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But you’d think even the meatheads would understand the concept of not wasting your best prospects on someone you really don’t need to have right now, who you’ll probably get later anyway, and therefore not having those prospects for when you actually do need to make a deal. OTOH, maybe it’s better (for us) that they don’t.

just tossed a CG 1 hitter last time out. It’s like these guys know they are on the market so they are pitching great to draw up the asking price. Not fair.

the reaction, in most cases, has less to do with where he went and more to do with how he made it and announced it — how the “decision” played out, with the suffocating, overwhelming, pathological narcissism — a primetime special, refusing to notify the teams that “lost out” until minutes before a televised, primetime announcement? Who does he think he is? Someone who has accomplished something?

Re: the championship, you’d think it would be more meaningful if you, you know, led a team to a championship yourself, instead of opting to go to an already stacked team and sharing the load. It’s not as bad as signing with a richer team (e.g., Yankees) that wins on a slanted playing field. But ask Kobe how he felt about the titles with Shaq versus the titles without. The greatest players don’t need to walk right into a ready-made championship team. Why didn’t he want to show that he could elevate the players around him, like Jordan did? Hell, I could join that team and probably win a championship.

It’s really too bad, because he had way too much, way too soon, and though he initially showed signs of being able to deal with it, he ultimately succumbed to the attention and “Entourage” lifestyle and became a caricature of himself — a petulant, ego-driven prima donna. I hope he chokes.

also, choosing to side kick with the other player in the NBA who is just below Kobe level and Bosh instead of being the only big man on his team is a weak way out, imo. i dont think many other stars would have chosen that, they would have wanted to do it on their own. the good thing about it for lebron haters is that anything less than a few championships would completely tarnish his ‘legend’ (as well as D Wade, who i did actually like)