This is pretty much what I see he'll do after next season where his contract expires. Either Pat Riley surrounds him with talented players with championship caliber or he'll find himself losing again and search for a team that could afford him and make him a champion with existing great players. It's a smart move, especially if you're being heralded as the best baller in the planet where teams would die just to get you on their team but not ideal in the eyes of majority of sports fans. Heck, he might even go back to Cleveland with Kyrie Irving, Dion Waiters and other talented young guns out there. Though I doubt it while Dan Gilbert is still the owner.
Apparently pau gasol, shaq, rodman, pippen, ... are not all stars. Or at least not at the same level of a kneeless wade and a 0point game7 bosh...You're talking as if Jordan or Kobe played alone when they won their titles, as if Lebron didn't get to the finals with the cavs in 2007, as if his stats didn't say that he actually scores more and has a better FG% now than in Cleveland, and as if this wasn't a team sport and he has to score every single basket to be considered a beast...
I'll explain the "first intelligent post" part.
THAT BUZZER BEATER AGAINST ORLANDO IS ONE OF THE THINGS I WON'T FORGET IN MY TIME AS A HUGE LBJ FAN. I watched that game live and it was really epic. Though not that epic a series as a whole since they lost in the end but yeah, one of my favorite LBJ moments.
Did you mean my posts were just pure nonsense?
No, the oppositeTHAT BUZZER BEATER AGAINST ORLANDO IS ONE OF THE THINGS I WON'T FORGET IN MY TIME AS A HUGE LBJ FAN. I watched that game live and it was really epic. Though not that epic a series as a whole since they lost in the end but yeah, one of my favorite LBJ moments.
Did you mean my posts were just pure nonsense?
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I didn't bring up other players, and indeed if you looked at the entire history of the nba/aba and at every superstar you could probably find a good deal more. However a big difference in your specific examples, is what Jordan did mostly happened behind closed doors, his public image when with the Bulls was almost spotless. The most persistent rumor was his gambling addiction. With Malone what came out was way after his career was done, and doesn't involve basketball. It does change many peoples' perception of him as an individual morally, but won't effect his basketball legacy.
True but their luck before was to live in an era without internet. There was something unreal about them. When there was the dream team, they were more than players. They were unreachable half gods. It was easier for them to maintain a good & distant image. Nowadays players are observed in their daily activities. They no longer have a clear public and a clear private personality due to twitter, facebook, youtube ... And the worst is of course for the two players who represent the nba for years: LBJ & Kobe. They use the media & the media use them for the best & also for the worst. In the current era, I think that a lot of past stars would have been hated way more.
No shit man, why do you think I asked about the buzzer beaters? But I only see one video, which is still pretty awesome.