Basketball has a cap, you cannot buy a team.
False. Basketball has a soft cap. They also have the Larry Bird Rule which means you can sign your own players for as much as you want. That's how James got a Max Contract from Miami.
Cleveland deserved what they got.
Cleveland got to the NBA Finals once and the ECF a couple other times. That's not too shabby. To say they "deserved what they got" is so far beyond true that it's laughable. Then again, it is you, so I'm not that surprised.
Cleveland tried to surround James with some players, but they were snakebit with injuries. Make no mistake. LeBron James left Cleveland because a) Florida has no state income tax. b) He wanted to be with his buddies from the Olympic team and c) He wanted to party on South Beach. That's why he "took his talents to South Beach" instead of Miami, where the actual arena and facilities are located.
Labron was there for 7 years carrying that sorry ass team, the year after he leaves they are the worst team in the NBA, should tell you something.
Cleveland was the worst team in the league this year because they wanted a high draft pick and they gutted the team over the summer. You know, because the best player on the team left, so they needed to infuse it with talent. Blow it up and start over. The best player on Miami when they gutted their team is STILL the best player on Miami.
Not sure what you mean about the rumor so it must be true. I said when Dallas thought they were getting labron they were throwing a parade.
Dallas never had a chance at acquiring LeBron James. Ever. Anyone who said otherwise was either lying or smoking the really good stuff.
Nobody likes you until you are on that team they root for then you are a hero. Labron was a hero and then he decided that the cavs were too cheap and stupid to put a decent team around him so he left, he took less money to win, and for that he gets bashed?
Again. Look at what I said above. LeBron left Cleveland because it was Cleveland. Every other reason you mentioned is revisionist bullshit. I'll say it again. He left because a) Florida has no state sales tax. b) He wanted to be with his new BFFs from the Olympic team - where this whole idea was cooked up, by the way, and c) He wanted to party in South Beach.
Had nothing to do with Cleveland at all, in the end. One-player teams do not make the NBA Finals. They don't. To say there was no talent on those teams is disingenuous at best.
I thought wanting to win was the goal, we all throw things at the players who do not care and just want the most money they can get, then we get a player who wants to win and he is a jerk.
Again. LeBron James did NOT leave Cleveland because he "wanted to win". He left because a) Florida has no state sales tax. b) He wanted to be with his new BFFs from the Olympic team - where this whole idea was cooked up, by the way, and c) He wanted to party in South Beach.
Oh and by the way, no, it was not about the mavs not wanting to gut their team to get Labron, that was not why he didnt go to dallas, he chose to go elsewhere.
Again. False. Dallas was way over the cap to begin with, so they would have had to trade significant pieces with cap numbers attached to get him. Likely Jason Terry and Caron Butler to begin with. That would be a significant gutting of the team, especially given what Terry did in the finals.
LeBron chose to go elsewhere because a) Florida has no state sales tax. b) He wanted to be with his new BFFs from the Olympic team - where this whole idea was cooked up, by the way, and c) He wanted to party in South Beach.
Dallas would have done anything to get him at that time because beyond popular belief before this run, dallas was looked upon around here as a joke and chokers who needed better players to win, its amazing how the tune has changed.
A lot of this year has to do with Dirk Nowitski, who, for the first time in 13 years in the league, played to the level he was capable of in the playoffs. They also had some inside presence in Chandler, and an absolute gift in the contributions of J.J. Barea.
Also, Rick Carlisle is a hell of a coach. Anyone who thinks Dallas needed better players has virtually no basketball acumen at all. You don't win 50+ games every year, for a decade if you have shitty players. You don't.
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LeBron James is one of the most hated players in sports because of several things.
1) He lied about his reasons for leaving Cleveland. I've stated that several times.
2) He absolutely held Cleveland hostage by leaving - forcing them to take the suck-ass deal Miami offered them. Otherwise they would have lost James for nothing.
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That's before they played a game. And while we're here...
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Yeah. He's just a misunderstood guy who is all about winning. :BS:
