When people up here in Cleveland aren’t talking about LeBron (and that’s really rare) they are mentioning the backboard that I broke the other night in Game 1. I didn’t even know that it happened at first and when I heard everybody yelling, `Ohhhhhh,’ I thought my dunk must have been nasty on the replay. But then I saw whole thing had come down. After that I thought we should have just played half court for a while until they could fix the goal.

You’ve got to realize that I’ve broken a few backboards in my day. I guess I’m just too dang strong for my own good. I have four under my belt now. I’ve broken the glass, rim, everything. The first time was on one of my teammates in high school. The second time was a SLAM photo shoot. And the third time was at the YMCA in Atlanta. It’s funny to me when it happens and makes me feel all strong and swole up.

We have our minds on beating the Cavs again tonight and being greedy. We got one, but we didn’t come up her to get one win. We want ‘em both and that’s all guys have talked about. We know Cleveland will come up hungry tonight and we have to match that intensity.

We got some national love after winning the Boston series and getting Game 1 the other night, but we still have a lot to prove to people. We have to get this series and gain the respect of everyone around the league. I just think that if we play hard for 48 minutes, we should be able to do what nobody thinks we can do.

It still kind of feels like the LeBron Show up here and we’re just the background actors sometimes. When I look at TV all I see is everybody wanting to see LeBron and Kobe in The Finals. It should make us upset. We feel that we have a legitimate chance of winning a NBA championship. We have the right team, right coaching staff and players to do it. It’s not going to be easy and we have to take it. We have to believe that every night.

We’ve been under the radar all year and it’s motivated us. We’ve won one game, but that doesn’t mean anything. We want to gain everybody’s respect, but you do that by winning big games and series like this. We don’t want to take anything for granted after winning one game.

We’ll be ready tonight – believe that. We know what we gotta do.

Peace out, lil’ homies. — D-12

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Tags: 2009 NBA Playoffs, 2009 NBA Season, Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers, Dwight Howard Blog, Eastern Conference Finals, J.J. Reddick, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James

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