Jun 21, 2012; Miami, FL, USA; Miami Heat small forward LeBron James (6) celebrates with the Bill Russell mvp trophy after winning the NBA championship in game five of the 2012 NBA Finals at the American Airlines Arena. The Heat defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder 121-106. Mandatory Credit: Steve Mitchell-US PRESSWIRE

“It’s about damn time.” That’s what LeBron James said after winning his first title Thursday night.

Well, now it’s about damn time to take a look at how the web reacted to it.

For a look at how the Finals were won, check out this blog from Time Magazine:

There’s real joy in James’ game. Sure, you can still hold the “Decision” against him, and dock James points for not winning that first title in Cleveland. But give him credit: LeBron James loves sharing the basketball. The Heat finished with 14 three-point shots on Thursday, tying a Finals record, and Miami’s downtown barrage all starts with LeBron. He draws the attention, then throws perfect pitches to his open teammates. Jordan and Kobe Bryant are cold-blooded scorers: they passed when they had to.

For a look at how the Thunder felt after the Finals were lost, check out USA Today:

“If you’re going to feel sorry for yourself, you might as well not come to the game tonight,” Thunder coach Scott Brooks said of the Western Conference champions after his team’s morning shoot-around. “There’s no reason to hide from this moment.”

The New York sports media couldn’t keep the Knicks out of the conversation, even though the Heat knocked them out a month ago (via the New York Daily News):

The Knicks aren’t going to beat the Heat the way the Knicks of the 1990s couldn’t beat Michael Jordan… That is the fact of the NBA season that just ended as much as the fact of what James and Wade and Bosh and their supporting cast did to Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook, the beatdown they gave them in Game 5.

And then there was twitter.

Via Dan Gilbert (Cavs owner, James hater):

Great NBA season. Enjoyedplayoffs. Congratulations to Miami & OKC for an exciting Finals. Back to work on next weeks promising Cavs draft.

— Dan Gilbert (@cavsdan) June 22, 2012

Notice anything missing from that tweet?

The season that almost wasn’t is now over, but with the draft less than a week away keep you Internet dial tuned into RobertoGato.com for all the prospect, free agent, and trade news you can handle.

Jun 17 2012; Miami, FL, USA; Miami Heat shooting guard Dwyane Wade (3) shoots over Oklahoma City Thunder center Kendrick Perkins (5) during the fourth quarter of game three in the 2012 NBA Finals at the American Airlines Arena. The Heat defeated the Thunder 91-85. Mandatory Credit: Robert Mayer-US PRESSWIRE

The Miami Heat are the new favorite to win the NBA finals after beating the Oklahoma City Thunder in game three at home.

Jun 12, 2012; Oklahoma City, OK, USA; The Oklahoma City Thunder mascot waves a flag on the court during the first quarter of game one in the 2012 NBA Finals at Chesapeake Energy Arena. Mandatory Credit: Mark D. Smith-US PRESSWIRE

Game one of the NBA Finals had a little bit of everything. Big leads, big runs to cut those leads and big performances from the two best players in the game.

LeBron James dropped 30 and nine, while Kevin Durant poured in 36 and eight.

Russell Westbrook outplayed Dwayne Wade, but Chris Bosh (barely) outplayed James Harden.

If you took a look at the box score from some of the other players, though, you’d think the game would’ve swung the Heat’s way.

Shane Battier scored 17 points. Mario Chalmers had 12 points and six assists.

Kendrick Perkins only had four points and seven rebounds. James Harden only had five points and three assists.

But, Durant and Westbrook were just too good.

Serge Ibaka was Bosh’s equal.

After the second half started, Miami just couldn’t hang with the Thunder.

Colin Cowherd called it. As much as I hate to admit it, that pompous, elitist (or traditionalist as he calls himself) front-runner called it. “105-95 Thunder” he said (one point off. Nostradamus wasn’t exactly right all the time). “Miami would be worn out” he predicted.

Well he was right.

Only time will tell if his final prediction was right. “Game one won’t look like the rest of the series.”

In my opinion, game one will, for the most part, look like the rest of the series.

The Thunder are the team that will win “not one, not two…”

The Thunder are ready for this.

Last night proved it.

Rivers: Do you even know what a real chrage looks like any more, Joey? Because I'll show you if your memory needs a kick start! Mandatory Credit: David Butler II-US PRESSWIRE

It was a crazy (controversial?) night, but in the end, it was the Celtics who came out on top in game four of the Eastern conference finals of the NBA playoffs.

LeBron James flopped Kevin Garnett into his third foul of the game just as Rajon Rondo was driving uncontested to the rim for a possible game winning layup with less than 25 seconds to play.

