Derrick Rose had a lot on his mind when it comes to LeBron James’ decision to join the Miami Heat, and shared it with ESPN Radio. After discussing his new teammate Carlos Boozer, Rose eventually had this to say about LeBron James: “If he really wanted to come he would have come no matter what. He [...]
Friday, July 9, 2010
The media has officially been set ablaze after LeBron James and Chris Bosh agreed to join Dwyane Wade to form the Miami Heat troika. LeBron has been highly criticized by Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert and the media for his decision. I cannot see James making a better decision than he did. He wanted to win. NBA [...]
Thursday, July 8, 2010
LeBron James has a twitter account. Heck, he even launched a Facebook profile page as well. What is LeBron James missing? Oh yeah, it’s an NBA Championship ring. Articles covering the destiny of King James continually focus about how LeBron will abandon $30 million if he heads to Miami and how he risks deluding his brand as [...]
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
LeBron James is going to sign a contract with the Chicago Bulls. Not because President Barrack Obama tampered like a sly politician. Who can seriously say that mentioning that he would like to see LeBron in Chicago is not tampering? For gods sake, he is the President afterall. He has the clout to influence LeBron, however [...]
Friday, June 25, 2010
The 2010 NBA Draft went according to plan with John Wall going first, and everyone else basically falling into place. Even the Golden State Warriors followed protocol making a horrible selection at 6. Alas, all is normal in the NBA. But the biggest success came from the teams that were already involved in the NBA free [...]
Thursday, May 13, 2010
LeBron James could have played his final game as a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers. LeBron and the Cavs were eliminated by the surging Boston Celtics, losing the series 4 games to 2. LeBron had a somewhat super human game 6, statistically, but his performance was marred by bad shooting from the field and an atrocious [...]
Thursday, May 13, 2010
LeBron James is a superhuman-insane-we -really-broke-any-possible-or-conceivable-mold type basketball player. He won this years MVP award in convincing fashion. We all know this, or should know this, or eventually will come to know this. The thing is, James is also the most important piece in my argument as to why the MVP award should:Be awarded with heaviest [...]
Friday, April 9, 2010
Derrick Rose and the Chicago Bulls are gaining steam at the quintessential time of the NBA season. Rose and company finally resembled a playoff-worthy team with the return to proper form, and health, by Luol Deng and Joakim Noah. The Bulls wrung out a hard fought 109-108 victory over the Eastern Conference leading Cleveland Cavaliers thrusting [...]
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
LeBron James has officially filed the paperwork required to notify the league of his intent to change his jersey number from 23 to 6. The move comes months after LeBron had made waves of this action back in November when he begin initiating the “Entire League Must Retire Michael Jordan’s Number 23” movement. Well, that’s [...]
Thursday, February 18, 2010
The Los Angeles Clippers have created enough salary cap space before the trade deadline that pursuing a max contract player next season is now a reality. GM Mike Dunleavy made waves this week by shipping Marcus Camby to Portland, making off with $3 million in cash, and dumping the contracts of Sebastian Telfair and Al Thornton. Hypothetically [...]
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