Comments on: LeBron is cold blooded

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By: dave . . .

dave . . . — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:10:15 +0000

the cavs swept golden state this year??? hmmm, now i wonder who that team was that blew the cavs out on the sunday just before christmas??? come on, brian, get your facts straight. i thought you were better than that??? i get your point though. the cavs have indeed swept a number of the west coast teams this year and are very much playing at a peak efficiency right now after falling to their lowest point with that aforementioned loss to golden state on december 23rd. since then they have gone 14-4 to get right back into the thick of things in the east and sit comfortably in the 4th spot for the playoffs. gee, just imagine how much better they would be if they actually did go out and get a legitimate point guard to handle the ball and let lebron post-up more on the inside???

By: donyell marshall | News of course

donyell marshall | News of course — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:09:52 +0000

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By: alan t.

alan t. — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:48:22 +0000

Chuck, all it means is that not only dumb GMs look too closely at individual stats, but even coaches get fooled by individual stats. Or whoever votes for coaches. I’m guessing many of the coaches really don’t give a crap about their voting, and go home and hand their ballots to their wives and to their dogs to fill out.

You don’t have to be a genius to figure out that a guy that makes it on the First Team one season, and never received a single vote for anything defensively either before nor after that season, had a season which was an aberration of monumental proportions. Brady Anderson and Luis Gonzalez without the ‘roids.

Hughes Bites. If memory serves, that was a Def Leppard song.

In answer to your question, nba.com’s archives have the All-Defensive Team votes from past seasons.

By: Poor Man's Commish

Poor Man's Commish — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:09:13 +0000

You really need to talk to someone in the shoe industry before talking about Nike/Lebron’s ROI. I don’t have those resources, so my speculation is hereby just as good as yours.

Look, if Starburys can have a RETAIL price of $15, that would suggest that Nike’s cost of goods can’t be more than $15 per shoe — okay, let’s be conservative, let’s DOUBLE that to $30. Economies of scale, baby.
If Lebron’s shoes are selling for $150+, do the math. That’s a nice profit margin.

Let’s look at it another way. If Nike Golf is bringing in $600 mil and Nike’s revenues are $2 bil, then perhaps we can safely say Jordan and Lebron brands are bringing in at least $1 bil. Then perhaps we can safely say Jordan is bringing in 2/3rds of that, so maybe Lebron is bringing in $333 mil.

Invest $90 mil to get $333 mil? I’d say that’s a pretty good ROI. In fact, I’d say that $90 mil to get only $90 mil would have been good ROI in terms of merely the marketing. Like you said, Lebron will win MVPs and championsips. You can see why Reebok was willing to pay up for Lebron.

In 2010, what Lebron goes for will be more Lebron than Nike. Especially with Adidas unwilling to go for one-guy stratospheric numbers (hence the 1-of-5 “team” campaign with KG, Chauncey, Gil, et. al.). Esp. when you know LRMR has got to know the real numbers. It’s entirely what the brand can bear without jeopardizing Lebron’s ability to rake it in in the future. And right now I’d speculate that Nike the brand with $2 bil in revenues can bear a lot.

$90 mil was pretty much how it balanced out at the time. In 2010, I’m sure the forces of supply and demand will yield a larger number.

By: jmoe

jmoe — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:27:55 +0000

I think Brian should take Tucker out to Puget Sound
and throw him in with the Killer Whales. I don’t know
if they would eat him in one bite though. And it would
certainly cause indigestion for some rather large mammals.
Maybe Knight,Allen and Gates could call Greenpeace to
retrieve him from the belly of the giants before they had
some really bad gas in the Sound.

By: JoeHoops (President, AlanTuckerFanClub.com)

JoeHoops (President, AlanTuckerFanClub.com) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:59:24 +0000

Alan T is jaded.

Lebron is the BEST player in the NBA right now. Period.

By: LeCavalier

LeCavalier — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:14:27 +0000

The more I read the comments on BW’s board the more I’m beginning to believe that Alan T. is a bizzaro version of the Optimist.

By: Harry

Harry — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:09:53 +0000

It’s a good thing Brian doesn’t take what Alan says about him to heart, or he might go all Britney on us.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:19:52 +0000

Wow Alan, I don’t know what to say if you’ve never heard somebody talk about length at point guard being a positive. I heard that all the time when the Bulls used Scottie Pippen as their primary ball handler. Maybe I’m showing my age. I love how you discount that Hughes was, when we signed him, a first team all defensive player. That seperates him from all but around what, sixty players ALL TIME? It’s a significant comment on a player’s defensive prowess, regardless if it happened one year. By the way, what website compiles year by year voting totals?

The reality with Hughes is that for the first two years we got about what we should have expected – an injury prone inconsistent shooter who plays good defense. We overpaid for him, but the team wanted to add a high profile free agent, and he was the biggest we could get, and we had to outbid the Wizards for him. If you look at the team’s history, Larry Hughes is probably the highest profile free agent the team has ever signed (James Edwards and Scott Wedman, maybe?). And Marshall and Jones aren’t too far behind.