Who Wins the Series?

  • GSW in 4

    Votes: 52 9.0%
  • GSW in 5

    Votes: 113 19.5%
  • GSW in 6

    Votes: 144 24.9%
  • GSW in 7

    Votes: 32 5.5%
  • TOR in 4

    Votes: 7 1.2%
  • TOR in 5

    Votes: 38 6.6%
  • TOR in 6

    Votes: 100 17.3%
  • TOR in 7

    Votes: 93 16.1%

  • Total voters
    579
  • Poll closed .

supertrekker

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A lot of similarities between that Pistons team and this Raptor team.

Both faced a team from the state of California
B. Wallace/FVV -both went undrafted.
Billups/Lowry -traded multiple times early in their careers and then became 5 time all stars
R. Wallace/Gasol - both are big men acquired at the trade deadline.
Prince/OG -both were drafted with the 23rd overall pick 2 years before they played in the NBA finals.
Coaches Larry Brown/Nick Nurse - Larry Brown won his first NBA title in his first season as the Pistons head coach. Nick Nurse is in his first season as the Raptors head coach.

just as I predicted. did any of you tell ESPN

Much has been made of Toronto having zero lottery picks left on its roster, but they used their lottery picks in that asset-accumulation mode. Bargnani became Jakob Poeltl (thanks, Knicks!), who became an important piece in the Kawhi Leonard trade, along with DeRozan, a former No. 9 pick. Jonas Valanciunas, the No. 5 pick in 2011, became the centerpiece of the Marc Gasol deal -- Toronto's version of the 2004 Detroit Pistons' (perhaps the Raptors' closest analog as a convention-busting champion) Rasheed Wallace acquisition.

(Lowry in this analogy is Chauncey Billups -- the late-blooming star point guard. The Pistons even moved on from an accomplished coach in Rick Carlisle the year before their title run, and hired Larry Brown -- just as Toronto fired Casey and replaced him with Nick Nurse.)

Lowe: Can any NBA team possibly replicate what Toronto just pulled off?
 

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Spain been hiding them big tittys

I dated this little Spanish chick in high school. She was barely 5' tall and a tiny little body yet had some pretty big tittys. When my buddy first saw her he said to me. fukk I've never seen a Spanish chick that didn't have big t*ts.
 

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Spain been hiding them big tittys

I dated this little Spanish chick in high school. She was barely 5' tall and a tiny little body yet had some pretty big tittys. When my buddy first saw her he said to me. fukk I've never seen a Spanish chick that didn't have big t*ts.
 
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