The King’s acting had no effect on the outcome of the first four quarters of play, though, because Udonis Haslem bricked a 15 foot jumper at the buzzer on the very next possession.

Then, in the opening minute of overtime, Paul Peirce bumped into Shane Battier, who, of course, went flying. Peirce fouled out.

But Karma would catch up to the King and his court.

Just a few minutes later, the game still hanging in the balance, James tried to post up Michael Pietrus, who, of course, fell down. James fell with him, and the officials called him for the charge.

It wasn’t the right call, but it felt right after the way regulation ended.

Rondo was special again, putting in a solid night’s work with 15 points, 15 assists and five rebounds. Pierce scored 23 and added six rebounds before his departure, and every Boston starter scored in double figures.

A report on ESPN says Chris Bosh could be back for game five in Miami if there are no set backs with his rehab.

The Oklahoma City Thunder tied up their Western conference finals series with the San Antonio Spurs in game four 109-103.

Durant had a near triple-double (36 points, eight assists and six rebounds) and Serge Ibaka went 11 of 11 from the floor on his way to a 26 point, five rebound, three block performance.

The game was an all-out slug fest, though.

Both teams shot at least 50 percent from the floor, the Spurs hit 11 threes, and neither team was too loose with the ball.

The game was won on the boards (OKC out-rebounded the Spurs by 10) and because of how the Thunder got their points; San Antonio had 17 assists compared to Oklahoma City’s 27. The Thunder got more easy looks out of the flow of their offense, and the Spurs had to rely on their players getting creative in order to score.

That series will switch back to San Antonio for game five tonight at 9 p.m. on TNT.

June 1, 2012; Boston, MA, USA; Boston Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo (9) calls out as they take on the Miami Heat during the second half in game three of the Eastern Conference finals of the 2012 NBA playoffs at TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: David Butler II-US PRESSWIRE

Rajon Rondo shined in the NBA playoffs once again, and who would’ve thought? Certainly not this guy, who wrote a little somethin’ somethin’ about the Celtics PG being the best at his position in the league yesterday.

Number nine scored 21 points, dished out 10 assists and pulled down six rebounds on the way to a 101-91 Celtics win over the Heat in game three of the Eastern conference finals.

Rondo also shot 56 percent from the floor and nabbed a pretty steal in transition to thwart the James-to-Wade highlight show.

Kevin Garnett was pretty good too. He dropped 24 (points) and 11 (rebounds) and finished the night a +27.

Miami missed ten of its 20 free-throws and shot just 29 percent from behind the arc.

After destroying the Spurs in game three of the Western conference finals, Kevin Durant, Russel Westbrook and James Harden wil try to tie the series up in game four tonight.

The Thunder rode a balanced offensive attack (five players in double figures) and a nasty (to steal a great word from Spurs coach Greg Popovich) defensive effort (19 forced turnovers) to victory the last time out.

Tonight it’ll probably take a little more offensively from their Big Three if they’re going to escape the wrath of the Spurs for a second straight game.

Not because of the play on the court.

Not because Miami fans still can’t seem to figure out what time playoff games start.

Instead it was because the officials who refereed the game lacked the guts to kick players out of a game for nothing short of thuggish actions.

First there was this play:

A pretty hard foul, but, in my opinion, not excessive. Tyler Hansbrough made contact with the ball first, then his momentum carried his hand into Wade’s head.

I guess a flagrant one is fine, though. Wade was bleeding after all.

But then there was this crap:

Udonis Haslem’s only purpose on this play was to send Hansbrough a message.

Forget making an attempt at the basketball; Haslem barely made contact with Hansbrough’s ARM. The Heat big man went straight through the former Tarheel’s face and it boggles my mind that none of the officials could figure that out.

This goes beyond ignorance, not being able to see the play correctly or just missing the call. These refs knew Miami was already without Chris Bosh and they knew if they kicked Haslem out, it would leave Miami with Juwan Howard (almost in old people diapers), Joel Anthony (10.3 PER, undersized), Ronny Turiaf (lol) and Dexter Pittman (Don’t worry I didn’t know who he was until yesterday, either) to man the paint. And that’s all I’ll say about that.

Speaking of Pittman…

A dead man could’ve made the correct call on this play.

You know, until this happened, I really did think the refs made the wrong choice on the Haslem play because they didn’t want the Heat to be at a disadvantage.

After they called Pittman’s backwards clothesline a flagrant one, though, I figured the crew just had a collective education level on par with a sixth grader.

The NBA should suspend Haslem for game six. It’s going to suspend Pittman.

It should also suspend Jason Phillips, Derrick Stafford and Greg Willard for the rest of the playoffs, because they’re the referees who turned this game into a laughing stock.