NBA 2K12 comes out in less than one week. It has already garnered a ton of press due to having three different covers featuring Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, and Magic Johnson. There’s also been a lot of attention given to the game since it is going to feature nearly 30 classic teams and 15 legendary players. I’m not sure exactly how that works since if there’s almost 30 different teams there must be more than 15 legends. Since the NBA lockout has made it impossible for 2k to update rosters, the main focus of the game has been placed on the legends. This is most likely going to be a great thing and I am very excited. With what we know (or at least I know) as of right now, six days before the release, I want to give some scattered thoughts on what I think will be awesome and what is messed up.
First, the player ratings have leaked and they are fucked up. LeBron James is the highest rated player in the game at 98, including an A- in outside shooting. I don’t know why this guy keeps choking in the playoffs every year and is rewarded with great video game ratings. And to put his mid-range and three point game so high is insane. I mean, that’s saying LeBron is nearly as good of a shooter as Dirk Nowitzki. Dirk got jobbed on the ratings, falling to 85 which is behind titans of the game like Rudy Gay (86). He’s also behind Melo, Amar’e, and tied with Blake Griffin. This is Dirk here. Top 25 ever probably and he was just one of the top three players in the league this past year. Kobe somehow got rated 94 even though he didn’t play well and should only be in the high 80s. I’m also a little sad Luol Deng is only a 77 since he’s a true warrior.
Deron Williams is a 90 and Russell Westbrook is an 88. I don’t know what world these 2k developers live in where Williams and Westbrook are better than Dirk, but it must be nice there. As long as LeBron’s clutch rating is about a 49 then I won’t be that upset with all these initial ratings. Assuming there’s a season and the rosters update things will change. That’s really all I can bitch about in terms of current players, but I will praise the Mavericks for acquiring Rudy Fernandez before the lockout so he’s on their roster in the game. That is so important to me as Rudy is one of the most important men to ever live. Aside from that, I don’t care about the modern stuff as my focus is all on the legends.
The legend stuff looks awesome. If you’re the 60s Celtics with Bill Russell then the game presentation is just like it would be in the 60s, including the black and white screen. I hope this means for the older teams there won’t be a scoreboard on the bottom of the screen during the game and it will just show up sporadically throughout the quarter like it did for years. While I am excited about the at least four different classic Bulls teams the roster reveal showed, I feel that’s kind of weak to do. Out of the almost 30 legendary teams, how many are going to be the same team with slightly different players? Will there be four different Bird-era Celtics or something? If that happens and there’s no 1993 Phoenix Suns I’m going to be pissed. I’m really looking forward to there being a lot of different classic teams so you can use a lot of different legends like NBA Live 2000. That brings me to my next hope.
I really hope that with The Association—the game’s season mode for those who aren’t familiar—when you do a fantasy draft you can pick legendary players. In Live 2000, which is the second greatest NBA game behind 2k11, they had legendary all star teams broken down by era. There was the 50s/60s team, the 70s, the 80s, and the 90s all stars. You could complete ridiculous tasks and unlock the players from those teams to be placed on any team in the active roster. You could then do a season with legends on any team. I had a Bulls team with MJ, Pippen, Wilt, Bird, Dr. J, and McHale among others I can’t remember since it has been so many years. But the point is that it was awesome to take legends and have them face off against the stars of 2000.
One of 2k’s big marketing points with 2k12 is to give everybody a chance to see how all the legends would fare against the stars of today. What better way than to be able to incorporate them into the regular gameplay? Most of the time when I do an Association or Playoffs I just draft a team to make it more interesting. Well with all of these legends I want to be able to be the Bulls, give myself the number one pick, take Jordan, and then maybe take Derrick Rose in the second round and so on and so forth. They could even make the game super smart so if you do this legend incorporation it will take a player like Mike Bibby who is on the Heat now and sucks, and simply throw him out of the roster in exchange for the better Bibby that is on the 02 Kings. I want to be able to put together my dream team of classic and current stars then go bust some skulls.
We don’t know what all the classic teams are yet but from that roster reveal we see a lot of Bulls teams and the 93 Hornets. Also I pre-ordered the game from Game Stop and it says on their website I’ll get to unlock the 91 Warriors and the 02 Kings for that. The thing with these classic teams is that they’re not unlocked to start the game, you have to complete parts of a special game mode to unlock them. That is most likely going to be a lot of fun and cause me to waste a lot of time I could be using to write papers or do reading for school. Part of what makes it exciting is the fact 2k won’t reveal every team and won’t tell us every change they’ve made to the game. If they do that change with The Association I’ll shit my pants.
