We'd really appreciated it. Sports Jun 9, Read Full Article. What to Read Next. Aug 20, 35, Hypes 15 Comments. Thanks to his salary and an impressive roster of endorsements. Jul 22, 4, Hypes 2 Comments. Jun 11, 29, Hypes 17 Comments. Jun 16, 10, Hypes 15 Comments. And to prove my point, take a look at his comments regarding the powder toss before this year's playoff series against Boston.
He stated he wouldn't go through with his usual pre-game routine because he "wants to be more focused on the task at hand. So he's either telling us his attention span is so tiny that a five-second routine of throwing powder will throw off his game or he's saying the powder gig is just for show. I think I'll go with the latter. If anyone still watches SportsCenter they realize it is cut down into segments.
I know, pick me, I know the answer LeBron and the Heat. Isn't anyone else sick of it? Get it? Even though the tab would come up as "NBA" and even though there were 10 other games going on at the same time, ESPN would just show the Miami Heat score and move on to the next sport. But wait, there's more. Just because he is LeBron James , his plays are automatically better. If a guy like Al Thornton produces a play that is exactly the same as LeBron's, LeBron will always be ranked higher in the countdown because of who he is.
Don't believe me? Then watch any episode of SportsCenter. Finally, James still receives more airtime than the Mavericks despite the Mavs' Finals victory. The minds at Bristol make it seem as if the Heat lost the Finals, not that the Mavs won it. Being that James has proven, time and time again, that he simply can't close out games makes it is difficult to regard him as one of the best ever to play the game.
Throughout these NBA Finals, LeBron has continuously passed up open shots, clanked late field-goal attempts, and eventually refused to rebound or play defense in the fourth quarter. I will take note of his Eastern Conference Finals game where he scored Cleveland 's last 25 points in a double-overtime victory.
But that seems to be it for him. Can you really remember a moment where LeBron carried his team to a meaningful victory? The Lakers star received , hateful messages online over the past 12 months. That is leaps and bound more than the next closest athlete. The , hate messages LeBron received were almost quadruple the amount of the second-place person.
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More NFL Rumors ». View all NFL Sites. More NBA News ». Observers have done their best to make sense of success that does arrive with compromise, that hints at a life beyond the hardwood, but they tend to dwell on shortcomings whenever they arrive: the fourth-quarter breakdowns, the passive final possessions, the press-conference malaise, The Decision.
What is a ring worth, then? Is it worth more than a foundation, a school, a point of view? America seems to think so. In some ways, the Jordan-LeBron debate is broken at its foundation. Really, they should be comparing The King to a different 20th-century sportsman: Muhammad Ali.
It stood for something. But no matter how well-compensated they may be, the players are the Labor. Winning has fueled LeBron James, there is no doubt.
His original sin was being this good; his cardinal sin is being this good and managing to care about things other than competition. LeBron could theoretically rattle off three more championships.
He will almost certainly end his career atop practically every relevant statistical category in NBA history. Pundits, as if dangling a carrot, like to say that he can still catch Jordan. You can appreciate Jordan; you might love him.
But LeBron has earned the right, if nothing else, to be considered apart from that affection, and for different reasons altogether. The anecdotes are random but instrumental: LeBron reading The Hunger Games in the locker room before a critical game. LeBron chilling in the offseason with supposed sworn enemy Draymond Green.
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