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with the signing of lebron to miami for me is just an indication of his desire to win a championship!

the fact is there is pressure for him to achieve a championship, by doing this action he clearly says he needs help! but this may just prove to say that maybe he doesnt have the leadershp capabilities that we expect from him or so called we thought he can achieve.

best of all if this fails, he wont be blame alone but 3 of them will be blame by the jury and the fans!

lebron james is indeed smart, by doing this he walks away with the contract , money and desire he wants with less of the responsibility that needs to go with it!

and because of this MJ can say kobe is better than lebron!

MJ made his team better. Would Scottie Pippen have turned into a Hall of Famer had he not played with MU? We'll never know. Would Horace Grant ever made an All-Star team had he not played with MJ? Probably not. MJ was competitive to an extreme and he never had to call his own press conference (let alone his own infomercial on ESPN to discuss his free agency). MJ was a professional and wanted to win more than he wanted the fame. The fame just came naturally.

I think MJ is noticing that Kobe also has the affect of making his team play better. It's no secret that Kobe calls the plays and does more in-game coaching than Phil Jackson. Watch Kobe on the court and you will see nothing but intensity. There's no fooling around with Kobe. Maybe LeBron has more natural talent than Kobe. I think MJ, like a lot of folks seems to think now, too, has noticed that LeBron does not make his team better, and that LeBron has to try to win games by himself sometimes because sometimes he makes his team worse.

If the Heat win a championship next season, I suspect it will have more to do with Dwyane Wade than LeBron. Wade has the drive to win games and lead a team. LeBron's team has one player on it. I'm sure that's a big part of what MJ has noticed.

i think it will still be a trend but changes in little as compare before.

since the limelight is on the heat with 3 big names, silently seems no one notices what the mavs are doing? imagine a team compose of kidd, butler, marion, dirk and the anticipated al jefferson if the trade would happen.

the big 3 has more buzz with the james drama that happened, but im thinking the mavs will get a lot of thunder once the season starts and of course if they get al jefferson to play 5 for them.

normally 2-3 big name players come together if they are on the decline of their careers thats why they can sacrifice money for glory but this 3? im seeing a trend soon! if it continues? im saying some players who dont deserve their paychecks will get it done.

i cant wait for the next collective agreement results would be, im sure the heat will get burn of this if it push through and overall stern isnt going to be soft on this, as mention a possibilty of a lock out season! yikes

You're right on about Dallas, though I think that lineup would have looked a lot better maybe 5 years ago. That's a real good veteran team there that's generated almost zero buzz, and if they grab Jefferson and can stay healthy, that will be a team that nobody will want to face in the playoffs.

Another move that was noticed but was overwhelmed by LeBronathon was the Celtics signing Jermaine O'Neal. With Ray Allen re-upping with Boston, grabbing veteran O'Neal here I think still keeps the Celtics as the Eastern Conference favorites until proven otherwise. If they can manage to resign Nate Robinson, this is a team that will have all the depth that Miami lacks.

I also think the Knicks won't totally suck this year. They'll actually win close to 30 games.

Wow. I guess I was wrong about what David Stern thinks about LeBron.
(http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ys-sternlebron07121...)

Yeah...there seems to be always a few elite teams winning the title...but at least right now, on a day to day, game by game basis, teams are competitive. If it got to the point were the elite teams were head and shoulders above the "dwarves", then I wonder if the overall interest in the league would drop and the owners of the crappy teams would push for more parity.

Well maybe this summer is the real death of the small markets. Rich get richer...Aside the obvious the team that intrigues me more are the Kings. They had really great draft. Cousins is a beast, and Whiteside showing some promise as a Marcus Camby part II.

Also the Spurs with Splitter. Less than 11M for the best big man in Europe last season in my eyes is a huge steal...

Last edited by JohnnyB at 7/13/2010 6:40:02 PM

I think that the creation fo some elite teams,will bring to the rise of new young stars and young teams
I see the Bucks,Nets,Thunder made a great market,and other teams are adding good pieces among the non-top free agents,some teams will fall down drammatically,but others are rising up very quickly

The is a rumor that Paul and Melo will go to NYK after this season....another superteam in the making?

I bet this happens. I don't think NOH can keep Paul because they always seem to be cutting costs instead of trying to win it. Same situation with Utah and D-Will.

I think Paul will move at the trade deadline,and NYk is in pole position for him(as they weren't for Lebron),Melo will resign with the Nuggets

I don't know. I think how the Knicks play this season will determine a lot. If they continue to stink, even with Stoudmire, I don't see anyone really wanting to play for them. With Eddie Curry coming off the books, they'll have the cap room... unless the collective bargaining agreement for next season undermines the whole system (assuming there even will be a new season, speaking of the CBA...). If Stoudmire doesn't look so good this season, whether injury-related or otherwise, a player looking to win won't go to a team with his salary eating into the cap. That said, Carmelo still gets the hero treatment up in Syracuse, so he's be an instant hoops legend in NYC, and that's got to be a big deal for him. And if he an Paul teamed up, all they'd need is a center who could run the court and that would be a really high-scoring team.

But I in the category or critics who think the Knicks will continue to be really bad. Without a serious backcourt, Stoudmire is going to get very frustrated as defenses won't let him breathe down low, and of course the current coaching philosophy is "what's defense?", and that's not going to work well on team that lacks talent. I think Stoudmire was the only player offered a max contract with five guaranteed years who didn't have any better options other than to stay at home, and he couldn't walk away from all the cash the opportunity to be the best player in the biggest market. The Knicks were desperate to sign ANY superstar, and throwing five guaranteed at a player with a huge injury history was to only way to dupe fans into thinking they have a plan for rebuilding the team. In the end, I think this will just another chapter f the Knicks overspending on a long-term salary cap burden, and Knicks fans will yet again be watching the calendar waiting for this next bad contract to expire (Eddie Curry, Jamal Crawford, Stephon Marbury, Chris Duhon, Anfernee Hardaway, Latrell Sprewell, Allan Houston...)