2018 NBA playoffs running thread

Research, including my own fucking story, indicates you are correct.

 

I hope Marv and Webber just wanted to ignore the stupidity of Stephenson making a game-changing play and subsequently fucking himself and his team out of said play because it's more important for him to be a character.

 

It was odd because it was pretty clear Stephenson got the jump ball call then grabbed and pulled Green to the floor. It wasn't like watching a replay a few times
to see who last touched a ball before it went out of bounds. But for whatever reason they watched it two or three times and then finally saw or realized Stephenson
pulled Green to the floor after the jump ball already was called.

 

Hard-hitting journalism from Darren Rovell on the chips and salsa beat.

Freak out: Giannis leaves eatery after waiting

A day full of hard-hitting news all around, really.

 

Rovell didn't calculate how much Giannis makes in 10 minutes?

 

I guess they had already called the foul after the jump ball (which I believe overrides the jump ball) and were looking for "hostile acts" that would have warranted a technical. Not sure about any of that though.

I love the narrative today about if Stephenson "has gotten into the Cavs' head", which clearly he hasn't since they can bank on him doing something incredibly stupid at the worst possible time. My question is if Nate McMillan will even play the doofus in late-game situations any more. He made a timely, clutch defensive play but decided at that second it was most important to "send a message" than try to win a game and possibly get a commanding lead in a series against a guy that's been to seven NBA finals in a row.

Some guys will toil in the league because they can play a little but at the end of the day you know you can't win anything significant with them because they don't care. The fact that Golden State won a title with Matt Barnes on their bench goes against this theory but I'm reminded that he played about eight total minutes in the Finals.

 

Former 49ers receiver, forever lackey (often spotted clapping during press conferences), gets comeuppance after being caught stealing the jacket of Steph Curry's bodyguard.

ABC7 sports anchor Mike Shumann was pulled from Game 4 after...

 

I was just about to post this. What a weird story. Shumann really thought it was cool to steal a jacket from someone that works for the team and the players wouldn't give a shit?

 

First Art Spander, now Shu. What is is with the Bay area media?

 

The explanation I saw was that one official called jump ball and the other called a foul, and in those cases the foul wins out. The replays were strictly to determine the hostile act, because it was already a foul.

 

Ahh. have to watch it again, but it looked like Stephenson had a clean jump ball before he acted like a jackass and went for the takedown.

 

Utah up 3-1. What a bum Carmelo is. Once a fraud, always a fraud.

Donovan Mitchell looks like one of the top five players in the league right now.