The NBA's Eastern Conference Quaterfinals series between the Cleveland Cavs and the Washington Wizards series has started to heat up on and off the court. There has been a lot of trash talk and hard fouls in the series between these two teams. Before the series began Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas wrote in his blog that he wanted to face the Cavs in the playoffs saying that we know we can beat them. Other members of the Wizards have also called Cavs forward Lebron James overrated.
The Cavs are currently winning the best of 7 series 3-1 right now. After Game 4 of the series Lebron said after the game that he thought the Wizards had commited many hard fouls and were trying to hurt him. Wizards center Brendan Haywood responded to Lebron comments by mocking him today and saying were just playing basketball, were just going out there and trying to win. I think that Haywood is right. I feel Lebron has done too much complaining about the hard play in the series. This is the playoffs, it's supposed to be intense. I also think Lebron shouldn't be complaining because I believe if you watch the games you would agree he does get the majority of foul calls go his way. I'm not saying Lebron isn't a great player because he is definetely one of the best players in the NBA today but he tends to get some star treatment from the officiating crew most of the time.
I think that all this trash talk is good for the game. It's pretty clear that these two teams don't like each other that much and they have developed a good rivalry over the last few years. Gilbert Arenas made another comment today saying that he didn't think this series was over and he guaranteed that his team would come back and win the series. Even though the Wizards are down I don't think the series is over yet. The Wizards have shown that they won't quit and still believe they can win. Game 5 is Wednesday night in Cleveland and it should be interesting.
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