***Official NBA Thread***

[OverratedSanity]

Toronto just look like the better team right now. Hard to see them coming back if they lose this game.

 

[social]

Sixers should have beaten the Raptors

 

[Anil]

yep this is ending game 5 in Toronto...

 

[OverratedSanity]

Durant's injured again and it looks even worse this time. There's a closeup which shows his calf basically exploding.

 

[OverratedSanity]

That was a ****ing amazing game. Warriors almost got screwed over by that goaltending call too.

 

[_Ed_]

That was incredible.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Confirmed achilles for Durant.

 

[Anil]

not confirmed yet but the warriors believe he will be...

this was a temporary reprieve for them...and without durant, they don't stand a chance of winning this series...

this also possibly impacts his free agency plans...

 

[Anil]

toronto finishes it off...assisted by a thompson injury...

 

[OverratedSanity]

Excellent finals I thought. Warriors' injury list a little absurd.

 

[nightprowler10]

KL the first player to get a Finals MVP from the East and West.

 

[nightprowler10]

I don't know if all these injuries are due to the extended playoffs runs for Warriors (KD went very deep before joining as well), but I'm sure its a huge contributing factor. It makes LeBron's Finals run feel so incredibly impressive.

 

[Cabinet96]

Happy the Raptors won, but the Warriors losing didn't feel that satisfying in the end given the KD and Thompson injuries.

 

[Anil]

Happy the Raptors won, but the Warriors losing didn't feel that satisfying in the end given the KD and Thompson injuries.

well think about it this way...you wouldn't have been satisfied at all if those two weren't injured, the raptors would not have won...

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Losing two of the best 15 players in the league in consecutive games for pretty much all of next season is a bit of a downer, for me at least. They will both be back but won't be right until the following year.

Very happy for Toronto though. Have always liked them. Damon Stoudamire is probably my fav player of all time and I've always had a soft spot for them.

 

[Cabinet96]

well think about it this way...you wouldn't have been satisfied at all if those two weren't injured, the raptors would not have won...

KD going down was sad but don't think it ruined the competitive balance of the series. The Klay injury was too much. Think the Warriors would've won if he hadn't gone down last night and we would've had a very interesting game 7.

 

[Anil]

KD going down was sad but don't think it ruined the competitive balance of the series. The Klay injury was too much. Think the Warriors would've won if he hadn't gone down last night and we would've had a very interesting game 7.

1. kd going down actually made the series competitive.
2. klay getting injured and then re-injured during the course of this series tipped the scales the other way.

 

[Cabinet96]

The Warriors without Durant are still a genuinely great team as well, just not a freakishly elite one. While it's obviously a decisive injury it doesn't feel like they'd have beaten a weakened side the way it did with both of them missing key periods.

 

[Anil]

The Warriors without Durant are still a genuinely great team as well, just not a freakishly elite one. While it's obviously a decisive injury it doesn't feel like they'd have beaten a weakened side the way it did with both of them missing key periods.

understand your first sentence and agree...am confused what you are referring to in your second...

 

[duffer]

Watched it in a Boston bar last night. Consensus from the Warriors fans there was that it was an "*" Championship for the Raptors.

Happy for Kawhi though.