Pharzeone wrote:Now I have to go through a season of Knick fans bashing the city of Denver as a horrible place to live.

Don't worry, we'll bash San Antonio also.

If this is a smokescreen, it's a smokescreen so that he doesn't look like a big diva. He could pretend he was thinking about Miami to justify him flying to Connecticut from Ohio so he can announce he's staying in Ohio? I mean, seriously, that's attention whoring. But if he plays it off as him having a hard time over the decision and spurning 2 great players to stay at home then he comes out looking great to his fans and his home town. It's a PR win.

All this hate for them teaming up and stuff... Isnt it the goal in sports to win as many championships as possible? Isnt it the right thing to set your ego aside and be the best TEAM you can be? Thats what they would try to do. At least on paper, there is no better solution to win 'ships then to build up a dream team. Sure, Bosh/Bron/Wade wont be alone in the spotlight, but the players of the HEAT could need both hands to have enough fingers for their rings.

That said, they would instantly become the team to beat, the team to hate and yes, the team to envy! It would be Heat against the World, and deservatly so. But it would be a damn good Heat against the world...

...on paper!

In reality I think they will have to ask for the right to play with 2 balls, and even then they wont have enough touches to satisfy 3 egos as big as theirs.
That said, I think until 9 PM you will have at least 2 other favorite destinations for LeBron, and who knows, in the end even I will get out at 3 in the night to see who will be allowed to kiss his highness' butt

the knicks sold out season tix on the chance that lebron was coming...

all the rumored teams probably benefited from ticket sales, and people who don't usually care about basketball are talking about this...

all positives for selling the nba...

sure, diehard fans of the few teams, especially the knicks and cavs, and maybe the bulls, may hate this, but the league has survived with the knicks as a side joke for a decade...

hopefully that rumor about randolph/lee is true and we can bring him in and build a team to destroy that big 3.. here's hoping for Melo next summer.

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nyk4ever wrote:i am going to boo lebron unmercifully for the rest of my life.

this sentiment shared by people in chicago, cleveland, and now NY. great job LBJ, alienating all of america. enjoy that great miami crowd, bunch of octogenarians in haiwain shirts. what a f-ing joke.

hahaha seriously.

another question... would david stern actually allow this to happen? would he really want 3 of the top10 players (you can argue about bosh being in there) who also happen to be 3 of the top young bright stars of the league on the same team? let's just say that miami wins a few championships in a row here, there is going to be another team that tries to do the same thing and the leagues talent is going to be tilted so heavily onto two teams that the league would be a joke. what would be the point of the regular season or even watching?

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Mray20 wrote:It's disgusting! as I posted on the other topic all 3 of these clowns had this planned from day 1! making a big joke and spectacle of the whole thing. Now we gotta hear Steven A Smith just shoot me. I have lost all respect for Lebron I thought he was one of the greats and wanted to be one of the best of all time I was wrong dead wrong.

he can only be 1 of the best of alltime if he comes to the Knicks?

No if he was the leader of a team if he stayed in Cleavland or even went to Chicago or Ny, Miami is Wade's team

Kareem was the 1 of the best ever, but the Lakers were Magic's team... ARod is 1 of the best ever but the Yankees are Jeter's team... i don't think u have to be the man on your team to build a legacy as 1 of the best of alltime.

that is different.. baseball is stat driven... the yanks are jeters team, but A-rod will win The league MVP's and probably pass bonds as HR king.. in baseball, there are plenty of balls to go around.. LOL... if A-rod hits 50 homers, there is nothing to stop TEx from doing the same thing the same year..

In basketball, there is just 1 ball, if one guy dominates the ball, it will take from someone else.. have you ever seen two elite wing players on the same team who dominate the ball ever win a ring?

I still cant see Lebron going there. I think its Cle/NY and have all along.