Apparently My Player mode has changed up so you don’t start off rated like a 37 and playing shit games that mean nothing. You start out going right into the league, or at least that’s what I think I read about it. That’s pretty cool since I always hated My Player because it took so long to get into the NBA and then you sucked when you made it. They’ve also redone the teammate grading system in the mode so you don’t drop four letter grades if you accidentally hit X to call for a pass at a bad time. From what I’ve read there’s just a ton more stuff, like being able to make commercials and what not. I still probably won’t play it but for people who like that mode hopefully this is good news. Also the Creating a Legend mode, which in 2k11 involved taking a rookie Michael Jordan and putting him on a current team and playing through his career, has returned only now you can be a player on a current team and go through the rest of their career. That’s pretty nifty.
The bottom line is this: 2k12 is going to fucking rule. This legendary team mode is going to turn everybody’s brains into shit. I am so excited for it I briefly considered taking all of next week off so I can play it, even Monday despite the game not coming out until Tuesday. I’m trying to slam through the last few games of my season in Madden so I can be ready. Once that game drops everything we know is going to change. If they don’t put a classic Seattle Supersonics team there so I can demolish people with the Reignman I’m going to be furious and may consider getting rid of the game though.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
You Were Right LeBron, Karma is a Bitch
Note: This rant was started last night after the Mavs won and then finished today. I don’t know if it is coherent at all since I’m still so hyped that Shawn Marion has a ring and I don't proof read, but you’ll get over it.
“Crazy. Karma is a bitch”
With that tweet directed at the Cleveland Cavaliers, LeBron James set the basketball world on fire back in January. The Cavs of course are LeBron’s former team. The team LeBron shit all over for at least two seasons when talking about the idea of leaving in free agency. Then last summer he left Cleveland to “take his talents to South Beach” and join up with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh on the Miami Heat. LeBron ended up tweeting that karma is a bitch because the Cavs lost by 55 to the Los Angeles Lakers and were on an 11-game losing streak. For some reason this pleased LeBron and he put up that tweet. I’m not sure how that is karma since they did nothing to deserve getting dumped on that way, but alright LeBron.
It gives me a great deal of pleasure to say 20 minutes after the Dallas Mavericks started celebrating their first NBA Championship, a year after The Decision, and after watching an entire career thus far of arrogance: Yes LeBron, karma is a bitch.
You see, after the Heat got their big three together, they had only Mario Chalmers and Michael Beasley under contract. Beasley was obviously getting traded and people weren’t sure what was going to become of Chalmers. So the Heat did what any organization would do in that position: they had a championship celebration.
Using the slogan “Yes. We. Did.,” the Heat had a stage show like something out of a Kiss concert, complete with pyro and smoke bombs. The Big 3 popped out of the stage and Bosh was flexing and screaming like an idiot, LeBron danced, and Wade stood around with his herpes. They said they were a dynasty, despite not even having a roster. LeBron promised more than six championships, as if that would somehow make them all better than Michael Jordan. They danced and pranced then were confused as to why people hated them. Maybe if you weren’t a team with a proven choker (LeBron) and a guy who thinks he is a superstar but isn’t (Chris Bosh) and a guy who gives STDs to his wife (Dwyane Wade) and maybe if you didn’t celebrate like you won it all before playing a single game, people wouldn’t care so much.
That pre-season, pre-having a roster championship celebration set the tone for the entire NBA season. You were either a fair-weather NBA fan and a frontrunner and wanted Miami, or you were a true fan of the game and wanted to see them lose to a team who embodied the concept of five people on the court working together over the idea of three stars and a bunch of scrubs. Or of course you were my Mom and had been a Heat fan since the 90s.
Either way, the Heat celebrated and partied it up all summer and talked such shit about how they’d top the 1996 Chicago Bulls’ all-time best NBA record of 72-10 and they’d win the championship. They flexed and pranced around once the season started and they would beat on bad teams. Of course they had a shit record against the league’s elite, but that didn’t matter. They were riding high.
Now here we sit on this glorious Sunday night and the Heat have fallen short in every way imaginable. How did it happen? It happened because of the perfect storm brought on by the basketball gods. Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said after the game, “None of us really expected this.” Really, Coach Spo? Yes I understand you don’t go into a game expecting to lose, but deep down you couldn’t have seen this Finals Fail coming? Let’s look at some stuff that went down.
