can't understand people not liking the NBA.

Not having KD playing is making it easier on them.

Players deciding to team up

“Branding”

Some players interest in social justice and political activism

The league dominated by black players

The commissioner being a “players” commissioner.

Lots of reasons good bad and indifferent that people have lost interest. I think it’s too bad as the NBA has never had this many stars in the league it’s pretty impressive.

Kuwai is a man child out there.....wish KD was healthy as he would be negating Ibaka and Siakam. I’m kind of perplexed with Draymond’s shooting which seems to have gone to pot. I think we’re seeing the toll the western conference has taken on GSW compared to the path the Raptors had outside the Bucks. I’ve been working so much I haven’t gotten to watch one single game.

Now Nick is hangin with Canadian wrappers and stuff.

I think that the teaming up of players will eventually be such a detriment to the league it will have to figure out a better way to block it than to give super max contracts. People like competition and teams like the Warriors are not the fans favorite. I think the league would benefit greatly by having a superstar on every team. The NFL has figured it out in that department. The lottery is also a joke, they should keep it simple and draft by regular season records.

I think that the Raptors had a much tougher time getting tot he finals than the Warriors imo. The west was not as strong as people perceive it to be. Houston was worse than last year with a terrible defense and Harden their only consistent scorer. Chris Paul should not be considered among the league's best players anymore, age and injuries have caught up to him. Other than them the Blazers were a lock to lose, while Kahwi had to beat a Sixers team that might have played below their talent but still pushed them to the final shot of game 7. A Bucks team that had the regular season best record and one of the most athletic players in the NBA.

Lebron is gone but I think the east got better without him. I thought the Raptors would steal 1 game because Kawhi is just that good, but this is the perfect storm for Toronto. Injuries and great play are making them look like the best team this series!

What's not to understand?

Their players just might have the lowest percentage of drug test failures, in game brawls, off the court garbage, domestic violence...I may be wrong but can't recall much trouble in years.

Part of the reason is the players are actually partners in the league's success,

nothing like having an equity stake to keep crap from ruining things. The calls to rein in the players is saying for the owners to clamp down...I think that is backfiring in the popularity of other sports that dominate players and contracts.

and they are probably the finest athletes in the world.

It's not Durant's absence, they are playing tremendous defense and catching a team that has had a glorious run and is just a step past peak.

It's not over, LeBron beat a younger Warriors team a few years ago down 3-1 (am I correct?).

And if G.S. can force a game 7, will make this year even greater.

Too bad the Celts banked on Kyrie to step up like the modest superstar Leonard has done. This may have been the year to end the Warriors' reign.

Sorry, Frankie... you'ze wrong on this one.

I think golden state is tired. The number of playoff games they’ve played over the last several years took their toll. Maybe no blowouts, and typical NBA finishes but the tank seems empty to me. The raptors have that next gear.

And I do not think Durant would tip the scale. How much of his injury is the result of the grind anyway. It’s not as if he would be 100% anyway given all of the above.

All that aside GS can still win this if they dig deep. That’s what true champions do.

yup.

Nope

Okay, so? He's the best player in the game by almost every experts account. At least #2.

You can't say that doesn't matter. It does. Bigly.

My friend Ed... Ed Zachary...

Not even close to hockey on all of those counts (outside of the in game brawls which is part of the game). Finest athletes too, their conditioning is phenomenal and what they can do on 1/8” of steel blades is incredible. And when 6’9” 250lbs. of chiseled muscle flops on the court from a phantom foul and needs to be carried off the court by several teammates the hockey player that loses a handful of chicklets comes off to get stitched up and right back out there without missing 2 shifts.

KD? If he was an NHLer he’d be out there playing with an undisclosed lower body injury and Khawi wouldn’t even be in Toronto because he’d have played in San Antonio and not worked his way out of town on what his teammates thought was a bogus injury.