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yes, it was an amazing game! the cavs finally showed up. the warriors are so good (at 3's and dunks and everything else) that it took that level of super-human effort by the cavs to win. they had over 80 points by half and 100 halfway through the 3rd quarter. the warriors had an average game (for them), scoring 116 (!).

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To be clear, this is what happens when your commissioner lets one of the league's top 3 superstars join an already 73 win historic team, even after that superstar took the 73 win team to 7 games in the conference finals right before. It's the most "piled on" team in NBA history, not even by a little.

Last year had 2 of the best series I've ever seen in the NBA (the WCF and the finals), this year there's nothing particularly exciting watching the Warriors play, it was all inevitable, and it just feels a little dirty.

It also feels even more dirty that the commissioner pretends like there is parity in the league, and even the officiating last night where they re-assigned technical fouls to prevent having to throw out a Golden State star (never, ever seen something like that, and as Jeff Van Gundy said right in the broadcast, "This is an absolutely terrible look for the NBA").

Just voicing another sentiment.

i hear you. the playoffs weren't very exciting this year. but on the other hand, look at how the cavs (finally) rose to the challenge last night, and in the process raised the bar for every other team. these are the best people on earth at throwing orange balls through orange rings and they're only getting better! =)

> the playoffs weren't very exciting this year.

You do understand why, right?

Your solution is "The other teams will improve!" and you're citing the Cav's improbable record setting game as evidence?

Sorry, but it takes a certain willful ignorance, or looking the other way, to defend the state of the NBA.

i'm not defending the nba, nor being ignorant. but it's just not that upsetting to me. for me, it's still fun to watch harden and westbrook face off, or to see if deandre jordan will ever make a free throw, or to see if the spurs can find their motion offense groove again, or watch what the best player on earth will do against a stacked team. you certainly have a different perspective, and that's fine too.

Or maybe you just enjoy seeing historic excellence at an athletic event. It's not clear to me what heinous crime the Warriors or the league have committed by allowing a team to exist that is really good. I'm not a big sports fan, but I thought the point was to be as good as you can at that sport. It would be one thing if there were behind the scenes inequalities unrelated to the athletic event itself, like one team spending way more money that everyone else, but as far as I can tell that's not the case here.

Go watch the Olympic Men's basketball team or the All-Star Game if you want "historic excellence"..

Having a team like this in the regular season is a joke and only serves the most base basketball fans.

I definitely don't understand that. I would consider Olympic Men's basketball more of a joke, since everyone knows that professional basketball in the USA is far and away a bigger deal than in other countries. It's completely stacked from a financial perspective, whereas (AFAIK) that's not the case with the Warriors.

So teams can only be stacked financially and not talent-wise?

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