Tonight the Houston Rockets travel West to take on the Golden State Warriors and get the Conference Finals underway. So now it’s time to look back at some of the best NBA videos, Vines, stories, and tweets from the second round.
Videos
The World is Watching – LeBron James: By Max Frishberg
Mad Rox: By Jason Gallagher
Vines
DAJ and Ekpe’s “handshake”
Off the heezy
CLINT
Okay Steph
Good dog
Wut
Point God Kyle Korver
He’s back
Flex to the left
I LOVE BASKETBALL
Mirotic from deep
Omg Steph
Okay Blake
The Truth
John Wall says no
First Team All-Defense
Bron Bron
Sure Steph
#Art
DERRICK
Paul
Pierce
The King
Stories
Dave McMenamin on Tristan Thompson for ESPN
Zach Lowe on the Washington Wizards for Grantland
Rob Mahoney on Mike Conley on Sports Illustrated
Ricky O’Donnell on Derrick Rose for SB Nation
Ethan Sherwood Strauss on Steph Curry for ESPN
Zach Harper on Steph Curry for CBS
Bill Simmons on Tim Duncan for Grantland
Sean Highkin on Derrick Rose for Bleacher Report
Paul Flannery on Paul Pierce for SB Nation
Jordan White on DeMarre Carroll for VICE Sports
Lee Jenkins on Austin Rivers for Sports Illustrated
Brian Phillips on Tony Allen for Grantland
Ricky O’Donnell on Tony Allen for SB Nation
Michael Wallace on Tony Allen for ESPN
Sekou Smith on Tony Allen for NBA.com
Jonathan Abrams on Josh Smith for Grantland
Matt Moore on Blake Griffin for CBS
Tom Westerholm on the San Antonio Spurs for Hardwood Paroxysm
Michael Wallace on Mike Conley for ESPN
Dan Devine on Hawks/Wizards for Yahoo
Chris Ballard on The Draft Lottery for Sports Illustrated
Zach Harper on Allen Iverson for CBS
Kevin Arnovitz on Al Horford for ESPN
Eric Freeman on Warriors/Grizzlies for Yahoo
Lee Jenkins on NBA moms for Sports Illustrated
Tweets
Hollinger!
Hollinger! pic.twitter.com/OjpNsoB6Ps
— Courtside (@courtside) May 10, 2015
Mr. West is in the building
Mr. West is in the building. @kanyewest pic.twitter.com/dZCp7UBTEi
— Chicago Bulls (@chicagobulls) May 10, 2015
Mozgod of shade
Mozgov was asked if he thought Joakim Noah was one of the NBA's better offensive rebounders: "No." Reporter then asked, top 10? Timo: "No"
— Dave McMenamin (@mcten) May 12, 2015
Look at the flick of the wrist
Bogut rapping "look at da flicka da wrist!" in the locker room
— Ethan Strauss (@SherwoodStrauss) May 16, 2015
Basketball Jesus 1
Basketball Jesus 2
“I would die for your sins, but ball is life" http://t.co/Ah39YqYHJw
— devin kharpertian (@uuords) May 12, 2015
Bad karma
this rockets comeback is karma for ballmer creating the zune
— jack (@jackhaveitall) May 15, 2015
Nature Boy
Matthew "Nature Boy” Dellavedova. WOOOOOO! @NBAonTNT pic.twitter.com/H2nT8FkuBw
— J.E. Skeets (@jeskeets) May 13, 2015
Mini Rose
I mean, I couldn't not do this... pic.twitter.com/4SwIYzSMwG
— Robby Kalland (@RKalland) May 10, 2015
Big Al
The
Answer
Happy Mother's Day. Here is Allen Iverson getting his hair braided by his mother DURING a game. No one was realer. pic.twitter.com/cUSEoj35cQ
— Art Vandelay (@KingFavre) May 10, 2015
Cyber-toothed tiger
.@Barryathree just called Paul Pierce a “cyber-toothed tiger” for his Raptors-series trolling.
— Dan Devine (@YourManDevine) May 6, 2015
Lol
Just chillin
Grizzlies made themselves very comfortable in Oracle tonight pic.twitter.com/JRZFgsIySM
— Robby Kalland (@RKalland) May 6, 2015
Truuuuu
Damn Kyrie layups still a 99
— CJ McCollum (@CJMcCollum) May 5, 2015
Bron Bron
ICYMI: Highlights from LeBron's performance vs Bulls last night pic.twitter.com/IxLcET9vW6
— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) May 13, 2015
Deal with it
. @ClayWendler is a genius pic.twitter.com/zhO7Yvf8vc
— Mike Prada. (PRAY-duh) (@MikePradaNBA) May 15, 2015
Paul
Pierce on Schröder saying the shot was lucky: "He’s a little young … He probably missed with me in 2K.”
— CBS Sports NBA (@CBSSportsNBA) May 10, 2015
Pierce
Amazing photo of the Wizards celebrating Paul Pierce’s shot (Rob Carr/Getty) http://t.co/iGSOPVlaAw pic.twitter.com/UQ1qlLaewI
— SB Nation NBA 🏀 (@SBNationNBA) May 10, 2015
The
Paul Pierce on Paul Millsap saying the Hawks “internally” won Game 1: “I don’t even know what that means.”
— Jorge Castillo (@jorgecastillo) May 5, 2015
Truth
After Paul Pierce hit go-ahead 3-pointer, he looked at Hawks bench and said "Series."
— Chris Vivlamore (@CVivlamoreAJC) May 14, 2015
Crying M(vp)J
I should have just stayed off twitter tonight pic.twitter.com/AyG54NJkQ8
— CJ Fogler account may or may not be notable (@cjzero) May 6, 2015
No respect for Niko
LeBron, after being fouled by Mirotic on the break, walks towards CLE bench, gestures to his arm where Niko hit him: "I don't feel that"
— Dave McMenamin (@mcten) May 12, 2015
Shaqtin a fall
My favorite #ShaqtinAFall meme comes via @FreeBeez4Mee. pic.twitter.com/AH9y7UYLcv
— J.E. Skeets (@jeskeets) May 7, 2015
Austin Rivers
Banked in game-winners
Hey @cavs,
— Atlanta Hawks (@ATLHawks) May 10, 2015
Will you sign this with us? http://t.co/4kQElbA6io pic.twitter.com/CaryMS3tMt
Yeezy
When @kanyewest does an impromptu performance at the #Bulls game.. pic.twitter.com/t0FBB2KSse
— Chicago Bulls (@chicagobulls) May 10, 2015
Hawwweeesssss
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— Zach Harper (@talkhoops) May 17, 2015
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┛┗┛┗┛┃ノ)
┓┏┓┏┓┃ LET'S
┛┗┛┗┛┃ SIGN
┓┏┓┏┓┃ SPENCER
┛┗┛┗┛┃ HAWES
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Lester Hudson loves Boomhauer
The only thing I remember about Lester Hudson's time with the Celtics is he once did a great Boomhauer impersonation.
— Paul Flannery (@Pflanns) May 7, 2015
Roller skating Steve Kerr
MARK JACKSON: it shows you how hard it is to win in this league
— Ethan Booker (@Ethan_Booker) May 9, 2015
STEVE KERR: *roller-blades backwards past the scorer's table* not that hard
Peak Swaggy P
The download of Swaggy p swag is in full mode these days ....
— Nick Young (@NickSwagyPYoung) May 13, 2015
!!!
— Peeje👍🏻 (@PeejeT) May 15, 2015