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Dodgers, Angels, Rams, Lakers, and Clippers Discussion IV
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Ziggy Stardust
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ADifferentTim
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According to a Forbes poll Lebron is considered the most despised man in basketball. He's also the most pulverizing figure in sports. He moves the needle. SNL will take anyone who will push ratings. There is few people in the world more relevant than LeBron, for better or worse.
HYORI 1963
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I attribute that to people being politically correct and being hypersensitive. Besides I'm not influenced by Forbes or others. I'm quite capable of forming my own opinion.
Ziggy Stardust
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It's because he talks about himself more than he talks about his team and is quick to take and accept all the credit (when things go well of course).
The whole LeBron Decision program on ESPN also hurt his image, quite significantly. I don't know how else to put it, but that whole charade just screams "me first."
It changed my view of him for sure. Really a classless way to leave his home town.
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Mitchnesses
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Will be interesting to see what the Lakers do in the Draft. Team really sucks right now. Tough to watch.
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http://www.nba.com/draft/#$/2014/news/06/25/draft-eve-preview.ap/index.html
And speaking of more LeBron James goodness...
And speaking of more LeBron James goodness...
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That's fine, but polls are polls. You like him but few do. Attribute it to whatever you want but it's a blanket consensus. All he ever does is steal peoples thunder. When Durant went and did that charity flag football event all James did was talk about how he would whoop Durant and that he will do the next one better. Durant responded by saying he should focus on beating him on the court for the MVP race instead of off the court antics.
Every time someone gets praise James runs to twitter to make it about him. It's exhausting. If he just went to work and continued to win everything would continue to come to him instead of him running and begging for glory. None of the greats are or were like him.
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How could Blake have known?
After hardly anyone on my Facebook had made a peep about the Lakers for almost 2 years, it seems a few have come out of hibernation to say how awful this pick is.
Cya next year guys (oh wait nevermind they traded that pick for Nash
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Cya next year guys (oh wait nevermind they traded that pick for Nash
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ADifferentTim
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After hardly anyone on my Facebook had made a peep about the Lakers for almost 2 years, it seems a few have come out of hibernation to say how awful this pick is.
Cya next year guys (oh wait nevermind they traded that pick for Nash
That pertains to Julius Randle, right?
I don't watch enough college basketball to have an opinion on who they should have picked here is what Chad Ford's little blurb on espn says
7 LAL Julius Randle He should be a major impact rookie for the Lakers next year.
15 pts 10 reb 50% shooter. Good numbers in and of themselves.
7 LAL Julius Randle He should be a major impact rookie for the Lakers next year.
15 pts 10 reb 50% shooter. Good numbers in and of themselves.
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After hardly anyone on my Facebook had made a peep about the Lakers for almost 2 years, it seems a few have come out of hibernation to say how awful this pick is.
Cya next year guys (oh wait nevermind they traded that pick for Nash
Who else would they pick? He was clearly the best player available and better than a couple drafted ahead of him. Very odd that they would think that. He will be a stud.
Ziggy Stardust
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Judging the mentality of the typical bandwagon Lakers fan, they probably wanted the 7th pick traded for a star player. These are the same fans who probably thought trading for Steve Nash was a great idea.
HYORI 1963
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You guys very well may be right. Like I said, I don't follow b-ball all that much. Maybe I'm oversimplifying it, but didn't all this Lebron hate start after he left CLE?
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Those were fans that paid for the billboard not the team.
Randle is a great pick should be a stud PF, and he may still be moved with Nash to free up more space to take a run at Lebron and Melo
Seriously short-sided to say the Lakers are the new (old) Clippers, a couple down years due to a rash of injuries to your top players =/= decades of being a league embarrassment. Still not sure the Clippers are (new), sure they are entertaining but have yet to prove they can win anything when it matters.
The Nash trade was applauded at the time because it made a ton of sense to pair him with Kobe/Gasol/Howard They were still in "win-now" mode so they gambled...Fluke broken leg turns into nerve damage that throws his whole body out of wack. Kobe tears achilles and Howard folds under the bright lights...some gambles pay off and some dont but I trust Mitch to rebuild the team either slowly or with another home run who knows but the guy has proven he is one of the best on the NBA.
The bandwagon lost some members but the Lakers are still the marquee franchise in the NBA I certainly wouldn't count on them being down for long.
Randle is a great pick should be a stud PF, and he may still be moved with Nash to free up more space to take a run at Lebron and Melo
Seriously short-sided to say the Lakers are the new (old) Clippers, a couple down years due to a rash of injuries to your top players =/= decades of being a league embarrassment. Still not sure the Clippers are (new), sure they are entertaining but have yet to prove they can win anything when it matters.
The Nash trade was applauded at the time because it made a ton of sense to pair him with Kobe/Gasol/Howard They were still in "win-now" mode so they gambled...Fluke broken leg turns into nerve damage that throws his whole body out of wack. Kobe tears achilles and Howard folds under the bright lights...some gambles pay off and some dont but I trust Mitch to rebuild the team either slowly or with another home run who knows but the guy has proven he is one of the best on the NBA.
The bandwagon lost some members but the Lakers are still the marquee franchise in the NBA I certainly wouldn't count on them being down for long.
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