I don't blame the guy for going for the ring, but if he really was about winning the title, he'd either A: take the league min in Cleveland and help them get a decent player or B: sign with the Lakers for the league minimum. this is all about him making more money, pure and simple (yes I know that he'd make 30 million more w/the Cavs, but he'll reap that in about 5 minutes in Miami).
Done with the NBA. I will watch a handful of Blazer games, but this league just shows how much it is wrestling more than wrestling itself. Small market teams like the Blazers don't survive unless you draft a huge potential stud/center, and while we have done that, it seems they have either come up short or just been complete duds. My interest is in Oden when I watch and seeing and hoping he does really well. I feel really bad for Cleveland too.
I feel super bad for Cleveland, man what a dick move to have an hour long special about being a Douchebag money hungry parasite who can't win by himself. On the plus side LeBron's ego won't stand for it for very long and that team will blow up. LeBron will be traded and my crystal ball see's LA or Boston in his future (YAY STERN YOU"RE WONDERFUL FOR THIS SPORT!!!)
What're you talking about? These guys are going to be rolling into the Finals 3 years from now, and Kobe is going to be hanging a clock in his room at Shady Acres.
Well I already bought my season tickets for this year, but hell who knows after that. The only way the NBA will ever get competitive, is if the fans quit giving them money for doing shit like this.
EXACTLY. I don't blame him for going to Miami (although I feel bad for Cleveland and wish he'd stayed there or gone to NY), but... loyalty? Gimme a break. He wants to win. That's enough to explain it to me. Ed O.
Why? Lakers can just get Paul for Morrison and Sasha and Stern allows that shit. Compare the NBA to the NFL and you always see a variety of teams winning the Superbowl. One reason, while the refs can make mistakes, they are much better than in the NBA, oh, and of course they have a great replay system. Looks like I will only follow the NFL consistently, I hate that NBA died to me as basketball is my favorite sport, but small market teams just get bent over.
Yep and the NBA does it right in front of everybody, and everybody keeps on paying them for it, so why should they stop? Both Baseball and Basketball go with the revenue sharing model, where the teams that are designed to be marched over by the large market teams get a piece of the pie for always sucking. They won't stop unless TV deals stop. TV deals won't stop unless the viewer rating is bad. What they don't realize, is more of their games overall would be watched if the teams were more competitive across the board, because more games would be interesting, their TV ratings would go way up, and they would earn more money from it.
The Heat just became the most hated franchise in the NBA outside Miami and the bandwagoners. And LeBron is front and center as public enemy No. 1. The image of his Cavs jersey being burned was great!