Juwan seemed very pissed off last year at Mike James, even after the game when he had to answer questions about throwing the ball at James' face. Does anyone know the real story behind this? Juwan refused to comment. Normally, guys would say "We were just competing, playing hard, stuff happens," like with Cassell and TMac, Barkley-Malone, Magic Isaiah, etc, but Juwan refused to say anything whatsoever, and Mike James said "He's still my boy, I think, I hope," or something like that. I remember a Chinese report said that Juwan did it for TMac, to protect TMac b/c James was a douche the previous season, but that was very questionable. What do you think?
Didn't TMAC and James shook hands after the game? I think they will be forced to play together. Although not friends, I am sure its past them by now.
I think Juwan and James will be able to co-exist. Even if you don't forget things like that it can be forgiven.
LOL but I think they will have to co-exsistsince they have no say but this is just another reason to trade Juwan
You better be talking about jho and james not tmac and james because tmac and james are boys made obvious by james's interview last nite!
I'm beginning to think we all believe it was a mistake to get rid of Mike James last year. I'm also getting the feeling that people think trading RudyGay for ShaneBattier might not be a smart move either. Now if we sign Mike James, and he all of a sudden becomes Clark Kent, and whoever we have to let go ends up being Superman, how are we going to feel then?? we need to stop looking backwards, we've already got proven starters at all five positions, why do we need to keep chasing the next best thing??
Juwan has reason to hate MJ as he was the reason Juwan was injured for the second half of the 2004-2005 season. If only we had Juwan during that Mavs series, we could have went to the Western Conference Finals.
Well technically, Mike James saved Juwan's life. Had Juwan played out that season, doctors say he could have collapsed on the spot because of the heart.
Which proven five starters are you talking about? I got Yao, a healthy Tracy and Rafer. Oh yeah and I guess then we will be playing JHo and Battman at the 4 and the 3 or the 3 and the 4 or somewhere on the floor. We will only be overmatched when we play the better teams in the league.
just like chinestaco said, if we had Juwan, we'd have beat the Mavs.... Like I said, we can't have all-stars at every spot. Rafer, TMac, Shane, Howard, and Yao...... that's as good as any five in the league.
You people that believe a healthy Juwan would've have meant the Rockets beating the Mavs in the 2005 playoffs, after the Rockets got a 2-0 lead without JHo, are craaaaaazzzzy.
As long as there are better teams in the league, we need to try to improve unless we are not after the championship.
According to James, everyone is "his boy". Actually, I don't recall Mike James saying anything negative about any coach/player. Strange that he's gotten a reputation as a bad guy when he's always complimenting his teammates and the opponent.
