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

I know a woman you wrote every paper at NYU's grad school in comic sans.

It still shocks me to this day.

 

LeBron needs a new nickname, like Goose. Cause now he's Maverick's rear.

 

His new nick name is "Commodus"

 

They'll probably win the championship, but if things go bad, this could be one hell of a soap opera on South Beach.

Injuries, egos, ruined friendships, anything could happen.

At some point, I've got to think that quotes like this one by Bosh:

Are going to piss Wade off. Wade's already won a championship in Miami and if Bosh & James continually act like they're some kind of saviors, it's going to have to grate on Wade's nerves.

I'm not much of an NBA fan, and while I'm sure their will be some incredible basketball played in Miami this year, I'll be rooting for this team to give Klapish material for a follow up on his book about the '92 Mets. (The Worst Team Money Could Buy.)

I also didn't realize that both Bosh & James were technically brought in on sign-and-trade deals.

We already knew that their supporting cast would be pretty thin. With them giving up four future number one picks, they won't have any young, cheap talent to supplement the current roster.

And they won't have anyone to come along if it all blows up.

 

Any time and every time they lose even a single game, it's a FAILURE.

And if they don't win 70+ games and roll to the championship, it's a cataclysmic disastrous failure which goes right on the asses of the players, since they cooked this whole scheme up.

That point needs to be hammered absolutely incessantly.

Failure, failure, failure.

Expectations should not only be high, they should be INFINITE. And any failure to meet them is, yes, a failure. For this team now, anything less than total perfection is total failure.

 

Knicks get Felton and supposedly they are done.

 

Talk about total failure.

 

Here is a prediction: Wade is often hurt during this contract, Bosh shrinks in big moments, and LeBron is right back where he started, kicking the ball to Mike Miller-types in crunch time while Wade ices his knees on the bench.

 

You can say it a million times. Won't make it so.

Heat has no more Hall of Fame talent on its team than the 1968-72 Lakers (who failed a few times), the 1980s Lakers (who failed a few times) and the 1980s Celtics (who failed even more times).

Lakers and Celtics won in those days by taking advantage of idiots like Ted Stepien. Why is swindlling Ted Stepien out of James Worthy more noble than watching LeBron James walk out on Dan Gilbert?

Lakers got Magic Johnson because of an arcane rule about free agent compensation. They lost Gail Goodrich to the Jazz --- Utah compensated L.A. with 3 first-round draft picks, one of which turned out to be Magic.

At least the Heat had to do some work to acquire these players --- and take some serious risk had things not gone as hoped. Lakers and Celtics just took turns stealing from the blind to acquire their superteams. With no risk at all.

 

All I hear here is "Man, I sure do hate this guy so I'm going to create ridiculous, impossible standards, just so I can feel right about hating him."

 

There's nothing wrong with what happened here. James could have done what he did in a more intelligent and sensitive way, but otherwise, it's all just business.

 

Yes. That's been a common theme in our nation since Nov. 2008, so I figured I'd try it myself.

FAILURE.