Good for LeBron James!

[kis123]

I'm a very casual sports fan at best, but isn't that Cleveland team that finished with 19 wins, the second worst record in the NBA, basically the same team that LeBron was trying to carry on his back the year before? From what I understand LeBron had been waiting and waiting for that organization to build a team around him and every year it was him carrying an awful team on his back. You know how good Michael Jordan's "supporting cast" was? When he was playing minor league baseball they came within one game of going to the NBA Finals WITHOUT HIM! That's building a team around someone. So no LeBron didn't get everything he wanted in Cleveland. Just almost everything 😀

He was given everything he wanted from paid entourages to coaching the team.....Mike Brown had no control. Everything was all Lebron; which might explain why it didn't work. He wasn't there to coach, and he wasn't there to be given any and everything he could imagine to ask for. He was there to work; if he didn't have what he thought would be effective for the championship, why not ask for that? He damn sure got everything else he wanted. And he got enough.....other teams have worked with much less and managed to get the job done.

Besides, this is NOT the sports subforum; if you'd like to take it up with me there, I have no problem with that.

Which is why it was so puzzling to me that the same guy who carried that load of stiffs to the best record in the NBA every year, struggled so much in Miami with Wade and Bosh helping him. It was like, here's a guy who almost carried a bad Cleveland team on his back to an NBA title a few years ago, PLUS Wade and Bosh! That pre-season pep rally was a bit much, but I thought they had good reason to predict several titles. If the same LeBron James that carried the Cavs on his back all those years had showed up consistently in Miami, it would've been a much different story this season I think.

That "load of stiffs" are a group of men who got past thousands to even qualify for the NBA, so they're good for something.

I just don't think Dan Gilbert made the right choice in GM with Danny Ferry. He was an overrated player and he was an overrated GM. All the players he chose were just like him-slow with flat feet. Every last one of them! I think Ferry's gone now; if that's the case, there will be great improvement over that alone.

But I think you've answered your own question. It goes to show Lebron has a lot of the goods, but he's certainly not Jordan, Johnson, or Bryant material. You're not going to ever get me to talk badly about Lebron's talent; I think he's one of the more talented players in the sport. However, he needs to grow up, man up, and get with the program while he's at the height of his game. He fell apart Game 6....he fell apart last year in Boston too. I thought it was because he mentally checked out and his head was already in South Beach (and I still believe that's part of it to this day). But as my daughter said, he's a choke artist and can't seal the deal when his team needs him the most.

Another point, looks like Lebron can't lead and his choice to follow didn't work out too well either huh? If he wants those six titles, he'd better work on some character building during the off season. Raw talent can only take him so far.....he has to endure to the end in order to get the ring.

They didn't have to. They could have gone to mommy & daddy with their hands out their whole lives. Paris I think is someday going to get the entire Hilton fortune (I'm assuming split with any siblings she has). Now if they were told by their families that until you inherit our money you're going to have to work for your own, then in that case they'd have to. But I don't think they ever really had to. In Paris' case I'm actually surprised she's ever worked at all, instead of just partying, shopping, traveling, etc. She doesn't seem to have any real ambition beyond that.

They didn't have to, but they did........and that's my point. They could've laid back and waited for someone to die and split the proceeds. But those women saw an opportunity and they went for it. I wouldn't have done it the same way they did, but in their cases, the end did justify the means didn't it?

You can't get something for nothing-someone has to put in the work. The OP wants fame, fortune, and money but wants it while sitting on his couch. Or he wants it handed to him or to steal it from someone else. It doesn't work that way; just about anyone I can think of from Lebron James, to Oprah, to Bill Gates had to put in the work before the fame, fortune, and money.