April 20, 2010

• Lebron Bron!

  Ok, so this is pretty much just a sports post. My favorite NBA team, the Chicago Bulls, are in the playoffs playing the game's best team, the Cleveland Cavaliers. And with the Cavs, comes the league's best player LeBron James. There was a time when I used to root for LeBron and I actually liked him. But, it seems with each passing year, he gets less and less likable to the point now where I can't stand him. Oh don't get me wrong, I hope the Bulls sign him in the off season, however unlikely that might be, but I still don't like him. Sure he is the best player on the planet, yes even better than Kobe Bryant, but he has become so self involved and narcissistic that its intolerable. He also seems to think that not only is he entitled to pretty much win the championship, but he also seems to take this whole King James thing just a bit too literally. While he certainly expects players to shake his hand after his teams beats them, last year after being ousted in the Eastern Conference Finals by the Orlando Magic, he refused to shake hands with his opponents. Some people may not think its that big of a deal, but my thinking is that if other teams shake your hand when you beat them, than you should return the favor. I remember back in the late 1980s and early 1990s when the Bulls kept losing every year to the evil Detroit Pistons they still shook their hands, but after the Bulls swept the Pistons many of the Detroit players walked off the court and refused to shake their hands. I never forgot that and quite honestly many other Bulls fans never forgot that.

  This just in, chicken tastes better when its fully cooked.

  And then there is LeBron's cockiness. Although he hasn't done it yet this year in the playoffs, he always seems to be dancing around the damn court in a rather blatant attempt to show up the opposing team. There was a game earlier this year against the Bulls in which he seemed to be dancing more than the dancing bear from that episode of Tom & Jerry. He makes you want somebody to punch him or foul the fuck out of  him on a drive to the hoop. And he is also humble too. After hitting a last second game winning shot against the Magic in the playoffs last year, during the post game interview he spent several minutes extolling on how great of a shot it was. Speaking of interviews, one of his favorite things to say is "I've been quoted as saying......." which really makes him look so damn full of himself. And while he is certainly amazing to watch and all of his accolades are very well deserved, there are many players who have been as good or better than him who at least publicly don't come off as cocky or self indulgent.

  Of course I might just have a case of sour grapes because he dominated the hell out of the Bulls in the fourth quarter of last night's game, but I did feel this way before the series even started. He so good though, he reminds me a lot of Michael Jordan. Even though the Bulls played about as good as they possibly could last night through three quarters, they were still only tied going into the fourth and I knew that they pretty much had no chance to win the damn game and it was mainly because of Lebron Fucking James.

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