OT-The Decision Open Thread
Figured we should start this now. This is the biggest day in sports history. We will all be witnesses. I'm a little surprised this hasn't been started yet... What a narcissistic person. I don't see him ever winning more than 2 rings.
Where does everyone think he will end up? I honestly believe that he will stay in Cleveland. He'd be foolish to leave. These anonymous reports of him going to Miami reek of Freep standards.
He has rented six cabanas in Miami to celebrate according to Yahoo.
I really don't care too much unless he's going to be a Piston - about 0% chance of that!
Next!!!
Maybe he's celebrating his new rivalry with dwade and bosh when he chooses cleveland and cp3 gets traded to cleveland too haha
The pic of Lebron at the top of that article is photoshopped.
Thanks
I think Lebron will start his own team in Akron. The Akron Kings, and he will play every game for the rest of his career against the Washington Generals, and he won't win that elusive title.
It's an open thread for a decision that doesn't involve anything about Michigan, a sports team in Michigan, or is an actual sporting event. Just saying, we already get a full hour of coverage for the decision, the T-minus 4-hour open thread may be a bit much.
It was kind of meant to poke fun at the MSM for their coverage of it.
If I implied that, my bad. I was just commenting it seemed a bit early. I was actually in the midst of editing my response to say that, IME, I could see LeBron shocking a lot of people with the decision tonight. I think most people agree Miami is the most likely, and I agree, but I only think there is about a 50% chance of it. I could really see him coming back to Cleveland as a real "savior", shunning all the nah-sayers who doubted him and thought he was leaving. I say 50% Miami, 40% Cleveland, and NYC, NJ, and Chicago split the rest.
But why are you here on this thread bitchin about it then?
This is ridiculous. ESPN is going to have a countdown to The Decision? Like they can't talk enough about it during the hour it's actually on. I mean, there's no way he announces until about 9:55 pm.
you created a post about the same topic before ESPN even started their show and then mocked them for their coverage?
I'm suffering from a severe case of foot-in-mouth disease...
any reason you started 9 topics today on the Board that had been discussed already?
I actually read somewhere on line today that he was announcing it within the first 10 minutes and the rest of the time was for analysis. I don't know if that's true or not.
We'll find out what team's contract is in your case....... when we come back
Sorry. posted to wrong comment by accident..
announcing it within the first 10 minutes
Yes, that's accurate.
Bill Simmons has some good thoughts on this charade.
If it's me and I really want to win, I take Stoudemire over Bosh as my power forward.
If it's me and I really don't want to rebound or play defense, I take Stoudemire over Bosh as my power forward.
There. Fixed.
If it's me and I really don't want to rebound or play defense, I take Stoudemire's one working leg and one working eye over Bosh as my power forward.
+1
Yes, this is the truth. I stand corrected.
Apparently twithersAP (from twitter) says it won't happen until "late in the show" now.
But how in the heck are they going to pay Bosh, LeBron and Wade and have any more dough to pay the other 10 guys on the team.
I guess the theory is you could put just about anybody out there with those three so they won't be paying much to anyone else.
if i didn't already hate lebron before (I did), I hate him now. What a douche. And thats all I have to say about that...
How embarassing is ESPN now? This whole thing was truly truly pathetic all around...and the lame attempts at humor by Jim Gray? Marv Albert may have bitten a chick but at least he's a good sports personality. I've never felt so sick to my stomach watching something on ESPN until now.
And as for Lebron, this is what makes him so different than Kobe and Jordan - they would have never pulled this type of stunt. He won't ever win anything in Miami...at least I certaintly hope he does not. The difference between this Big 3 and the Celts was that they had good role players signed - Miami only has enough cap room for basically league minimum players here on out and only 1 other player currently under contract. Instead of being 31 with bad knees in Cleveland, or winning immediately in Chicago, he'll be 31 without a title and without Wade whose knees will have fallen off by that point.
Well, LeBron never chose a university, so I guess he's yet to get his inner announcement diva out of his system.
So, will he lay six NBA team jerseys on a table, and pick one for the cameras?
i thought he was going to have 5 different headbands on the table.
Being a Bulls fan I was really hoping he would go there, but I think they are his 3rd fav now and fading fast. My guess is he goes Miami. My thought had been he either stays home or goes wherever Bosh and Wade were to go. My hope was that Bosh and Wade would end up on different teams but since they didn't I can see Lebron going anywhere but there.
Maybe now my Bulls can target an outside shooter instead. I'd laugh if the Bulls end up getting a title before Miami does with the fearsome threesome.
J.J. Reddick to the rescue.
