LeBron Who? Did What? Huh?
I have had less than zero interest in LeBron James this summer.
Honestly, I couldn’t have cared less.
However, now that he has made his move to Miami I have this to say about the whole situation: who gives a damn?
My whole take on the free agent situation of 2010 is: call me when it’s over. When the dust has settled, when training camp starts, and when teams actually have settled rosters then I become interested. The rest is just noise and annoyance. Do I care that LeBron James has gone to Miami, home of the WORST FANS IN ALL OF PROFESSIONAL SPORTS? No, I really don’t.
(And I just want to re-iterate: Miami fans are the worst. Actually, there is no such thing as a “Miami fan”. Fans of Miami sports are the most fair-weather, bandwagon, garbage, Johnny-come-lately fans - no matter what sport - that there are in this country. I loathe “Miami fans”. I loathe them. I would wish them ill will but the reality is that anyone that lives in Florida is already cursed enough.)
Not until September, that is. And once the games, lines, futures, etc. start being pumped out then it is my job to care. And I will. But for now, nope, I really don’t give a &*#%. And if people cared half as much about the oil spill in the Gulf as they did about LeBron James then we might all live in a little different world. But that’s neither here nor there.
But since I’m bored and I’ve been drinking, I’ll go ahead and chime in – for the first time – on the most meaningless subject that an inordinate number of people have invested in this summer.
This is what I think about LeBron’s time in Cleveland: are you kidding me?
Mo Williams is the best player that you could surround James with over the last seven years? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
Of all the trades, moves, maneuvers, and swaps that have occurred over the last seven years, a trade for Wally Szczerbiak and a trade for over-the-hill Antwan Jamison is the best that Cleveland could manage? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
Your city sucks; the Indians suck, the Browns suck, the Cavaliers suck, and you blame a guy for wanting to run away? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
You hired Mike Brown, an unproven, inexperienced, nobody coach to steer the ship for LeBron’s time in Cleveland? You weren’t at all put off the first year they made the playoffs when he was coordinating his eyeglasses with his suits? That didn’t tip you off that maybe, just maybe, this guy was a douche? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
The one that really gets me is the Mo Williams thing. Seriously, the Cavaliers didn’t do anything to surround James with actual players when he was with the Cavs. I mean, Williams is the best you could come up with? Really? He’s the best player that you could put next to James? Seriously? Yeah, I have no idea how he would want to leave Delonte West and Big Z and Ben Wallace. No idea at all. Who could want to play with Dwyane Wade after playing with Mo Williams all these years? Will there be a big adjustment period, you think?
I have been pointing to that fact for year. The idea that “LeBron couldn’t win the big one in Cleveland” is a joke. Who could win with the ass-clowns that he was playing with? No one. The Cavaliers, honestly, aren’t any good. We’re going to find that out very quickly this fall when their leader is gone. They drafted poorly, they made ridiculous decisions in free agency, and they weren’t at all bold when it came to trades or building a team. And that, my friends, is why they no longer have King James.
(Wait, Danny Ferry is a Loser? Really? When did this happen? He couldn’t put a team together and was an utter failure as a general manager? Seriously? But he was such a good player and success a rousing success everywhere he went in life? I can’t believe it. Hey, Dan Gilbert, you are a dick for handling everything the way that you have. Seriously, you are a baby. You hired Mike Brown and Danny Ferry. But it is LeBron’s fault. Amazing. Cry about it. Good luck with that roster, jag-off.)
Also, the idea that “LeBron’s legacy will be tarnished because he couldn’t win a title on his own,” is the dumbest thing I’ve heard in a long time. And I live in Georgia. It’s baby talk. It’s whiny, ESPN bobblehead talk. It’s immature and it isn’t reality, and the same people suggesting this now will have their faces in LeBron’s lap once he wins a ring. (And he will.)
Does anyone remember that just a few years ago Kobe Bryant was doing everything in his power to force his way out of Los Angeles? Do you remember that after Shaq left this guy could barely, BARELY, take his team to the playoffs? The Lakers sucked, and Kobe was just another All Star struggling with a bad team. But then former Laker Jerry West, who was on his way out with Memphis, made one of the shadiest, most one-sided deals in NBA history in trading Pau Gasol to the Lakers. (I’m sure if West hadn’t played for the Lakers, and wasn’t still involved with the organization, he still would have made that move) and all of a sudden Kobe had help.
(And if you don’t think that Kobe needed help, you obviously didn’t watch the fourth quarter of Game 7 this year. Without Gasol, Kobe is just another dude that came up small in the biggest game of his career. But Gasol was a Man in a game that could only be won by Men, and now Kobe gets to bask in the glory of a title that he didn’t, in any way, seal himself. Would the Lakers have been there without him? Hell no. But did Kobe win that title? Absolutely not. He was a complete and total non-factor in the second half of that game, because it was for Big Boys. And we all know he’s not one of those.)
Did Magic Johnson win a title by himself? Or did he have some guys named Worthy, Kareem, Rambis (had to!) and Thompson to work with? Did Bird win a title by himself? Do you think some guys named McHale, Parrish, and Ainge had anything to do about it? How about Jordan? Ever hear of Pippen, Kukoc, Wennington and Stacey King (HA!)? Anyone?
No one wins a title by himself. Anyone that has ever played basketball in their lives knows that you are only as good as the players around you. So give me a break that if James wins a championship in Miami it will somehow mean less than if he won it with Mo Williams in Cleveland. Weird. LeBron couldn’t win a title with a bunch of garbage players in one of the worst cities in the country. Wow. I’m stunned.
Hey, Cleveland, you suck. Get over it. Most older, former-industrial cities in the Rust Belt of this broken down, has-been country do. I don’t feel sorry for you. At all. Don’t beat yourself up over the fact that James is gone. But do go ahead and beat yourself up over the fact that a recent poll listed you as the most miserable city in the United States. And go ahead and revel in the fact that you contributed to George Bush getting re-elected in 2006. That’s all you. But don’t sweat LeBron. It was clear that he was leaving. And he’s all the better for it.
And when LeBron drops 48 on the Cavs in his first game back in Cleveland this winter, I want you to think of two thing, the first being, “The NBA is for losers.”
The second being, “Yeah, Miami covered the spread and I…….GOT……..PAID!!!!!”
