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As the Heat found out, it is tough to win a championship when your best player has a meltdown in the middle of a playoff series. So I'd hold off on the "failure to build a championship team around" LeDouchebag talk. Who knows what would have happened if the pussy actually tried and/or didn't have a psychotic breakdown. Anyone who says differently is looking at it with the benefit of hindsight.

I wouldn't say everything that happened to Carson with the Bengals was managements fault either. Carson got wrecked in the playoff game and fact is he was never the same after. He never finished on his front foot and always looked like he was throwing off his back foot for years. He struggled to hit wide open receivers at times and overthrowing them like a tOSU senior QB this past season.

Don't forget Albert Belle...I pray Votto isn't next. Oh well...Carson is proving his worth, LeBron is a male-Madonna...Yawn....and who is this Nash guy?....Kidding just sucks. Giving up rules you out of my hall-of-fames. I'll take Ernie Banks and Marino over those guys any day. IMO

It's hard to blame Nash. I read somewhere that he would not have asked to be traded if there were changes in the team management. Prior to being hired, Howson was an assistant GM for a bad team and he has done nothing but make bad deals and negotiate horrible contracts. Unfortunately, the only person who can make changes in management, the owner John McConnel, is also the only person who seems to think Howson is doing a good job. The fans staged a protest specifically to show their displeasure in management, and even that didn't do any good. Sure the team is making deals and trying to rebuild, as any last place team would, but how many such teams would have faith in the men that lead the team to the very bottom of the league to turn this thing around?

Erm...Larry Bird coached the Pacers by choice, just as he went to Indiana State by choice. I wonder how many people Indiana State put around Larry Bird in his chance to play Michigan State that year.

LeBron uses the meida to his advantage and you got played as we all did. Bird gave way more to Indiana than Mr James ever did for us. Seems to me I remember the OHSAA letting him slide when he was taking jerseys and cars from boosters in high school.

And what does deserves have to do with sports? I guess Alabama deserves to win it all back-to-back. Seems to me Alabama wouldn't deserve it either after many many years of slavery and fighting the North over the right to keep slavery. Oh but Ohio is WAY worse for treating LeBron JUST the way he expected with his carrying on with an announcement: he wanted the world to howl over his decision; of course, he also thought all would be forgiven

Again what does deserves have to do with anything. Washington DC would never win anything ever by that idea.

Carson was never the same after his injury. Lebron's head and ego was too big for Cleveland.

To Nash's credit, he has been more than patient. At this point in his career, his window is closing. I don't want him to leave and I assume that in an ideal world, he would want to stay. That being said, he has to know that he is not getting younger and he might not have many chances to be a major contributor on a championship team if it doesn't happen soon. I hope the mass exodus this year leads to a competitive team next year.

As many guys as Cleveland brought in to help LeBron, they never once brought in a Chris Paul, Amarie Stoudamier, Shaq (in his prime), Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Pao Gasol, etc., etc. He saw they were trying to help, but they were doing it on the cheap. Had they gone after a another future hall-of-famer to compliment him they would probably have won the one final they lost and several others by now. I could see that with him and Kyrie Irving.. And so can he. He just needs someone to share the load with him. He's the best physical basketball player that ever lived, and possibly the best athlete that ever lived. Can you imagine how far he could drive a golf ball with the proper swing, or how fast he could run the hurdles with training, or in the decathlon, or as a wide receiver? As it is, everyone on both NBA teams seems to be running in slow motion when LeBron decides to turn on the jets. He just can't do it by himself - nobody can.

All valid points. All were different situations obviously and clearly this affects the attitude of the player and the actions of management.

It was said in jest in response to his post. Don't take everything so literal....wtf

Also, what if I told you I was a 7 foot black man with even bigger hands and feet than LePippen"I-scored-8-points-in-an-NBA-finals-game-but-never-got-any-help-in-Cleveland" James?