Best rumor I've heard today is that people in news business around Akron are reporting that he's changing his LLC's address from Ohio to Chicago. Which I think is complete bunk...unless he chooses the Bulls, in which case I'm taking complete credit for knowing all along. ;-)
But, nothing personal, but I hope you're sad. I hate the Bulls. That's the one place I don't want him to end up. Don't really like Cleveland, but I would respect the loyalty of him staying. Miami seems too easy. (And New York would make New York even more insufferable).
Another positive for you, if he goes to Miami- he'll NEVER be considered better than Jordan. Because they'll always question if he was the best guy on his team, no more the League, no more ever. And no matter how many titles he wins there, Wade will always have one more. so he can't do it on numbers.
But I don't see Carlos Boozer leading them to any titles in the Conference the way it may be constituted. And not sure who else they're going to get to play there. They'll probably just be another team waiting for Lakers/Miami to stop winning titles. But at least they'll be the team losing to them in the playoff every year. (Under the "going to Miami" model. LeBron stays in Cleveland or NY...wow, the Conference could have some fun playoff battles between Miami, and LeBron's team, and Celts for a couple more, and Orlando...and the Bulls. Because I think Rose only gets better, and gets up to the level of some of those guys. He just needs help vs. multiple guys on one squad).
if he picks Cleveland i'll be pissed. not bc it's Cleveland but bc this whole circus was supposed to be about finding a team that will help him win. every team in the East that may be considered a contender got stronger this offseason with the mild exception of the Celtics. teams like the Magic have made noise about trying to add to their roster. in the meantime Cleveland made zero moves and had no draft picks this draft. nothing. they tried to hire Izzo. that's it. hell in my opinion hiring Byron Scott was a negative for a team claiming they want to take it to the next level (yes i know he took the Nets to the Big Game but he underachieved with the Hornets imo). to return to that would fly in the face of everything Lebron claimed to be looking for.
Won't we all be cackling as the entire northeastern section of Ohio burns down? There may even be random riot in Columbus.
with enough camera footage of the ensuing riots, we are all witnesses
Yahoo sports says that he has rented out party cabanas on Miami beach, which means he's throwing a party in Miami which means he's probably going to Miami.
I hate it when people get negged for being right. And for no reason too... It makes me sick. If someone is contributing to the thread with new information or has sources and is saying something that nobody else has said before then don't freaking neg them. Damn does this crap ever piss me off.
Edit... NVMD I missed the first post of this thread. Whoops. I'm going to neg myself for this
Can you imagine the Bristol offices today if it had been Tiger shooting the 59, and not Goydos? It would be chaos! "What to cover? What to cover!?"
Jeopardy better be a repeat.
the repeats make me feel smart
You get them wrong the second time you see them too... :-(
Eh, it's just kid's week.
Why on EARTH am I losing points on this? I was only saying you're not missing much.
I'm boycotting this thread just like I'm boycotting Lebronapalooza on the world wide leader tonight
Clearly you are not boycotting this thread, though it was a valiant effort indeed
yea who am I kidding? I'm definitely turning it on at 9:50 just so I can watch Cleveland spontaneously combust.
God I hope they have a little box in the corner with a live feed of downtown cleveland
I'm hoping it's not Miami though everything seems to be pointing that direction if you listen to all the reports. I think it is worse for the NBA (which IMO is already not that interesting) to not have some stars spread out over different teams. They should have a rule that you can't have more than 2 max deals per team. I'm going to predict NY or NJ, just because those seem to be the least likely.
If i'm him I...
a) get the F out of Ohio
b) go somewhere where you have a LITTLE help to win a ring, and not 2 other superstars because noone will give you full credit for winning titles with them. It's almost like being the 49ers in Tecmo Super Bowl
.... I guess that leaves Chicago, NY and NJ. NY is a mess and has proven they can't get out of their own way. Hova is my boy and Chitown has D-Rose..... it'd be between NJ and Chi for me, but, i'm not him, so Cleveland or Miami seems where he'll be
I'm not going to watch (I really don't care where he goes), but if he goes to Miami I expect him to struggle to win anything. Wade and Bosh are very good players, but the 4th guy on that team may well be Mario Chalmers, followed by a bunch of minimum-salary guys. Unless Lebron and Co. plan on playing 38+ minutes a game, they are going to be playing with a bunch of NBDL retreads. All things being the same, he'd have a better chance in NY with Amare, whoever the Knicks get for David Lee, and a couple of veterans than what he'd find in Miami. Now, if he wants to win championships, go to Chicago and he'll probably dominate for the next 4-5 years.
I'm willing to bet that at least one person on this thread who says they aren't going to watch is a STONE COLD LIAR
The first thing I thought of when he was going to announce on ESPN was that James is the black Jimmy Clausen.
Atleast Clausen can use immaturity as an excuse.