Friday, May 11th, 2012 at 12:32 pm  |  77 responses

Contest: Win a SLAM Snap-Back Hat

Make a crazy prediction, win a fresh hat.

Move over, Christmas. No offense, but we think it’s suffice to say the NBA Playoffs are, in fact, the most wonderful time of the year. With the first round almost finished (we see you, Denver and Memphis), the postseason will soon evolve from a dogfight into an all-out war. Kevin Durant, LeBron James, Paul Pierce, Tim Duncan and plenty others are all dialed in and ready to win it, but as we know, only one team will emerge. Twelve more wins, fellas, 12 more wins. Word to LeBron’s mouthpiece.

Today, in the spirit (and craze) of the most wonderful time of the year, we are giving away two fresh, stylish, extra-dope SLAM snap-back hats (pictured above).

To win, make a bold Playoff prediction by dropping a comment on this post (please provide your real email address, so we can contact you if you’re the winner) and presenting a plausible argument for your prediction. You can predict a series upset, an unexpected team making a deep run, an unexpected player that’ll catch fire, or anything absolutely crazy (as long as you back it up). For example, you could explain why Chris Bosh will win Finals MVP. Or you could explain why Corey Brewer and Ty Lawson will lead the Nuggets on an improbable run to the Western Conference Finals, only to lose in Game 7 on a Matt Bonner four-point play. Or you could explain why the Clippers will be on the brink of elimination in the WCF, fire Vinny Del Negro mid-game, promote Chauncey Billups to head coach, then go ahead and win the ‘Chip.

Get your Nostradamus on, and if we like your random hunch, we’ll hit you with a fresh snap-back. It’s that simple.

The winners will be selected this Monday and contacted later next week. Good luck!

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  • AMPduppp

    Bosh goes down hard in game 1 of the quarterfinals. Can’t get up, torn acl, done for the year. Spoelstra looks to the bench and sees Haslem, who immediately starts shaking his head ‘no.’ He looks at Juwan Howard, the seasoned veteran, and he starts to tremble. Finally, he looks at the end of the bench to see one man standing up: Eddy Curry. Curry looks at him and says, “Put me in coach.” The rest, my friends, is history….

  • http://SLAM Raymond Torres

    Lakers over heat in 7 games in the finals

  • jpm34

    Matt Bonner is the deciding factor in the Spurs taking out the Heat in finals.

  • IamYOU

    This is easy one Slammy! As I predictd last 2006 playoffs I knew It was going to be Heat and Dallas in the Finals! I didn’t get to predict the last 5 finals right since I always pick the miami heat the winner of the finals but this time since 2006 I can feel the goosebumps right now and hear the cheers of Florida state of America as I watched in from here down undah! (I’m from Australia mate!)boos from the opposing team which is San Antonio Spurs!You red it Right! The Spurs will be in the Finals with the Great Miami HEAT!!! Let’s make this Easy!!! Game 1 at At & T center Spurs Home advantage, Heat beats Spurs 99 to 96, The player of the game of course the Mr. MVP Lebron James with 31 points. Game 2 Still spurs home game still Heat beats them with 1 point only, Heat 89 Spurs 88 and the player of the game surprisingly is not lebron but super MARIO mr. chalmers with his record of 45 points! all those bad mouthin on chalmers has paid off!!! Game 3 Now the home team of Miami, Mr Spoelstra took advise from pat Riley and got Eddy Curry out of the Bench And He played his ass off for the whole game! yes the Whole f’in Game! now he’s skinny as snoop but he atlest got t he heat 20 rebounds! 20 REBOUND WOW! He got he’s inner beast out! thank you Mr. Curry he is the player of the game as Heat wins it in OT at 110 – 89. What happened to Duncan you say? he’s old I mean no disrespect but Eddy ate him up! Now game 4!!! Will it be a sweep? just like round 1 with heat vs ny no.. though it’s Miami home game the spurs beat them 89-85 player of the game Timmy with 30 points,15 rebound, 4 steals, you know what happened to Curry he was injured Timmy flagrant him! Now I’m hating the spurs! Now game 5! still Heat home game it’s getting exciting because this is the night I’ve been waiting for! Miami heat hitting 3′s from every angle lebron,wade and bosh (by the way bosh dedicated this game to his son baby bosh jackson) dominated it finishing the game 99 – 84 MIAMI HEAT WINS IT!!! At last the choke jokes and king with no ring din’t choke and now he’s having his ring!!! Bow down before the finals MVP Lebron James! Everyone chanting MVP! MVP! The King with a teary eye does the tebow and even Magis johnsons gave him a stading ovasion! and that’s it! I woke up slammy that’s my prediction! This is what exactly happened last 2006 before dallas vs heat and I won bets from my mates saying dallas will win it (though dallas won it last year)and I said I had a dream that the HEAT will win it! though the past few years I didn’t have that dream but now with the right timing you gave us oppurtunity and I had a dream that heat will win it this year! WHAT?!! what I’m trying to say is that I want that hat slam! HEAT FTW!!!

