The Heat have only missed the playoffs once since that championship season.
I don't think anyone is putting Wade on a pedestal. People are just saying that it will still be Wade's team. That's all.
The Heat have only missed the playoffs once since that championship season.
I don't think anyone is putting Wade on a pedestal. People are just saying that it will still be Wade's team. That's all.
Nope, nothing wrong with asking questions. I'm just saying that one could easily make the opposite argument about how they will 'gel' together with the known facts. The biggest piece of evidence as to whether or not they will play well together, either positive or negative, is their time spent on the Olympic team together. The weight of the evidence, at this point, would support a hypothesis of them actually playing well together. Obviously, things could work out differently.
Yes, it was a great performance by D. Wade. UK not having Keith Bogans available to put on him put them at a huge disadvantage heading into that game and Wade took full advantage.
One point that I think no one has really brought up. This Heat team is alot closer to one of the old school NBA powers with multiple stars. Ever since Free Agency/Expansion took over, we have seen the talent in the NBA spread very thinly. This Heat team is much more reminiscent of the old style NBA, where the talent was more heavily concentrated in one team.
Variatio delectat - Cicero
A couple of things in the aftermath:
- The MLB players union would not be enthused by its members taking less money than market value. Now Chris Paul is alledgedly trying to convince Carmelo Anthony to go to NY w/him at some point to create another "big-3"
- According to ESPN Radio this a.m., there have been 8 different NBA champions since 1980. (Sixers, Bulls, Celtics, Lakers, Spurs, Heat, Rockets, Pistons). You only have to go back to 2001, and 2000 to get eight different champions in MLB and NFL, respectively.
"The players make the manager, it's never the other way." - Sparky Anderson
I've already got the idea of the Cavs being good out of my head.They were bad so long it's pretty easy to go back to.
As fa as Lebron goes.He probably should have kept Cleveland in the loop a bit more then he did but oh well.One thing people don't talk about much is that when one of these high profile athletes start to decline or has a major injury the same teams that feel so betrayed buy them leaving usually aren't going to go out of their way to keep them around when it's no longer in their best interest.Running an NBA franchise isn't charity work but neither is being a player.These guys have every right to do what they want and when fans and members of teams lash out it's usually jealousy or anger that causes it to happen instead of reasonable thoughts.
Last edited by Captain Hook; 07-13-2010 at 11:48 AM.
This was in the works since LeBron and Wade signed their last contracts. Anyone that doesn't believe that just wasn't paying attention at the time.
I am not a Cavs fan, heck I'm not even a fan of the NBA, but what LeBron did was wrong. It's not that he wanted to go play with his buddy, but that he pretended that there was a chance that he would stay in Cleveland.
Last edited by dabvu2498; 07-13-2010 at 12:38 PM.
When all is said and done more is said than done.
My post was really in response to the claim that Wade has "been on some pretty bad Heat teams since the championship". The Heat have only been "pretty bad" once since the 2006 championship season. It was 2007-2008 when Wade missed 31 games (the injury bug comment is true). I agree he's not MJ but he's never been a slug either.
The main point I see being made that somehow keeps getting glossed over is that the Heat will still be Dwyane Wade's team, even with King James on the roster.
Obviously, you can't say whose team it is, and ultimately, it doesn't matter at all.
Whose team was LA during the 80's-- Magic or Kareem?
Was Philly Dr. J's or Malone's?
Kareem was the glass and Magic was the straw that stirred the drink. One didnt win a title before the other and Kareem was into his 30s before Magic even went pro.
Erving was 32 and had gotten them there but lost both times. Moses made it there in Houston but lost also.
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