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The Warriors lost no games until the finals and Cleveland only lost once before they bowed out to Golden State in five games. In the playoffs, both teams eased their way to the finals. The league has been dominated by Golden State from the West and Cleveland in the Eastern Conference. Just one year prior, Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers came back from a 3-1 deficit to beat Steph Curry and Golden State in the finals.
They won all but one playoff game en route to the NBA title this season which was not a surprise to many. Oklahoma City were one of the first examples of a super team after the Heat and now Golden State has taken over as the power of the league.
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NBA commissioner Adam Silver has shown a free market approach to the league and has allowed many trades and signings in order to assemble super teams. In the NBA, super teams and superstars are often the deciding factor before the game even starts. College basketball is more focused on defense and in March Madness, anyone can win. Many contend that college basketball is more entertaining because of the deep rivalries and the style of play. They often view it as a lot of fanfare for a product that does not really impress with “real” basketball. Many sports fans find it hard to watch the NBA. Manning later stated, “Remember that tonight it doesn’t matter who wins or loses just like the NBA regular season.”
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Peyton was full of NBA rips throughout the night as he proceeded to hammer home the negativity and criticism of basketball. Westbrook showed clear disdain for Durant following his relocation to the California coast and games featuring the two stars often got chippy. He went on to bring Durant’s former teammate in Oklahoma City, Russell Westbrook, to the joke. The entire video was filmed in black and white to give off darkness, which is what our world is filled with as of now: hatred, sadness, and violence. The 7-minute-long video detailed Lamar as being an idol in the black community today. On June 30, Lamar released the video to the single “Alright" after performing the hit at the annual BET Awards. Turner then explains how spirituals are sung at her church with everyone from different age groups and genders singing in harmony and chanting the words, “it’s like electricity.” Comparing that to Lamar’s “Alright,” the chorus of the song is what all shouts and sings together to soothe the pain of their surroundings: “Alls my life I has to fight, n*ggaīut if God got us we then gon' be alrightĭo you hear me, do you feel me? We gon' be alrightĭo you hear me, do you feel me? We gon' be alright” Lucille Price Turner wrote a research essay titled "Negro Spirituals in the Making," where she detailed the reasons why Negro spirituals were relevant before and explained how they still are today: “Spirituals were the expression of a primitive and deeply religious people under stress of slavery and that the making of negro spirituals in America had passed with the conditions that produced it.” Kendrick Lamar released this album to keep his audience aware of the present. The civil disruption between Caucasian individuals and Black individuals has been ongoing for centuries but has continuously gotten even more violent. Songs such as “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” and “Before I’d Be A Slave, Oh Freedom ” are what our ancestors sang along to with the new generation, we have the same inspiration, yet different songs to play. From slavery days to the civil rights movement era, the Black community would always have a song or chant to scream about their upcoming freedom in the clouds they would shout to the heavens while the slavemaster would whip their backs or the water hoses would be set upon them.
One song in particular, titled “Alright,” rages with enthusiastic beats and has a structured chant as the chorus to remind us as the black race that “we gon’ be alright." Lamar’s song reminds me of a new age Negro spiritual, since we have been down before and will slowly rise up again.
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