My cell phone buzzed during the third quarter of Tuesday's Cavs win. It was a text from my daughter Elizabeth, who was watching the game. She and my other daughter Janie like to say that they enjoy "watching LeBron fly."
This text said, simply: "LeBron is like a big muscular birdy astronaut."
I don't know if I can phrase it any better.
Then there's this one, pointed out to me by a comment from John on the previous post. I kind of think this big muscular birdy astronaut is gonna take the Slam Dunk contest.
Yeah, and Tracy McGrady had the freakin nerve to get on Jim Rome today and say that Kobe Bryant deserves the MVP award every year…but that LeBron will probably win it because of all the "NBA advertising" and such. He also dissed LeBron "having fun" on the basketball court, saying Kobe is all business, no fun.
I'm tellin' ya, the jealousy of King James is so widespread in this league, it's unbelievable. How quickly they forget that Kobe hasn't won anything since Shaq left LA, and that Bryant is an accused rapist to boot. Yeah, Tracy, that's the kind of guy you want to hold up high, isn't it?
Oh yeah, Tracy also said the Cavs will not win the NBA title. He said his own Houston team could defeat Cleveland, if they got by LA. Otherwise, LA will win. If anyone needs some motivational material, just check out the Rome podcast. The statements are just about as idiotic as they come.
I'll believe he'll enter a dunk contest when I see it.
They should just get rid of that contest, anyway. Not only is it tired and redundant, but it's rigged. The short guy will always win, the superstar, when they rarely appear, will always win. Except when the short guy and the superstar are pitted against each other. Then, it depends upon the superstar for which way it will be rigged.
It's all been done before. A star finally had to put on a cape just for it to be different, but it was really still the same. What could James do differently, have them raise the basket to 12', wear nothing but a pair of Speedos, put on Cedric Ceballos' fake blindfold, then fly through the air and jam one of those WNBA Amazons upside-down through the cylinder? OK, maybe that I'll watch.
Ever since the Dominique Wilkins contest was rigged in favor of Spud Webb, waste of time.