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Pass it to LeBron!
By Daniel W Seow on Wed, 21/07.2010LeBron James 'Decision' as a free agent to play for the Miami Heat has made him the most talked about athlete in the world. Any News is Good News to a celebrity and all this backlash that he has been given by hometown fans, basketball enthusiasts and sports critics alike has only propagated his 'Celebritydom'! The creation of this media frenzy has probably doubled LeBron's 'Fame & Fortune', but at what price?
The hype that has continued after 'The Decision' has made LeBron more of a household name. Everyone loves a hero but more people love a villian! The whole basketballing world and then some will be watching feverishly at LeBron James and the Miami Heat's progress. Some in anticipation, others with curiosity and many with disdain and daggers, either way this makes for viewing and news from now until the Miami Heat either clinch the 2011 championship they are favourites for or sink.
LeBron James, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh, all part of the winning 2008 Beijing Olympic Dream Team, will make up the nucleus of the newly favoured Miami Heat. Pat Riley, President of the Heat and 5 time NBA Championship Coach (4 with the LA Lakers and 1 with The Miami Heat), has pulled together quite a trio, but it takes 5 players to make up a team. Will this be, as the Celtics have found only once, to be the best recipe for success? Will this create another 5 year dynasty for Pat Riley, this time as President of a National NBA Franchise? Will LeBron be the New King of Miami?
Certainly this will be one of the most watched and talked about seasons in NBA history particularly in relation to this new All-Star trio of Wade, Bosh and LeBron! Can they come together as a team each being a superstar in their own right?
For Bosh, who was formerly of the Toronto Raptors, it was probably a move that was inevitable, but was Le Bron's move premature? The Cavaliers were for the past four years easily one of the best teams in the competition during the season prior to the playoffs. They were the team with the most wins of 66 in the competition this past 2010 season and still didn't make it to the Championship Round. LeBron last season, as with most seasons, he lead Cleveland from field goals to steals per game. Yet come Playoff time the Cavaliers have faultered as they neared the mark.
Championship contenders at least 3 out of the last four years and no rings? Did the Cavaliers fail LeBron or did LeBron fail the Cavaliers? Once the going got tuff maybe LeBron isn't the one who got going? Having watched the NBA Playoffs the past two years it was quite conspicuous how LeBron was so often set up one on one to the basket during Cleveland's time in offense. Many times LeBron made some miraculous shots, drives and pure one on one moves that left your mouth watering for more, but the game isn't played on the street nor one on one. Basketball is a team sport with five players all capable and all willing to work together. LeBron averaged his usual best but it was never enough when it came to the Conference Crunch Time. In 2007 they lost it in straight games to the San Antonio Spurs. In 2008 they lost again to the winning team the Boston Celtics 4-3. Perhaps it has all been too easy for LeBron that he doesn't know how to get going when its required?
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Dorothy of Oz once sang,
Dorothy of Oz once sang, ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ and I can’t think of a better song for Cleveland and its people, a proud, yet angry (voted 2010’s worst fans in the MLB), willing to believe that somewhere ‘IT’ still exists, while at the same time as pessimistic as a one-legged man in an ass kicking competition.
We may wallow in despair, thirst for vengeance, but at the end of the day, like every self-respecting man we will hike-up that tool belt or pick-up our scuffed brief cases and live our lives. Because, The Decision, as it was trumpeted by both ESPN and King James’s royal court will just be another notch on the Cleveland Belt of Curses which we strangely cling to as a twisted badge of honor.
One could say those notches (maybe punches, slaps, kicks to the groin would be more honest assessments) began after 1948, the last time Cleveland one anything – the World Series.
And so it began…
TEN-CENT BEER NIGHT - The Ten-cent beer night of 74’ – which left a baseball game at Muncipal Stadium a drunken riots – (Per Wikipedia) A large number of intoxicated fans – some armed with knives, chains, and portions of stadium seats that they had torn apart – surged onto the field, and others hurled bottles from the stands
THE DRIVE - 1987 – The Brown’s arch-nemesis, John Elway, quarterback of the Denver Broncos driving the Broncos down the field for a touchdown that leads to the Brownies early play-off demise.
THE FUMBLE - 1988 – Earnest Byner’s fumble on the 2 yard line which sent the Denver Broncos and the evil arch-enemy John Elway through to the next round, again.
THE MOVE - 1995 – Cleveland Browns moved to another city – becomes the Baltimore Ravens. Cleveland has no football.
THE SHOT -1999 playoffs - Michael Jordan jumper with three seconds remaining, Cavaliers excused from the playoffs, the legendary Michael Jordan grows.
THE BLOOPER - 97 World Series, one out away from winning it all in the ninth when a blooper bounces over Relief Pitcher Jose Mesa’s (who we’d already excused on rape charges earlier that year) head, ending the game.
By the way, did I mention in 1969 the Cuyahoga River, which runs straight through downtown, caught fire due to pollution…ouch. Thus earning the lovely monikor, The Mistake by the Lake.
So if it seems as if God had chosen at one point to loosen his drawers and pinch off a most holy amount of ‘Heavenly Misery’ upon this once thriving industrial city, than there should be no surprise that the most heinous of sexual acts has borrowed our city name: The Cleveland Steamer.
So next time you have second thoughts about chucking that snow-covered battery at an opposing player or throwing a beer bottle at the ad of a man consumed by his own greatness, let the spirit of Cleveland run through your veins, hum Dorothy’s tune and let that sucker fly!
Anyways, in this case, getting ‘over the rainbow’ will only find you in Detroit…damned if you do, damned if you don’t!
Love ya' Cleveland!
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