re: The Poll Question
So far, 10 votes in, and I'm the only one to vote for the Cavs.... sigh.
I have been reluctant to bring this up, but we're entering a dark time to be an NBA fan, especially a fan for a small market team. Why? The national media WANTS to write all about LAL, NYK, and LBJ. Well, the Knicks suck so they've been talking more about the other two. Now that LBJ is actually on LAL, the media coverage is ridiculous. I expect a full 1/3 of ESPN NBA articles and tweets to be about LAL or LBJ - it's already started to happen. It's not just ESPN, it's other outlets as well such as SI, and even nba.com. The reason I haven't liked LBJ for the last 2 or so years isn't anything about him, it's just that I've become sick listening about him all the time (his recent Oden/Blazers slam has annoyed me as well). Here's an example: GSW sweeps LBJ in the finals this year, and right afterwards ESPN had ONE article on GSW and TWO articles on LBJ, and neither of the articles was on his free agency, they hadn't even geared up for that yet. Now, the Lakers won last year's summer league, and they are undefeated in this one. So yeah, they're getting a lot of coverage. LAL will continue to get the lion's share of hype for the next several years. The only way for the Blazers and the Jazz's of the world to get any coverage at all will be to go to the conference finals.
So, to me the poll question is "Do you want even more fucking LAL coverage/hype or not" and my answer is no.
