The proof of 'possible' colluding is in the actions leading up to all 3 joining the Heat. Why do you think Riley freed up cap space....So he could get all 3! Who influenced Riley to start working on freeing up money?....WADE did! Wade and Riley are really close. All 3 have been talking together and getting serious about being together during the playoffs. Look at it all. The Knicks freed up money to go after Lebron. Chicago freed up money to get LeBron, and possibly make a move to get Bosh. But Miami, they freed up money insight of getting all all Lebron, Bosh, & Wade! Beasley was the key asset to get rid of for all 3 of them to make it happen. For anyone to think that Riley didn't have a hand in setting this up before July 1st, please think again. It's very very possible. As far as LeBron quitting, I really don't believe he did. I used to play basketball and football, and from a player's perspective, thats one thing you don't do. I find it hard to believe he would quit. Now, he may not have gave it his all in the final parts of the Celtics series, but he didn't quit. In all, I'm a not LeBron fan! It will be interesting to see the how the Heat truly does next season. I just can't wait until the Rockets beat them!
why not just quit in game 6 too? why bother to get a triple double and waste all that energy? oh yea, his image... so quit one game and go all out in the other...
Game 6 was all part of his devious plan to hide that he quit earlier, not to mentioned he had really quit the previous two Cleveland playoff exits vs Boston and Orlando where he deceived his way to an over 30PPG and almost triple double averages. He did all of this so he could leave his home town, spurn the Big Apple and the Second City, no-one would care and he would come off smelling like a rose. His team pulled over this great plan just as well as NASA pulled off the fake moon landing in 69.
Seriously??? How about because LBJ is a potential HOF if he as much as gets one ring, perhaps thats why the Cavs put up with him and were prepared to put up with him for 6 more years. Perhaps the reason they acted like a jilted schoolgirl was because of all they'd done to appease him and his entourage over the years. I don't really recall him giving Mike Brown the credit for the 66 wins in the article but I may be wrong. (We all know Brown was a **** coach so thats not even a discussion).
Cause stats always tell the whole story right? Anyone who watched game 7 could tell LBJ checked out in that game(That just speaks to his immense talent that he could be so disinterested yet get a triple double in that game.) I won't even comment on Wade defending his new teammate/Robin. What next, Chris "lapdog" Bosh coming to Bron's defense?
I believe mike brown won coach of the year in that year where the cavs won 66 games. Also that was the year where in the eastern conference finals vs the magic there was absolutely no game plan so he gave lebron the ball at the top of the key at the "nail" every single time in the 4th quarter. To me that was the event that ended lebrons tenure as a Cav. I mean how much faith can you have in a coach that puts the COMPLETE burden of winning on you and you alone.
Yup you can't win a Championship with that type of gameplan because it is easy to adjust to. Once teams adjusted to it Mike Brown failed to adjust his offense.
LeBron knows he's at the point of his career where it's championship or bust. He's a frontrunner and isn't capable of handling adversity. As a result, he never believed in his talents enough to think he could do it without another superstar and desperately wanted to be a part of something rather than be that something himself... because he was afraid of failure. He's a puppet. This is something simple posters like Shaud and pgabriel can't understand. Bosh just looks like he takes it in the ass.
So you just bagged every superstate in the league? Every player wants help to win, as you need at least another talented player to win these days. Why should lebron have to do it by himself. He wants to play with his friends and win together. He's going to extend his career doing this, as well as having fun, good on him i say.
I most definitely would and probably will when I get the chance. What's he going to do, run to Wade? What's Wade going to do, run to his PR agent? This isn't the 90s anywhere where Mitch Richmond and Gary Payton would backslap the **** out of anyone who crossed their territory. It's a new age of pansies running the league.
Nope the Delonte West boinking his mom was fresh on his mind in game 5, and in a close series one tank job is all it took. DD
I think lebron created a basketball concept that as he got older he had no interest in continuing. In 2007 we saw the guy SINGLE HANDEDLY drag his team to the Finals, in the piston series game 5 he showed that he can literally win a game BY HIMSELF, and nobody had ever seen anything like it before, I mean even Jordan himself had not done anything like that, i mean there was the 63 points against the celtics which many people consider the best playoff performance ever, but the bulls lost that game and eventually the series. Since that game i always expect lebron to win big games even when his team is sucking. Its clear that he has no interest in continuing such a standard, I dont think he quit vs the celtics however i remember in game 6 when he hit 2 threes in a row and then came up court and passed the ball, that told me that he was saying loud and clear, Help me out or this will be the last time you experience a winning season. To me the orlando series marked the end of lebron in cleveland.
Who are we to judge what type of help a player needs? Do they make sure the help they get is just average help, just not superstar level help? As a player, you want the best help you can get, and even if you are the help, so what, you will have less pressure to score 30 a game, and extend you career by years, by not having to pull the heavy load every game. Plus you get to have a chance to win 3-4 rings. Its the way the league is going, Celtics started off, Lakers to a extent, and now Heat. Next Year it will be the Knicks doing the same..
