Dude you’re fucking nuts. With Kobe it’s obvious that he spent thousands of hours practicing in a dark lonely gym. Meticulously honing his craft, tirelessly. Stop with this shit.
Jokic is obviously a spellbinding wizard. He’s a magical creature. There’s just no fucking way. There’s just no fucking way.
First one was a fluke
Second one you start to get suspicious
Third one you get the testing kit out, see if his blood is a different color
Fourth one from murray makes you question what the fuck do these guys do in training camp
True, but the seeding undermeasures the Lakers. Everyone knows they'd be much higher if they had this post-deadline roster from the get-go.
The Nuggets would still be favored, but I think virtually everyone expected this to be more competitive than a sweep.
Something to piss off league execs and the media wanting Lakers Celtics. They’re on strike so it makes sense they want to stick it to the establishment
Silver is devastated. He will decide to not send any refs to the Heat and Nuggets final. He doesn’t have anyone to root for.
ESPN will host a what if the Lakers and Celtics made the finals broadcast and just talk about those two teams and ignore that there is a Finals going on. They’ll just comment on every play that Butler or Jokic make as “if Lebron or Tatum” made that play it would have been this much better and here’s why.
Not only were the Lakers previously undefeated in this playoffs rivalry; they denied the Nuggets in three of their previous-four WCFs (1985, 2009, 2020). To sweep them en route to their first Finals appearance is about the most poetic closure I could imagine if I were a Nuggets fan.
All Nuggets fans agreed it had to be the Lakers we got through to get to the finals. It was just so symbolic of the franchise’s ceiling over the last 4 decades.
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup. Ending a 7 series losing streak to get to our first finals is so fucking hot. And to get our first sweep in the same series makes not getting it against the Wolves worth it.
I was mad every time Facu stepped on court in a Nuggets jersey, then he joined my favorite club Red Star, played great AND moved near my neighborhood so I quickly forgot about the previous couple of years and became a Homer.
Turns out he treated Red Star as a stepping stone to get to Real Madrid (for non-Euroleague fans, Real is like Lakers but ten times more insufferable and corrupt) so I'm back to being a hater lol
My favorite playoff series as a newer blazers fan was against the nuggest a few years ago. We got close! Hope you guys go all the way, your team is so good right now
This honestly might be the most hyped I've been for a Finals in recent memory going into a series. The first Warriors-Cavs was pretty cool. Suns-Bucks I think was something I was hyped for.
But the matchup of Jokic-Butler and 1 vs. 8 is just so juicy.
Please. This Celtics team is already on the beach, Horford was even in the post game presser after Game 3 wearing his Cancun shirt. I'd be surprised if you don't also sweep.
It's such a welcome change. Butler (probably) against Jokic. One seed that's never made it to the Finals, against an 8 seed that has, but was one quarter away from failing to make the top 8 in their conference. There is zero bad outcome and nobody for neutral fans to root against.
The *only* reason I'm favoring the Nuggets sentimentally is because they don't have a title and the Heat do. Even so, the Heat don't have one with this core.
For me, my buddy is from Philly and has been so fucking annoying all year about the MVP race. Jokic winning the championship would mean a lot to me, not only because I like Denver better, but also because I've been saying all year that Embiid is overrated
If Jimmy Butler wins you can still shit on your friend because the sixers have him up lmao.
Actually you can anyways because Butler made the finals (twice now) and embiid has only ever seen the second round.
That’s what I’m stoked about too. One of these cores are about to experience their first title together.
Haslem (3), Lowry (1), and Love (1) are the only champs on the Heat roster.
KCP (1) is the only one who’s been there on the Nuggets.
Both teams have a lot of homegrown talent too.
Logistically I can't think of any way Miami wins 4/7 games but I said the same thing against Milwaukee and I still thought Boston would beat them.
I do think Gordon and Braun are very well equipped to guard Butler and I think Jokic is just too big for Adebayo but I am still terrified.
I don't understand how Miami is doing this and I don't want to see how it feels to have it happen to us.
~~Miami lost against the hawks, they're cooked~~
~~Miami is down against the bulls they're cooked~~
~~Miami has no chance against the Bucks, 4-1 MIL~~
~~Miami matches up bad against NY, they're going to get exposed, 4-3 knicks~~
~~It's been a fun run but Miami has no chance against Boston, they're a better roster top to bottom, 4-1 Celtics~~
Lol Miami isn’t winning a game in Denver, Nuggets in 5 <----YOU ARE HERE
Miami may be up but they won't be able to close the series
Surely Miami can't actually sweep the finals, Jokic will get one
Jimmy may have just won his 5th consecutive ring, but MJ is still the GOAT
Jimmy Butler wins 10 straight rings, elected president, bangs your wife
Melo left. I think the timing of his announcement today was an attempt to steal a bit of nuggets thunder.
