You'll Never Get Everyone To Agree On Anything

ITs a myth

Im sure the results from this could be used to answer the chris bosh question, the dwayne wade question, and in the future a Carmelo question, a paul question, and a williams question. Hell, I would pay a max deal to David Lee. But only because to get good players in the League, you have to pony up the max

IF this were a nash poll, I would have been the first vote of [NO]

But if he wanted to come to Sacramento I would give him all the money he would ever want. He’s the most talented player in all of basketball. And you know what? Having LeBron James basically guarantees the Kings stay in Sacramento, something that is more important to me than winning a championship right now. Attendance rates would go back to sell-outs every night, the team would get a lot of national exposure, playoffs and eventual championship aspirations would be a mere inevitability.

So yes.

There’s no doubt in my mind.

That’s the real question here. I mean would you sign tapioca to a max deal? I wouldn’t. He’s sooo overrated. Now chocolate that’s one bad mutha. Chocolate deserves a max deal no doubt and if chocolate came to sacramento we’d win the championship for sure.

If you poll 100 people, a certain percentage will always go against the grain.

Those would be the ones who answered “no” to your poll.

Then there is another percentage that answered “pudding.” I am curious about those people.

Why wouldn’t you sign the best player on the planet to a max deal?

Kidding. I voted yes.

and global warming is a myth indeed.

I very much dislike James. Not the player James, nor the person James (although I think nobody knows the person, because it seems to be all about the product James).
I dislike the product James.

Everything about him seems too premeditated, too polished, too smooth, too much thought out by spin doctors and with as sole purpose the marketing of the product James.

The few times something spontaneous happened, I was not impressed. Walking away after losing to Orlando last year, the banning of the Crawford dunk videos (assuming it wasn’t Nike but James behind that). I think he symbolizes a lot of things that i don’t like about today’s NBA, where the superstar is more important than the team, athleticism is more important than intelligent play, and the image has replaced the person. I know some of these things have been here for years, but in James it comes out more blatantly, to me.

I don’t want the Kings to become the James-sidekick team. I don’t want to get anxious about a second round play-off exit and hope that a quick trade will appease him. I don’t want a coach fired because he doesn’t listen to Lebron enough, or a coach only busy listening to Lebron. I don’t want to wonder if his night out with Jack Nicholson means a trade with the Lakers. I don’t want him to stint the development of Omri. I don’t want not to see the video of Brockman dunking on him in practice.

My biggest problem with Lebron is that he’s too business-like, too caught up in himself. Guys like Kobe and Jordan do whatever it takes to win. I think Lebron does whatever it takes to look good and make money.

However, he’s about to enter his prime. And I think it’ll click very soon for him that the best way to look good and make money is to win at all costs. He’s a narcissist and completely full of himself. But he’s also the best player on the planet, and he is a great teammate. He’s been stuck on a Cavs team that just hasn’t been good. Mo Williams was good on a bad Bucks team. Jamison is past his prime and shouldn’t be the second option. He and Caron split the second option duties in Washington, and it worked, but he’s no Pippen to Lebron’s Jordan. Shaq and Z are old. West is crazy. Varejao is a nice piece but limited. Hickson’s a really good youngster, but that does them no good if he doesn’t play enough in the playoffs. Mike Brown couldn’t see the glaring adjustments he needed to make in a crucial series. The team around Lebron didn’t step up. I think that led to him giving up.

Here’s why I said yes. His Cavs team was a title contender. Remove Lebron. Which team is better, Cleveland or Sac? I matched them up really quickly (as in i glanced over basic stats) with ESPN’s depth charts. Tyreke was better than Mo Williams. Beno was about equal to both Parker and West combined. The SF spots hard to judge minus Lebron. I maybe take Moon over Noc… maybe. Jamison was a little better than Landry. JT’s stats were better than Shaq’s. I truly believe that the Kings as they are are better than the Cavs without Lebron. Not to mention we have a really high draft pick and Geoff Petrie making the pick. I also feel that Petrie knows how to build a great team and would probably be one of the few GMs that wouldn’t let Lebron push him around and make demands, such as hiring Calipari. That’s why Lebron won’t sign here, not to mention the fact that we’re not located in New York. However, if he came knocking and said he’d play for Sac if they made the offer, we’d be stupid not to take him.

and chasing LeBron puts in the ‘dud’.

You give him a max deal. It shouldn’t be a question.

I voted No for several reasons.

