News, Articles, and Random Stuff about LeBron

[NarlCavs]

Finals MVPs, yes. Regular season MVPs he's already got those. Though I suspect it's going to be impossible for Durant to win the MVP this year with a team that may not have home court advantage in it's own conference. Usually they give the MVP to the best player on the best team, so if they refuse to give it to Lebron, Kobe or Dwight will win it I think.

But I think Lebron will still win it. Look at how he's playing with them now. He runs that team, and with Wade being so injury prone, he'll probably have plenty of time to shine with just Bosh there.

Crazy annoying thing is I think if the Cavs had just gotten Bosh and Mike Miller on the Cavs, Lebron could have won a title there. He doesn't need DWade to win a title. He needs DWade to be one of the best teams ever. Which maybe that's his goal--but it's disapointing how close the Cavs were, if he had just stuck it through.

Byron Scott as coach with Miller and Bosh in Cleveland would have been a title team. Believe that. IMO Lebron took a title away from Cleveland by going to Miami. Which is strange, vindictive, weird, and disapointing.

Hmm, maybe if Lebron would have made a long term commitment to the Cavaliers and made an effort to recruit players to join him here, Miller or Bosh could have been a possibility. But, instead he played immature mind games, refused to commit, refused or made very little effort at all to recruit players to come play here with him, and as it turns out had been plotting behind the scenes to leave here and join Wade and Bosh on another team.

Honestly I'm tired of hearing about the guy and his new team. Don't know how anyone can continue to believe one word that ever comes out of his mouth.

 

[Magic Brownies]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ba...Bron-James-weird-elbow-injury-?urn=nba-276092

Remember LeBron James' weird elbow injury?

By Kelly Dwyer

I'm hardly Dr. Andrew Bogut, so I'm not going to tell you if LeBron James(notes) was crazy for thinking that his still-undiagnosed elbow problem was getting in the way of him dominating the Boston Celtics (as he's done many times in the past) last spring. James still put up fantastic stats against the C's as Boston handily did away with James' Cavaliers, but LeBron was far from the efficient model we'd seen several hundred times over as the Celtics moved along.

And as you'll recall, just about every time Boston did something splashy or James did something un-James-like, he made a point to show everyone watching ... "look, my elbow!"

But as distasteful as James' disappearance in the playoffs was last season, and while he still managed to put up massive statistics (while dominating the ball and turning it over quite a bit, it should be said), something was clearly different with the guy during the two rounds of the playoffs his team worked through.

The passage isn't online (in the latest copy of SLAM, on newsstands now), but ProBasketballTalk has quoted an interview James gave to SLAM's Lang Whitaker recently, regarding the elbow:

"It was pretty bad. It was something we couldn't figure out exactly what it was. There was times where I couldn't fully extend my elbow, and that's my shooting arm. And I do a lot with my right hand [laughs] ... Close to the last week of the season it started hurting a little bit, and then it just got worse throughout the playoffs."

As with all things LeBron-y, this isn't a black-and-white case.

It looked like there was something wrong with him last spring, but he didn't have to make it so obvious.

He put up great stats, but unlike the great stats that helped his team win more games in the NBA than anyone else over the last two years, the numbers didn't really help his team in a meaningful way.

And while the injury may have had a huge impact on his team going out way too early in the playoffs, Cleveland still should have won last season.

Boston was -- and is -- a great team, but LeBron took the end of that series off. Despite his stats. At least when he went out in 2009, he went down driving. Going at Dwight Howard(notes). Probably ruing the fact that he, and not Ben Wallace(notes), should have been guarding Rashard Lewis(notes). Not last season. LeBron let it happen. This isn't to discredit the Celtics; they earned that win. But LeBron let things ... happen.

And because things aren't black and white, we don't know how much of a hook to give this guy, once discussion about that as-yet-undiagnosed elbow injury comes into play.

But that's LeBron for you. Keeping things nice and complicated for us.

And I do a lot with my right hand [laughs] ...

...like give d-wade hand jibbers.