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ESPN SC: D-Wade hurt *BREAKING -*** LEBRON WISHES HE COULD GET EJECTED***

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  • ESPN SC: D-Wade hurt *BREAKING -*** LEBRON WISHES HE COULD GET EJECTED***

    I have not seen it in print, but on ESPN SC they are saying that Wade is still having lingering effects from his injuries.

    Funny, did not hear anything about this after his good game in game 1, not a peep after game 2, but after his bad performance and dust up with the HC, now he is "hurt" and "playing in pain".

    Gotta love the media spin on this

    EDIT 10:05 EST

    S.A.S is on Sports Ceter right now. He said some of LeBrons boys are calling around, and saying they wish it was the regular season so LeBron could retaliate and get an ejection. He would do this to "send a message that he cannot and will not get punked". Of course, Smith said LeBron cannot do that because he would get a playoff suspension
    Last edited by vapacersfan; 05-18-2012, 10:08 AM.

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    Re: ESPN SC: D-Wade hurt

    He also did a LeBron-esque flop at one point where he almost got hit in the throat, so he whipped his head back and started grabbing at his throat for a few seconds until he realized the ref was never going to blow the whistle... then suddenly his neck was just fine the rest of the night.

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      Re: ESPN SC: D-Wade hurt

      If he is playing he is healthy, for all I know Danny still has issues with his knee and is not 100% either, hell we have a guy on West that had a knee surgery last year and is still not 100% healthy, excuses excuses......
      @WhatTheFFacts: Studies show that sarcasm enhances the ability of the human mind to solve complex problems!

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        Re: ESPN SC: D-Wade hurt

        ********!
        "Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel

        "And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "

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          Re: ESPN SC: D-Wade hurt

          Originally posted by Hicks View Post
          He also did a LeBron-esque flop at one point where he almost got hit in the throat, so he whipped his head back and started grabbing at his throat for a few seconds until he realized the ref was never going to blow the whistle... then suddenly his neck was just fine the rest of the night.
          The replay clearly showed that his cheek, if anything, was barely grazed on that play. But, he kept grabbing at his throat like he'd been elbowed in the adam's apple or something. He's totally reaching at this point.

          Can't remember who, but a guest on Mike & Mike this morning was commenting how Wade cries to the refs for the calls so much lately because he NEEDS to get those calls now. He depends on getting the benefit of all those calls in order to be effective. Think back to Heat/Dallas finals when the Heat won the championship. Wade was getting every single call back then. When he stops getting those calls, he cries.

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            Re: ESPN SC: D-Wade hurt

            And I almost forgot about DC's leg injury, Tyler broken face and Hill's shoulder, get the f*** out of here with those excuses.
            @WhatTheFFacts: Studies show that sarcasm enhances the ability of the human mind to solve complex problems!

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              Re: ESPN SC: D-Wade hurt *BREAKING -*** LEBRON WISHES HE COULD GET EJECTED***

              This seems to just be an ESPN thing. I believe when Wade was asked he downplayed any affects any lingering injuries could be having on him.

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                Re: ESPN SC: D-Wade hurt *BREAKING -*** LEBRON WISHES HE COULD GET EJECTED***

                EDIT 10:05 EST

                S.A.S is on Sports Ceter right now. He said some of LeBrons boys are calling around, and saying they wish it was the regular season so LeBron could retaliate and get an ejection. He would do this to "send a message that he cannot and will not get punked". Of course, Smith said LeBron cannot do that because he would get a playoff suspension

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                  Re: ESPN SC: D-Wade hurt *BREAKING -*** LEBRON WISHES HE COULD GET EJECTED***

                  If Wade is hurt anywhere, I'd say it's his butt. What a loser. Excuses are like ********: the Heat are giant excuses.

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                    Re: ESPN SC: D-Wade hurt *BREAKING -*** LEBRON WISHES HE COULD GET EJECTED***

                    Originally posted by Eleazar View Post
                    This seems to just be an ESPN thing. I believe when Wade was asked he downplayed any affects any lingering injuries could be having on him.
                    Just like Dwight Howard was downplaying his feelings about the Magic / SVG?

                    99% chance D-Wade's people 'leaked' this to make excuses for him while D-Wade can play the 'I don't make excuses' card.

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                      Re: ESPN SC: D-Wade hurt *BREAKING -*** LEBRON WISHES HE COULD GET EJECTED***

                      Tipical ESPN. Here's another take on the matter, by CBS (hint: it's more like what we like to hear)

                      Dwyane Wade leaves Game 3 not only as a failure on the court, but also as a jerk for his antics.

                      INDIANAPOLIS -- No matter what else happens in this series, Dwyane Wade damaged himself Thursday night. Damaged his brand. Hurt his reputation. He played badly and acted worse -- and he played really, really badly. As badly as he's ever played in his career, perhaps.

                      Wade was so bad, he almost singlehandedly lost this game for the Heat. I say almost, because there were two players at the heart of the Pacers' 94-75 victory in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference semifinal. This was a 19-point blowout because the Pacers had Roy Hibbert -- and because the Heat had Dwyane Wade.

                      Hibbert dominated the Chris Bosh-less Heat, totaling 19 points, 18 rebounds and five blocked shots. He scored from 20 feet, he scored from point-blank range, and on one occasion he did both -- driving 20 feet, this 7-foot-2, 260-pound monster of a man attacking the rim like a guard and finishing off the glass.

                      And Wade? He was 2 for 13 from the floor. He had five points, five turnovers and one assist. Wade was the worst player on the court, and that's not hyperbole or opinion. That's a fact. Wade's plus-minus rating was the worst of anyone who played, and not by a little bit. He finished the game at minus-25 -- 10 points behind anyone else. Think about that: The Heat lost by 19, and nobody but Wade was below minus-15. He was terrible.

