2010 NBA offseason draft, FA, etc etc...

"Shove a knife in Cleveland's ribs?"

Seems we're getting more carried away by the minute with the impact of one greedy, self-serving athlete.

 

Cleveland has replaced Boston as land of the insufferable "woe is us" fanbase.

Have the Pistons' and Red Wings' titles really made life in Detroit any better? Face-painting, 45-year-old fanbois really need to grow up and treat sports for the pleasant DIVERSION that it is.

 

That would put us all out of work. The fraction of us that aren't already out of work, anyway.

 

No, but Michigan State's NCAA basketball title at Ford Field sure would have... Thank you Tom Izzo for screwing the people of Detroit because you couldn't beat North Carolina.

 

How many jobs would a Michigan State title have created in Detroit? How many foreclosures would it have stopped? How many cars would have been burned in the streets?

 

If LeBron really wanted all of this attention over where he signs, he could have always gone to college for a year in 2003.

 

And how many $5 Detroit houses would have been sold?

 

How is he greedy? He is taking, presumably, less money to leave Cleveland than he would to stay.

Self-serving? Yeah, I'll buy that. If he isn't announcing that he's staying in Cleveland tonight, the dog-and-pony show will be a pretty horrible P.R. move.

 

Then the ratings in the Cleveland market for tonight's announcement should be much worse than the national average.

Anyone besides Junkie want to take that bet?

 

We're less than nine hours away from "The Decision." I can't wait. I have my popcorn ready to go, and I have my Advil ready for LeBron's speech.

 

I think Gregg Doyel said it best today - LeBron doesn't seem to care about basketball as much as he does using basketball as a means to an end. The end being adulation and international fame.

 

No.

If ESPN does this right, we should get that reacton on the show tonight as well.