Today is July 8th. The day that NBA free agents can sign with teams. It's also the day LeBron James scheduled a one hour special to announce his future NBA team. I originally refused to write an article about LeBron because literally EVERYBODY else is doing it, but a few minutes ago I thought to myself, 'Eight hours from now this will all be over. It's the last day of the biggest free agent frenzy of all time. Join the party and give your two cents about where LeBron should go." So here I am giving my two cents on where leBron SHOULD go, not will go. I am not one of those idiots that will put gas on the fire to all the different LeBron rumors. No, not me. This article will be like we're going into LeBron's head on where he should go if he wanted to fulfill is 3 goals. It's basically brainstorming, or as I like to call it, Bronstorming.
Now his 3 goals are well documented, so documented that if you don't know you either live under a rock or are a LeBron hater. Not liking sports or basketball would also be plausible reasons. Anyways, his 3 goals are rather simple, they include: winning NBA titles, becoming a billonaire, and being a global icon. There are 6 teams that can give him a max contract. These teams are: Cleveland Cavs, New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls, Miami Heat, New Jersey Nets, and Los Angeles Clippers. Now if he is truly committed to completing his 3 goals, then he should go to the one team that has been written off this past week...the Los Angeles Clippers. Although it is with good reason that the Clippers have been written off (that reason being that their owner, Donald Sterling, is known around the NBA quite frankly as a moron), think of the possibilities. The Clippers have a young nucleus in Eric Gordon, Blake Griffith, and, 2010 1st round pick, Al-Farouq Aminu. They also have 2 good veterans in Baron Davis and Chris Kaman. People thought this team was going places last year without LeBron, but their season was derailed by injuries. Imagine a healthy Clippers squad with LeBron as their leader. Not to mention the new greatest rivalry in sports history would form in LA between Kobe and LeBron. Oh, by the way, Los Angeles is the second largest media city in the United States behind New York, so you can bet your bottom dollar Bron-Bron could achieve billionaire and global icon status in LA. All while making the other LA team just as prominent as the Lakers. You wanna talk about legacy? The King could be largers than life in Los Angeles. Too bad it isn't going to happen. What might happen though is a similar story in New York, minus the young nucleus and a HUGE crosstown rivalry. If King James goes to New York, he'll have the likes of Amare Stoudamire and Danilo Gallinari as sidekicks. He will be in arguable the biggest media city in the world, and will have the task of restoring basketball greatness in New York. LBJ could definitely a legacy in NY and complete his 3 goals there. The other 4 teams could work in theory, but LA and NY would be the fastest for achieving billonaire and global icon status. Miami and Chicago would probably be the fastest for winning a bunch of NBA titles though, which is what he has longed for every since he joined the League.
And then there's Cleveland. His hometown of Akron is 10 minutes away. The city of Cleveland hasn't won a title in any sport in like 65 years or some outrageous number like that. LeBron and the Cavs the last few years have been the closest thing to winners the city of Cleveland have been in a long time. You could argue it's Bron-Bron's duty to stay in Cleveland and try to win them that title they've been longing for, unfinished business you might say. Even if he doesn't win a single title after returning to the Cavs for 6 more years, the city of Cleveland would love him for his loyalty and after 12 or 13 years in the League they'd want him to go to a championship contender and try for a title or 2. He'd be the next Karl Malone, and every NBA fan knows that Karl Malone is loved and respected all around the League. Karl Malone, for those who don't know, was a legendary power forward for the Utah Jazz who stuck with the Jazz throughout is career and never won a title with them. He joined the Lakers for his final season to try and win that title, but it just didn't happen. Now even without a single title he is still loved and respected throughout the League and is definitely a NBA legend. When the dust settles, a smart LeBron has one choice...stay with Cleveland...it is your home after all. And it doesn't take any Bronstorming to know that home is where the heart is.
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A NBA Summer
The NBA season ends in early June with the NBA Finals, and then the offseason starts which usually leads to the NBA being placed on the back burner for the MLB and talk of the upcoming NFL season. Not this year though. The NBA isn't going unnoticed this summer thanks to the mega free agency class it's sporting that includes LeBron James, Dewayne Wade, and Chris Bosh, just to name a few. Free agency talk originally started back in the beginning of the season but most of the superstars didn't want to talk about their futures during the season, and so talk was slowed until the end of the season. Then 12:01 A.M. of July 1st, the start of free agency, came around and the NBA was launched into the sports mainstream with everybody wondering where these marquee players will be playing next year.
I personally have a mixed reaction to the 2010 NBA Free Agent Class that has turned into a media frenzy. On one side I find it fascinating, more fascinating than the game itself, because there are so many A-list players on the list that I think the media is having trouble covering them all. It has been basically nonstop coverage ever since midnight stroke making it July 1st. All these amazing players plus nonstop coverage equals mega hype for where these players are going. For instance, I barely watch basketball but I still have been following since the day 1 of free agency because I want to know who goes where and I've been reading every article to try and get so more insight to where all these players are going. I even watched a 10 minute tribute video to LeBron that was part of the Cavs pitch to keep him in Cleveland. Let me tell you, after watching that vid I don't know how LeBron could leave Cleveland, that video was deep, real deep.
On the flip side I feel like there is too much coverage and that it is rather annoying. I have watched less SportsCenter this week because I know it's all centered around the NBA free agents, and I don't want to see and hear what their experts are saying because I've been reading the articles that say the same thing online. Rumors get old after awhile; I like legit facts on the situation. But free agency has been all about rumors and speculation aside the actual meetings the players had with team interested in acquiring them. I think the media, while it does have a big fish to fry in this free agent class, should tone it down a little bit. The problem is they aren't and won't do it. If anything they'll turn it up a notch, thankfully it only lasts a week. Regardless of how much the media jams this down our throats though, there is no denying that this summer is truly a NBA summer.
I personally have a mixed reaction to the 2010 NBA Free Agent Class that has turned into a media frenzy. On one side I find it fascinating, more fascinating than the game itself, because there are so many A-list players on the list that I think the media is having trouble covering them all. It has been basically nonstop coverage ever since midnight stroke making it July 1st. All these amazing players plus nonstop coverage equals mega hype for where these players are going. For instance, I barely watch basketball but I still have been following since the day 1 of free agency because I want to know who goes where and I've been reading every article to try and get so more insight to where all these players are going. I even watched a 10 minute tribute video to LeBron that was part of the Cavs pitch to keep him in Cleveland. Let me tell you, after watching that vid I don't know how LeBron could leave Cleveland, that video was deep, real deep.
On the flip side I feel like there is too much coverage and that it is rather annoying. I have watched less SportsCenter this week because I know it's all centered around the NBA free agents, and I don't want to see and hear what their experts are saying because I've been reading the articles that say the same thing online. Rumors get old after awhile; I like legit facts on the situation. But free agency has been all about rumors and speculation aside the actual meetings the players had with team interested in acquiring them. I think the media, while it does have a big fish to fry in this free agent class, should tone it down a little bit. The problem is they aren't and won't do it. If anything they'll turn it up a notch, thankfully it only lasts a week. Regardless of how much the media jams this down our throats though, there is no denying that this summer is truly a NBA summer.
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