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Lebron James (Los Angeles Lakers)

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WolverineMike;2106761; said:
Oklahoma City would like to have a word with you about that statement.
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This isn't about who has the best record. If it were, the Cavs/Lebron would have won back-to-back titles.

It's all subjective and no one has separated themselves, but I'll argue the point nonetheless.

In the East, your only contenders are Miami and Chicago. The teams in Atlanta, Indiana, and Philadelphia all have nice records and are having good years. But they have little to no playoff experience outside of Atlanta getting hammered in the 1st round every year. The Heat beat the Bulls 4-1 last year when Chicago had homecourt advantage and neither team is all that different this year.

The West is a bit down this year, but you still have multiple contenders and OKC is a young team that has never made it to the NBA Finals.

So if I had to handicap the easiest road to the Finals, it's Miami. Once you get there, it's all up in the air. So I still say the Heat are the (slight) frontrunners for the title.

The point is that these idiots (the Big 3) thought they'd be the overwhelming favorites year after year; that they'd threaten the Bulls 72-win season; that they'd win 7-8 titles; and that it would be "easy." The fact that there's even an argument about whether they are the favorites proves just how stupid Lebron was and still is.
 
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OH10;2106773; said:
This isn't about who has the best record. If it were, the Cavs/Lebron would have won back-to-back titles.

It's all subjective and no one has separated themselves, but I'll argue the point nonetheless.

In the East, your only contenders are Miami and Chicago. The teams in Atlanta, Indiana, and Philadelphia all have nice records and are having good years. But they have little to no playoff experience outside of Atlanta getting hammered in the 1st round every year. The Heat beat the Bulls 4-1 last year when Chicago had homecourt advantage and neither team is all that different this year.

The West is a bit down this year, but you still have multiple contenders and OKC is a young team that has never made it to the NBA Finals.

So if I had to handicap the easiest road to the Finals, it's Miami. Once you get there, it's all up in the air. So I still say the Heat are the (slight) frontrunners for the title.

The point is that these idiots (the Big 3) thought they'd be the overwhelming favorites year after year; that they'd threaten the Bulls 72-win season; that they'd win 7-8 titles; and that it would be "easy." The fact that there's even an argument about whether they are the favorites proves just how stupid Lebron was and still is.
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No matter what AI said you have to put in the work to be a champ..the Bulls put in the work and their Superstar was a LEADER. Le Bron un willing or unable to take the Leaders role..
 
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I'd also like to point out that the Heat aren't demonstrably better now than the Cavs were with Lebron. It was lateral movement. Any team he went to would be in contention... whether it be in Cleveland, Miami, New York or Beunos Aires. He left for nothing. Even if he wins a title (and he probably will at some point), he could just as easily have done it on the banks of the Cuyahoga River and not been a total douchebag.
 
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OH10;2106753; said:
They're still the best team in the league and frontrunners for the title (as I believe they were last year as well). But they thought they'd be unbeatable. Even Quitness himself said it would be "easy." That's why they got together so neither one of them would actually have to work for it. Not so easy now.
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Chicago is just as talented and considerably deeper, IMO. OKC isn't far off either.
 
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Wow, he simply does not get it...

(ESPN link) http://espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/mia...s-apologize-kendrick-perkins-tired-blame-game

"I'm an easy target; if someone wants to get a point across -- just throw LeBron's name in there," James said. "You could be watching cartoons with your kids and you don't like it, you say, 'Blame it on LeBron.' If you go to the grocery store and they don't have the milk that you like, you just say, 'It's LeBron's fault.' "
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This was all from the reaction to Lebron's tweet:

Dunk of the Year! @blakegriffin just dunked on Kendrick Perkins so hard!!! Wow! I guess I'm No. 2 now. Move over #6
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which drew this response from Perkins:


"You don't see Kobe (Bryant) tweeting," Perkins told Yahoo! Sports. "You don't see Michael Jordan tweeting. If you're an elite player, plays like that don't excite you.

"At the end of the day, the guys who are playing for the right reasons who are trying to win championships are not worrying about one play. They also are not tweeting about themselves talking about going down to No. 2," Perkins added, according to the report. "I just feel (James) is always looking for attention and he wants the world to like him."
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nailed it
 
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I hate LeBron as much as anybody, but Kendrick Perkins is being really sensitive. The best thing he can do is shut his mouth and hope that Griffin posterizes somebody else even worse so everybody forgets what happened to him.
 
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jlb1705;2106886; said:
I hate LeBron as much as anybody, but Kendrick Perkins is being really sensitive. The best thing he can do is shut his mouth and hope that Griffin posterizes somebody else even worse so everybody forgets what happened to him.
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Same here. Me thinks someone's butthurt over almost getting his face caved in.
 
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jlb1705;2106886; said:
I hate LeBron as much as anybody, but Kendrick Perkins is being really sensitive. The best thing he can do is shut his mouth and hope that Griffin posterizes somebody else even worse so everybody forgets what happened to him.
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It'd be one thing if his tweet was simply:

Dunk of the Year! @blakegriffin just dunked on Kendrick Perkins so hard!!! [strike]Wow! I guess I'm No. 2 now. Move over #6[/strike]
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Perkins' probably isn't the person that should be calling Lebron out for that second sentence but that shouldn't make the point any less true.
 
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FUCK him.

I hope they boo his ass off the court tomorrow night.

He told Cleveland and the Cavs that they just aren't good enough for him. That bitch made a conscious decision to make Cleveland and the fans look stupid. As a Cavs fan I would hope that the fans would NEVER accept him.

Oooh, thanks LeBron. You would deign to grace the fans of Cleveland with your presence again? Give me a fucking break.

He's just afraid of getting booed again. Boo his sorry ass off the court. He can't stand that the fans hate his fucking guts.

I hope his ass stays in Miami.
 
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