The LeBron James Thread

[Altimus]

Quote: Originally Posted by OSUFan_88

Remember when players in the NBA were so competitive that they wouldn't even hug off the court? Now they are sitting down in a meeting to talk about where they should go and marketing deals? SMFH at players today...

I miss those days. NBA hasn't helped either. As JVG said.

NBA, where soft happens.

[Cebby]

Quote: Originally Posted by OSUFan_88

Remember when players in the NBA were so competitive that they wouldn't even hug off the court? Now they are sitting down in a meeting to talk about where they should go and marketing deals? SMFH at players today...

1. That was before the internet. It was a lot easier to create an image back then. I highly doubt the players hated each other as much as they claim. I'm sure so did, but some don't like each other now. They clearly didn't hate each other enough to play at the Olympics together (aside from Isiah).

2. It's not 30 seconds after game 7. I don't think any of these guys even played each other in the playoffs this year.

[Altimus]

Another owner gets fined for tampering, this time the Hawks owner.

Quote:

"If somebody came to us tomorrow and said you can have LeBron for max money and it puts you in the luxury tax, I'd do it in a heartbeat," Gearon told the newspaper on May 19. "But am I going to do that for [Zydrunas] Ilgauskas? Am I going to do it for Jermaine O'Neal? I don't think so . . . "

[Kully]

I wouldn't mind a bunch of super tandems in the NBA next year. Say like Wade/Amare in Miami, LBJ/Bosh in NY, and Johnson/Boozer in NJ (they had to go somewhere).

[utexas]

Quote: Originally Posted by OSUFan_88

Remember when players in the NBA were so competitive that they wouldn't even hug off the court? Now they are sitting down in a meeting to talk about where they should go and marketing deals? SMFH at players today...

Don't believe the good ol' day rhetoric, players have always had friends in the league, much like boxers are friends and party together after the fights, its a business

[King_B_Mack]

Pretty much, like Michael and Chuck being friends. There weren't that many people that hated each other really outside of Scottie and Dennis Rodman and Isaiah and Magic after that whole HIV thing.

[st0rmb11]

Quote: Originally Posted by utexas

Don't believe the good ol' day rhetoric, players have always had friends in the league, much like boxers are friends and party together after the fights, its a business

but they didn't openly show it on the court. I can still see pictures in my mind of Jordan standing over Ewing and pumping his fists. I can still see Shaq taking a swing at Barkley. I can still see Bird and Magic in the middle of a scuffle between the Lakers and Celtics in the finals.

[utexas]

Guys still fight in preseason games lol. Thats just competition.