LeBron expects the world to revolve around him. In Sacramento, everyone knows that the world is Geoff Petrie’s. And LeBron won’t hold power over Petrie to hire and fire coaches at LeBron’s whim. LeBron won’t make the Kings trade a player just because that player may eat into any one of his core stats and he no longer looks like the 2nd coming of Oscar Robertson statistically some nights. (Do I have proof for some of this? No. Don’t need it. Don’t care if anyone likes it anyway.)

LeBron James pushed the signing of Zydrunas Ilgauskas because Z was his friend. (Z is also a popular player in Cleveland too.) He pushed for the trades of Shaq and Jamison because he wanted to play with them. (Whether he pushed for Amare is pointless. Cleveland didn’t have the assets to pull an Amare deal off.)

If Mike Brown was so sub-standard as a NBA head coach, why not get him fired? Shit, Magic got Paul Westhead fired in 1982 for Pat Riley. (I wonder how that turned out.)

If his teammates suck, or simply not up to LeBron’s caliber of “teammate”, than where is LeBron’s accountability? Cuz he sucked as a teammate during the Boston series, too. He quit on his team the same way they quit on him. Mo Williams is not the leader. Z is not the leader. Varejao is not the leader. Wade had substandard teammates in Miami too, but he didn’t quit on the Heat when there was still an opportunity to win. Miami is just a lot worse than Boston is. And for crying out loud, this is much of the same roster that has led the NBA in wins in the last 2 regular seasons. How is that they got that much worse in the playoffs, but LeBron doesn’t?

LeBron has everything in Cleveland. He gets his ass kissed and is told the world revolves around him. (Which in Cleveland it does.) The Cavs have made deal after deal trying to find the right fit for LeBron James. But it hasn’t worked. Because Mo Williams stunk up the joint last season. (15.8 pts, 5.3 assists & 58 TS%. Awful.) Ditto with Varejao (8.6 pts and 7.6 boards as a role player who doesn’t get the ball. Awful.)

 Look at the season averages for Cleveland and during the playoffs.

Check out Michael Jordan’s career in the regular season and the playoffs. Check out Julius Erving’s regular season vs his playoffs totals.

I would like to thank Lebron James for one thing though: I now appreciate Michael Jordan in ways I never thought was possible. (Not ever, not going to be a Jordan fan.)

“******”

Here’s what I think will happen on LeBron’s barnstorming Free Agent tour: He’ll go around for a month talking to people, waving to people as he gets on & off planes. He’ll wait for a month or so to sign his deal, and then he’ll decide that Cleveland will be the place that gets him all his hopes & dreams.

He’ll find that New York is simply offering him New York greatness and money. Chicago will offer a chance to win, but the spotlight will be shared some with Derrick Rose. I’m not sure LeBron (or Rose) will go for it. Plus, going to sign in either place will likely not happen with a S&T. The Clippers will inquire, and it’s LA, and how can anyone hate LA? The little problem of Donald Sterling isn’t enough to keep LeBron from a recruiting visit.

The inside report on Scout & Rivals is that LeBron is rumored to be committed to Cleveland all along, but he wants to sample the roses a bit before signing his John Hancock and 6 years away.

Because LeBron is a dutiful media whore, he’ll make it seem like his decision came down to a delightful deliberate decision after some productive and fruitful sessions with his family and close advisors.

“******”

Bleh, no thanks to LeBron James. Isn’t worth it.

getting lebron would obviously definitely benefit us and make us an instant playoff team in the west
but i just have this feeling like I want the Kings to get to the playoffs without a super-super-superstar like LeBron..

to me, adding lebron is just like taking a steroid for our team
sure we would automatically be a great team, but it just wouldnt feel right to me

with a top 4 pick, Cisco back for a full season, WaBeno staying true to last season’s form, Tyreke learning habits from superstars, the continual development of Hawes, Thompson, Greene, and Casspi, that this team might be better off without committing a bunch of money to one play in this economy?

about every discussion with regard to which player we draft or trade for, the main issue is how that player would fit in with Tyreke. However, here almost everybody says blindly yes to Lebron without even considering that question.

The only good thing would be that Tyreke would have to learn very fast not to hold on to the ball that much and give it up to Lebron.

Apart from that, I’m not too optimistic.

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES.

And I’ll volunteer to mow his lawn (TWSS).

I too have never understood how some people have never liked The Simpsons. One of my best friends hates The Simpsons and Family Guy because she thinks they’re “gross” (her word, not mine, and it can be used for FG for sure, but not so much for The Simpsons…) yet she loves South Park. Yeah, makes perfect sense to love the grossest of the three yet hate the others for being too gross…..hmm.

Oh, and I voted yes. Duh.

cartoons have never been my thing so put me down for not liking any of those shows.