Basketball is basketball, no matter what age. That's why kids still look up to MJ, he was great and could play with sore elbow
Nah, apparently I'm a "hater" or a "whiny little b****" for saying I don't like a player. I'm especially full of "hate" if I have an opinion about Lebron after I paid money to see him perform and he yawned the night away. Yeah, what "hate" I possess. I should hang on his nuts just because he throws powder in the air and racks up great statistics until deciding his teammates aren't good enough for him. And by the way, Al Capone, I probably don't even weigh 82% of what that woman weighs. So nice try!
The fact you said lebron quit, which is huge lie on this forum, means your a hater. Lebron wants to win, not be stuck on a team with noting going for it.
No, were you at the game (I mean, probably, since we've figured out that you work for him and only but only post in Lebron threads, but...) I mean, were you at the Warriors game I saw where he totally decided to take the night off? Or can I not "witness" an NBA game 5 in the playoffs and say a player quit on his team if that's what I saw with my eyes? That makes me a "hater" to have an opinion after about 35 years of watching the league? Um, okay. You go ahead say I'm a "hater" for having a different view of a player than you, if that helps you and your boss out. Wait, here you go, Octo-Lebron-ius (shudders at image): you are a hater for hating on me for my opinion!!11!1!1
I wouldn't be surprised if he still is. Maybe he's hired t_mac1, Octavianus, and Al Capone for his note-taking team...
Hey Octavianus, if you or SacTown are still awake I could use a hand over on the RealCavsFans forum- the REAL nest of LeBron Haters. Trying to put out fires left & right over there. TIA.
Exactly, go frucken troll the Cavs forum. What the hell are you guys doing here in a Rockets forum anyways, it's not even in anyways related to the Heat or LerBronbron.
Here in the "NBA Dish", six of the first ten topics are titled "LeBron..." something (there is a separate forum for rockets-only posts).
He doesn't have time for that. He's too busy trying to massage his very sore ego to worry about anyone else.
Great article by Feigen: http://blog.chron.com/nba/2011/06/m...ions-happy-its-not-the-heat-its-the-temerity/ Mavs earn title in ways James, Heat can’t match. “Billions” happy. It’s not the Heat, it’s the temerity. The roles did not have to be forced for the sake of the story. The Mavericks were easy to like. They had suffered long and greatly. They had shown their pain and paid their dues. They had a star, Dirk Nowitzki, who stayed with his team in the summer of LeBron and The Decision. He and Jason Kidd had played in more playoff games than any players still in the league without winning a title, and they seemed to succeed with heavy doses of work and sacrifice. During his postgame press conference, LeBron James was quick to remind reporters that his life is still better than pretty much everyone else's. (Wilfredo Lee / AP) Few could relate to the Heat, as LeBron James petulantly reminded when he said his life was still better than pretty much everyone’s. They spun it to say they had sacrificed shots and money in the name of winning, but it still seemed that they joined forces to do it the relatively easy way, to skip steps if only because players as great as James and Dwyane Wade should not need the other to win championships. Teams suffer first, and Dallas kept on suffering. But more than that, they seemed to win because they grew stronger through their failures, triumphing with their hearts and minds as much as their gifts. They played that role well. “I’m so proud of what our team stood for,” Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said. “I kept having people come up to me the last three or four days, “Hey, there’s billions of people rooting for you guys.” And we could feel it. We could feel it. We knew it was very important that we won this series for those reasons. Because of what the game is about, and what the game should stand for. “This is one of the really unique teams. It wasn’t about high‑flying star power. Come on, how often do we have to hear about the LeBron James reality show and what he is or isn’t doing? When are people going to talk about the purity of our game and what these guys accomplished? That’s what’s special. And I played with Larry Bird, I played with Bill Walton, I played with Robert Parish, I played with Dennis Johnson. I played with the all‑time greats. And Dirk is up there with that upper, upper echelon of great players.” The debate about where he belongs among the greats will go on, but this series also demonstrated why championship rings are part of the discussion. With the games on the line, Nowitzki rose to those occasions. Even when he could not shoot well in the 102-degree fever game or in Sunday’s John Stark-ish first half, in the final minutes, he reached greatness. For all of LeBron James’ spectacular gifts, in those final minutes, he came up short. This simple count of championships won always seemed an insufficient way to rate and compare players, if only because there are so many other considerations, so much more to discuss even if only for the fun of the argument. When discussing the best of the best, however, it has to be a large part of how they are measured. They are the players most responsible for lifting their teams to greatness. Others must excel, too, as the Mavericks demonstrated. But there is a time when the best players must be at their best. James wasn’t. And he still does not seem to get it. “I mean, sometimes you got it, sometimes you don’t,” James said. “And that was this case in this series. I was able to do things in the last two series to help us win ballgames. Wasn’t able to do that in this series. Once you get to the playoffs, every game is pressure. You want to win. You have to win. And I mean, we’ve seen some of that in the Chicago series, we seen some of that in the Boston series. Even though we lost Game 4, we lost Game 4 in Philly, there’s pressure in that series as well.” That’s very nice. It’s good that he was very good against other teams. He added later that yes, “it hurts.” Moments later, however, he trash talked those that were happy to see the Heat lose, ignoring that they brought all that on themselves. “At the end of the day, all the people that was rooting on me to fail, at the end of the day they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today,” James said. “They have the same personal problems they had today. I’m going to continue to live the way I want to live and continue to do the things that I want to do with me and my family and be happy with that. “They can get a few days or a few months or whatever the case may be on being happy about not only myself, but the Miami Heat not accomplishing their goal, but they have to get back to the real world at some point.” When it comes to rooting against Miami, it’s not the Heat, it’s the temerity. It would seem foolish, however, to conclude that he will not develope the fortitude and toughness that beat him, just as those that labeled Nowitzki were wrong before he proved it. For now, however, the Mavericks won a championship because they earned it, not just in winning four of six games of the Finals, but in all the years they suffered and persevered. The Heat has not done that just by living in a spotlight they turned on themselves. They also could not beat it. ---------------- Can you imagine this immature turd winning it all? Can you imagine the difference in the humility with which Dirk celebrated the title and how this arrogant jerk would celebrate? Although it is unlikely, I hope he never gets a ring.