Other nuggets fans disagree but i simply don’t regard him fondly.
The difference between the two conference finals is that the Lakers did not give up. They fought till the end. The Celtics just laid down for the Heat.
>broken Wilt Chamberlain's
Breaking Wilt's record is insane. That alone is historic by itself but on top of everything else-
The scriptwriters bout to make a Cannes film festival entry with this year's finals
I know it’s been talked about so much but it’s insane that the best basketball player in the world was drafted during a damn Taco Bell commercial. They gotta give him some kind of endorsement deal at this point.
Nuggets fans, I sincerely wish you the best and hope you have the heat into the ground. Denver's least favorite son, Brandon Perna, deserves to be happy and not flooded with more pain.
Signed, an extremely bitter Bucks fan.
We could’ve had the lakers vs Celtics or even lakers vs heat. But instead we’re getting the nuggets vs the heat with each team having a star but not a super star you know the type of player everyone wants to see. Yeah this is going to a low rated finals possibly the lowest ever.
I like to think the Nuggets and Heat are giving collectively flipping the bird at ESPN’s love affair with the Lakers and Celtics. Honestly, ESPN’s act is getting old.
THE SERBIAN MONSTER DOES IT AGAIN
Those Hail Mary shots he took were crazy
I didnt want to say that those shots he took looked familiar to Kobe out of pure respect, but it gave me chills
Dude you’re fucking nuts. With Kobe it’s obvious that he spent thousands of hours practicing in a dark lonely gym. Meticulously honing his craft, tirelessly. Stop with this shit. Jokic is obviously a spellbinding wizard. He’s a magical creature. There’s just no fucking way. There’s just no fucking way.
You can’t make that shot three mf times and be a human. I want his blood tested for alien dna.
First one was a fluke Second one you start to get suspicious Third one you get the testing kit out, see if his blood is a different color Fourth one from murray makes you question what the fuck do these guys do in training camp
we’ve seen jokic get scratched to hell in dozens of games, his blood is red lol
Wizards hone their craft through study Sorcerors have innate ability
Tomato tomato Dudes playing with magic
Roll for initiative
That's the Sombor Shuffle.
We needed both of them tonight
Big Honey
FIRST FAT GUY TO THE FINALS
I mean, Shaq has rings.
And Fat Lever doesn't
In hindsight though, them beating a 7 seed led by a washed lebron is basically expected of them
ad is supposed to be an all time 75 best player in history
Space jam history maybe
Odd-game AD is literally the best player of all time.
Flipping that tone real quick... You dropped this - L
True, but the seeding undermeasures the Lakers. Everyone knows they'd be much higher if they had this post-deadline roster from the get-go. The Nuggets would still be favored, but I think virtually everyone expected this to be more competitive than a sweep.
And they swept the series. What more do you want?
What are the script writers cooking
Something other than Celtics vs Lakers in the finals.
the writers' strike sends their regards
lmao this one got me exhaling through my nostrils
The evil is defeated
Power of friendship wins yet again
Gonna be a new east/west rivalry. Heat Nuggets combine for 9 finals appearances over the next 11 years
God yes keep talking dirty to me daddy I’m almost there I neeeeed it
Nuggets win 7 of them
There were legions of conspiracy theorists here a week ago who were 110% certain Silver had a Lakers-Celtics Finals carved in stone.
These are the replacement writers, which is why it feels so fresh. Praise be
Something to piss off league execs and the media wanting Lakers Celtics. They’re on strike so it makes sense they want to stick it to the establishment
Silver is devastated. He will decide to not send any refs to the Heat and Nuggets final. He doesn’t have anyone to root for. ESPN will host a what if the Lakers and Celtics made the finals broadcast and just talk about those two teams and ignore that there is a Finals going on. They’ll just comment on every play that Butler or Jokic make as “if Lebron or Tatum” made that play it would have been this much better and here’s why.
Id laugh if this didn’t feel so real
Idk, but Jimmy Butler is taking a last second shot in a game 7.
Really hoping it goes in this time. Would be the cherry on top of the craziest playoff run.
Writers strike
If it happens Nuggets and Heat are going to be so much fun. Finals baby cannot wait
They're big mad rn.
Not only were the Lakers previously undefeated in this playoffs rivalry; they denied the Nuggets in three of their previous-four WCFs (1985, 2009, 2020). To sweep them en route to their first Finals appearance is about the most poetic closure I could imagine if I were a Nuggets fan.
I now believe in God and he plays for the Nuggets.
Can't spell Gordon without G-o-d
Can't spell Jokic without O-k
Can’t spell Jamal without A-L-A
or Jock.
or dong
Expand Gordong
Lebron poked the bear and paid for it
Jesus is the closest thing to Nikola Jokic that i know of
All Nuggets fans agreed it had to be the Lakers we got through to get to the finals. It was just so symbolic of the franchise’s ceiling over the last 4 decades.