First off, the Heat had problems closing out games throughout the regular season because the ball would go to LeBron James and never Dwyane Wade. There’s nothing I need to say since it was put together wonderfully in this video. There was that beautiful span of time when they fell to the Bulls, Knicks, Magic, and Bulls again because of moments of unclutch play. For some reason against Boston and Chicago in the playoffs, LeBron James shattered the old playoff image of him being a choker. He closed out games against those teams like he was one of the best ever. But even then, Erik, you had to realize all good things come to an end. We’ll get back to that.
Over in the Western Conference, Dirk Nowitzki lost his fucking mind. He had a great season and should’ve been up with Dwight Howard as an MVP candidate not named Derrick Rose. People thought the Mavericks could potentially contend, but after years of failure previous they had their doubts. In the first round against Portland, many people thought Dallas would be sent packing. In Game 4, Dallas blew a 23 point lead and lost. People thought that was the end of the Mavericks and Dirk. We’d have to chalk Dirk up as another very good player who couldn’t hit that next level. Whoops.
Dallas came back from that loss and reeled off 7 straight victories, including a sweep of the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers. Then people thought the OKC Thunder would beat Dallas, but Shawn Marion played defense like it was 2006 to shut down Kevin Durant and Dirk continued his dominance and the Mavericks made the Finals once again, and once again they found themselves against the Heat. Dirk had played out of his mind all season and looked to finally destroy the notion of him being soft and a choker. After hitting so many big shots and leading the Mavs to numerous comeback victories in the post season, people still weren’t convinced Dallas could compete with Miami’s star power.
Sorry, but I’ll take the team that puts five people out there working together over the team with three egomaniacs treating the sport like a pick up game that will be so easy any day. As Bill Simmons put it, “8 always beats 3,” referring to the depth of Dallas over the star power of the Heat. Miami took Game 1, but in Game 2 they fucked up when LeBron and Wade started celebrating taking a 15 point lead with 7 minutes left. Dirk and Co. came to life and punished Miami, evening the series at 1 apiece. Miami took Game 3, but Dirk’s heroics despite being sick as hell came through in Game 4 to even the series again. The Mavs made the big plays down the stretch and came up with the win in Game 5 as well. This brought us to the deciding Game 6 in Miami. Spoelstra and the Heat may have been saying they weren’t in trouble and were still confident, but it sure didn’t seem that way.
Remember when I said I’d get back to LeBron closing out Boston and Chicago? Here we go. LeBron could close out Boston with ease since Rajon Rondo, their best player, was hurt, thus costing the Celtics down the stretch in games. Shaq was hurt as well and the C’s still hadn’t fully incorporated the new guys from that trade. All of this made them inferior to Miami, thus giving LeBron confidence to hit shots since he saw their weaknesses. Chicago is a young team with much to learn, and Luol Deng and Derrick Rose were cooked from playing so many minutes so LeBron had no problems hitting big shots and flexing and dancing. They were inexperienced and uncomfortable in the big games so LeBron had that swagger.
But once he went up against a crafty veteran team who had nothing holding them back from bringing it, LeBron did a disappearing act. Just like he always does. Shawn Marion outplayed LeBron in at least two games and his defense on the self professed “King” helped keep him out of the game. Of course LeBron is also mentally weak so once he realized Dallas was going to fight to the end he collapsed and relied on Dwyane Wade to have an amazing series. LeBron was nowhere to be found in the fourth quarter of many of the games. He had only 11 fourth quarter points going into Game 6. For the series he finished with 18 fourth quarter points…but Chris Bosh had 23. Dirk Nowitzki had 62 and was a death dealer in the clutch. LeBron was the one being shit on.
The Heat went back to their old ways of being unable to close out games as they gave up numerous fourth quarter leads to Dallas. Spoelstra had to realize that his team suddenly closing games was too good to be true, right? He had to realize that LeBron was missing during the big moments and had a history of doing this and history is always doomed to repeat itself...right?
LeBron came out in Game 6 and hit his first few shots while Dirk started 1-12. Dirk went 8-15 the rest of the way while scoring 10 points in the fourth and sealing the victory. LeBron had 21 points on 9-15 shooting, but if you saw that game you knew he was ineffective. He was driving to the hoop then passing the ball away. Dwyane Wade may have shot poorly but he at least went all out. In the biggest game of the year LeBron had as many turnovers as assists (6) and went 1-4 from the foul line. He hit his first four shots then suddenly didn’t seem to have much of an effect and finished with the quietest 21 points I’ve seen in a big game. Sure he had 7 points in the fourth, but how many times did he get the ball then whip it away to Mario Chalmers as if Wade's STDs were dripping off the ball?
