NBA Finals

[simplyred]

 My point was if a similar "big 3" scenario had been orchestrated for him to come to the Knicks with other stars, I would have cheered it.

 

[fuchsia]

Actually think Heat have a very narrow window for supremacy. Thunder should only improve and Wade is accumulating lots of mileage on a body that may not be that resilient. 

 

[austour]

 Yes LeBron won his ring but it's just not the same. The Heat avoided the Bulls because Rose went down, Granger went down for Indy, the Celtics are very old and beatable, etc. I understand a ring is a ring, but it just feels different this time around. LeBron made a huge mistake airing "The Decision" and the fact that he fled Cleveland as the only show in town to Miami where he would be the 3rd superstar really tells a lot about him and it's a major turn off to many NBA fans. You are basically saying "I'm not patient or confident enough to lead Cleveland to a ring, so I'll go to Miami and have the pressure taken off me with 2 other superstars". Not to mention, in doing so, he left his HOMETOWN! Nothing is more disrespectful than that. Yes technically he's from Akron but I think it's only 40 miles from Cleveland which is right around the corner and technically still the area he's from. Sorry if I sound like a hater, but the Heat winning a ring really seems manufactured and artificial. It was done via fantasy draft essentially.

 

It wasn't the kind of year that had one or two dominant teams, and I'm no Lebron fan but in these finals he was the man. Talk about the Big 3 all you want but against OKC he played as well as I've seen him play. Don't mistake his personality issues with his talent. The main reason you, and probably I, hate Lebron and what the heat represent isn't so much the big 3 it's the way the media idolize them. Here's a paragraph from a Deadspin article that kind of says it all in response to someone claiming that his championship redeems him as a person:

Oh, bull$hit. There's never been any question that LeBron James is a great basketball player. And even when he was coming up short in the playoffs, haters like myself just used those failures as an easy excuse to pile on him further, because he's a dip$hit and he deserved it. The fact that he's won a championship doesn't fundamentally alter his character in any way. That's the great con of sports: the idea that winners win because they have character and losers lose because they don't. If you think LeBron is a good guy now because he won a title, then you probably had no business thinking he was a bad guy to begin with, because the outcome of a sporting event says nothing about the person within.

 

[LJSA]

I hate say this but its Friday and I'm in a pissy mood but I'm willing to bet if Doris Burke looked like Erin Andrews most people would not care. Sad but as much as people want to deny it, pretty sure its true. 

 

She never stops talking.

 

Isn't that all women, though? :cheer: