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BuckeyeMike80;1822669; said:Boise State loses thereby ending a national nightmare: check
Ohio State extends scUM's misery: Check
Leturnover and the Heat lost another game: Check
This is looking like a pretty damn good weekend.....
3074326;1822808; said:You forgot the Pens winning tonight and Sid scoring a hat trick, putting him in the lead for points in the NHL. Just figured I'd remind you.
Erik Spoelstra reached out to Mike Brown over the summer and searched for insight into both basketball?s blessing and curse: Coaching the two-time MVP LeBron James(notes).
Over and over, Brown uprooted his offensive system to appease James only to have it never work. Brown praised James? character publicly when he would?ve preferred to have been truthful about James? narcissism. James defied Brown in public and private, disregarded his play calls to freelance his offense, and belittled him without consequence within the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Meticulous in his preparation, Spoelstra spoke with several past coaches, and league sources said a clear and unequivocal picture appeared on how to proceed: End the cycle of enabling with James and hold him accountable.
And surprise, surprise: LeBron James has responded with a test of his own organizational strength, pushing to see how far the Heat will bend to his will. This season, James is hearing a word seldom uttered to him in Cleveland: ?No.? And it keeps coming out of the coach?s mouth, keeps getting between the King and what he wants.
MIAMI -- What the Heat have here is a golden opportunity.
It?s an early crossroads the Cavaliers? franchise reached about five years ago, but it didn?t quite grasp the importance.
In the soul-searching done since July, it was something the Cavs wished they could do over:
Stand up to LeBron James.
Whether you believe ESPN the Magazine?s Chris Broussard?s report that several Heat players, particularly James, have grown frustrated with coach Erik Spoelstra doesn?t really matter. James has already said as much repeatedly in recent days.
He complained about playing too many minutes, which required a meeting with Spoelstra. He said he doesn?t like playing point guard, which Spoelstra has asked him to do for much of the young season. And he maintained that, unlike in seasons past, he isn?t having fun.
On Monday there was another meeting between James and Spoelstra. This confab supposedly focused on the offense, where James and the Heat have been struggling, and not on the ESPN report of discord -- though it's fair to assume the topic came up.
Of course James isn?t totally happy. He?s given up money, a massive piece of his reputation, the freedom to walk freely around his hometown. He's also sacrificed shot attempts and his beloved statistics to be with the Heat. Yes, it's early in the process, but the results so far have been underwhelming.
bassbuckeye07;1824258; said:What if the Cavs win??? Will it be total melt down time? I want to see that so badly it hurts.
jlb1705;1824296; said:I really like reading Adrian Wojnarowski. He's a refreshing voice and stark contrast to the circle jerk going on between ESPN and LeBron's posse. Brian Windhorst needs to quit being a lap dog and write that book that he keeps hinting at - because Wojo is slowly eating his lunch.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20....return.cleveland.ap/index.html#ixzz16nW4owcBMIAMI (AP) -- LeBron James says he wants to give the fans of Cleveland "a lot of thanks" for their support during his seven years with the Cavaliers.
He knows they won't feel the same, at least not on Thursday night.
James is going back to the city he scorned, wearing a Miami Heat uniform and playing before fans that treated him like royalty. All that changed in July, of course, when James went on television to announce that he was leaving Cleveland and joining the Heat.
James says "it's going to be very emotional" for him, and that he's had some good-natured talks with former Cleveland teammates about what the scene will be like. Heat teammates say they have a sense James cannot wait for the experience to be over with.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20....return.cleveland.ap/index.html#ixzz16nW4owcB
Charles Barkley has no idea what to expect from fans when the Cleveland Cavaliers host the Miami Heat on Thursday night in a nationally televised game on TNT.
Barkley just knows one thing when it comes to LeBron James, who will play at Quicken Loans Arena for the first time since his ballyhooed "The Decision" announcement last summer.
"I wouldn't stand close to him," said Barkley, half jokingly. "I hope nothing bad happens, but no one knows what's going to happen. Everyone's trying to guess, which doesn't make sense because those are some mad people in Cleveland."
In the most anticipated sports event in this city in recent memory, an expected sellout crowd will get the chance to express their harbored feelings since James took his talents to South Beach. It's such a national event that TNT's Overtime studio show with Barkley, Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson will set up shop inside of The Q.
MIAMI -- LeBron James saw images of his Cavaliers jersey being burned the night he made his free agency decision to leave Cleveland to sign with the Miami Heat.
Eventually, he'd like to see that jersey hanging from the rafters in Quicken Loans Arena.
"Wow. Of course," James said Tuesday after the Heat's practice. "If that's something that organization and franchise would do, I'm all respectful of that. I just tried to be the best player I could be every night, whether I was in that Cavalier uniform, that USA uniform. If that results in me having my jersey retired that would be great."
But James knows that gesture probably won't happen anytime soon. Instead, the Heat forward expects to be the target of plenty of heckling and hard feelings feelings from disgruntled fans when he makes his first trip to Cleveland on Thursday to face his former team. Former Cavaliers center Zydrunas Ilgauskas, who spent his first 14 years in Cleveland before following James to Miami in free agency, is also anxious about this week's homecoming.
"I'm ready for whatever response I'm going to get," James said. "It's going to be very emotional. I give a lot of thanks to that city, a lot of thanks to those fans for giving me the opportunity to not only showcase my talent, but to grow from a young boy to a man during my seven years. So it's going to be very emotionally draining. I can tell already."