And the moral of the story is as LeBron said those few months ago: Karma is a bitch. Before Game 5 LBJ and Wade were mocking Dirk’s sickness in Game 4 by fake coughing and putting their shirts over their faces like Dirk did in his postgame interview. Cool LeBron. Real tough for a guy who got outplayed by Shawn Marion. When that video game out after Dallas had already won Game 5, the Heat had signed their death warrant for Game 6. Dirk may have shot poorly initially, but in that fourth quarter it was like he had the game sliders all the way up and began raining fire down on the Heatles, sending them on a long and bitter vacation.
Not to mention the fans in the arena in Miami! As Dallas owner Mark Cuban said, “Our fans punked the shit out of the Heat fans.” There were an awful lot of blue shirts in support of Dallas for that final game. Even Miami’s frontrunner fans knew they were screwed. Hell with two minutes left in the game Miami’s weak ass fans were already walking to the exits. LeBron choked in the biggest series of his life and did it in front of a crowd unwilling to support him and the team. It was beautiful.
That’s what happens when you mock a player who is demolishing your team. That’s what happens when you declare your team a dynasty when there’s no roster. When you act like LeBron and the Heat act, that crazy thing called karma gets you and you choke and fail miserably on the biggest stage in the sport. Chris Bosh acted like he was a superstar and such hot shit, and his season ends with him falling on the ground sobbing like a baby.
Now LeBron is saying he’s fine since he’s got a better life and more money than all of us and people have to get back to their lives and stop ripping on Miami. Hey fuck face, if you don’t want the scrutiny then don’t always try to draw attention to yourself. Don’t have championship celebrations before there’s even a team. Don’t go on television and have an hour infomercial that culminates in you kicking your former team in the balls for no good reason. Don’t shit all over a sports city that has been shit on for decades then say only your real fans will understand this move. Don’t tweet stupid shit about taking joy in your former team losing when clearly they were never built to withstand something like you leaving. Don’t dance and flex while you beat inferior teams. Don’t mock Dirk Nowitzki for being sick since he went out and played like Jordan and you played like Karl Malone.
Here is a guy with so much skill and who could be so amazing, but he acts in ways which draw attention to himself, and then he says everybody else is messed up when they don’t like how he acts. He refers to himself as “King James” and acts so arrogant, but then when the going gets tough he calls out everybody else like we all did something. Hell Chris Bosh played better than him in the biggest game of the year! LeBron is a total douche and so cocky for no reason, but once again it is summer time and LeBron James is not an NBA Champion.
People thought Jason Terry’s tattoo of the Championship trophy would be the ultimate stat curse in NBA history, but it appears as though all those lavish celebrations in South Beach and that talk all summer about domination was the real curse. Dwyane Wade mockingly said back in March, “The world is a better place because the Heat is losing.” I don’t know if the world as a whole is a better place, but the basketball world certainly is. The concept of a team still rules over all, and for that all real fans of the game should be pleased.
“Crazy. Karma is a bitch”
With that tweet directed at the Cleveland Cavaliers, LeBron James set the basketball world on fire back in January. The Cavs of course are LeBron’s former team. The team LeBron shit all over for at least two seasons when talking about the idea of leaving in free agency. Then last summer he left Cleveland to “take his talents to South Beach” and join up with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh on the Miami Heat. LeBron ended up tweeting that karma is a bitch because the Cavs lost by 55 to the Los Angeles Lakers and were on an 11-game losing streak. For some reason this pleased LeBron and he put up that tweet. I’m not sure how that is karma since they did nothing to deserve getting dumped on that way, but alright LeBron.
It gives me a great deal of pleasure to say 20 minutes after the Dallas Mavericks started celebrating their first NBA Championship, a year after The Decision, and after watching an entire career thus far of arrogance: Yes LeBron, karma is a bitch.
You see, after the Heat got their big three together, they had only Mario Chalmers and Michael Beasley under contract. Beasley was obviously getting traded and people weren’t sure what was going to become of Chalmers. So the Heat did what any organization would do in that position: they had a championship celebration.
Using the slogan “Yes. We. Did.,” the Heat had a stage show like something out of a Kiss concert, complete with pyro and smoke bombs. The Big 3 popped out of the stage and Bosh was flexing and screaming like an idiot, LeBron danced, and Wade stood around with his herpes. They said they were a dynasty, despite not even having a roster. LeBron promised more than six championships, as if that would somehow make them all better than Michael Jordan. They danced and pranced then were confused as to why people hated them. Maybe if you weren’t a team with a proven choker (LeBron) and a guy who thinks he is a superstar but isn’t (Chris Bosh) and a guy who gives STDs to his wife (Dwyane Wade) and maybe if you didn’t celebrate like you won it all before playing a single game, people wouldn’t care so much.