  • IamYOU

    excuse my typos!!

  • Zamir T

    My prediction is that the lakers get past the nuggets on a desperation buzzer beater 3 that shows kobe how tough it is to beat a team that is ranked 7th in the west and kobe knows there needs to be a big change going into the semi finals so kobe call’s allen iverson who is the starting point gaurd and they take care of the thunder in a 7 game series but at the end of game 7 andrew bynum tears the cartillege in his knee and is out for the rest of the playoffs so kobe calls shaq from tnt to be starting center for the lakers and now the lakers have a big old 3. The lakers get past the spurs in the western conference finals easily in a 4-2 series win but kobe is still unhappy and tells management that they need to fire coach brown and hire coach jackson for the finals were kobe drops 101 points on the miami heat in game 7 while shaq grabs 40 rebounds and iverson drops 20 points and 40 assist while keeping lebron james 1- 30 from the field. Kobe wins finals mvp, iverson gets his ring, kobe and shaq get there 6 and 5th ring and kobe hold the record for most points in a game and phil jackson leaves the league on a happy note.

  • al jordan

    I am predicting the rematch of Lebron James vs. the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals, just as last year was the rematch of D. Wade vs. The Mavericks.

    I feel like the rising three kings will go off in this finals, but.. I feel like Tim Duncan will receive his fifth nba titles. A certain great company told me only kings have rings.

    And that is true, because Tim, Tony Parker, Manu and Stack-Jack a ring. D. Wade has one, and i feel strongly that Lebron and C. Bosh will have one in the future, to go alongside Lebron’s awesome MVP trophies.

  • Iman Elbanna

    Bold Playoff prediction: San Antonio will lose in the next round

  • http://dodgers.com Joey E.

    Before the season i predicted the Pacers would finish 3rd in the East. got it. Last year i said DRose would win MVP in the preseason! I was the only person in the world to call that, and im not even a Bulls fan. So my bold prediction that I have been rolling with is this: Indiana Pacers vs. Memphis Grizzlies in the NBA finals. Yes, I’m being serious.

  • IamYOU

    This is easy one Slammy! As I predictd last 2006 playoffs I knew It was going to be Heat and Dallas in the Finals! I didn’t get to predict the last 5 finals right since I always pick the miami heat the winner of the finals but this time since 2006 I can feel the goosebumps right now and hear the cheers of Florida state of America as I watched in from here down undah! (I’m from Australia mate!)boos from the opposing team which is San Antonio Spurs!You red it Right! The Spurs will be in the Finals with the Great Miami HEAT!!! Let’s make this Easy!!! Game 1 at At & T center Spurs Home advantage, Heat beats Spurs 99 to 96, The player of the game of course the Mr. MVP Lebron James with 31 points. Game 2 Still spurs home game still Heat beats them with 1 point only, Heat 89 Spurs 88 and the player of the game surprisingly is not lebron but super MARIO mr. chalmers with his record of 45 points! all those bad mouthin on chalmers has paid off!!! Game 3 Now the home team of Miami, Mr Spoelstra took advise from pat Riley and got Eddy Curry out of the Bench And He played his ass off for the whole game! yes the Whole f’in Game! now he’s skinny as snoop but he atlest got t he heat 20 rebounds! 20 REBOUND WOW! He got he’s inner beast out! thank you Mr. Curry he is the player of the game as Heat wins it in OT at 110 – 89. What happened to Duncan you say? he’s old I mean no disrespect but Eddy ate him up! Now game 4!!! Will it be a sweep? just like round 1 with heat vs ny no.. though it’s Miami home game the spurs beat them 89-85 player of the game Timmy with 30 points,15 rebound, 4 steals, you know what happened to Curry he was injured Timmy flagrant him! Now I’m hating the spurs! Now game 5! still Heat home game it’s getting exciting because this is the night I’ve been waiting for! Miami heat hitting 3′s from every angle lebron,wade and bosh (by the way bosh dedicated this game to his son baby bosh jackson) dominated it finishing the game 99 – 84 MIAMI HEAT WINS IT!!! At last the choke jokes and king with no ring din’t choke and now he’s having his ring!!! Bow down before the finals MVP Lebron James! averaging 31.5 ppg,5.0 rpg,2.0 bpg and 8.5 apg. Everyone chanting MVP! MVP! The King with a teary eye does the tebow and even Magic Johnson gave him a stading ovasion! and that’s it! I woke up slammy that’s my prediction! This is what exactly happened last 2006 before dallas vs heat and I won bets from my mates saying that Dallas will win it (though dallas won it last year)and I said I had a dream that the HEAT will win it! though the past few years I didn’t have that dream but now with the right timing you gave us opportunity to say who we think will win and I had a dream that heat will win it this year! WHAT?!! what I’m trying to say is that I want that Hat slam! now that’s Bold and this is my prediction! HEAT FTW!!!

