A Friday Night Double-Header! Part 1: Cavaliers-Celtics
NBA, WAG May 16th. 2008, 7:30pm
Two he-yuge Game 6’s tonight. Both Cleveland and Utah are fighting for their Playoff lives tonight. Will either still be alive by the time I pass out tonight?
The Caveliers kicks off the Friday festivities by hosting the Celtics in Cleveland. The Cavs have a good shot at victory tonight since the Celtics have apparently decided that it’s only cool to win in front of their own fans. To quote Pepper Brooks in Dodgeball, “It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for ‘em.”
As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, Daniel Gibson is out tonight (and probably for the rest of the playoffs) with a separated shoulder. With Boobie out an even bigger weight now rests on the shoulders of LeBron James. (Say what you will, Boobie is a contributer.) Is LeGlobal Icon finally going to have one of those games.
It looked like LeBron was going to do it on Wednesday in Boston when he had 23 points through the first 21 minutes. Then everything slowed down and he finished with a kind-of-quiet 35 points. He’s going to need to do it. The time of letting his teammate win games for him has passed. It’s Zero Hour in Cleveland – win or stay home for the Cavs. At the very least we deserve a Game 7. Don’t we?
In the interest of equal opportunity:

For some reason Paul Pierce now makes me think of stuff like this.
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May 16th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
It’s been “zero-hour” in Cleveland for fifty years.
May 16th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Maybe the Cavs will fare a bit better than Jeremy Sowers has thus far.
May 16th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
I think it’s too early to “sower” on Jeremy for tonight.*
*sorry
May 16th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Jason Werth 3 homers and 8 Ribbies thru 5 innings.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Foul Disparity with three minutes to go in the first half. 12 for Boston, 4 on Cleveland. Wow!
May 16th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
33 first half points = fucking pathetic
May 16th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
welcome to the nba 2008
home team wins = excitement
May 16th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Wow what a snoozer this game has turned out to be. I hope the Lakers-Jazz is much better
May 16th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
it appears my decision to eat triscuits and listen to the traveling wilburys rather than watch this game was a winner
May 16th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Doris Burke: LeBron is the best player in the league. A woman for my own heart.
Just as i turn the game on, the Cavs start blowing the lead …
May 16th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
LeBron is pretty good I guess.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
@TBL
Smooth one
May 16th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Hometown call
May 16th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
I’m guessing we’ll be hearing about the officiating after this one.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Doris really said that? I’m guessing Kobe turned her down in a hotel, or actually, he’s probably not her type, you know, because of the whole y chromosome thing.
May 16th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Bad officiating throughout the game, both ways. Honestly, if you are a road team, you just need to win the game convincingly and not let the officials have any say.
I’m a Cavs fan and I realize that they received several breaks tonight. Not much different than the breaks at the end of game 5 in LA for the Lakers or many other calls that are blatantly bad.
It just needs to be a matter of fact that teams CANNOT count on officials to get it right. They have to be better than the other team, period… And hope that they don’t get screwed in the process.
May 16th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Damn I thought they were going to blow that. Yes, I’m sure there will be officiating complaints. Ray Allen is just awful. While I’ve banged on KG plenty, he has been showing up to play.
May 16th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Ripping on Bill Simmons’s latest column aside, I really don’t see much difference between Ray Allen and Wally Szcerbiak.
May 16th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
While LeBron didn’t shoot well…again… he did attack the basket and looking at the free throw numbers, that’s clearly the difference in the game (although another 7 turnovers! Yikes!).
I’m guessing Boston will get a ton of calls in game 7, we’ll see what happens.
May 16th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Travelling? Ever? Five times on Boston, but not the clutch play? LeNike has a good grip on the league.
May 16th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Now to be fair, Boston was fouling LeBron when he went to the basket, but I counted three extremely questionable calls on PP, but everytime he went to the basket, he couldn’t buy a call.
By the way, I kind of have an issue with the headline on the AP story that’s up on ESPN.com.
Dominates? Really? 9 of 23 and 7 turnovers?
May 16th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
KG has committed 3 fouls in the last 3 games. 3 fouls in 3 games. 3 fouls in 3 games. Don’t talk about fouls at all. He gets away with so much fucking shit. I hate him.
May 16th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
@ Nick- I take it you dont like KG? PS thanks for beating the Indians, if the Twins can hold off the Rocks it’s back to just a half a game.
May 16th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
I guess we get to hear about how Mike Brown is a defensive genius again. Both these teams could go choke on ham sandwiches and I’d be just fine with it.
May 16th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
So let’s put this out there… who would Detroit rather see? Boston looks offensively challenged and we all remember what LeBron did to Detroit in game 5. But, no Daniel Gibson and LeBron is shooting terribly and turning the ball over.
May 16th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Obviously they’d rather play the Cavs to have home court.
Boston’s O is bad because our D has been unreal. All they’re getting long 2 pointers. The effort has been out of this world.
May 17th, 2008 at 12:00 am
detroit would much rather play boston…they play good d and they see how to take 2 of the “big 3″ out of their games. cavs always have lbj and past history vs cavs is a rocky one
May 17th, 2008 at 1:14 am
Toss up on who Detroit wants to play. They want home court, but facing LBJ isn’t a good matchup for the Peestones. I don’t think that Detroit can really do the things on defense that Boston has done to LBJ.
Losing Boobie hurts the Cavs. Damon got his 2 minutes tonight, but Brown panicked and sat him for the rest of the night. LBJ needs Wally and Delonte to have great games on Sunday and they might be able to win. They definitely won’t be able to count on help from the 3 blind mice…