2012 NBA Finals: Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Miami Heat

[TylerVagyler]

When you are a notorious flopper and you flop in that situation, it is going to be called. The referees are not a joke for that. Tell the floppers to stop flopping.

I don't see why people are complaining about the referees anyway. First of all, this is the NBA. Sorry but if you don't expect some bad calls in the NBA, then you are a fool. I'm not saying it SHOULD happen but it is to be expected - deal with it or just give up on it. Second, did you guys see the Thunder in the fourth quarter? They looked pathetic. They didn't deserve to win.

Finally, King Taharqa, while I agree with you that the James hate is unwarranted. You egging them on and being as cocky as you are in your recent posts as well as unfairly trashing Durant isn't helping the matter. Just giving them a stereotype (fair or not fair, accurate or not accurate) in their mind of what 'Bron fans are.

Unfairly trashing Durant?!?!? How could anyone ever do that!!??!! He is so good!! He never does anything wrong!!! It's not his fault the Thunder lost!!! It's his teammates fault!!!

(Sorry for the sarcasm, I'm not trying to be an a**hole)

My argument is that when Lebron was in Cleveland and the TEAM always fell short, LBJ got all the blame. He became a choke artist. He can't close games. He can't come up in the clutch. But now we see the complete opposite with Durant. When the Thunder lose, no one points to Durant. All the blame is put on his team. For example, in the series against the Spurs, Durant was straight up awful in the 4th quarter of games 1 and 2. But all I heard was talk about how Westbrook is a moron and is blowing the games for them. No mention of KD going silent. Another example of my point, KD hit a 3 in game 2 of this series (didn't even tie the game, just got them within 2 points) and everyone got on their knees for him (even though they still lost the game, people continued to praised him for this unbelievable clutch 3 pointer). Rewind to the ECF, Lebron hits a 3 to tie the game and go into overtime. The Heat went on to lose the game. Afterwards everyone was talking about how they need to break up the big 3 and that the Heat were done.

Do I need to give more examples?

Bottom line, the hate for LBJ and overwhelming love for KD are absolutely annoying. ESPN shows replays of KD hugging his mom every 5 seconds like he is the only player to ever do that (he's such a good guy!!!!!).

I have no hate for KD. I just hate the contradicting favoritism he receives. I think he is the second best player in the league and could one day become the best player. He is only 23 (or 22?) years old. He has plenty of time to develop his defensive game and make a presence on both ends of the court. But as of right now, it's not even close. LBJ is the better player. Hands down. I understand why people hate Lebron (though I think it can be a little ridiculous) but people let that hate create blind ignorance.

[King Taharqa]

I agree with your post 100% Tyler. Whenever the Thunder come up short, people immediately point the finger at Westbrook, and they never challenge KD to get better. We've seen the opposite with LeBron his whole career. He's always had the finger pointed at him when his team came up short. Glad Im not the only one who sees the double standard between the two star players.

[TylerVagyler]

@ESPNStatsInfo

ELIAS: LeBron 25+ points in 13 straight games. That's 1 shy of NBA record LeBron set in 2009 for consecutive 25-point games in 1 postseason

He's really not that good though....

[YoungPanthers89]

The miami intro is awesome

[Ken]

What a game this is!!!! The [ace and intensity is INCREDIBLE!

[Kakarot]

Westbrook is doing his thing out there. Durant gotta step up if they're gonna win this, though.

[God]

russell westbrook MY GOODNESS

[Kevin Greene]

LOL, Russell, you fugged up!

[God]

wow fisher smh

[Kakarot]

Bron bout to get him a triple double.

[God]

lol harden and sefalosha need to consider offing themselves

[God]

Maybe charlotte should offer the #2 for Chalmers.

[God]

lol westbrook fail

[X-Clown]

Great, Westbrook made one boneheaded mistake and now he will get blamed for the loss despite being the only reason they were in the game.