  • roybot

    Return of Metta World Peace will boost Lakers to beat Nuggets in game 7. Pau Gasol breaks out of his 2 year-long crappy playoff play with 25+ points and 12 rebounds plus 4 assists. Bonus prediction: The GOAT Brian Scalabrine takes his talents to South Beach next season, thus making the Miami Heat the greatest collective of talent in NBA history.

  • koyoh

    SPurs and celtics face off in finals pitting kg and td against each other in the finals for the first time. the former rivals are engergized by the task and each average upwards for 25 and 12 for the entire series. On a game winning game seven attempt kg slips and breaks his hip forcing him into retirement. The spurs win it in seven and td wins finals mvp

  • http://SLAMONLINE.COM Gab

    My bold playoffs prediction: Since there will already be 2 game 7′s this weekend. DEN/LAL, LAC/MEM. There is gonna be a game 7 for every round.
    Philly/Boston=Boston, Memphis/San Antonio=Memphis. Confrence Finals Memphis/OKC=OKC, Boston/MIA=Heat win 4 to 1. Finals Match-up OKC/MIA!!! this is how its gonna go Heat win games 1 and 2 at home. OKC goes back home to win 2 nailbitting games (3+4).Game 5 D-wade and Lebron both get triple-doubles to lead the heat to victory. Back to south beach for game 6. Its a game of runs Heat lead at the half by 1 point. Breaking News!!! Westbrook “SLAMS” his head into the padding of the hoop out of frustration he gets a slight concussion. Having an abismal game 2-20, 10 points in total. 2nd half starts and the Heat begin to pull away closing out the 3rd Quarter on a 20-2 run. KD the all-star MVP starts knocking down impossible shots with the season MVP draped all over him. Heat get a steal in the 4th D-wade outlets the ball to LJ and throws down a “Thunderous” Dunk over Harden “Which by the way shaves his beard before game 6″.1 minute remaining Heat up by 5 Durant gets shut down but still makes an impossible 3 two cut the deficit to 2 but it doesn’t count the ball hit the top of the shot clock comes down and Ibaka interferes with it.HEAT WIN!!!!!! Sorry Slam I know i promised you guys a game 7 for every round. :D

  • logues

    the celtics will win the nba finals by beating the heat and then beating the lakers in another great series. the celtics will shut down lebron and kobe will struggle in the finals and KG will ball like its 2004 and grab the finals mvp by putting up 25 and 12 per.

  • Sweetness

    Lakers wins the NBA championship once again giving Kobe sixth ring. Heats don’t even make it to the NBA finals, they get eliminated by the Pacers who make a great run to the finals but lose to the Lakers.— Very bold prediction

  • Jayygee

    It’s game seven of the eastern conference semifinals. The heat are the favored team of this matchup, but the pacers shock every body in the basketball world. The second half is over. The heat are up by 12. It’s 41-53. Lebron is having a good game so far 22 points on 10-16 from the field, 2 blocks, 3 assist. Wade has 13 and bosh has 8. The big three are carrying the team while the others are having trouble. As for the pacers, the scoring is pretty even. Hibbert has 4 pts and 7 boards, granger has 15, Paul George 4 , hill has 5 and 5 assist, west has 6. By the looks of it, the heat will win but let’s fast forward to the fourth. 15 seconds, the heat down 1 and they have the ball. Charmers inbounds and wade has the ball. One on one against Paul George. Wade dribbles and crosses to his right, fades away, Paul right in his face, and hits it with 1.3 seconds to go. The pacers have no time outs. Granger gets the ball, dribbles a few feet and launches a hail Mary at the opposite end of the three point line. The crowd looks in the air, it seems as time is slowing down, the ball get closer to the rim and granger banks in the three. The heat lose 102-104. The pacers go th the finals and a Eric spoelstra gets fired and pat Riley comes back.

  • Dion

    Derrick Rose, taken by a slow, broiling rage at the rigorous season and the awful injury that it led to, creates a time machine, heads back to the 2011 lockout… and puts the commissioner out of commission. I imagine D. Rose challenged him to a one on one using his one good leg and still managing to cross him over so bad Stern couldn’t get up no more.

