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@BillSimmons 19 minhá 19 minutos
Other than GSW/Cavs fans, Lakers/Clips fans have the most at stake tonight. LeBron can't move to LA w/o delivering Cleveland a title first.
Lagoa escreveu:Só digo uma coisa: MAGIC é louco em ter trocado Nance e Clarkson!!! Especialmente Nance. O cara será all star em pouco tempo.
Lagoa escreveu:Wade está VOANDO....tanto na defesa como no ataque. Heat fez um trabalho excelente de polpar Wade para os playoffs esse ano....ele chegou inteirinho. Eu acho que vai ser muito pau a pau, mas acho que Parker e Manu vão sofrer DEMAIS no perímetro.
E não acho que Boris será problema para o Miami, porque tem muito bom marcador (melhores do que do OKC) para marcar essa posição no garrafão do Spurs....vai ser Duncan contra a rapa.
December 30th, 1984 LeBron Raymone James is born to Gloria James, a single mother, who raises him on her own. Through his early life until later high school years, LeBron often has to live with coaches or other family friends because his mother cannot support him financially. His mother has a strew of boyfriends whom LeBron connects well with, looking for a father figure, but many of them end up in prison, or leaving his mother, only causing the young James more pain. Living on and off with his mother according to her living status and financial situations, they finally found solitude when a pee-wee football coach and his family would help Gloria pay rent. Now out of a poverty ridden lifestyle, he was able to focus on basketball and would go on to win Ohio Mr. Basketball three times, multiple state championships, and a McDonald's Game MVP.
June 26th, 2003 - LeBron James is drafted #1 by his forever hometown team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, which seems to be the perfect storybook ending to his illustrious high school and AAU career for the greatest high school basketball player Ohio has ever seen. Being drafted first overall and being able to play for Cleveland would have been good enough even if he just had a pretty good career. But he didn't stop there.
April 20th, 2004 - LeBron is living up perfectly to his high expectations, being announced as the Rookie of the Year on this day, receiving 78 of the 118 first place votes. Although Cleveland only goes 35-47, it is an 18 win improvement form the year before.
October 6th, 2004 - LeBron James Jr. is born, giving LeBron Sr. and opportunity that basketball could never give him, be a father. One month later, the Cavs would begin a season that left them the first ones out of the playoffs, but the seven year drought would end soon.
June 14th, 2007 - The Cavs are swept by the dynasty San Antonio Spurs in the Finals, but it was the first time Cleveland had ever been to the Finals; it seems like this LeBron kid is living up to the absolute mountain of a legacy everyone has set for him. Oh yeah, his second son, Bryce Maximus James is born on this same day.
July 10th, 2010 - A television special that raised over $6 million for charities will go down as the worst decision LeBron has ever made, making him a "villian" for these next four years with Miami. Most of Cleveland would turn his backs on him, and vowed to never take him back.
September 14th, 2013 - After winning back-to-back titles with the Miami Heat, LeBron and his high school sweetheart get married and LeBron once again gives his children something he never had, a two parent home.
July 11th, 2014 - I'm Coming Home. A well penned letter to the world posted on Sports Illustrated was well received by fans everywhere, and LeBron explained well his decision making process from the last four years. Miami was to him what college is to most NBA players, and he had learned enough while at this rather lavish Miami school to bring a championship back to The Land.
October 22nd, 2014 LeBron's third child and only daughter, Zhuri, is born eight days before the season is set to begin. The parallels are drawn to the birth of LeBron's only daughter is to the rebirth of The King in Cleveland.
June 16th, 2015 - a Love-less, Kyrie-less Cavaliers team is defeated by MVP Stephen Curry and the Warriors in six games, but LeBron has one of, if not the best, Finals performances of all time. He averaged 35.8 points, 13.3 rebounds, and 8.8 assists a game and singlehandedly won two games for the Cleveland Cavaliers, but this league requires four. Although LeBron doesn't celebrate a Larry O'Brien trophy, or a Finals MVP trophy for that matter, five days later he celebrates his 11th consecutive fathers day, something much more significant to him.
May 12th, 2016 - When asked about retirement, LeBron answers "its up to my kids" showing how much more important being a father is to him, rather than basketball. He doesn't want a tarnished relationship with his family because of his craze for championships, like another legend we all know...
June 19th, 2016 - Father's Day. LeBron will be celebrating his 12th consecutive Father's Day today, and if you didn't know, "he is a man and a father of three". He won't be able to spend it at home, as he has an away basketball game in Oakland against the Golden State Warriors and Stephen Curry, the back to back, unanimous MVP.
LeBron has risen from the deepest depths of life, an impoverished, fatherless, drama filled childhood to the opportunity to bring his home state its first NBA Championship. If you wrote a book about his life, no one would buy it because it wouldn't be believable. It is time for him to Defend The Land, show the world that miraCLEs happen, and most importantly to him, have a happy Father's day.
You deserve it Lebron.
Sincerely, NBA Fans everywhere.
tl;dr: LeBron deserves a great Father's Day.
Lagoa escreveu:Eu imagino que o Cavs vai vir muuuuuito com sangue nos zóio, e LeBron especialmente, porque pensem. James nunca chegou tão perto de dar um título para o Cavs, 1 jogo....uma vitória e a promessa estará cumprida! PQP!
Lagoa escreveu:Só digo uma coisa: MAGIC é louco em ter trocado Nance e Clarkson!!! Especialmente Nance. O cara será all star em pouco tempo.
Lagoa escreveu:Wade está VOANDO....tanto na defesa como no ataque. Heat fez um trabalho excelente de polpar Wade para os playoffs esse ano....ele chegou inteirinho. Eu acho que vai ser muito pau a pau, mas acho que Parker e Manu vão sofrer DEMAIS no perímetro.
E não acho que Boris será problema para o Miami, porque tem muito bom marcador (melhores do que do OKC) para marcar essa posição no garrafão do Spurs....vai ser Duncan contra a rapa.
Melhor do que se fosse do FryeSchneider123 escreveu:boa noite
imaginem o Cavs campeão com um game winner do JR Smith
o mundo iria à loucura
Impossible Game 7 to predict b/c of Iggy's back... I think it's a gambling stay away...
GSW needs its crowd and its role players. They need 2 of Varejao/Speights/Ezeli + they need Barbosa/Livingston. Role players swing Game 7s.
And GSW needs Draymond to be an alpha dog again. He's their engine. Subdued Draymond = 18-1 Pats the sequel.
Finals Game 7's never have flow - too much pressure, always ugly. You win Game 7 by controlling the 5 feet around the rim. Battle of wills.
Cleveland can win if Iggy is hobbled and LeBron can get to the rim on one end and control 5 feet around the rim w/ Thompson on other end.
2010 Lakers - great example. Super ugly game and eventually Gasol/Odom/Kobe/Bynum just controlled both rims. GS can't let Cleveland do that.
Lagoa escreveu:Só digo uma coisa: MAGIC é louco em ter trocado Nance e Clarkson!!! Especialmente Nance. O cara será all star em pouco tempo.
Lagoa escreveu:Wade está VOANDO....tanto na defesa como no ataque. Heat fez um trabalho excelente de polpar Wade para os playoffs esse ano....ele chegou inteirinho. Eu acho que vai ser muito pau a pau, mas acho que Parker e Manu vão sofrer DEMAIS no perímetro.
E não acho que Boris será problema para o Miami, porque tem muito bom marcador (melhores do que do OKC) para marcar essa posição no garrafão do Spurs....vai ser Duncan contra a rapa.
