The LeBron James Thread

[The 24th Letter]

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Tristian Thompson

[wwharton]

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Tristian Thompson

Is he looking good so far? I've only caught a couple of glimpses at the Cavs and was looking specifically for Kyre. Haven't really seen him out there.

[The 24th Letter]

Is he looking good so far? I've only caught a couple of glimpses at the Cavs and was looking specifically for Kyre. Haven't really seen him out there.

He's coming off the bench but I think hell be starting soon...I love dudes energy. He's aggressive on the boards and hustles his *** off. I want to say he's averaging like 10 and 5. Correct me me If I'm wrong. Still rough around the edges but I like what I see..

Yes, I tune in to Cavs games, lol

[wwharton]

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He's coming off the bench but I think hell be starting soon...I love dudes energy. He's aggressive on the boards and hustles his *** off. I want to say he's averaging like 10 and 5. Correct me me If I'm wrong. Still rough around the edges but I like what I see..

Yes, I tune in to Cavs games, lol

He'd have to start over Jamison though, right? Or they'd move Jamison to SF? I don't see them benching him. I could see his minutes climbing throughout the year either way. I'd like to see him be successful... especially it'd be horrible for the Cavs to waste a high pick right now.

[The Big Squeezy]

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I just got done watching the Cavs 2007 playoff run DVD I picked up a few years ago. Watching that playoff run was some of the most fun I've ever had when it comes to sports. Too bad Tim Duncan and Tony Parker had to ruin it all.


****ing Tim Duncan.

[Champion8877]

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hahaha its funny going back and reading the first 20 or so pages of this thread. knicks fans, bulls fans, cavs fans, heat fans, nets fans, every fan of every team, wanted lebron and liked him. fast forward a year and everybody in the world besides heat fans hate the guy.

[The Big Squeezy]

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Warning: below is a super soap opera type wall of text. Read at your own risk.

Man, I can't sleep so I've just been watching highlights upon highlights of old Cavs games from 2004-2009. As much as I hate the guy, LeBron gave us some magical times. My favorite would probably be that game winning 3 he hit against the Magic in the 2008 ECFs. When he hit that I thought that there was no way we weren't at least going to the Finals again. I remember his first regular season game vs. the Kings. There was this one play where he got out on a fast break and instead of dunking it he waited for a teammate to get down the floor and dished it off to him to let him score the basket. An 18 year old kid doing that! I figured we'd eventually become the team of the decade ala the Bulls of the 90's, and we were almost there, but like every other Cleveland team that's been to the edge or greatness, we were one or two pieces short.

It was always nice to have that safety blanket of good basketball to fall back on after the Browns and Indians stomped all over our hearts year after year. That's another reason why him leaving was so infuriating, because everyone knew that if/once he left the Cavs would fall right back into place alongside the Browns and Indians. Now, I'm not one of those guys who'll quit being a fan just because the team blows, but man it sure was nice to root for a good team for once. I'm only 17, so I wasn't around for the late 80's, Kosar led Browns, I wasn't around for the Mark Price/Brad Daugherty Cavs, I wasn't around for the great Indians teams of the 90's so those Cavs teams were my first winning team experience of my life (the spurts of good Indians teams in the early/mid 2000's notwithstanding) and it was awesome. 2007 was probably the best year in regards to sports that I've witnessed (no pun intended) because the Browns were pretty good, the Indians were great, and like I said earlier that 2007 Cavs season/playoff run was some of the most exciting stuff ever.

It's almost depressing. I know that sounds crazy, but watching LeBron tear it up down in Miami (sans the Finals last year) stings and burns every time I see a box score of highlight of it. It just makes me think (super cliche term incoming, you've been warned!) "what if?" What if we would have added a formidable big man to counter Dwight Howard, what if we had some better players on that 2007 team? What if John Elway wasn't a mother****er? What if we had added an ace pitcher to those 1990's Indians teams?

I guess hindsight is 20/20 and we didn't think that we needed to add all of the pieces right away because who saw LeBron ever leaving Cleveland? Though saying that is just like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound.

Sigh. **** you LeBron. **** you John Elway. **** you Tom Glavine/John Smoltz/Greg Maddux.

[55]

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Don't forget Art Modell, Earnest Byner, Edgar Renteria and Michael Jordan, dude!

[Jasong7777]

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I don't know how you Cleveland sports fans do it. Not just in basketball, but every sport. Year after, year after year. After year.

[HMcCoy]

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I don't know how you Cleveland sports fans do it. Not just in basketball, but every sport. Year after, year after year. After year.

If Cleveland St's Norris Cole emerges as a better player than Kyrie Irving...if LeBron and the Heat snatched this drafts best PG right from under our noses, I will finally cop to the fact that the sports gods dispise NE OH and I will never support a CLE team ever again.

[The Big Squeezy]

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Don't forget Art Modell, Earnest Byner, Edgar Renteria and Michael Jordan, dude!

I hate you.

For the record, I'm having a party the day Art Modell dies. Anyone is welcome, the festivities include grave dancing and pin the tail on the team moving backstabber mother ****er.

[King_B_Mack]

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Soooooo yeah, hate to bump this, but this story is bound to lead to a discussion about him or him vs Kobe or him vs MJ, so may as well keep it confined to this thread.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/michael-jordan-thinks-only-kobe-bryant-deserves-comparisons-222702003.html

Kobe's ultimate competition is MJ. That's why MJ watches him. MJ made people think what he was doing wasn't human. Ditto the Kobester.
I never said Kobe was better than MJ. MJ just told me Kobe's the only one to have done the work, to deserve comparison.

[The 24th Letter]

Soooooo yeah, hate to bump this, but this story is bound to lead to a discussion about him or him vs Kobe or him vs MJ, so may as well keep it confined to this thread.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ba...222702003.html

Article seemed to be more about Kobe?

[King_B_Mack]

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Article seemed to be more about Kobe?

Oh yeah, definitely, but we both know that talking about the article is just going to lead to 'Michael dissed LeBron by saying this,' which in turn will lead to discussions about Kobe vs LeBron vs Michael. It's inevitable.

[airjoca]

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It's not even debatable, Kobe is by far the closest to Jordan's level, at least for now. If LeBron wins like 3 championships in the next 5 years, maybe we'll talk about him, as of now, Kobes career >>>>>>>>> Lebrons.