MAYBE YOU SHOULD FIND ANOTHER, BETTER CITY / TEAM / TEAMMATES, LEBRON!!!
This story is cool on so many levels.
It highlights the humble, quiet, unassuming, unpretentious super-star who took the many career "wide rights" that have come his way and kept grinding and working with his teammates to make himself / themselves better within the context of a "real" team.
Once again, LeBron reveals more about himself in defeat by shrinking in the big moments, playing small at the time a superstar of his "alleged" ilk should be playing big, and then lashing out at anyone and everyone within the sound of his voice in the aftermath.
To all those LeBron supporters who seem to believe that everyone should climb on board and enjoy the ride that the Heat were supposed to provide to basketball fans of every stripe -- Stick it!! Not happening!!
When given a choice of a "lesser" opponent who does things the "right" way -- Mavs, Bulls to name a couple -- I will choose to root for that team over the Heat every time. That's not "hating" (the Heat), it's appreciating (the teams that do things right and persevere).
Thank you for allowing those of us who admire the qualities that LeBron and D-Wade may never possess as teammates and players, the right and privilege to abstain from jumping on the overly self-indulgent, petulant, bandwagon that are personified by the Miami Heat.
from Yahoo Sports:
"If I would have won one early in my career, maybe I would have never put all the work and time that I have over the last 13 years," Nowitzki said.
"It wasn't about our high-flying star power," Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle said. "Come on, how often do we have to hear about the LeBron James Reality Show? When are people going to talk about the purity of the game and what these guys accomplished?"
Forever now. Once again, James was an uncertain, uneven star with a championship on the line. He didn't play well in these Finals, and worst in the moments that the Heat needed him most. He didn't want the ball in the fourth quarter, passing it away as fast as it had come to him.
"They have to wake up and have the same life that they had before they woke up today … the same personal problems," James said. "I'm going to continue to live the way that I want to live. … But they have to get back to the real world at some point."
There's nothing real about James' world, and never has been. He's a prisoner of a life that his sycophants and enablers and our sporting culture has created for him. He's rich and talented and something of a tortured soul. He's the flawed superstar for these flawed times. He's a creation of a basketball breeding ground full of such twisted priorities and warped principles. Almost every person who's ever had to work closely with him, who has spent significant time, who's watched him belittle and bully people, told me they were rooting hard against him. That's sad, and that's something he doesn't understand and probably never will.
When the game was over, his attitude was downright defiant. They had done enough to win, he insisted, and of course he was wrong.
Strange, but Chris Bosh knew the truth. When he talked about Nowitzki, you had to wonder to whom he was directing his words. "There's nothing extra. There's nothing super. [Nowitzki] was just himself. And in these situations, I think when you're yourself and you play your basketball, the best thing always happen.
"He's worked very hard, for a very long time and he deserves it. I think we can take a page out of their book and really just pay attention to people's work ethic and how much time they put into the game. Obviously, what we did wasn't enough."
It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great. -- Jimmy Dugan, A League of Their Own
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