That pre-season, pre-having a roster championship celebration set the tone for the entire NBA season. You were either a fair-weather NBA fan and a frontrunner and wanted Miami, or you were a true fan of the game and wanted to see them lose to a team who embodied the concept of five people on the court working together over the idea of three stars and a bunch of scrubs. Or of course you were my Mom and had been a Heat fan since the 90s.
Either way, the Heat celebrated and partied it up all summer and talked such shit about how they’d top the 1996 Chicago Bulls’ all-time best NBA record of 72-10 and they’d win the championship. They flexed and pranced around once the season started and they would beat on bad teams. Of course they had a shit record against the league’s elite, but that didn’t matter. They were riding high.
Now here we sit on this glorious Sunday night and the Heat have fallen short in every way imaginable. How did it happen? It happened because of the perfect storm brought on by the basketball gods. Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said after the game, “None of us really expected this.” Really, Coach Spo? Yes I understand you don’t go into a game expecting to lose, but deep down you couldn’t have seen this Finals Fail coming? Let’s look at some stuff that went down.
First off, the Heat had problems closing out games throughout the regular season because the ball would go to LeBron James and never Dwyane Wade. There’s nothing I need to say since it was put together wonderfully in this video. There was that beautiful span of time when they fell to the Bulls, Knicks, Magic, and Bulls again because of moments of unclutch play. For some reason against Boston and Chicago in the playoffs, LeBron James shattered the old playoff image of him being a choker. He closed out games against those teams like he was one of the best ever. But even then, Erik, you had to realize all good things come to an end. We’ll get back to that.
Over in the Western Conference, Dirk Nowitzki lost his fucking mind. He had a great season and should’ve been up with Dwight Howard as an MVP candidate not named Derrick Rose. People thought the Mavericks could potentially contend, but after years of failure previous they had their doubts. In the first round against Portland, many people thought Dallas would be sent packing. In Game 4, Dallas blew a 23 point lead and lost. People thought that was the end of the Mavericks and Dirk. We’d have to chalk Dirk up as another very good player who couldn’t hit that next level. Whoops.
Dallas came back from that loss and reeled off 7 straight victories, including a sweep of the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers. Then people thought the OKC Thunder would beat Dallas, but Shawn Marion played defense like it was 2006 to shut down Kevin Durant and Dirk continued his dominance and the Mavericks made the Finals once again, and once again they found themselves against the Heat. Dirk had played out of his mind all season and looked to finally destroy the notion of him being soft and a choker. After hitting so many big shots and leading the Mavs to numerous comeback victories in the post season, people still weren’t convinced Dallas could compete with Miami’s star power.
Sorry, but I’ll take the team that puts five people out there working together over the team with three egomaniacs treating the sport like a pick up game that will be so easy any day. As Bill Simmons put it, “8 always beats 3,” referring to the depth of Dallas over the star power of the Heat. Miami took Game 1, but in Game 2 they fucked up when LeBron and Wade started celebrating taking a 15 point lead with 7 minutes left. Dirk and Co. came to life and punished Miami, evening the series at 1 apiece. Miami took Game 3, but Dirk’s heroics despite being sick as hell came through in Game 4 to even the series again. The Mavs made the big plays down the stretch and came up with the win in Game 5 as well. This brought us to the deciding Game 6 in Miami. Spoelstra and the Heat may have been saying they weren’t in trouble and were still confident, but it sure didn’t seem that way.
Remember when I said I’d get back to LeBron closing out Boston and Chicago? Here we go. LeBron could close out Boston with ease since Rajon Rondo, their best player, was hurt, thus costing the Celtics down the stretch in games. Shaq was hurt as well and the C’s still hadn’t fully incorporated the new guys from that trade. All of this made them inferior to Miami, thus giving LeBron confidence to hit shots since he saw their weaknesses. Chicago is a young team with much to learn, and Luol Deng and Derrick Rose were cooked from playing so many minutes so LeBron had no problems hitting big shots and flexing and dancing. They were inexperienced and uncomfortable in the big games so LeBron had that swagger.
