The Heat are enjoying the summer
Published by The Cavalier June 21st, 2006 in Shaq, Miami Heat, Dwyane Wade, YouTube, Who Shot Mamba?, Pat Riley, NBA Finals
There are certain things you get when you’re NBA Champions - for example, Wheaties has already thrown Shaq and Wade on the box.
Another thing you get, and the thing that interests us most on this day, is people speculating on whether you can do it again next year.
While we’re happy to see them win, the Heat isn’t our team, so we have no need to sit back and be euphoric. Let’s look at next season!
Zo could retire, GP could retire, we see J-Will being totally satisfied, Shaq will be a year older. What of Pat Riley? He makes it sound like he could go any which way. He’s freed like Stephon Marbury.
‘’I said it, and I mean it,'’ Riley said after the Heat took the Finals series 4-2. “I’d give up the six [previous championships] for this one. It’s not disrespectful to any of them that I won, but after 18 years, you keep chasing it, you get tired. So that gives me an absolute sense of freedom.'’
Certainly anything is possible, but we’ll say it’s going to be tough to find anyone picking the Heat to repeat next year.
Free agency, trades, the draft (lol) - these things will bring small ripples of change throughout the league, and the Heat are somewhat in a position of “they are what they are” - lots and lots of salary. Can’t see them adding a full MLE dude, and there’s no amnesty this year for the Michael Finleyesque stuff that went around last season.
We’ll hit the Mavs next…and the euphoria part isn’t entirely true - we do want to take a moment to watch Toine’s floor shimmy again. His face is screaming Classic Finals Moment.
(Thanks to The Beautiful Lie, which doesn’t exist yet, but posted this clip in our comments section.)
“It makes the women here in Cleveland PUKE.”
has anyone noticed that during the Ben Wallace cell phone commercial that ran a bazillion times that the home town Miami Heat Crowd is chanting “We Want Ben! We Want Ben!” Does this stirke anyone else as odd? Am I retarded?
has anyone noticed that during the Ben Wallace cell phone commercial that ran a bazillion times that the home town Miami Heat Crowd is chanting “We Want Ben! We Want Ben!” Does this stirke anyone else as odd? Am I retarded?
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yeah I don’t get that either. that and the “fall down 7 times, get up 8″ impossibility have been keeping me up. that and vomiting due to hearing zo say things like “y’all think i’m not human because of the things i do out on the court but i am human, i laugh, i cry, i’m emotional.” get over yourself, zo. you had about as much to do w/ this championship as stan van gundy.
Is it too late to change the movie to “Who Shot ‘Toine-ba”?
Watching Walker shimmy all over everything and giving armpit jobs to the Larry O trophy makes me wish I was a hockey fan.
Why am i the only one talking about the fact that that Wade offesnive-fouled Dirk in that last 10 seconds, which would have given the Mavs 9.8 seconds to pull off a better 3 and tie the motherucker? Fucking robbed.
maybe you’re the only one talking about it because you’re the only one who saw what really happened. i mean what REALLY happened
Yeess, that was what I wanted to see.
Next season: Year of the Varejao
I can’t tell if the people in the picture are happy about the Heat or if they’re happy because they finally got their Mamba tshirts…
Crowbar, did you see Ben Wallace against the Heat? Wouldn’t you be chanting We Want Ben, too?
what do u want them to chant , BEN LADEN ?
Yes I saw the foul, but I saw all of them, and I saw all the ones Wade got where nothing happened. Take the 1st quarter for instance, where Wade took a jump shot, Terry turned around to rebound, Wade falls down on his own feet, Terry called for the foul. This was one instance of something that happened 1000 times. It was BS, but we shoulda won.
Why does Shaq get to be on the Wheaties box? Antoine Walker scored more points than him. Free Antoine!
mebbeh I just need to get some, but does wearing a red I shot mamba shirt give you boobs like the guy in the picture?
Yeah that commercial is fucking stupid.
The Fes - that’s called lazy Photoshopping. You guys are missing the point of the pic - they’ve turned the Mamba crime scene into a circus. It’s raised quite the ruckus.
Give him an inch and he’ll take an ell… Hector
Give him an inch and he’ll take an ell… Hector
Give him an inch and he’ll take an ell… Hector
Give him an inch and he’ll take an ell… Hector
They must hunger in winter that will not work in summer… Sampson
They must hunger in winter that will not work in summer… Sampson
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