06/28/25
June 05, 2025
SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
That game had everything except dancing horses and a chainsaw juggler.
posted by Ufez Jones at 03:12 PM on June 05, 2025
NBA Finals will start with game 2. Stuff I'm doing for SPSFC ran long.
posted by rcade at 05:36 PM on June 05, 2025
Indy/OKC game 1. What the hell happened? LOL Gotta love the playoffs.
posted by NoMich at 11:09 PM on June 05, 2025
Thunder's gonna Knick.
You lose Game 1 at home to this Pacers group, it could be tough sledding.
Once again, Haliburton ran a bit quiet till the 4th.
A lot of guys go berserk in the 1st period and then vanish.
OKC has a good coach. He started Holmgren at the 5 and didn't get much out of him. Looking forward to seeing the Game 2 lineups. They need what Holmgren brings, when he brings it.
It's a crime that a game like that didn't have Kevin Harlan on the game call. Hell, I'd take Noah Eagle over Breen and Jefferson.
Think how colorful this series would be if the Thunder had never relocated and were still wearing Sonics unis.
posted by beaverboard at 11:40 AM on June 06, 2025
Stanley Cup Finals Game 1: Banger of a game, 90 seconds of 4 on 3!, ends late in OT
NBA Finals Game 1: Fun, fast-paced game, incredible late comeback, winning shot hit with 3.0 seconds left
Neutral fans are feasting this June.
posted by Ufez Jones at 03:51 PM on June 06, 2025
I am truly neutral on the NBA Finals, but for hockey, as time goes on I find myself rooting more *for* Canada getting the Cup back instead of my initial *against* Florida.
posted by NoMich at 05:27 PM on June 06, 2025
No, yeah, I'm with you and all, it'd just be a little easier if it weren't the team the Stars had just lost to in the conference finals for the second year in a row.
posted by Ufez Jones at 06:00 PM on June 06, 2025
The Cup has to go to Canada, so there can be a jubilant scene with the hockey fiend PM in Ottawa while the Clemson style McDonalds champions' banquet goes cold and gelatinous at the White House.
I'm worried about the NBA champs celebrating at the White House because those guys make so much money that they want to go to the Lawn to pump for investment and capital gains tax cuts. Shake a hand, smooth a perm, save a mil.
It took an extraordinary amount of tectonic shift for former staunch Republican Charles Barkley to finally declare that the GOP had lost their minds and jump ship.
A Black man from Alabama going to the mat for the Southern Strategy party of Nixon until all reason was abandoned.
What if the Pacers won and went to celebrate with Mike Pence?
posted by beaverboard at 07:15 PM on June 06, 2025
Eins! Zwei! Drai! Saitl! Fear!