Bout It (How the Pacers turned up the music and took the Cavs to the streets)

"You can't take that wit cha playboy!"

Bernard Williams, the English moral philosopher, once said, “Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.” Jamais Cascio, design strategist, gave it to us like this, “Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such health being threatened.” Then Beth Brooke, the Global Vice Chair of Public Policy for Ernst & Young, shut it down with, “It’s not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It’s the setback. It’s the loss.”

Well playas…the Indiana Pacers have lost enough and had enough setbacks this year to understand exactly what ole girl was sayin’! Not to mention tryin’ to overcome boyz bein’ injured and cats comin’ in and out of the line-up. So on Friday night with LeBron and Co. rollin’ into town on a 12-game winnin’ streak all of that resilience kicked in for the Pacers. After tradin’ punches with one the Eastern Conference’s hottest teams they eventually walked out of the joint with a 103-99 victory.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! The Cavs came into the spot bumpin’ that DJ Khaled “All I Do Is Win” joint with the windows cracked to eye brow with the seat leaned back as far as it goes. Boyz jumped out takin’ jewelry and sneakers in first quarter shootin’ like an American Sniper! At the end of the first quarter they were shootin’ 65 percent from the field bruh and at one point durin’ the first half they were clickin’ on all cylinders at 68 percent pimpin’.

LeBron went right at Solomon Hill “Solo” from the word go! Ole boy took him right down into the post and took his brand new Jordan’s, parachute pants and ole school Member’s Only jacket. After the first few possessions I thought that Solo was gonna be on the new abuse video that the league was gonna put out next week on how not to get taken advantage of in front of 18 thousand people.

However, the Pacers survived the initial onslaught by tradin’ punches with these boyz as they settled down, turned up the Master P “Bout it” joint and went to work!

All five starters came out of the whip with double figures on a boy. CJ Miles came out of the left rear with 26 points shootin’ like an American Gangster at 50 percent from the field and 40 percent from downtown. Now the difference between an American Sniper and an American Gangster is that the Sniper is on duty for the government and the gangster is puttin’ in work for the hood just so you know.

George Hill came out of the driver seat with 20 and throwin’ 7 dimes! The homie David West jumped out of the other rear joint with 20 on GP. Then Ole Roy Hibbert climbed off of the hump, put the Skittles and cornbread down and threw 11 into the kitty.

By the time boyz finished squabbin’ and shootin’ on Pennsylvania Ave., the Cavaliers where drivin’ away with an “L” lookin’ for the “L” to try to forget about the one that got away. Up next Charlotte and stop me when I start lyin’! Make sure to check out all of the behind the scenes video of this game right here in "Pacers Cred." 

Playas Thesaurus:   1) Playas: noun – anybody that I’m talkin’ to male or female, if you’re listenin’ or readin’ it applies to you.
2) Ole girl: noun – the lady that I’m talkin’ about, the female in question
3) Windows cracked at eye brow: verb phrase – the act of ridin’ through the hood with your tinted windows slightly crack to only show the top of your head down to your eye brow. That’s when a boy wants to be seen but wants you to wonder who that was rollin’ by.
4) Pimpin’: noun – whoever I’m talkin’ to at the time
5) Ole Boy: the guy that I’m talkin’ about, the male in question
6) Whip: noun – car, vehicle, primarily a luxury joint with crazy sounds. It ain’t a whip without wood the wood grain playa.
7) Dime: verb – the act of throwin’ an assist
8) GP: adverb – Short for “General Purposes” which means just because. It’s an adverb because it qualifies the verb or word group that expresses the relation of circumstance playa.
9) Joint: noun – whatever I’m talkin’ about playboy! You’ve got to be able to listen to the context clues to keep up. You learn what a context clue is in 3^rd grade playa so if you can’t figure this out I can’t help you.
10) Hump: noun – the old school hump in the middle of the backseat that nobody wanted to sit on.
11) Pennsylvania Ave.: noun – the street that Bankers Life Fieldhouse is on.
12) “L”: noun – the loss and the liquor store
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