.
Everyone realizes that if LBJ does switch teams, it will probably be a business decision first and a basketball decision second? I think it was JB who said that basketball is a means to an end for Bron, not the end result as it is for Kobe or was for MJ. That's right on, and it's why LBJ will likely never win more than one or two rings over the course of his career. If he wins any.
by aoxo1 » Sat Jun 19, 2010 2:32 pm
by Cerebral_DownTime » Sat Jun 19, 2010 4:10 pm
by aoxo1 » Sat Jun 19, 2010 7:08 pm
Cerebral_DownTime wrote:Is there any proof that Redz was banging Gloria, or is all still shit rumor?

by waborat » Sat Jun 19, 2010 7:47 pm
Cerebral_DownTime wrote:Is there any proof that Redz was banging Gloria, or is all still shit rumor?
by Cerebral_DownTime » Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:36 pm
waborat wrote:Cerebral_DownTime wrote:Is there any proof that Redz was banging Gloria, or is all still shit rumor?
If the Trojan don't fit, ya gotta acquit
by waborat » Sat Jun 19, 2010 10:48 pm
Cerebral_DownTime wrote:waborat wrote:Cerebral_DownTime wrote:Is there any proof that Redz was banging Gloria, or is all still shit rumor?
If the Trojan don't fit, ya gotta acquit
You can handle that evidence gathering..... Freak.
BTW Is there any person on Earth that thinks Delonte practices safe sex?
by papacass » Mon Jun 21, 2010 12:04 am
aoxo1 wrote:Don't look at Game 5 in a vacuum, look at it is as the culmination of the previous series and the previous Boston games. Leading up to that game, LeBron had been giving inconsistent effort. Yes, he was himself at times and had a couple games that he destroyed both Chicago and Boston, but there was plenty of griping about him not taking control against Chicago for much of the series, followed by justification that he was saving himself for when the team really needed him.
by rk » Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:46 pm
jonne99 wrote:Just trying to figure out all this "quit talk." (and yes, i watched every cavs playoff game this year and last year and the year before)
what if lebron really was hurt during (or before) the boston series?
by SoulDawg74 » Wed Jun 23, 2010 9:55 am
jb wrote:No names please.
I had a friend in college who played for one of the more storied coaches in Ohio high school history at one of the high profile AAA programs in the 70's and 80's. His senior year they had a dynamite team and made it to the state finals. Morning of the finals, some of the guys were doing what cats did in that day. Think "Dazed and Confused". Their stud player decides to partake .... for the first time. And he looked alot like Bron in game 5.
So that's my theory. Bron was stoned.
by Spin » Wed Jun 23, 2010 1:16 pm
by Spin » Wed Jul 07, 2010 3:15 pm

by waborat » Fri Jul 09, 2010 7:45 pm
jonne99 wrote:Just trying to figure out all this "quit talk."
So far this offseason, none of his teamates have called him out as quitting.
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