The WSCR coverage has been excellent. Jason Goff has covered this thing better than any reporter in town. What he meant by 'soft' and 'weak' was Lebron's aversion to taking charge of a team where he is clearly the leader the way Jordan, Magic and Bird did it. This isn't Karl Malone going to the Lakers at the end of his career. This is a 25 year old who's been called the greatest basketball player of all time but apparently thinks he cannot lead a team to a title.

these 3 guys are gonna be exhausted by the playoffs...if they surround them with useless scrubs they are going to play a majority of the minutes for 82 games

Its not sour grapes about him not being a Bull. It's all about how he handled this. I would've been fine with him staying with Cleveland.

This was decided a long time ago and it was a dog and pony show.

To paraphrase Walter Payton "If you can't win where your drafted and you have to go somewhere else, to me that's a sign of failure."

I don't know much about sports and I've never been to Miami, but do the people even care about their sports teams? I mean At least in Chicago or New York people care about their teams even when they're losing.

It's always struck me as a Football town. The Dolphins and the Univ. of Miami are huge.

miami is a football city...always will be...

Yeah I figured people cared about the Dolphins and college football but not the NBA.

yea, see, i have a hard time feeling sorry for these people

Is Rob Gordon still alive? Any update on the situation in NE Ohio right now?

whoa did i just hear CSN right in that both wade and lebron are shooting documentaries right now on this??

no wonder there was so much drama...ugh what a joke

i hope all 3 of these guys choke

and wow at dan gilberts letter to cavs fans

http://www.nba.com/cavaliers/news/gilbert_letter_100708.html

Good for him.

haha. i swear i have read so many different stories lately i can't even recall where it was i saw this but yea, i read a report that bosh was shooting a doc as well and apparently was more involved/interested in his camera crew than the actual meetings.

edit: and fuck that gilbert letter. dude is obviously bitter as fuck and had the cavs landed lebron there would be no mention of lebron's questionable tactics in handling this whole thing. and he brought the children into this? c'mon gilbert...poor form all around with that letter.

What piece do the Bulls need to add to beat the heat. I've gotta think if they can add a good 2 guard that can shoot and defend D-wade, they can compete.

Who's going guard D-Rose? Chalmers?

Put Noah on Bosh, I'll take my chances there.

F*ck you LeBron.

"I PERSONALLY GUARANTEE THAT THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS WILL WIN AN NBA CHAMPIONSHIP BEFORE THE SELF-TITLED FORMER ‘KING’ WINS ONE"

You can take it to the bank.

wow that's one bank i don't wanna go to. lolol.

No way Bulls will compete with LBJ, DWade, Bosh in Miami and Dwight Howard in Orlando

Wade is really due to lose a step or two. It can happen any time now. And Bosh is soft. If the Bulls add a shooter or two and play good team defense I'd take my chances.

DWade will be a top 5 player in the league the next 3 years at least.

like i stated previously - these guys are gonna be exhausted by the end of this year...they are going to have to play nearly every minute of every game

if the bulls can add a good shooting guard in morrow or korver theyll be competitive...the east will be a crapshoot next year btw the heat, celts, bulls and magic

but i reserve further judgement until the heat fill out their roster

What makes you think the Heat won't get a shooter and a defender to fill out their roster? It's not gonna be the Big Three and a bunch of junior college players. They'll assemble a team. Everyone said Boston would suck in 2008 too. That turned out pretty well for them.

The Heat have virtually no cap room. they will have to rely on Vets coming in to play for cheap.

BTW: They have a bit more now....ESPN is saying they have traded Beasley to Minnesota for a 2nd round pick.

The eastern conference has sucked the last 7 years. If Bosh is so great, why has he never made the playoffs. A lot of players put up good stats on bad teams.

Edit > my mistake, he has.

Coverage...fine. Just the analysis, I'm sure its the same with every sports centric radio station in large cities, but I just prefer when there isn't something that the fans and hosts are having a fit about. Take the Jay Cutler freak out in april to the Jay Cutler freakout in October, the latter was kind of funny but I still prefer nationally syndicated radio for large news stories.

Looks like Lebron is taking some heat.

Stuff like Sporting News Radio is so dull and generic. I like the local flavor that SCR provides. And based on what I hear from WFAN and other stations, SCR is as good as local sports talk radio gets.

Only winner of the popularity contest in my head is Kobe.

Never in my life could I have imagined a scenario in which I would want him to kick the shit out of Lebron in 4 straight NBA finals.

That shit was nauseating to watch, and he probably thinks it was great.

I honestly did not think he would do that to the city of Cleveland on television. Once they announced this special I was sure he was staying home, and all this nonsense was some fake drama to build the hometown hero legend. This kid completely missed the boat because he and the people in his ear haven't got a clue.

I hope he blows a knee out in training camp. Not because he didn't come to Chicago, but because of how he shit on every fan in the city of Cleveland and the state of Ohio.

I agree with you in principle, but I still like the letter. LeBron opened this can of worms and created the circus. The Cavs are just fighting back, fighting fire with fire. At the end of the day the Cavs are still a business, and the management has to get its fan base energized. The letter's not a horrible way to get the troops fired up. Sometimes you have to tell people what they want to hear, not the truth, in order to march forward.

As for the tv conference last night, a few observations: obviously it was a douche-fest, but fucking LBJ referring to himself in the third person? That's just a cliched douche-fest. I can't believe how many times he said how much he helped Cleveland? Helped them with what? Quitting in the playoffs while making you a millionaire dozens of times over?

