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Lakers baby! 😍

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Bigger and more physical than the Warriors, the Lakers lead the NBA in free throw attempts. The Warriors are last. The differential gave the Lakers a chance to amass easy points, slowed down the Warriors and has proven to be a significant factor.

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May 7·edited May 7

NBACentral

@TheNBACentral

Doc Rivers is angry about Jayson Tatum’s push off 😳

https://twitter.com/TheNBACentral/status/1655343232388153345

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@957thegame

“We didn’t lose the game because of the officials so there’s no point in whining about anything. There were definitely calls we didn’t like but every game every coach can say that. This is not about anything other than our performance.” - Steve Kerr

https://twitter.com/957thegame/status/1655342397981851648

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Harden to the rescue! 76ers beat the Celtics 116-115 in overtime. Series tied 2-2.

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76ers-Celtics game heading to overtime

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76ers up 92-83 after 3 quarters.

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Speaking of playing minutes, I've looked at the Nuggets-Suns series and the rotations both teams use. Nuggets have been playing strictly with an 8-man rotation. Their starters play heavy minutes with Brown as their 6th man and Jeff Green and Braun getting some minutes. Suns, however, have been inconsistent with their rotation and minutes distribution, except for CP3 (before the injury), Booker, Durant, and Ayton. Here's how many minutes the rest of the Suns players have played in the 2nd round of the series so far:

Lee: 12 minutes (game 1), 26 (game 2), 0 (game 3)

Okogie: 19, 22, 10

Craig: 24, 10, 3

Payne: 5, 17, 30 (started due to CP3 injury)

Warren: 0, 0, 26

Shamet: 14, 0, 25

Ross: 5, 0, 14

Landale: 10, 5, 22

Biyombo: 6, 10, 0

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76ers up 59-50 at halftime

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May 7·edited May 7

It’s pretty sad that the NBAs finals advertisement is based off of the Lakers and Celtics being tied in chips.

Also if this end up being a “last dance” situation someone is gonna make a lot of money telling the locker room and front office drama from this season

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Poole/Donte/Kuminga/Green/Moody/Wiseman all are apparently frustrated about their role/minutes on this team. Whatever your thoughts on whether their gripes are legitimate, its an unmitigated failure on our coaching staff/player leadership that there is such a divide in our squad. We’ve got absolutely zero chemistry on this team lmao.

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May 7·edited May 7

LeBron with another hop travel on his spin move. You’re simply not allowed to gather the ball (end the dribble with both hands on it) with a foot on the floor and then hop on that same foot. The fans behind the bench clearly follow this account

https://twitter.com/bballbreakdown/status/1655023851183685633

And if you look at the comments section, you can see a bunch of people defending Lebron and people thinking that Coach Nick is a Warriors fan.

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Game 3 reminded me of game 1.

- Klay starting off hot then being trash

- Players continuously trying to score on AD in the paint

- The fouls of course

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Then you start jmg again in the third and next thing you know we down 16, just complete insanity, give curry the fucking ball

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Lakers 30-8 run in the second quarter, yea you guessed it

CURRY HAD THE BALL ABOUT 2-3 TIMES THAT ENTIRE STRETCH

One pnr resulted in a looney turnover, the other was a steph layup.

It was a bunch of poole n klay bullshit, quick shots n bullshit by DDV, some wiggins jumpers. But none of the shit that won us game 2, which was heavy curry PnR. FOH

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May 7Liked by Duby Dub Dubs

I was at a lovely forest wedding deep in the woods in Aptos last night and as such had no reception or any other way to follow the game. Bummer today to see that the refs took over the game and the Warriors came unraveled as a result.

Noone said repeating was going to be easy. Dubs in 6.

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What happened to “no call” on drives to the basket. How can the refs be sure it was either a block or a charge when it’s not obvious to anyone else? I guess the best answer is that the refs can go F themselves.

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