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After going seven-for-eight from three-point land in the Miami Heat's clinching victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder, it seemed like Mike Miller could do no wrong last night. Then he tried to shake Stuart Scott's hand. Via The Basketball Jones ...

When you are a player with the talent - "talents," even - of LeBron James, the expectation is not that you will someday win an NBA championship; the expectation is that you will win several. This has made LeBron's struggles - again, "struggles" - over the first nine years of his career both more intense and more formidable: Because he is expected to never lose, his rare failures loom far larger than his many successes. But those failures have themselves stacked up now, to the point that the consensus is that LeBron has earned a championship now. Tonight, he can get it. Related: LeBron and the Heat Are One Game Away From Their Title The Heat, up 3-1 in the NBA Finals over the Oklahoma ...

Sometimes it's the simple fan signs that work the best. This guy clearly didn't put a lot of time or thought into writing "Jon Barry sucks" on a piece of plain, white paper, but he definitely got his message across to America. ...