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Originally Posted by tim teufel
think about it, why would he have an hour special to say he's staying with the team? its a once in a lifetime opportunity to go to the big apple and you're going to be the main thing in the entire city. not too many athletes would let this go by and im sure he wont. a statue will be built for him in the garden. its a pretty easy decision imo. i really think the bulls would have had a shot if it wasnt for that jordan presentation there are no shoes to fill here just starting from scratch. make your own legacy
I have to agree with this one. No one in the right frame of mind needs one hour, let alone two full days, to tell the whole world that he loves where he's at and he's staying. And the whole thing about selling ad spots wherein profit would be donated to the Boys and Girls Club of America, come on, who are they kidding?
Unless Chris Bosh changes his position about going to Cleveland in the next 48 hours, it's a foregone conclusion that Lebron James is gone and headed to New York. Think about it, if Lebron stays in Cleveland, each year he's there, they'd be expected not just to come out of the Eastern Conference, but win the championship. And every year they don't achieve that, it would be seen as a failure.
On the flipside, if he goes to New York, and this is no disrespect to the fans of the Knicks, getting him to go to Broadway is comparable to winning a championship already simply because of how the Knicks have been portrayed over the last decade. They won't win it all in at least two years, but his presence alone, along with getting players to go there in the next year or two, will be enough of a slam dunk.
Its funny how every basketball analyst on ESPN basically went from guaranteeing that he'd be gone from Cleveland after they got bounced by Boston (Paging Chris Broussard, Ric Bucher and J.A. Adande) to now saying that Cleveland's the front runner to keep him. Give me a break. New York is New York. Nothing will be bigger.