I, like many sports fans my age watch SportsCenter on repeat 2 or 3 times in a day and if you’re like me you’re probably tired of seeing segments on Brett Favre’s not so questionable return to the NFL. Possibly you’re sick of mid-season baseball highlights or coverage of Tiger Wood’s transgressions in the bedroom and his equally embarrassing performance on the golf course. Either way you slice it I can’t thank the NBA enough for coming to the rescue and providing some spectacular theatre during this lull in sports.
So many questions are left to be answered but at the center of this free agency storm is Lebron James, the man the entire city of Cleveland is depending on. Is he going to let down millions (and millions) of the most helpless/pathetic sports fans on the planet? Leaving the people of Cleveland nothing to cheer for but the scraps Lebron left behind on the Cavs and a football franchise that is so sad it doesn’t even have a logo…Lebron would not be the first mega star to leave a city that so richly depended on him. Plenty of players have abandoned the team that they filled with hope for several years only to try and go on to bigger and better things. Shaq did it to the Magic, Griffey did it to the Mariners, and A-Rod did it to the Rangers. While Lebron might not walk on water anytime soon or even lower gas prices in any given city, he is still going to make a big splash wherever he lands. Hell, he might even boost the economy.
NBA owners know what type of impact he can have on not only a team but a city and that’s why everyone who has any money to offer is going to offer it to this guy, I even heard Team Edward is putting together a lucrative offer for the ball player. I’m just glad that finally, for the first time, the Yankees aren’t going to grab the biggest free agent on the market…Bron Bron is going to be facing a ton of pressure wherever he goes, pressure to finally live up to the outrageous hype put on him coming out of high school. It is rather fitting that he is changing his number to 6 because that’s exactly how many titles he is going to need to win to be thought of as the next best thing since Michael Jordan.
So many questions are left to be answered but at the center of this free agency storm is Lebron James, the man the entire city of Cleveland is depending on. Is he going to let down millions (and millions) of the most helpless/pathetic sports fans on the planet? Leaving the people of Cleveland nothing to cheer for but the scraps Lebron left behind on the Cavs and a football franchise that is so sad it doesn’t even have a logo…Lebron would not be the first mega star to leave a city that so richly depended on him. Plenty of players have abandoned the team that they filled with hope for several years only to try and go on to bigger and better things. Shaq did it to the Magic, Griffey did it to the Mariners, and A-Rod did it to the Rangers. While Lebron might not walk on water anytime soon or even lower gas prices in any given city, he is still going to make a big splash wherever he lands. Hell, he might even boost the economy.
NBA owners know what type of impact he can have on not only a team but a city and that’s why everyone who has any money to offer is going to offer it to this guy, I even heard Team Edward is putting together a lucrative offer for the ball player. I’m just glad that finally, for the first time, the Yankees aren’t going to grab the biggest free agent on the market…Bron Bron is going to be facing a ton of pressure wherever he goes, pressure to finally live up to the outrageous hype put on him coming out of high school. It is rather fitting that he is changing his number to 6 because that’s exactly how many titles he is going to need to win to be thought of as the next best thing since Michael Jordan.
I laughed so hard at the reference to the Rock, then proceeded to work on my impression. Millions. And millions. Of The Rock's fans
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