Hustle & Flow (Memphis 88 OKC 84)

"Not tonight mayne!"

Abraham Lincoln gave it to us like this, “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.” Thomas Jefferson broke it down this way, “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” Then my homie Julius Caesar got up and shouted, “I came, I saw, I conquered!”

Look here mayne, the Memphis Grizzles came, saw and conquered the Oklahoma City Thunder 88-84 to advance to their very first Western Conference Finals. Zach Randolph, who IS from Indiana, put up 28 points and grabbed 14 boards while Mike Conley, who’s also from Indiana, added 13 points and 11 dimes to the master mix that played all night long mayne.

When Russell Westbrook went down you knew that it was a wrap for OKC. As good as Kevin Durant is there was no way that he could carry those boyz through the playoffs because there wasn’t another cat that could take the pressure off of him mayne.

KD jumped out of the gate with 41 the game immediately following the Westbrook injury but there was no way he could sustain that type of production throughout the playoffs. Even if he could it would be as easy as playing the freaking New York Knicks and Melo. Let him shoot and keep everybody else in check mayne.  

Durant had the worst shooting night of his playoff career finishing with 21 points on 5 of 21 shooting! That wasn’t gonna to cut it! Especially against boyz like Zach, Tony Allen, Mike, Tayshaun and Marc Gasol who is probably the best big in the game mayne.

 

Before OKC left the floor last night they said in their DJay voice, “You in charge! Say it.” Memphis replied, “I’m in charge.” OKC, “Say it like you mean it!!” Memphis, “I’m in charge!” That’s how it goes mayne! You gotta have at least two superstars to win in this league and when one goes down it’s tough for a boy to carry the load against cats that are thirsty mayne.

It further proves my point as to why it made sense for LeBron to get out of Cleveland. OKC went from being a favorite in the West to getting darn near swept in the 2nd round in the blink of an eye mayne. Keep in mind that LeBron took some bums to the Finals by himself!

I know you're getting tired of me saying mayne today but try going to Memphis and showing up in Orange Mound and telling a boy that. If you don’t say mayne at least 100 times during a 10 minute conversation you’ll become a statistic because tourists in the hood don’t normally get out of the joint in one piece. So I’m just helping YOU out mayne. Every third sentence has to have a mayne in it or you'll be deemed suspect mayne. So it's mayne all day today because the Grizzles put it down.

What do you want me to say about the Heat advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals other than that it was a foregone conclusion mayne. How bout I just say this, LeBron put up his usual solid performance of 23 points on 14 shots. While his boy D. Wade chipped in 18 on a sore knee as ole dull “Buster Brown II” Derrick Rose sat on the sideline dressed up like Crockett and Tubbs and watched his boyz fight again.

Mad props to the Bulls for showin' suckas how it's done! Warm it up Chris! I'm about to..! My bad, I've been bumpin' the little homie all week and that joint just popped out of me. R.I.P. Chris!

Derrick Rose should wear a ski mask all summer for that $33 million that he stole this year! Can you believe that this dun was ranked 7th on the Top 10 highest paid athletes this year and he didn't show up to work not once mayne?  Stop me when I start lyin’ mayne!

Holla At Ya Boy Mayne!
Jay Graves
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The quote under the caption isn’t real but its real talk mayne!