Biased Pro-Heat NBA.com Article-Celtics are "In the way"

[Nick Young]

For true basketball fans, Heat-Thunder is Finals heaven
MIAMI -- There are certain favors you ask at great, great risk. Such as: Borrow large sums of money. Help move a piano. Take care of your dog that still hasn't gotten the hang of housetraining.
And root for the Heat.
This may come off sounding like an anti-Celtics story. But it's not. It's just a simple and direct basketball plea, that's all. A request to the basketball gods to give us Miami vs. Oklahoma City in the NBA Finals, especially after what we've all been through since last summer. Don't you think we deserve it?
Look. The Celtics, at this point, are many things: Noble, for sure. Proud. Fighters. Gamely geezers. Gritty, determined, resourceful. All that.
And they're also something else: In the way.
For the sake of Heat lovers and haters, the Celtics need to step aside Saturday so we can witness a big buildup to an event that just might meet the hype. If the Heat win Saturday, basketball wins. Seriously, after watching LeBron James on Thursday, and Kevin Durant the last week, and knowing how quickly the ball will whisk up and down the floor if these two players and teams met, why would you wish for anything else? What's the alternative?

From a fan's standpoint, these playoffs are playing out perfectly. So far, anyway. Not only did the Thunder reach the Finals, they prevented the Spurs from doing so. Everyone appreciates and embraces the old-school basketball championed by the great Spurs, and how they go about their business, and even the gruff Gregg Popovich has charm. They get and deserve our respect. But when the Spurs reach the Finals, as history proves, the ratings for June baseball games suddenly soar.
And now we get Game 7 of the East finals and James coming off an epic show and saying he isn't "worried" about what he'll bring for the finale. Dwyane Wade called the Game 6 blowout win in Boston "a defining moment" for the Heat, which was a bit premature, because that moment will be Saturday. Win this one, and Miami and especially LeBron get a chance at redemption for last summer. Or lose and deal with another painful off-season of soul searching and cream pie-throwing.
"This is what basketball is all about," Wade said.
Yes, root for basketball, for the potential for big moments and stirring drama and for the chance to see the best players on the biggest stage. The Heat will give you that in the Finals, because this team doesn't know any other way. Miami doesn't do anything quietly. From the time they were fastened together ever so controversially, the Heat have tugged our emotions one way or another, with no in between. Nobody sits on the fence with this team. It's either black or white, and teams like that generate great interest, respect or scorn, cheers or jeers and sometimes both.

http://www.nba.com/2012/news/feature...s=iref:nbahpt1

how much more blatantly biased can NBA.com be?

[CelticBaller]

Fvck them dickriders

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fvcking fags

[Living Being]

Is this for real? LAME

If the Celtics beat the Heat, good for them. They deserve to be there.
Thunder vs Celtics is fine for me.

I don't need to see a "forced" rivalry between the newest NBA superstar and the league's greatest prima donna.

[Heavincent]

This might be their way of telling us game 7 will be rigged in the Heat's favor.

[dunksby]

Who cares what this asshole wants, whoever wins gm7 deserves to be in the Finals.

[Alamo]

Thunder vs Heat finals. Make it happen Stern

[dbugz]

Game 7 tomorrow vs the Heat and the Celtics and what you'll see on the league's main website is, "Dream Matchup" with a picture of LeBron and Durant.

There's no even a single picture of a Celtics there

[CelticBaller]

Thunder vs Heat finals. Make it happen Stern

people like you make me sick

[Nash]

Well, to be fair. This is what it says on the buttom of that page:

"The views on this page do not necessarily reflect the views of the NBA, its clubs or Turner Broadcasting."

[Alamo]

people like you make me sick

You would feel the same way if you weren't a Celtic fan. Trust me.

[dbugz]

Well, to be fair. This is what it says on the buttom of that page:

"The views on this page do not necessarily reflect the views of the NBA, its clubs or Turner Broadcasting."

We have no problem with the article, he's entitled on his own opinion but putting it on the league's main website is showing how bias the nba is and also a disrespect to the Cs organization and their players.

[ThatsGame]

Nobody wants to watch the Celtics get annihilated in the Finals. Its completely boring.

[CelticBaller]

Nobody wants to watch the Celtics get annihilated in the Finals. Its completely boring.

The Celtics are not going to get annihilated. I love how everybody keeps doubting them

[dbugz]

Nobody wants to watch the Celtics get annihilated in the Finals. Its completely boring.

Let just completely remove all the boring teams in the nba then or let start with a conference finals right away at the beginning of the season composed of OKC, Heat, Bulls and Lakers so casual fans will be able to enjoy it.