LABron James Discussion: The Final Year?

It’s a shame that LeBron is going to be divisive around here. Personally I really liked him when he came in as a rookie, the way he played the game, but then not too long after, maybe a few years when he started getting all this ridiculous praise from the media, when he became Wade level touch him and it’s a foul (probably around when he beat the Pistons and went to the Finals), and Kobe was being crapped on for not getting out of the first round with teams that had no business making the playoffs, I soured on him. There was the chosen one crap, the King nickname when he hadn’t won a thing, the check my $tats shirt, the decision, the flopping, ugh. S***, it made me sick when the Cavs won the title a few years ago thanks to that Kyrie shot.

But this last playoffs something changed, LeBron carried his first truly weak team in over a decade to the Finals in a way Kobe had to carry teams. He hit game winners, he buried threes to put games away he never could before, it was very Kobe-like. I still don’t like him, but he finally made me respect him, the thing hammering it Home was almost beating the Warriors in game 1 of the Finals with an Iverson-like performance only ruined by JR Smith.

It would be one thing if this were Dwight Howard, and it was, I hated that clown and neber embraced him as a Laker, he was weak, couldn’t handle being Kobe’s teammate like even so-called soft Pau could and bolted after a year. But this is the best player in the league. We haven’t had that since Kobe pre-achilles, and Shaq in 2000. This is a game-changer. This takes a 35 win team to a team with a shot at the Finals, even if it’s only an outside shot, where we had NO shot before. Had we gutted our team for this guy I’d be pissed, but so far we haven’t, all my favorite Lakers are still here. He joined up to play WITH them, without needing another star in the bag. We are relevant again, we are good again.

Remember those little glimpses last year of what a player that could go on a scoring tear with IT felt like, how fun that was in the moment? Well take that and replace it with a guy who can easily score 30 a night, can drop 40-50 from time to time, and despite not being what he was on defense, isn’t a literal liability on that end due to his lack of height. It still doesn’t even feel that real, I really can’t picture LeBron stepping onto our floor in our jersey, even pictures of him in the purple and gold still don’t seem real. I’m not bowing down to the guy or something or becoming his biggest fan, I’m not getting his jersey or poster, but this is huge for LA, for the Lakers, I’m not sure if some of you guys realize yet what it’s going to be like when that first jump ball is had for the first real game of the season and LeBron is on our side and we now can once again sit down to watch a game on MOST nights, and EXPECT to win. Again, I’m not sure it’s fully hit me yet even, but man is it going to be fun again. And hell, it’s for 4 years, maybe even only 3, if you truly hate the guy that isn’t that long to put up with him. We put up with Robert Sacre that long, I think we can deal with LeBron.

I just hope when the winning starts we can all enjoy it together because isn’t that the main point of this place, enjoying the team together? I hope we don’t become spoiled fans again and complain if we don’t win it all right away and turn on LeBron, again, I respect the guy for coming here to even make us relevant again without a conventional championship caliber roster already in place. I’m going to appreciate being good again, because we have suffered through some DARK times together for 5 years now, no playoffs, watching Kobe freakin Bryant at half the player he once was, trotting out rosters where half the team doesn’t belong in the NBA. That’s over now, I hope we can at least come together on that point and enjoy this, again, it is going to be FUN.

 

...then Scot Williams and our medical staff did him in.

 

Malone was also a pedo.