Miami Bound

So, after a gigantic circus and everybody saying he's going to go here, he's going to go there, we now finally know that LeBron James is heading to Miami. Now, I don't personally care because I'm not really a huge basketball fan, but it is worth talking about.

This season we really began to learn a lot about the real LeBron James. For years, all people could do was talk about how perfectly he has handled everything, but then some things began happening. It all really started when LeBron got dunked on at his own skills camp. Suddenly nobody is allowed to see it, all the tapes are seized, and we have to watch things from way behind the action and can barely tell that it's him anyways. Rumblings of primma donna syndrome begin. But, can we tell that it's actually James, or was it Nike making sure that their golden boy is not publicly shown up, so we kinda let it go.

Then, all they hype about his contract year. We see all this stuff with Jay-Z and LeBron, everybody start talking about how LeBron is totally going to go to New York and be with his boy Jay-Z. But the worst part about things didn't come until the playoffs where LeBron pretty much quit on his team against the Celtics. After he got eliminated, started talking about his "team", refer to a previous blog post I wrote right after the Cavs were eliminated, talking about the offseason. Said he hadn't thought about the offseason, but had already made comments to people about wanting to be the highest paid free agent EVER. Clearly, he's not referring to the Cavs when talking about his team.

Then, all the hoopla. I mean, it makes sense that he didn't decide on the first day of free agency. He knew that he absolutely had the power in all of this. Nobody is disputing that, this whole hour long special on ESPN to announce something that would take a grand total of 20 seconds. I mean, what happened to the kid who accepted his first NBA MVP trophy back at his high school? All of this doesn't project somebody who is playing because he loves to play. This is all showing people a ham who wants to stay in the center of the spotlight for as long as humanly possible, knowing that he has everybody at his beck and call.

At any rate, we FINALLY learned that LeBron is going to Miami, who just signed Chris Bosh and re-signed Dwayne Wade. This is definitely one of the most potent combinations to come into the NBA..well, ever. The last time there was a group this potent, just the group of 3, had to be Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippin, and Tony Kukoc. Obviously you have to favor the Heat in the Eastern Conference with these three guys leading the way. But again, I don't really care.

Obviously, lots of people in Cleveland are going to be absolutely livid about this. And you just have to feel bad for Cleveland. I mean, if it wasn't for Michael Jordan, the Cavs probably would have had like 3-5 titles in their chest. The Browns get moved, and then come back as pretty much the NFL's whipping boys, LeBron comes and gets the Cavs so close to winning titles, and then up and leaves them. He says that Akron will always be home, but really, I don't think his home will be very welcoming whenever he does decide to come back. But, at least we know, and we can stop making a huge deal about this. I mean, why talk about this when we can all agonize and annoy each other over whether or not Brett Favre will come back?