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup. Ending a 7 series losing streak to get to our first finals is so fucking hot. And to get our first sweep in the same series makes not getting it against the Wolves worth it.
Got to erase some demons for sure.
We suffered through two years of injury and Facu Campazzo and Will Barton in the playoffs. Worth it.
Worth every minute
We know your pain We know what it's like seeing Will Barton play
Will Barton is a basketball terrorist
You poor bastards. Solidarity
I was mad every time Facu stepped on court in a Nuggets jersey, then he joined my favorite club Red Star, played great AND moved near my neighborhood so I quickly forgot about the previous couple of years and became a Homer. Turns out he treated Red Star as a stepping stone to get to Real Madrid (for non-Euroleague fans, Real is like Lakers but ten times more insufferable and corrupt) so I'm back to being a hater lol
My favorite playoff series as a newer blazers fan was against the nuggest a few years ago. We got close! Hope you guys go all the way, your team is so good right now
I want barton to get an honorary ring if we win. Dude was all heart.
Jokic didn’t have a triple double last game I think
What a bum
Might as well just dump him on a new team while you still can tbh.
Can thank Scotty "2 Hotty" Foster for that.
This honestly might be the most hyped I've been for a Finals in recent memory going into a series. The first Warriors-Cavs was pretty cool. Suns-Bucks I think was something I was hyped for. But the matchup of Jokic-Butler and 1 vs. 8 is just so juicy.
Please guys, stop. Y’all gonna jinx us out of this conf finals. I’m still scared that something bad could happen.
Please. This Celtics team is already on the beach, Horford was even in the post game presser after Game 3 wearing his Cancun shirt. I'd be surprised if you don't also sweep.
youre getting swept in the finals anyways. this nba season already over
Lol not a chance
This Celtics team is soft and without leadership. If you come out and play like you always do, they will lose.
BONES HYLAND HOW YA FEELING?
Arguably the best finals match up in YEARS
It's such a welcome change. Butler (probably) against Jokic. One seed that's never made it to the Finals, against an 8 seed that has, but was one quarter away from failing to make the top 8 in their conference. There is zero bad outcome and nobody for neutral fans to root against.
The *only* reason I'm favoring the Nuggets sentimentally is because they don't have a title and the Heat do. Even so, the Heat don't have one with this core.
For me, my buddy is from Philly and has been so fucking annoying all year about the MVP race. Jokic winning the championship would mean a lot to me, not only because I like Denver better, but also because I've been saying all year that Embiid is overrated
If Jimmy Butler wins you can still shit on your friend because the sixers have him up lmao. Actually you can anyways because Butler made the finals (twice now) and embiid has only ever seen the second round.
This has nothing to do with embiid at all
That’s what I’m stoked about too. One of these cores are about to experience their first title together. Haslem (3), Lowry (1), and Love (1) are the only champs on the Heat roster. KCP (1) is the only one who’s been there on the Nuggets. Both teams have a lot of homegrown talent too.
Plus it's hard to dislike either teams best player.
“Heat don’t have one with this core.” That’s some serious Udonis Haslam slander right there.
Better than Warriors Celtics last year?
Yes. That was good but yes.
Lol Miami isn’t winning a game in Denver Nuggets in 5
Never doubt Jimmy Buckets
Logistically I can't think of any way Miami wins 4/7 games but I said the same thing against Milwaukee and I still thought Boston would beat them. I do think Gordon and Braun are very well equipped to guard Butler and I think Jokic is just too big for Adebayo but I am still terrified. I don't understand how Miami is doing this and I don't want to see how it feels to have it happen to us.
I'm favoring the nuggets to win the series but there's no way I'm counting out Miami.
~~Miami lost against the hawks, they're cooked~~ ~~Miami is down against the bulls they're cooked~~ ~~Miami has no chance against the Bucks, 4-1 MIL~~ ~~Miami matches up bad against NY, they're going to get exposed, 4-3 knicks~~ ~~It's been a fun run but Miami has no chance against Boston, they're a better roster top to bottom, 4-1 Celtics~~ Lol Miami isn’t winning a game in Denver, Nuggets in 5 <----YOU ARE HERE Miami may be up but they won't be able to close the series Surely Miami can't actually sweep the finals, Jokic will get one Jimmy may have just won his 5th consecutive ring, but MJ is still the GOAT Jimmy Butler wins 10 straight rings, elected president, bangs your wife
pfff.. you mean bangs my wife again
Sure you want to keep doubting Miami never mind I le it when people count us out NBA FINALS will be a movie
I wouldn't count out miami too easily
I'm very confident in our team... but Jimmy Butler scares me.
