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This is not the confidence game.

It is not.

It is the LeBron Concern game, which is different than the confidence game.

See, the confidence game is something we play every other day of the week,

but on this day it's different.

It's all about how concerned are you?

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If you thought the Boston Celtics would get into the fetal position and start

sucking their thumb like DeMarsen did in the last round of the NBA playoffs,

you are greatly mistaken.

You are greatly mistaken.

I tried to tell you.

You did not listen to me last week.

That's a bad job by you.

I barely remember when the NBA playoffs were going on.

We had like a two-month gap between the last series of games and now the continuation with the conference finals beginning over the weekend.

But I pointed out very eloquently back in the old days when we previewed this series

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