AWESOME article about LeBron choking!

[TheRealDeal]

I'm smarter than I lead people to believe.

I honestly just don't care about the NBA or don't like the NBA, the only reason I watch is because I don't get all the baseball games I want to see.

The Lakers are the only team I can watch throughout the regular season night in and night out. I watch most of the playoffs but don't get upset if I miss games.

I used to care more when I was gambling but I don't really do that anymore so nothing keeps my interest.

Baseball season will pick up soon then I can stop watching this garbage

[King Taharqa]

Lakers are done son. No Phil Jackson, no more rings. LMAO@a PG away, we've heard that the past 10 years. No PG worth a fug wants to play with the "black hole", why you think D Fish been there so long? Dwight Howard is gonna leave Orlando to come to LA to play the "Andrew Bynum" role and be the 3rd option? LMAO. Laker fans are delusional, its over. The league has no use for you guys no more. Miami is a more glamorous city, with bigger stars on the court. This decades dynasty will be Miami.

[TheRealDeal]

lol @ Miami being more glamorous than LA but at least that was the closest thing to truth in your post.

[TruCatzFan]

King T...

I did say that Wade choked right after game 4. The post is there, Im not going back through at least 10 pages to find it while I'm at work. he was pretty much a no show throughout the Chi-Town series and it did irk me very badly.

It's like this. We know what all 3 are capable of... James is the SUPER STAR though. he will take the brunt of it almost every time... Not saying its right, but obviously thats the way it is. Anytime we don not feel like we get 100% from one of them in a LOSING effort... it will always be that guy's fault period. Winning cures everything! Like you said if they had won with LBJ only scoring 8... he wouldnt have cared too much. i believe that LBJ is genuwine when he says things like that.

I don't have a problem with you defending LBJ either... he needs it now more than ever. I just wanted you to be realistic, and honest. I think it's good for everyone here to know that you're sane...but really...in reality...who gives a fug about what anyone says in this blog.

Pippen is the real reason for all of this nonsense if you ask me. If he woulda kept his mouth shut, none of this would be happening.

[Swarly]

I just saw on Sportscenter that LeBrick is 0-5, 0 points, 0 rebounds in the last 5 minutes of each post-season game this finals.

If the Heat win this finals, and he gets finals MVP, I will never watch the NBA again.

[Sapper]

What I find interesting about Wade is his lack of desire to win one on his own terms. Back in '06 he had Shaq and this year he was Bosh/James. Not that winning around good players is a bad thing, but I really admired Kobe when he went out of his way to prove he could win w/o Shaq. Granted, Gasol is good but at the time he was no star and honestly he really never showed up this past season.

[King Taharqa]

Pau Gasol was an all star who had led a sorry Memphis team to the playoffs by himself in a year that Kobe's Lakers missed the playoffs altogether in '05. Its not a coincidence the Lakers did not become "elite" until they acquired Pau. And its not a coincidence that they totally fell off and couldnt win a game when Pau had a pooty series against Dallas this year. Kobe like most stars needs a quality big man to win an NBA championship. This Heat team and the old Bulls squads are the only ones you can point to that dont have QUALITY bigs manning them. And even the Bulls had a HOFer in Rodman leading the league in rebounding. No one wins titles by themselves. NO ONE.

Wade has been by himself the past 5 years and couldnt get out the 1st round. Contrast that to what James managed to do in Cleveland by himself. It takes a team effort to get this done, which is why they came together to get by Boston and back to this point.

[TruCatzFan]

What I find interesting about Wade is his lack of desire to win one on his own terms. Back in '06 he had Shaq and this year he was Bosh/James. Not that winning around good players is a bad thing, but I really admired Kobe when he went out of his way to prove he could win w/o Shaq. Granted, Gasol is good but at the time he was no star and honestly he really never showed up this past season.

Did you just really question D Wade's desire to win one on his own terms!? You must be a casula fan of the game. its pretty obvious that you didn't even watch the 2006 Finals. Shaq was there...and thats about it. he was pretty hurt and was on the court as a presence. nothing more. Ask Dirk about Wade's desire...

Kobe went out of his way to show that he coulkd win one without Shaq? Thats breaking news to me! Im sure Phil coming back to save his sorry ass had nothing to do with that right?

I will never understand how people type on a keyboard with their assholes... but it happens all the time!

[Sapper]

I'm just pointing out that this is that in today's NBA, players feel like they need to stack teams in FA, rather than build a contender.

An exception being the Thunder whose GM can identify talent through the draft.

[King Taharqa]

Thats because most NBA GMs suck. No one ever talks about that. Some GM in Atlanta gave Joe Johnson $120 mill this past offseason. Marc Cuban gave Erick Dampier a 50 million dollar contract when he was with the Mavs. The Bobcats moves are well documented on this board. The Lakers & Celtics have always had good front offices which is why they trade and draft well, but most teams do not. So for players like LeBron, Melo, Cp3, etc who will ultimately be judged by championships they dont care to rot their careers away hoping their GMs can put something together. Look at how McHale did in Minnesota with KG all those years. He got caught cheating and was banned from the league for a year (along with losing draft picks), and never could put together a solid team around Garnett. Minnesota got out of the 1st round 1 time in KG's tenure there. So KG bounced in a forced trade to Boston.

If you had better GMing league wide the players wouldnt have to play "GM", but most GMs do a poor job of building teams. Its easier and more profitable to them (like a Dan Gilbert) to just make money off the 1 great player they have then spending top dollar to win a title. The Lakers and Celtics had the highest payrolls in the league this year, went over the cap and paid the luxury tax, yet the Heat get the most hate and they're well under the cap. You cant allow 2 historic teams to "stack up at will" then tell the rest of the league "only 1 star now guys". Imagine the Yankees and Red Sox getting every big name FA out there and teams like the Royals and Pirates having none. The league would suck like that right? Oh wait! LOL.

[MadHatter]

I just saw on Sportscenter that LeBrick is 0-5, 0 points, 0 rebounds in the last 5 minutes of each post-season game this finals.

If the Heat win this finals, and he gets finals MVP, I will never watch the NBA again.

That stat line says it all.

[King Taharqa]

Basketball games consist of more than the last 5 minutes of a game. Why dont you guys post his playoff stats for 2011 and tell me whos are better?

[Swarly]

Basketball games consist of more than the last 5 minutes of a game. Why dont you guys post his playoff stats for 2011 and tell me whos are better?

Being clutch it what separates the good from the great. Disappearing in the final minutes during the biggest series of his career doesn't exactly look good on his resume.

[Mvp2014]

I stopped at the store today to get some milk and there LeBron was on the back of the carton!! haha He'll be there tonight though, I'm counting on it