I won't comment on whether or not I think they can win titles. Let's see them play together with a complete team first. I feel like I've been commenting or seen so much commentary on this already, but I'm COMPELLED to keep up this charade. I really don't want to talk about Lebron anymore, but the whole hour long "Decision" was so....dramatic and hyped up. I felt like I was watching Monday Night Raw all night waiting for John Cena's decision only to find out he was defecting to TNA....or something of that degree...
In other words? The NBA is becoming a lot like WWE. Dan Gilbert's tirade sounded like a wounded and bitter Vince McMahon who's so adamant about being anti-wrestlers once they leave his company that he bans moves that remind fans of their legacy. He recently banned wrestlers from using Knife Edged chops so that fans in arenas would no longer WOOOOOOOO! throughout venues across the country.
No need to worry about if Gilbert's gonna ban chalk in The Q however. Fan's are just as Anti-Lebron as they were Anti-Hulk Hogan at the 1996 Bash at the Beach when their beloved hero in Red and Gold joined the Outsiders to form the NWO.
*lol
The bad part about it is, like any wrestling fan in 2010 with access to a computer and internet...I already knew what was gonna happen before it did...I was just curious how it was gonna play out. I knew Lebron wasn't going to re-sign with the Cavs. I think deep down the Cavs did too, they just hoped against hope they were wrong...and sure enough? The montreal screwjob is replaced by the Connecticut Double-cross.
I could almost side with Cleveland fans (whom I genuinely feel bad for) when they say this is the biggest heel turn in professional sports in decades...but then you see Lebron's hurt and remorseful face when fans burned his jersey. You see the last minute jitters about making an announcement that would ultimately CRUSH a whole city...Makes you wonder how Hogan felt that night before he dropped the leg across the adams apple of Macho Man Randy Savage.
After years of telling kids to say their prayers, eat their vitamins and listen to their parents...you go to where the grass is greener with hopes of dominating the sport. A new world order, one that promises championships.
The only difference between Hogan and Lebron? Hogan already won a slew of Championships. So again...what was the motivation?
He's 25. His greatest memories before coming to the league were playing with his high school buddies. Maybe he just wanted that old feeling back. Hell, he couldn't get Bosh to come to Cleveland, so we knew Wade was out. Cleveland didn't have a squad that could help Lebron get a title, how would they help the NWO? Now Pat Riley (Eric Bishoff) has to find scrubs to round out this new band of bad-boys in South Beach.
Who's gonna be the new Horace Hogan, Disciple, Bryan Adams, Stevie Ray and Vincent? *lmao
Seriously...I can look at this two ways. Who WOULDN'T want the chance to play texas hold em with a stacked deck? It's the chance to have a REAL SHOT out the gate at a championship with three members of the gold-medal winning dream team...c'mon son. I can't hate that.
On the same token, who would wanna be towel boys for the NWO. Because there were no role players in the NWO, just bodies to make them look menacing while the faces; er, heels got all the shine.
hmmmmm....
Maybe in Lebron's head he was joining the Wolfpac against Kobe's NWO Hollywood? Or maybe the Celtics are D-Generation X?
It all seems far fetched and maybe I watch WAYYYYY too much wrestling. But say you couldn't picture Ron Artest coming out of the Staples Center locker room wielding a steel chair in the 4th against the Heat to even the odds?....right
