It is amazing how Lebron is held responsible for the loses and everyone else is praised for the wins. Basketball is a team sport. Basketball is also played over 4 quarter and 48 minute.

It is obvious to me that the hatred held towards Lebron is one of envy and jealousy. The desire of a pro ball player is to win and to he seen as a winner. Lebron was in a position to garner where he felt was the best place for him to win. He has a right to go where he wants to go. He fulfilled his contractual obligations with My Favs and found a position with another company that was more conducive to the direction he wants his career to go. People want to throw “The Decision” up as a reason to attack him, but u are missing is Lebron raised 2 million, yes, 2,000,000 for the boys and girls club of America with “The Decision”. How much did u give for the betterment of others live when u made the decision to leave McDonald’s to go work for Wendy’s? When u left Wendy’s to go work for IBM? Along with the 2 million kickoff, he has used his fan and money to build new boys and girls clubs around the country to keep kids off the streets and doing productive things. What did u do with or 15 minutes? Lebron is also using his fame and connections with Sprite to build and repair basketball courts around the country. When was the last time u did anything for someone else that didn’t benefit U.

A-Rod was right, but not just because it is hard to win a championship, but because he is a person that is more that just a basketball player that lost a game. He is just like u and I. His life is just polarized because of what he does for a living. It is a game I love, but it is a game all the same. What u ass jacks need to do is start holding ur elected officials to the same scrutiny as u hold a man that plays a game. They affect ur life more than Lebron.

Afterall, he is the one who ran his trap about being a “King of Basketball”.

He is the one who created the stage show of his move from Cleveland to Miami. Most responsible athletes just make the move and let the news follow. LeBrick made the circus sideshow, cultivated attention, and bragged about winning Eight championships.

And lets deal with the fact that many basketball pundits say he is the best player in basketball right now.

So with all those factors, LeBrick has placed himself on the center of the stage and must now deal with the fact that he will be held to his standards. The problem is that when you look at his career, he is simply fantastic when games mean little, he’s average in playoff games that aren’t meaningful, and when there are must win games in the playoffs, he is simply INVISIBLE.

Many think that calling LeBrick a choker is mean and unwarranted. But sports history doesn’t put an asterisk beside players names that suggests “he has a difficult time handling big games and should be viewed with some compassion”. Winners win! Losers fail to make the big plays in big games. Losers fail to put their team on their back and will their teams to win.

So in the end – LeBrick can be judged by average standards and then he looks a bit above average. Or he can be held to what his trap says and then he’s a complete and utter failure. The Miami Heat would be better served buying two average players who play above their competence than one player who continually and repeatedly falls flat on his face when he is needed.

You want your current generation Jordan or Kobe and so far it hasn’t happened. I sit here and read articles about how LeBoob will be a laughing stock if they didn’t win the finals. Instead I hear more excuses. His last two years with Cleveland it was because he didn’t have a supporting cast. His first year with the Heat it has been said he doesn’t have a supporting cast. I guess there is no one in the league good enough to be his supporting cast.

News flash, he is the supporting cast. We have ourselves what is considered a great regular season player. He can perform in the big nationally televised regular season games because there is nothing at stake. It seems the deeper he gets in the playoffs the worse he plays.

Maybe a couple years in a college program would have done him a load of good. Problem is it wouldn’t have got him out of the slums with the big dollars which, in my opinion, is all that really matters to him.

reallllly, kurt? realllllllllllllllllly?

I think that everyone is upset with Lebron because he went to Miami. If he would of stayed in Cleveland all would be forgotten. The problem is the television program “The Decision” and what we all perceive as his attitude after proclaiming 7 or 8 championships. He will never regain the love he once had as a player and human being. We used to cheer his play at Madison Square Garden, and Chicago, now we despise him because of his decision to play in Miami.
Whoever is giving him public relations advice is doing a real bad job. He should hire someone else. I’m sure his marketability is way down too, especially after his last comments.

“Winning a championship is not an easy thing to do regardless of talent,” Rodriguez said. “LeBron is a once in a lifetime player, especially the last year….
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Another pro athlete talking down to the masses.

Excuse me, was it the fans or the media that danced around genuflexing on a WWF mat and telling the crowd that he and his buds were going to win “not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5, not 6, not 7….championships.

THIS is the guy we have to cut some slack for?

As they said in Blazing Saddles — “blow it out your ass, Horace”.

but on the other side, you do play for a star filled Yankees team & Lebron is also playing for a team with 2 other all-stars…

for whatever reason I think Lebron was better in Cleveland – his offense was still relevant. During the Finals , it was like a struggle for him to score – weird…

With the players and their agents running the league (deciding where they play, who the coach will be, etc.) and the national sites glamorizing those that abuse the system while dropping those that work hard in the system (as we see with these Heat vs. Mav articles) is what has 25-27 of the ownership groups wondering why they’re 2nd class citizens, when they put millions of their own dollars at risk and the players and their agents don’t take any risk.

Like people always say, if you don’t like what they have to say, don’t read it…..

Thanks Kurt, I realize now that I should care about what A-Rod has to say about Lebron. My boss told me his thoughts on how he feels about Lebron. If you want details I can email you the story. Thanks!

The 2 sorry articles about the World Champion Mavs are now buried below.

America is as tired f hearing about Lebron and the Heat as they were of hearing about A-Rod, the Yankees and the Red Sox years ago.

This is not a national site about the league (as PFT is abut the NFL). This is a clone of espn.com….all Heat, all the time.

I’m going back to Hoopsworld. Even though there are no comments, they keep readers up with goings on in he NBA. Hoopsworld does what PBT infers t’s going to do. I mean whynit change the name to ProLebronTalk? ProHeatTalk? In the main these articles surely aren’t about basketball.