2010 NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers

• wildcats20

  

  Sweet 16!!!
• wes_mantooth

  

  Yay...I guess.....zero interest in either team that was involved. Why couldn't the terrorists win this one?
• newarkcatholicfan

  

  The two best organizations in the league laid it all on the line tonight and KOBE AND TEAM L.A. was able to get it done in the end.
  
  Hopefully these two can do this again,soon.
• ironman02

  Congrats to all the Laker fans, especially wildcats.
  
  I can't stand Kobe, but I certainly respect him and the Laker organization. They definitely earned this title.
• ZombieKiller

  Kobe didn't do shit
• ironman02

  ZombieKiller;393641 wrote:Kobe didn't do shit

  
  He wasn't that impressive tonight, but I'd say he was pretty instrumental in this title run.
• ZombieKiller

  The refs were more instrumental, than Kobe was.
• wildcats20

  

  Dude had 15 boards.
• gorocks99

  

  GREAT season Celtics. Heartbreaking tonight. Congrats skyhook, sage, etc. All the Laker fans on here. It was a memorable finals. I'm off to bed, hoping the US soccer team changes my luck tomorrow.
• wes_mantooth

  

  Congrats to the true Laker fans like TrueBlue, wildcats20 and Sage....not the posers though.
• jordo212000

  

  Yeah it was a good game 7. The officiating left a little to be desired, but you'll have that in the NBA.
• wildcats20

  

  Kobe is your Finals MVP, again.
• elbuckeye28

  As great of a player as Kobe is, with as great of a team as he has, I find it unbelievable that the Lakers can shoot more free throws in the fourth quarter alone than the Celtics shot all game. It's really hard to take the NBA seriously(not the Lakers fault) when accusations by Donaghy seem to have merit (tonight, Heat vs. Mavericks, etc.) There is just such blatant favoritism (as a Cavs fan I admit we get it too) that it is hard to sit and watch a game and not feel like the refs are trying to impose their will instead of calling it evenly.
• wildcats20

  

  Oh and that's Phil's 11th.
• jordo212000

  

  elbuckeye28;393661 wrote:As great of a player as Kobe is, with as great of a team as he has, I find it unbelievable that the Lakers can shoot more free throws in the fourth quarter alone than the Celtics shot all game. It's really hard to take the NBA seriously(not the Lakers fault) when accusations by Donaghy seem to have merit (tonight, Heat vs. Mavericks, etc.) There is just such blatant favoritism (as a Cavs fan I admit we get it too) that it is hard to sit and watch a game and not feel like the refs are trying to impose their will instead of calling it evenly.

  
  Joey Crawford shows up in key games nearly every single time. He reffed games 5&7, maybe more than that? I just remember seeing him in game 5 too. That seems like waaayy too many appearances for one guy. There are other referees aren't there? Can we at least get a guy who doesn't have a documented history of personal vendettas against certain players?
• paul_banks

  The officiating was a joke the whole series but tonight was really bad. Must have been money on the Lake Show tonight.
• elbuckeye28

  jordo212000;393674 wrote:Joey Crawford shows up in key games nearly every single time. He reffed games 5&7, maybe more than that? I just remember seeing him in game 5 too. That seems like waaayy too many appearances for one guy. There are other referees aren't there? Can we at least get a guy who doesn't have a documented history of personal vendettas against certain players?

  
  Agreed...after the whole Tim Duncan saga, I can't believe he is allowed anywhere near a big game/ Yet every year they put him in the biggest games, and every year we all complain how he can't call it evenly. It's just annoying.
• ZombieKiller

  the Celtics did cover the spread
• wildcats20

  

  Since everyone on here loves the +/- stat.
  
  Take this one in....
  
  Artest was a +40 for the series.
• IggyPride00

  

  Foul calls for the game were 19 Lakers 25 Celtics. Seeing as the Celtics were undersized you would expect more fouls for them, but that number is hardly wildly lopsided. The free throw number was, but its not like they weren't calling fouls on the Lakers as the discrepancy wasn't exactly huge.
• IggyPride00

  

  In the various post game interviews Kobe specifically mentioned multiple times that he now has more titles than Shaq. Shaq's got to take it though because he had no problem rubbing his nose in the fact he couldn't win one without him while getting blown out by the Celtics in 2008.
• wildcats20

  

  That's where all of his comments were coming from.
  
  As good as "friends" as they say they are, they still hate each other.
• IggyPride00

  

  Loved Ron Artest's press conference after the game.
  
  He was giving mass shout outs to his psychiastrist for all of the treatment.
  
  He probably won them the game tonight as he was the only one who could make a basket for a period of time, and his defense was outstanding (exactly what he was brought in for).
• sleeper

  

  Congrats to the Lakers.
• BR1986FB

  wes_mantooth;393655 wrote:Congrats to the true Laker fans like TrueBlue, wildcats20 and Sage....not the posers though.

  
  This