NBA FINALS BINGO 2017: Play along during Warriors-Cavaliers Round 3
BINGO remains the viewing accompaniment of sophisticates, and SB Nation remains the original source for such materials.
The NBA Finals are here! To enhance your viewing enjoyment we have created this BINGO card to help you keep track of everything you might see throughout the Cavs-Warriors series.
The rules:
- You can only use the main broadcast on ABC to fill out this card. This means that only things that happen during actual gameplay are up for play, nothing postgame, no warm-ups, etc.
- We’ll be posting updates on @SBNationNBA to help you out, but also please call out anything you might see.
- If you disagree and feel we’ve missed something, that’s fine, too. It’s your card, after all.
- This is the only card we’ve created, we don’t have any others in a different order, so everyone will either win or lose at the same time.
- Four in a row wins! But keep it going through the whole series. Unless by some miracle everything happens in the first night. But hey, even then, you could try to win another way, or go for covering the whole board.
The card’s references, briefly explained
Broadcast makes a 3-1 lead reference: This is a remembrance of the 73-9 Warriors with a unanimous MVP that blew a 3-1 lead in the 2016 NBA Finals.
Draymond lifts his leg into another player: This has to be in a current game, it can’t be a replay of the other 9,387 times he’s done it. Yes, this is when he kicks someone, let’s be clear.
LeBron talks to fan in the crowd: He may trash-talk a fan’s shoe choice courtside or pretend to drink a beer. Any of these count.
Steph Curry shimmy: It will look something like this.
“Is LeBron better than Jordan?”: We aren’t answering this question right now but someone will probably try it.
“Mama there goes that man!”: Mark Jackson is known for saying this during games when a player gets into a zone. So if he says it, you win.
Steph makes one from the center court logo (or beyond!): Steph Curry is known for having range from just about anywhere on the court. He made this.
Drake appearance: Drake is a huge NBA fan, and is quite close with the Curry family. You might see him courtside at a game.
Jeff Van Gundy minute-long rant about something unrelated to the game: JVG has a tendency to ramble during games, especially if a game isn’t close. He’ll speak about whatever is on his mind at the moment.
JaVale McGee does something Shaqtin’ worthy: A Shaqtin’ moment is when a player does something silly during a game and JaVale has had his share of moments over the years, like below.
Riley Curry sighting: Steph used to bring his daughter to press conferences, where she stole the spotlight. Maybe she’ll do the same from the crowd.
Dancing Warriors mom: She’s pretty great.
Draymond Green celebration flex: You get the idea.
Kevin Love throws an outlet pass to LeBron James outlet for a dunk: Kevin Love is one of the greatest outlet passers we’ve ever seen, and him throwing a full-court outlet pass to LeBron is one of the best things in sports. Let’s hope we get a lot of these.
Baby who won’t remember the game: Folks, it’s a nice gesture, but your kid really doesn’t care that you brought them to see this.
Broadcast mentions that LeBron was born/from/grew up in Akron, Ohio: It’s where LeBron is from, and no one will ever let you forget it.
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