Also, fuck ESPN. If you're going to agree to a dog and pony show like this, at least ask the hard questions, take him to task, and push for answers. You're fucking journalists. Act like it.

christ i feel so deflated and dejected. i'm fine with lebron not coming to chicago, but fuck him for choosing miami. a complete cop-out move. he just pissed over his own legacy and we'll never know if he has what it takes to really carry a team to a title.

some people will bring up team chemistry and shit, but let's get real.. miami will fucking dismantle every team that they come across.

the real problem lies with maximum individual salaries, which allows for a complete farce like this to happen. a player like lebron should get paid $25-30 mil a year, because that's he's worth to his team. the fact that a max is set at $16.6 means that players ranging from joe johnson & amare to players like lebron and wade all sign for similar salaries. no way should one team be able to sign lebron, wade, and bosh. it's just a complete fucking joke.

We couldn't have said it better ourselves.

Miami Heat 2010-11
Where "hopefully Dwade, Bosh and LeBron all have career-ending injuries" happens

What a crock of shit that was...the Michael Jordan wannabe & Disney milking the signing for all it's worth (nothing in my opinion), all the while trying to steal the spotlight from the World Cup & baseball. Basketball goes on for far too long as it is, so we don't need to hear about it during the off-season.

Somebody forgot to tell Gilbert, comic sans sucks
That's one "web" page Dan ain't not never don't seen.

completely disagree with this. the one positive thing from this whole ordeal was that people were finally talking basketball again. for once, basketball was at the center of focus in the sports world. people haven't been this interested in the nba since the jordan years.

The Finals earlier this summer did record ratings.

Reports from Chad Ford and Adrian Wojnarowski indicate Mike Miller has already agreed to play for the Heat. There's your sharp shooter right there. This team will win at least 60 games next year.

Spot on. Kobe has to be so ecstatic about this (for his reputation, at least). If the Heat do play the Lakers in the next five finals, you can beat that everyone outside of Miami will be rooting for the Lakers.

unless the nba changes its scoring system to one that declares a winner of the team who has the most players raped, drawn and quartered within the 48 minute time frame, i just can't imagine a scenario in which i would be rooting for kobe bryant to win.

Nah, let's keep our priorities straight. The only possible silver lining in all of this garbage is that this little trifecta night actualy put it together after a couple of seasons and humiliate the Lakers in the Finals.

Or that both teams die in a tragic blimp accident on the way to the jerkstore convention.

What do people have against the Lakers exactly?

People say "Kobe next Jordan"
We say "fuck you."
Kobe continues to win championships with Phil fucking Jackson.

We're just bitter.

Their fans, their players, Los Angeles, etc.

I hate the Lakers because I hate Kobe Bryant, and I hate Kobe Bryant slightly less because of Kobe Bryant than because of the fact that so many NBA "fans" are so ignorant of the game as to suggest that he is as good or better than Michael Jordan. Even a glancing look at something we call "career stats" would dispel this notion, but alas (for example, something as simple as PPG--Jordan's CAREER average is higher than all but two of Bryant's seasons...and two seasons, it should be noted, that the Lakers failed to make it out of the first round). As for the people I know, this is the abridged version of the prevailing opinion and motivation thereof. I can't speak for everyone else, though.

Another gem...

Bryant's highest PPG average came in '05/'06. A very, very impressive 35.4. But he shot at .450.

Jordan's highest PPG average came in an era where teams were allowed to play defense and game 7s weren't turned by officiating crews in favor of Kobe Bryant...but I digress. It was in '86/'87, and it was a terrifying 37.1, at .482. That's slightly less comparatively impressive than his most similar to Bryant's peak season--in '87/'88, he somehow averaged 35.0 while shooting .535. Those are inhuman numbers.

And as an added bonus, he never raped anybody. He's like the gift that keeps on giving.

Idolatry FTW

ive always hated kobe - but if it comes down to kobe vs lebron next year in the finals - i will for the first time in my life cheer for the lakers and kobe

I will cheer for the Heat. My reasons are predictable, if you know anything about my obsession with the sports-related BIG PICTURE, and my belief in right and wrong, rather than differences of opinion, in such matters. LBJ has already cemented his legacy as a villainous figure, and he has not joined forces with Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, Pau Gasol, Lamar Odom, etc.. This is the equivalent of Magic joining Bird in Boston, or the other way around. Kobe Bryant, on the other hand and as I've just mentioned, is inexplicably thought of as one of the greats (rather than a really fucking great player; there's a difference), and people are retarded and uninformed enough to believe that if he is part of another championship team or two, he will be the greatest of all time. This is inexcusable.

To right this wrong, the Heat need to win. At once, Bryant's legacy (which is partially deserved, mind you...just not to the current extent) will be slightly tainted by his losing in the finals to one of the most villainous figures in all of contemporary sports, and LBJ's will be further cemented as the guy who couldn't beat the best. He could only join them. It's perfect. Because it doesn't matter how many titles the Heat win, with this roster. They will be great, and I suppose they could eventually field the greatest team of all time. Who knows how the roster will shake down? It's way, way, way too early to tell. But it will all be hollow. Of course the Eastern Conference All-Star Team is one of the greatest teams of all time. Who gives a shit? It'll always look like a rigged game, and that sounds good to me. Sometimes, you've gotta break a few eggs. It might get messy, but it's still an omelet.

It's all about the big picture.

Jordan comparisons regardless, Kobe is clearly one of the great players of all time and one of the great winners. I don't see anything wrong with the way he approaches the game.