MJ On Miami Three

MIA that team is gonna bust at leat this year in these playoffs. Boston had realy good vets like sam cassel / pj brown to jump in when perkins, rondo and powe weren’t on their game. this team has no young talents on it. just bodies ready to be worn the f out after about 50 games. Of course they’re gonna put the beatdown on some teams but eve ry thing they do and win will be with an aterisk.

Kap, the “cornyness” of the new Heat team will set in when you realize that if you put LBJ and Wade on the bench, they’ll at the very least be the 2009 Raptors. If you have LBJ and Bosh on the bench, they’ll at least be the 2009 Heat. Etc… keep going… See what I mean? Ah’la the Lakers not really having/needing a bench. And I doubt they’ll be benched all 3 at a time. What are those called? Rotitions? Rozitions? OH, ROTATIONS! You just got smarter today Kap.

Its only bad when lebron does it though i dont see anyone getting mad at Shaq for leaving orlando as he entered his prime in his 4th year. His orlando averages are ridiculous 27.2 points and 12.4 rebounds and a finals appearance and an olympic gold medal. sound familiar people loved him in LA and he was with Kobe, Magic at one point, van axcel, Horry, fisher like come on. unless people have to say that kobe isnt as good as wade? which we all know isnt true. so its all being blown out people are going to love lebron again.

after his 4th year*

@Kundai…He didn’t leave Orlando to piggyback to championships. He went to LA bc he was Hollywood and Orlando was not trying to pay what LA was offering. Remeber the GOAT was just drafted and was an unknown.

The lack of parity and competiveness in the NBA is going to be the kneel of the NBA. For those who actually listen to what the owners are saying, the league is bleeding money, and lost $300 million last fiscal year. If the NBA doesn’t change course, the NBA will go the way of the ABA, nothing about the LeBron move was good for the longterm health of the “NBA corporation.”

Jahi must not realize that in the last 30 seasons only 7 teams have won titles. Yes, the parity has sure killed the league so far.

the parity argument always gets me. sh1t, there are only 3-4 legitimate superstars, then a good slew of studs. but EVERYONE needs help. and frankly there’s just not enough talent out there to spread amongst all the teams. the NBA is the perfect microcosm of our country: ruled by the wealthy and talented elite. there is a reason that the league markets individuals more than teams, and there is a reason that the teams that have won titles have featured Kobe, Duncan, Wade, Shaq, Jordan, Olajuwon, Bird, Magic. it’s a superstar league, with only a few superstars.

^^ goes without saying. Yer right.
Although I would NOT say KG is holding up well, considering he missed most of last year and a lot of this year.

I don’t think people are p!ssed because they’re scared…I think people are p!ssed/hate the Heat because it all felt manufactured, which it pretty much was. Three starting all-stars saying to eachother “Let’s go to one city and win some chips” just makes everyone feel like they’re cheating.
And Eboy kicked some @ss in this comments section.

D Train: IMO, Bron will have to win at least 2-3 titles in his first 4 years in Miami to even justify the move. If MIA doesn’t, the backlash/fallout from that is going to be huge. You think it’s bad now? I think even his supporters/apologists would have a hard time defending him then. Since the argument in Cleveland was that he had “no help”, if they fall short and win the one title I am predicting for him, the argument will surely morph into the help that he had (sans DWade & Bosh) wasn’t “good enough.”

Agree with jukai, tho I think u meant decade, not century. Eboy and bryan saying heat will only win one is funny, bryan is a hater, and eboy is being bashful or just hedging his bets. I think mia will win 4 titles, after spurs win it this year!!!

Bryan: I agree, although I don’t think 2 is even enough. I cannot fathom Lebron coming out of this looking good unless they pull out three titles in 4 or 5 years. One could argue that Miami is more top-heavy than the Lakers, and they’ve pulled out two in three years. I’ve asked this previously, but if Kobe and Lebron joined up, wouldn’t we expect them to win every year? Is Wade that much of a drop-off from Wade? If you think, like I do, that the difference between Wade and Kobe is not that large, then it stands to reason that even two titles in four years has to be considered a let-down. And if they end up losing to the Lakers, doesn’t that just make the light shine so much brighter on Kobe? If him, Pau and Co. can defeat Lebron even after he teams up with Wade and Bosh, I would think it would simultaneously raise Kobe’s standing while diminishing Lebron’s.

