Playin' to Win

LeBron: "Yep that should do it!" Lance: "C'mon bruh!"

Keith Henson, the famous writer on space engineering, once said, “The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.” Jack Welch, the former CEO of GE,  just kept it real when he said, “If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” Sweet Lou, the hustler from around the way, shut the building down with, “If you ain’t cheatin’ you ain’t tryin'!”

I’ve been blown away at why NBA fans are getting fired up at boyz for flopping this  playoffs season. During the Eastern Conference Finals while the Pacers and Heat were going at it, fans were livid with D. Wade, LeBron, David West and Lance Stephenson for flopping.

More importantly, Pacers fans were “HOTTTTT” with LeBron because in their minds he’s the best player on the planet so why should he be flopping? I’m sitting there like, why not? You don’t become the best player in the game because of skill set alone. You become the best because of your ability to think and take advantage of your opponent as well. Flopping is just one facet of the game. The art is knowing WHEN to do it.

It’s called gamesmanship playboy! There is no reason not to flop when given the opportunity to! If the NBA is only going to fine cats $5,000 per flop then that tells me that the NBA isn’t trippin’ on them flopping.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! If it’s only gonna cost LeBron or any player for that matter $5G’s to flop and he makes $20 million a year. He’s got 4 or 5 of those fines in his pocket at all times bruh! That’s trick off money pimpin’! So since they’re knee deep into the playoffs they aren’t hangin’ out right now. So I say spend the trick off money on the paying the fines.

 If he can draw a foul and get possession of the ball or possibly get to the charity stripe for essentially nothing or for free because the refs aren’t catching every flop, then why not? Unless the league threatens a boy with an ejection and a suspension after the first flop then there is no deferent to flop. Let’s see, pay the fines and do things that can help you win a championship or not flop at all to save the bread you were gonna trick off anyway and not take advantage of situations and hurt your chances of winning a championship? You do the math.  

That’s like the state telling you that if you speed its only gonna cost you $10 but you can speed as much as you want. Just make sure you pay the fine. Boyz would gamble with paying the fine all day long bruh.

Charging a cat that makes $15 or $20 million dollars $5G’s is like hitting the average cat up for $3! If I were LeBron I would give the league 100 stacks and just pre-pay those joints at the beginning of the playoffs and tell a boy to give me my change back when we're done. I'd pull a hood move on GP just because I could and give those duns in the league office a Rush card already pre-loaded.

It’s called competing playboy and using the rules to your advantage. If the league didn’t want flopping there would be no flopping. So since the league wants it you got it! On some real talk, Pacers fans should be ashamed of themselves for complaining about cats flopping because their all-time hero Reggie Miller invented the flop. They should just call it the "Reggie" and quit playin'! He lived off of it down the stretch of his career when he took them to the Finals in 2000.

If it wasn’t for his legacy we wouldn’t know anything about the flop! So stop it, just stop it bruh! Take the “L” and go to the crib! Don’t hate the player hate the game. How is flopping any different from a cat jumping into another player that has already jumped up to block his shot and drawing the foul? The shooter intentionally leans into a cat that is clearly defenseless in the air that wasn’t even close to fouling him. Pacers fans, that's called a "Reggie" playa because he invented that too!

When I reminded one of my boyz, JMV, who has a hot sports radio show called "The Drive" here in Indy on 1070TheFan that Reggie Miller invented the flop. His response was, "Reggie's 3-pointers no longer count!" What? That's like telling me that Thomas Edison's wisdom no longer counts when I'm turning on the freaking lights every day!" Are you kidding me?

It’s no different than a cat falling down and playing injured during a football game because they’re out of time outs. It’s also no different than a boy knocking the ball out of bounds and then blaming it on his opponent standing next to him. It’s on the ref to call it playboy. That’s why they pay them $300 grand a year. If they do their jobs then it’s all good!

However, to get upset with the player because he’s trying to win the freaking game is ignorant. It’s called being smart and you gotta give them props for trying to win the game. In my Herm Edwards voice, “HELLO, YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME!”  Stop me when I start lyin’ playboy!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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