The Cavs should not win. Any team sport where having one guy gives you an automatic pass to the finals every year strikes me as fundamentally broken.

Especially when that team gets destroyed in four games once they reach the final by an actual team.

Marcy, dear girl, DO NOT TALK TO STRANGERS.

The MIT created AI psychopath is also a frequent Slog commenter.

PS - Congratulations and Happy Graduation Nathalie! Make this Summer COUNT!

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@3 well played

Those inflicted suffer from headaches, complain of hearing weird sensations of sound and pressure, and experience sleeplessness.<

Reminds me of sophomore year when there was so much acid on campus that they may as well have put it on the salad bar.

Eskimo

For the cap, that is... And congratulations.

@1,

Egad, dude... You're a huge football fan. If ever there were a fundamentally "broken" sport, I think one that leads to such horrific outcomes for so many of it's players would have to be the runaway leader.

Your point about basketball in it's current state is valid-ish, but also fraught with a number of conditional elements. LBJ is a generational talent, the likes of which we may never see again and his impact on the playoffs these past few years really can't be understated. Though even as great as he is, Boston was playing game 7 of their conference finals against him (er, them, the Cavs) without their two best players, Gordon Hayward and Kyrie Irving, who almost certainly would've been the difference in that series.

Isn't this the same administration that tried to start a trade war with China?

Are we just supposed to believe any noises coming out of the face hole of one of these fuckers?

I wouldn't believe these chumps if they swore they were lying.

We are overwhelmed by corporate propaganda claiming that bad city council management is responsible for a national and local low income housing crisis (feds long stopped financing adequately public housing). Until an alternative message comes through it won't be entirely surprising if anti-tax demagogues win the public opinion battle.

"Things like that make me consider trying to actually follow sports. But, really, who has the time?"

Doing sport is much more important and valuable than following sport, so hopefully you have time for that.

You can’t make crack in a spoon unless it’s a really big glass spoon.

He was just shooting up.

Congratulations on your matriculation. Fine job. Well done.

@11: This mysterious acoustic-based illness has been affecting state department employees in Cuba since the Obama administration. Either there's some nefarious business being done by spies in Cuba and China or the state department has picked out an alarmingly shitty brand of standard-issue cell phone. Regardless, I wouldn't peg the looming trade war with China as the reason for the problem.

"Lime’s new e-scooters are ...really fucking pushy"
Well, simple solution... /if/ Lime doesn't change the message. Kick them over, down some concrete stairs, or under some large trucks. They don't look hard to pick up...
DAGTG...!

@15 - Yeah, I've been tracking the Cuba/new-weapon thing... "permanent brain damage" in some people. Interesting that it's shown up in China now,... kind of "tipping their hand", really. Sloppy ops? Or... they want to force US diplomats out and are bold enough to be up front about it now?!

Part of the "make the US less relevant" plan that everyone is quietly implementing.

Ooh! Congratulations on the graduation!

About the time a scooter said something like that to me it would very quickly find itself under the wheels of a passing semi or at the bottom of the nearest body of water.

@1 -- What a silly comment. First of all, the Cavs played and beat several "real teams" to get to the finals. Indiana, Toronto and Boston are all good teams in what is a more competitive league than just a few years ago. Second, the team has more players than LeBron James. Kevin Love is an all star. He and Tristan Thompson have done an excellent job on the glass, to give Cleveland extra chances to score. J. R. Smith is a solid player, having won the sixth man of the league award. Jeff Green was on the All Rookie team when he played for the Sonics (yes, that Sonics). George Hill, Larry Nance Jr., Kyle Korver -- the team has plenty of talent.

But they aren't as talented as Golden State. The Warriors have four, maybe five future hall of fame players. That team would beat any national team except for the U. S. (and would stand a chance of beating them). Their depth isn't as good as it once was, but they still have Livingston and Iguodala (former NBA Finals MVP) coming off the bench. Assuming the Warriors win out, the story really isn't that the Cavs weren't good enough, or even that the same two teams met for the championship four years in a row (for the first time ever) but that the Warriors are so good. They will be considered by many to be the best team ever assembled. You have three of the best shooters to ever play (in Curry, Thompson and Durant) and an outstanding defense. Unlike Cleveland, most of the players are still relatively young ("in their prime").

Yet the games have largely been close. Far from being "destroyed", Cleveland could easily be up 2-1 right now. The first game went into overtime. In the last game the Cavaliers led most of the way, but lost it the final minutes. In both cases, the game came down to missing open shots, and controversial calls by the refs.

To say that there is something wrong with all of this is just absurd. The game being is played at a very high level, with lots of premier players making great plays on both sides. That is what you want for any sports championship.