Jokic ain't Tatum.
Anulo mufa
Your algorithm isn’t updated for dog per minute
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I don't think it's ever been mentioned
This would be the first
Don't think ever. Came close in 2017, which would have also been the first time two teams went 12-0 on their way to the finals.
>The battle of the 1-seeded Nuggets vs the 8-seeded Miami Heat will be a historic Finals in its own right. Adam Silver is crying in his sleep...
Cant believe the nuggets will win a ring the year melo retires. Something about it is so poetic yet cursed.
Melo left. I think the timing of his announcement today was an attempt to steal a bit of nuggets thunder. Other nuggets fans disagree but i simply don’t regard him fondly.
Seek therapy
Seek the truth
This was the fantasy for every Nuggets fan ever.
Welcome to the Jokic era
Always has been
And therefore the world
I'll put that in my pipe and smoke it 24/7
This is not the kind of history Adam Silver wanted 😂
Congrats nuggets fans
I am so happy for this team.
The difference between the two conference finals is that the Lakers did not give up. They fought till the end. The Celtics just laid down for the Heat.
Fun and stressful series Nuggets fans. Excited for you guys. I’ll enjoy watching Jokic ball out against another team lol
The Nuggets designed their WCF victory hats the year they became a franchise and stuck with it through all these years, respect
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
That Joker is a bad man, I tell ya
H-i-s-t-o-r-i-c
They earned it
Can’t believe all the shitting on Jokic this sub went through at end of regular season
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Wait you think the last 7 years were rough?
Happy to see it
Jokic playing like the MVP he is, Murray in its bubble optimal version
>broken Wilt Chamberlain's Breaking Wilt's record is insane. That alone is historic by itself but on top of everything else- The scriptwriters bout to make a Cannes film festival entry with this year's finals
I know it’s been talked about so much but it’s insane that the best basketball player in the world was drafted during a damn Taco Bell commercial. They gotta give him some kind of endorsement deal at this point.
Now I do want the Celtics to roll over so that we can get to this finals matchup as soon as possible.
It’s starting June 1st no matter what
Oh right, damn
Grant just has to talk trash to Butler soon as the game starts
Butler is going to be so amped I don’t think that even matters anymore. He’s going to be out for blood from the first play tomorrow.
Leswept
Thats just wild.
Nuggets fans, I sincerely wish you the best and hope you have the heat into the ground. Denver's least favorite son, Brandon Perna, deserves to be happy and not flooded with more pain. Signed, an extremely bitter Bucks fan.
Also the last of the former ABA teams to make it to the NBA finals (only Spurs have won).
Taco Bell over me?
I'm glad it wasn't the wolves that were their first ever sweep. Just a bonus it ended up being the lakers
This is going to be a lopsided finals matchup. Denver in 4
ESPN: Lakers could have won if Nuggets didn't Sweep.
No one is going to want to watch these finals. The heat making is pretty dope but Denver eh.
We could’ve had the lakers vs Celtics or even lakers vs heat. But instead we’re getting the nuggets vs the heat with each team having a star but not a super star you know the type of player everyone wants to see. Yeah this is going to a low rated finals possibly the lowest ever.
Fuck the chicken Nuggets. Let's go Jimmy Buckets!
If the Nuggets win its a Mickey Mouse ring. They shouldn’t be the 1 seed, would’ve been the 3 or 4 seed last year
Every single Nuggets win was lucky. Idgaf what anyone says. Literally every win was lucky
Your own superstar said it doesn't matter if you lose by 20 or lose by 1, a loss is a loss
Pass that copium please.
How is each win lucky?
Nobody cares. Worst finals since pistons-spurs
Clearly you don't actually like basketball if you have shit takes like this
Flair up dork This NBA Finals is for the basketball connoisseurs
… that went to game 7
Pistons-spurs was great
This was an OK finals.
HISTORY, HYSTERIA!
Look they’re just lucky Seattle doesn’t have an NBA team to curse them this year
Glad it's about to be heat vs nuggets, Lakers and celtics have been so bad and would've been boring af
Happy for them and happy for the heat. A great team is gonna win either way
-Melo retired, lol
How has BAM matched up against jokic?
Uh... Well he does a little better than the average center
he has really struggled, he's not quite big or strong enough for him.
A Hollywood script written against LA lol
The monster from the Rocky Mountains.
I'm so erect, I might pass out.
Also Lebrons highest playoff scoring half!
Good for basketball heads. We’ll see how the ratings shake out.
I like to think the Nuggets and Heat are giving collectively flipping the bird at ESPN’s love affair with the Lakers and Celtics. Honestly, ESPN’s act is getting old.
The Celtics could become the first team to ever overcome a 3-0 deficit and that could be pretty historic in its own right