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Royal Premonitions
Royal Premonitions By: Keenan Bailey Maybe it was his decision to forgo college, maybe it was the decision to become great or maybe it was “The Decision” itself, regardless, somewhere along the line, Lebron Raymone James of Akron, Ohio was cursed .At the time of the 2010 NBA Playoffs, Lebron “King” James was still leading his hometown Cavaliers throughout what would turn out to be his final days in Cleveland. The second…
The American Dream
It started with a ‘Decision’, was instigated by pictures of burning jerseys and distraught fans. It carried on into the season with creative chants that provoked subjects of sheer hatred and celebrations of losses that went hand in hand with the league-wide scrutiny. It escalated as the playoffs took place and reached it’s peak when the Public Enemy Number One: Miami Heat qualified for the NBA Finals. There were cheers when they lost…
Miami Blaze Way to Finals
By defeating the Bulls last night, the Heat have given the Miami fans a reason to exult and yet have given the frequent splenetic and often abrasive NBA fans and critiques a reason to keep detesting the Big Three…the current Eastern Conference Champions. Beginning on the day he chose to ‘Take His Talents to South Beach’ in early July, Lebron James and the Miami team have been faced with many obstacles and …
Bulls Feeling the Heat
If Bulls forward Carlos Boozer could go back in time and take back the comments he said before the series, I’m sure he would. When asked about stopping Miami, Boozer told reporters that the Heat have two great players, Lebron James and Dwayne Wade. Chris Bosh used his matchup’s words as inspiration, dropping 34 points as he led Miami to a Game 3 victory. For the first time since February 7th and for…
Toro!
It seems that the tall tail that bulls are frightened and startled by the color red is true, because clad in red, the Miami Heat tied the series with a game two victory of Chicago. Just like game one,centers Ilgaskus and Dampier sat the bench wearing blazers rather than shootaround attire. Just like game one, the Heat entering halftime and were neck-and-neck with the top seeded Bulls. In game two;however, the Heat picked…
Heat Ousted in Series Opener
109 Degrees is the hottest Chicago has ever been, a statistic recorded on July 23, 1934. I am confident that the shooting display by Chicago in the late third and fourth quarter could have contended with the previous recorded if represented in Fahrenheit. The Bulls outscored the Heat by more than 34 points in the second half to coast to a Game 1 victory. To make matters worse for the Heat, the Bulls…
On to the Next One
If this Dream Series stuck to the books and was played out as it ‘was supposed to’, the Celtics should have ousted the Heat in a dramatic game 7 buzzerbeater. That would have been the way it was suppose to happen, but it wasn’t the way the series turned out. The Heat didn’t stick the script, they defeated the rival Celtics in 5 games. There was no place on the script on the…
Fire in the Garden
A mentor once said to me, “A series does not start until a team wins a road game” so thanks to the Miami Heat’s overtime win in the Boston TD Garden, this series is officially underway! In the early part of the game, Miami look as irregular as former Heat point-guard Carlos Arroyo looks in a Celtics jersey. Everything the Miami squad does great just wasn’t clicking: Chris Bosh couldn’t hit his trademarked…
Second Degree Burn
Tuesday’s game opened with 18,000 Heat fans singing the National Anthem and ended with 18,000 Heat fans singing sweet songs after taking Game 2. Before Game 2, Kevin Garnett used the word confident in describing his veteran squad heading into game 2. To me; the words desperate, stressed, and lost were more fitting words. The Celtics showed a side that many of us haven’t seen before. The Celtics that the league is…
Too Hot to Handle
If you can’t take the Heat-Get out of the Arena…this was proven figuratively in game one by the Celtics and literally in the fourth quarter a la Paul Pierce. The Boston Celtics came into Game 1 with some things they were highly confident were going to happen, and it turns out that each of these ‘sure things’ were ousted by the Miami Heat. If you can count on one thing when you play…