But once he went up against a crafty veteran team who had nothing holding them back from bringing it, LeBron did a disappearing act. Just like he always does. Shawn Marion outplayed LeBron in at least two games and his defense on the self professed “King” helped keep him out of the game. Of course LeBron is also mentally weak so once he realized Dallas was going to fight to the end he collapsed and relied on Dwyane Wade to have an amazing series. LeBron was nowhere to be found in the fourth quarter of many of the games. He had only 11 fourth quarter points going into Game 6. For the series he finished with 18 fourth quarter points…but Chris Bosh had 23. Dirk Nowitzki had 62 and was a death dealer in the clutch. LeBron was the one being shit on.
The Heat went back to their old ways of being unable to close out games as they gave up numerous fourth quarter leads to Dallas. Spoelstra had to realize that his team suddenly closing games was too good to be true, right? He had to realize that LeBron was missing during the big moments and had a history of doing this and history is always doomed to repeat itself...right?
LeBron came out in Game 6 and hit his first few shots while Dirk started 1-12. Dirk went 8-15 the rest of the way while scoring 10 points in the fourth and sealing the victory. LeBron had 21 points on 9-15 shooting, but if you saw that game you knew he was ineffective. He was driving to the hoop then passing the ball away. Dwyane Wade may have shot poorly but he at least went all out. In the biggest game of the year LeBron had as many turnovers as assists (6) and went 1-4 from the foul line. He hit his first four shots then suddenly didn’t seem to have much of an effect and finished with the quietest 21 points I’ve seen in a big game. Sure he had 7 points in the fourth, but how many times did he get the ball then whip it away to Mario Chalmers as if Wade's STDs were dripping off the ball?
And the moral of the story is as LeBron said those few months ago: Karma is a bitch. Before Game 5 LBJ and Wade were mocking Dirk’s sickness in Game 4 by fake coughing and putting their shirts over their faces like Dirk did in his postgame interview. Cool LeBron. Real tough for a guy who got outplayed by Shawn Marion. When that video game out after Dallas had already won Game 5, the Heat had signed their death warrant for Game 6. Dirk may have shot poorly initially, but in that fourth quarter it was like he had the game sliders all the way up and began raining fire down on the Heatles, sending them on a long and bitter vacation.
Not to mention the fans in the arena in Miami! As Dallas owner Mark Cuban said, “Our fans punked the shit out of the Heat fans.” There were an awful lot of blue shirts in support of Dallas for that final game. Even Miami’s frontrunner fans knew they were screwed. Hell with two minutes left in the game Miami’s weak ass fans were already walking to the exits. LeBron choked in the biggest series of his life and did it in front of a crowd unwilling to support him and the team. It was beautiful.
That’s what happens when you mock a player who is demolishing your team. That’s what happens when you declare your team a dynasty when there’s no roster. When you act like LeBron and the Heat act, that crazy thing called karma gets you and you choke and fail miserably on the biggest stage in the sport. Chris Bosh acted like he was a superstar and such hot shit, and his season ends with him falling on the ground sobbing like a baby.
Now LeBron is saying he’s fine since he’s got a better life and more money than all of us and people have to get back to their lives and stop ripping on Miami. Hey fuck face, if you don’t want the scrutiny then don’t always try to draw attention to yourself. Don’t have championship celebrations before there’s even a team. Don’t go on television and have an hour infomercial that culminates in you kicking your former team in the balls for no good reason. Don’t shit all over a sports city that has been shit on for decades then say only your real fans will understand this move. Don’t tweet stupid shit about taking joy in your former team losing when clearly they were never built to withstand something like you leaving. Don’t dance and flex while you beat inferior teams. Don’t mock Dirk Nowitzki for being sick since he went out and played like Jordan and you played like Karl Malone.
Here is a guy with so much skill and who could be so amazing, but he acts in ways which draw attention to himself, and then he says everybody else is messed up when they don’t like how he acts. He refers to himself as “King James” and acts so arrogant, but then when the going gets tough he calls out everybody else like we all did something. Hell Chris Bosh played better than him in the biggest game of the year! LeBron is a total douche and so cocky for no reason, but once again it is summer time and LeBron James is not an NBA Champion.
People thought Jason Terry’s tattoo of the Championship trophy would be the ultimate stat curse in NBA history, but it appears as though all those lavish celebrations in South Beach and that talk all summer about domination was the real curse. Dwyane Wade mockingly said back in March, “The world is a better place because the Heat is losing.” I don’t know if the world as a whole is a better place, but the basketball world certainly is. The concept of a team still rules over all, and for that all real fans of the game should be pleased.
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