    Rose comes back to the regular season (with 9 less games to play), finds CP3 with the Lakers, officiating much less biased, and his knee alright.

    Unfortunately, after beating the Heat in seven games, the Bulls fall to CP3′s cerebral playmaking and the Mamba’s swag.

    #boldpredictions

  • kdtrey5

    OKC win game 5 in nba finals off a serge ibaka clutch 3 you said bold but OKC will win the whole thing KD35 finals mvp aswell

  • Snapback4Me

    #1) Metta World Peace comes back for the OKC series, a daring fan throws a water bottle at the unstable player, Peace sees the bottle and repressed memories from detroit cause him to snap and he tears through the crowd to find his enemy, Metta World Peaces alter ego Metta World War begins throwing flying elbows at his opposition causing what will be known as the worlds highest concussion count in one arena.

    #2) OKC wins the finals against LeBron, Durant proves to everybody why he should not have been snubbed the MVP award, Durant and westbrook share the finals mvp award both scoring a combined 120 pts in a pivotal game 7, while key starter ibaka aquires 10 blocks and 10 rebounds and actually in one play blocks chris bosh so bad/hard, both boshs acls are torn as he ame crashing into the ground

  • Aidan

    The heat will lose in 6 games to the pacers and the celtics will sweep philly and beat the pacers in game 7 in the eastern conference finals and the celtics will win the chanpionship in 7 games against OKC after they sweep the lakers and beat the spurs in 6 games.

  • http://hibachi20.blogspot.com Moose

    Indiana sweeps Miami. LeBron is booed so much that he starts crying at center court. This prompts Chris Bosh to completely lose it and starts crying in Bron’s arms. Wade sees them, gets mad, and punches them both in the face. This Miami team is forever known as “The P*ssies”, and Kobe calls Bron a little boy in his presser, causing Mario Chalmers to fly to Los Angeles to challenge Kobe to a fight. Instead of fighting him, Metta World Peace decides to elbow Chalmers in the face, causing a lifetime ban from the NBA, and through a little-known contract clause, Chalmers, as the recipient of the elbow, is allowed to suit up for the Lakers for the rest of the playoffs. The Lakers make it to the Finals against the Celtics, and Steve Blake drops 52 in Game 7 (taking up the scoring load from Kobe after he suffered a broken arm from getting a block attempt blocked by Avery Bradley in game 2), only for Garnett to throw down an alley-oop from Rajon Rondo, en route to Rondo’s fourth triple-double of these playoffs and a Finals MVP award for Rajon. Following the game and the celebration, Rondo declares that upon James’ retirement (which he announced following the eternal embarrassment from what has become known as the “Heat HeartbreaK”) that he is now the best player in the league and should get sole credit for the championship, calling the rest of the Celtics a bunch of old nobodies. Danny Ainge rips up Rondo’s contract right there, and the Mayor decides to cancel the parade. The playoff turmoil causes a player strike, demanding more job security and physical, off-court security. No decision can be reached, and President Obama announces that he will not be running for a second term, and that he will “Take his talents to the NBA”. He takes over Billy Hunter’s responsibilities as Executive Director of the NBPA, and he negotiates with David Stern and Al Horford to work out a new deal. It takes six months, and half of the NBA’s players jump ship for the French league, which becomes the premiere basketball league in the world. Obama works out a new deal, but the talent stays in Europe, causing massive income loss for the NBA. Donald Trump buys the league and decides he wants to play. Mark Cuban suits up for the Mavericks, and corporations take over during the NBA’s cashless turmoil. In an insignificant 2013, 30-game season, Timofey Mozgov wins MVP in an undefeated championship season for the Denver McNuggets. Red Auerbach rolls over in his grave, and Dr. James Naismith wakes up from the dead as a zombie just to spit on David Stern, then he goes back to his grave. The Phoenix Mohegan Suns win the next ten championships.

  • http://hibachi20.blogspot.com Moose

    ^all of that will happen at some point.^

  • Dylan

    Miami is going to the finals but they are going to lose . So Lebron is going to kick the garbage can in the locker room and he is going to yell at his teammates .

  • donato

    Miami beats Indiana in 6 Miami vs spurs in the finals Miami wins in 6.

  • Noah O

    Hibbert will come extra-alive in game 2 of heat-pacers and dominate the rest of the series because the heat don’t have an answer for him.

  • Noah O

    #2 donato will not win this contest with his completely safe bet.

  • http://slamonline.com Eldon Khorshidi

    Thanks for all the great entries! We’re closing comments now and winners will be contacted by someone from the staff shortly…

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