Tarzan calls me a hater and then turns around and says the Spurs will win it all. Sigh, I guess being a hater is still far better than being a moron.

Let. The. Season. Play. Out. I’ll throw a curveball at all of ya’ll that already have the 10/11 season figured out what if maybe, may-be… the TWO-TIME REIGNING MVP proves to still be the best player on this new Heat team and demonstrates on the basketball court that he’s a superior player than D-Wade (a fact that almost no analyst disputed before July 8). Then what? What’s the narrative then? It’s chic to say that LeBron has officially become Pip to Wade’s MJ but serious basketball analysts know that the comparison doesn’t hold. Pip was never, ever MJ’s equal. How can you be 2nd banana to someone that’s not as good as you are or at WORST equal? This is not Pip/MJ, this is something the league has never seen. Enjoy or hate, but you’re going to watch.

As far as LBJ, I want him to embrace the hate. Then beat the dogsh-t out of the other NBA teams (à la Luke in Lebatard’s most recent article). Don’t try to convert them by playing nice, block the noise, take no prisoners and beat the hell out of everybody and win multiple rings. Critics will come around, they always do (mind you that fans not on message boards have never left and bron will still be top 3 in the league in popularity and his jersey will sell everywhere).

Allenp: on the first point, i have to respectfully disagree. the debate was between lebron and kobe. wade was third on (almost) everybody’s list. any gm outside of miami would do that 1vs1 trade and not think twice about it. on the second point, I STRONGLY DISAGREE. what can pippen do better or jordan?! mj was a better scorer, jumpshooter, defender, rebounder, passer (look at his stats from his early days), post up man, finisher, more clutch, tougher. the only thing i’d say is a was or slight advantage pip was handles (and even then). seriously, pippen shining more in a playmaking role is just a by product of mj accepting to play off the ball and not initiate the offense like he did in his younger days.

Miami is cop out central. “Bosh and I can’t win D-Man. Can we just come join your awesomeness? I’ll be your queen.”

Wade has offically made himself into a dummy now, making comparsions to the 911 Tragedy. Wade you are begining to become Lebron’s equal in stupidity.

If lebron wade and bosh win 8 rings on that miami team it will never mean as much as MJ’s rings or even Kobes. They took the easy wat out, there is no doubt about that.

Sh*t Id want to be on a team with my boys…

I hate when people generalize and try to clump everyone into a group.

Marcel’s not speaking for me. I’m not a huge Miami fan, but I think it’s great.

If talented people want to team up, let them. We’ll be seeing the meaning of domination once they get settled into their new team.

What the hell is MJ talking about when did he ever beat Bird and he only beat Magic becuase kareem retired, magic was past his prime and they had floppy divac as their center. Do you think that MJ with a prime Pippen would have ever beaten bird or magic in their primes. NO.

Also whoever said that MJ made pippen into the player he was is a moron. Was Mj lifting the weights for him, working on his jumpshot for him or watching film for him, NO. MJ is great but you guys give him to much credit. Swear that dude had some kind of mind bending power to get inside pippens brain and take over his body. Pippen worked had to become what he was, a better passer, rebounder and defender than MJ. People forget that when MJ retired, Pip was only the fourth player to lead team in points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks and the bulls were one bad call away from making it to the Conf. Finals. It really shows to how great pippen was and how people overstate MJ greatness that losing the so-called GOAT a team could still win 55gms and take a knicks team that made it to the finals to 7 gms.

For all these suckers in here crying about the league having no parity, eat a di*k. the league has always been about 3-4 teams winning the chips year after year. Let me refresh your virgin memories here. the 60s when the celtics won 8 out of 10 chips, nobody was pouting back then. the 70s were the only decade where there was anything resembling parity. the 80s when the celtcs/lakers won 8 out of 10, nobody bit**es about that. the 80s is even considered by people as the best era in basketball. the 90s when the bulls/rockes won 8 out of 10. So why all of a sudden a people in arms over there being no parity. It is because people hate this era players more than any other. they talk about them being overpaid, arrogrant jerks. What are they supposed to do, give back their money and stop being confident in their abilities. Lawyers, CEO, bankers, movie stars get paid big bucks because of their one in a million talent and nobody complains about that but when nba players (a majority of them being black) get paid because they do what no one can, people bit** and moan. Stop being a broke hater and go out there and gets yours.