                      But he acted worse. Wade went for the toddler's trifecta, using pantomime to blame his poor play on injury, then whining to referees for help and finally getting in the face of his own coach, Erik Spoelstra, who tried to defuse their third-quarter incident afterward by saying it was no big deal, it was the kind of thing that happens all the time, here a cliché, there a cliché, everywhere a cliché-cliché.

                      Truth? Wade was a total jerk. If that happens all the time, fine. Wade is a jerk all the time. But only in the past week has Wade been such a ridiculously bad guy that it's been impossible to ignore.

                      It started in Game 2, when Wade pouted after a non-call by ignoring the ball going the other way to stay on the offensive end and gestured angrily, like he's Dwight Howard or something. Then when he went back to the other side of the court, still a few seconds behind the action, he was in the right place to defend a run out by Darren Collison. But the heck with that. Defend? Not Wade. He drilled Collison to the floor, drawing a flagrant foul.


                      After that game, an enormous win for the Pacers in Miami in Game 2, they celebrated on the court. And Wade whined about it.

                      "I saw their little celebration at the end," Wade told reporters after the game. "I don't know if they didn't expect to win, but every night we go out on the court, we expect to win."

                      That was Game 2. A blip for Wade? Maybe so. The media made very little of his misbehavior. But Game 3? We'll make a lot more of it, or we should, for two reasons. One, it happened on the heels of his Game 2 spitefulness -- but also, frankly, because it was that bad all by itself.

                      In addition to throwing angry looks and gestures at referees when he wasn't tending to his "injury" -- Wade made a point of clenching or shaking one of his hands after missed shots, as if it was bothering him -- Wade was ominously subordinate when Spoelstra said something he didn't like during a timeout. Wade loomed over his smaller coach, saying something quietly as he leaned down to stick his nose in Spoelstra's face. A teammate tried to calm him down by putting a hand on Wade's arm, but Wade jerked it away before spinning back to say more to Spoelstra, this time from a distance. The whole world saw it.


                      "I don't know what you're talking about," Wade said when asked about it after the game.

                      Spoelstra acknowledged the incident, but said it was "irrelevant," that he and Wade have a fine relationship going back several years. Which may even be true, not that it matters. Perception is everything to an athlete of Wade's stature, and he damaged our perception of him Thursday night.

                      Just like he damaged his team's hopes of winning that game. Wade was so bad, he took the heat off LeBron James -- who wasn't all that good himself. James had a subpar, for him, final line of 22 points (on 22 shots), seven rebounds, three assists and four turnovers.

                      This was James' worst game of eight in the 2012 playoffs, punctuated by failure at a time he was most determined to succeed. The sequence I'm talking about came late in the third quarter, after Danny Granger clung to James' jersey to prevent a breakaway dunk. James stuck out his left elbow as a warning, and Granger responded by getting in James' face for a technical.

                      Then came this sequence:

                      James missed the technical free throw, causing euphoria from the crowd and this taunting gesture from Pacers reserve Lance Stephenson. Next time the Heat had the ball, James forced a 3-pointer and missed. Next possession, still determined to score, he forced a 10-footer off the glass and missed. About 50 seconds later he missed a 3-pointer as the quarter ended.

                      As famous as James is -- as polarizing as he is -- people won't be talking much today about his poor game or that awful sequence. We'll be talking about Dwyane Wade, and we'll wonder what's wrong with him. Isn't he supposed to be a great player? Didn't he used to be a good guy?

                      He wasn't in Game 2. Not in Game 3, either. Let's see what happens in Game 4.

                      Let's see if it even matters.


                      http://www.cbssports.com/nba/story/1...-terrible-game
                      Last edited by Marlin; 05-18-2012, 10:22 AM.

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                        Re: ESPN SC: D-Wade hurt *BREAKING -*** LEBRON WISHES HE COULD GET EJECTED***

                        Originally posted by vapacersfan View Post
                        EDIT 10:05 EST

                        S.A.S is on Sports Ceter right now. He said some of LeBrons boys are calling around, and saying they wish it was the regular season so LeBron could retaliate and get an ejection. He would do this to "send a message that he cannot and will not get punked". Of course, Smith said LeBron cannot do that because he would get a playoff suspension
                        Wow on multiple levels.

                        First Wow: As if he EVER does that during a regular season to begin with.

                        Second Wow: As if he's NOT a punk for swinging the elbow to begin with (back to back games, no less).

                        I'm just starting to watch Game of Thrones. These two toddlers remind me of that little blonde haired prince as of the 2nd episode of the first season (where he gets his arm bit).

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                          Re: ESPN SC: D-Wade hurt *BREAKING -*** LEBRON WISHES HE COULD GET EJECTED***

                          When the Pacers win this series, I think Miami needs to trade Wade. If he keeps acting like this, it'll make it easier locally in Miami.

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                            Re: ESPN SC: D-Wade hurt *BREAKING -*** LEBRON WISHES HE COULD GET EJECTED***

                            Funny, last night it was reported Wade was asked if he was hurt or something was wrong and he said no...

                            PG is what's wrong with Wade.

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                              Re: ESPN SC: D-Wade hurt *BREAKING -*** LEBRON WISHES HE COULD GET EJECTED***

                              Originally posted by Hicks View Post
                              Wow on multiple levels.

                              First Wow: As if he EVER does that during a regular season to begin with.

                              Second Wow: As if he's NOT a punk for swinging the elbow to begin with (back to back games, no less).
                              If this is true, watch out when the Heat have an elimination game. Could LeBron pull an Andrew Bynum?

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