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Ravens Diss on Miami Heat Backfires!

Everyone's had some issues with the Miami Heat fans throughout the playoffs (life lesson: never leave a game early, especially when you have LeBron James and one of the game's best clutch shooters on your team and it's totally likely that you're going to make some miraculous comeback).
But even this random shot from the Baltimore Ravens' official Twitter account seems a bit out of nowhere: 
Baltimore Ravens        ✔ @Ravens

#BALTIMORE sure knows how to throw a party!!! #WorldChamps #Ravens pic.twitter.com/iEGWseLkBD

Though hilarious.
But, according to the Associated Press, an estimated 400,000 fans lined the sweltering streets of Miami for the parade on Monday. When the Ravens won the Super Bowl, 200,000 lined the streets, according to reports.

NBA TV Runs Spurs Championship Commercial

The San Antonio Spurs fell one victory short of capturing the fifth NBA Championship in franchise history. Someone forgot to alert NBA TV, who accidentally aired a commercial offering an assortment of Spurs championship gear.
The jerseys, the towels, the hats.  According to this ad, “everything the Spurs wore during their on-court celebration” is now available.
The ad only ran once, but that was enough for dozens of people to record it and post it….right before they headed off to the Spurs victory parade. C'mon Man!

Rugby Player With the Most Vicious Hit of the Decade [Painful Video and Gif]

We have been breathlessly covering rugby for months now. Every other day, another amazing hit shows up online. The latest comes from Ruslan Casey, a student at St. Paul’s Collegiate, a secondary school in New Zealand. Casey, who appears to be a ginger, comes out of nowhere to absolutely destroy an opponent in the open field. Most of the great rugby hits we see are head-on collisions. This one? This is a blindside hit that features some brutal shoulder into the ribs violence.

Take a look at LeBron James’ NBA Finals MVP-worthy performance, in GIF form

San Antonio’s goal in the 2013 NBA Finals, was clear. LeBron James was not going to be allowed to utilize his all-world talents driving to the hole, finishing near the rim and creating for others. If the Spurs were going to go down, it would be after James beat them from the outside – taking the sort of low-efficiency, long range shots that San Antonio has long preferred its opponents to attempt.
For a while, it worked; James was discredited as playing “passive” basketball by many outlets, watching as lesser lights like Danny Green shifted the Finals narrative. By the time Game 7 rolled around, though, James had sussed things out. He knew that, despite the relatively low shooting percentages those long jumpers usually splashed in with, he was amongst the league’s best from the outside all season.

"Don't abandon what you've done all year," LeBron claims he told himself prior to the 2012-13 season’s final showing. "If it's there, take it."

And make it, as you can see in the above Game 7 GIF from Drew Sheppard (@DShep25).

A shooter kills a would-be robber in self-defense while waiting in line to buy LeBron James’ signature shoes

LeBron James during Thursday's Game 7 (Getty Images)

Greedy shoe companies making select sneakers needlessly exclusive paired together with consumer exuberance, desperation, and American gun culture on Saturday long enough to cost one would-be alleged robber his life. Shoppers waiting in line to purchase the latest incarnation of LeBron James'  signature shoe outside Atlanta were being harassed by a reported pickpocket until one patron decided to pull a gun out and shoot the as-yet unidentified man in what is being considered a move motivated by self-defense.
Wayne Washington at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has the story:

Witnesses told one man in line outside Wish, a clothing and shoe store on Moreland Avenue, pulled out a gun and shot the would-be robber.

The shooter then got back in line, according to Channel 2 Action News.

Police have not charged anyone and for now consider the shooting to be self-defense. No additional information was being released Sunday morning, said Officer John Chafee, an Atlanta Police Department spokesman.

Only 22 pairs of the sneakers were available, but that didn’t stop nearly 50 shoppers from lining up hours before the store opened. The shooting took place at 5:30, five hours before Wish opened its doors to LeBron’s fans.
One witness says the deceased got what he deserved. From the Journal-Constitution:

“He [the shooter] really stood up for all of us,” said Taylor White, who told Channel 2 that he was in line when the shooting happened. “I salute the homie that did that.”

Here is a picture of the shoes, retailing at $180, which caused the line, the panic, and the incident:

(Courtesy LeBron James' shoe sponsor)

Miami Heat run up $100K champagne tab at post-Game 7 bash, club owner comps them again

 

By Dan Devine: The Heat drank on the house after winning Game 7. (Seth Browarnik/WorldRedEye.com)

After LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and the rest of the world champion Miami Heat — including owner Micky Arison, team president Pat Riley and head coach Erik Spoelstra — cut loose at the Miami nightclub Story following their Game 7 win over the San Antonio Spurs, there was no question that the back-to-back-championship celebration would be a big, loud, colorful, bottle-popping spectacle. The only real question was whether the victors would top the $200,000 bar tab they rolled up at LIV in June 2012 after beating the Oklahoma City Thunder for their first NBA championship.

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The answer, it seems, is no. According to ESPN.com's Darren Rovell, the team only managed to ring up a paltry $100,000 in champagne cost. (File this under "acting like you've been there before," I guess.)

While still obviously staggeringly high, the halved bar tab is sort of surprising considering, for the second straight year, the owner of the club hosting the party ensured that the Heat didn't actually have to pay for their drinks. More from Rovell:

[Club owner] David Grutman [...] said the players ordered 100 bottles of Dom Perignon and three 3-liter bottles of champagne. Grutman said the club sells the standard 750-milliliter bottles of Dom Perignon for $850 each and the club sells 3-liter bottles, called Jeroboams, for $5,000.

"I'm not going to charge the Heat," Grutman said of the $100,000 value of comped alcohol.

Well, that's nice of you, Mr. Grutman!

As a couple of readers have noted, the six-figure retail price tag likely represents something closer to $10,000 in actual outlay by the bar itself, given the markup on stuff like top-shelf booze. And while that's still quite a chunk of change, there's value in Grutman doing whatever he can to treat high-rollers like the Heat like kings to make sure they speak kindly of Story and LIV. You've got to spend money to make money, as the saying goes, and I'm betting a Story packed with non-comped fans, partiers and onlookers did a fairly bustling business on Thursday night and Friday morning. (Plus, if you didn't know what Story was before, now you do, which is worth something, right?)

While the Heat's (at least) $100,000 bar bill didn't top last year's model, it does fall in the ballpark of the bash Mark Cuban threw after his Dallas Mavericks beat the Heat in six games to win the 2011 NBA title. After that game, the Mavs' owner and his championship squad rolled through LIV and started splashing cash, with Dirk Nowitzki and company taking down a massive bottle of Ace of Spades that, by itself, cost nearly six figures. And as Rovell notes, Grutman didn't comp these Heat-beating guests:

LIV charged Cuban $90,000 for a 15-liter bottle of Arnaud de Brignac champagne, also known as Ace of Spades. Cuban didn't seem to mind; he still left a 22 percent tip.
"We were in the back because his credit card was denied," Grutman recalled. "So he called up the people at the Centurion Card and said, 'This is Mark Cuban. We just won the championship. Can I please spend some money?'"
Grutman said the purchase by the billionaire then was authorized.

Cuban later said the expense, and the $20,000 tip, was "worth every penny." As, I'm sure, was the Heat's $100,000-plus night at Story, for all involved.

Now that we've nailed down the Heat's party bar tab, just one mystery remains — how much did Shane Battier drop at Denny's? If it's anything less than $100,000, I'm going to be so bummed out.