Carjacked or Given Away? (Pacers 102 Heat 103 OT)

"Next time put gas in it before you give it away homie!"

On October 1, 1975 at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, Muhammad Ali fought Smokin’ Joe Frazier for the undisputed heavy weight championship of the world. It was called the Thrilla in Manila because Ali rhymed that it would be a “Killa and a Thrilla and a Chilla, when I get that gorilla in Manilla.” Ali won the joint with a 14^th round TKO.

Well, on Wednesday night there was a “Thrilla in Miami” playboy! Two heavy weights throwing punches all night and neither was giving up anything. There were 18 ties and 17 lead changes with the last two coming within the final 2.2 seconds in overtime before King James dropped a layup on boyz to win it at the buzzer 103-102.

Ole boy finished with a triple double in the middle of all of the madness. He put up 30 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and threw 10 dimes before going to the crib with the shakes of knowing that Indiana came to play and that they should have lost that joint.

Paul George made three free throws with 2.2 seconds remaining in overtime to go up by one. Then Pacers head man Frank Vogel had to pick his poison and he picked wrong. He decided to leave big boy Roy on the bench because of what Miami would possibly do with Bosh in that scenario.  It was like playing Russian Roulette. As he put the joint up to his temple you could hear the bullet settle into the chamber as loud as an old lady farting in line at the grocery store playa.

If you’re gonna lose make Bosh beat you bruh. The chances of him hitting a 19-footer is significantly lower than LeBron taking a boy to the rack one on one with 2.2 seconds left. Without a presence in the paint you essentially left your brand new ride running at the gas station in the middle of the ghetto as you went in to get a lottery ticket.

When you called the police and told them someone had just stolen your car. They corrected you by saying, “Nobody stole it pimpin'! You gave that joint away and we don't investigate give aways playboy! You gotta find that joint on your own.”

 Indiana had the Heat on the ropes and essentially stopped punching with 2.2 seconds left, turned their backs and got cold cocked by the best player on the planet. How in the world does the best player alive get access to the bucket without anybody picking him up? Those are the plays that win or lose championships bruh!

See, three years ago LeBron would have tried to shoot a 20-footer and it would have rimmed out. Ballgame Pacers! However, last year during the Eastern Conference Finals vs. the Celtics we saw that dun mature. He figured out right before our eyes that he was 6’8” 260 lbs. and was unstoppable one on one going to the basket when he put up 45 points and grabbed 15 boards in Game 6 to force a Game 7 to eventually get rid of Garnett and Co.

At that moment it was a wrap for the NBA because the kid had become what the old timers used to say, “A fully grown man!” Vogel let one get away from his team last night bruh and in a series like this you can’t afford to let that happen. The Pacers played too great of a game to come up empty because you left the keys in the ride with the music blasting in the projects.

Like I keep saying, it's the NBA Playoffs and you gotta win 4 of those joints to advance not just one so you can't afford to get caught sleepin' at the light, get pulled out of the joint and give it away.

Momentum is everything in a series like this. The Pacers have only won two series in NBA franchise history after dropping a Game 1! I'm just sayin' bruh! The BEST TEAM always wins the best of 7 series. Because right now the Heat are riding around Miami in Vogel's ride throwing the CD's that they don't like out of the window. So let's sit in the cut and see if he can find his whip before they strip it and have it sittin' on blocks.

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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