LeBron and Bosh Taking Heat

Yeah, it’s an obvious pun, but damn it, it’s good.  Anyway, Bosh isn’t taking nearly as much criticisms as LeBron and I just thought I’d put my two cents on the issue since it’s been on my mind a little bit lately and I wanted to use the pun.  First off, I joined in the haters club for LeBron, not so much of his decision to leave, but the one hour special they had for him to make a decision.  That was pretty stupid and I refused to watch it even though I was pretty curious what would they do for an hour for something that should just take about a minute max.  “Oh, I’m going to this team.” Done.  So that bugged the hell out of me, enough to make me criticize everything else which makes me a bit hypocritical about how Bosh left his team to join the Heat too, even though it was speculated that it was almost a sure thing that he was going to leave and what team was almost as obvious as well.  To main critique I hear from friends is that they took the easy way out and abandoned their small franchise teams in order to go toward a larger team with a history of winning multiple championships.  But it has been like 5-7 years since they first joined and they haven’t won much, Toronto has difficulty getting into the playoffs and it’s not like Bosh hasn’t been playing his ass off in the games.  The pieces there weren’t there and his contract was up, so why not go to a team with a higher chance of winning championships?  They got money, might as go out and try to win championships and I think most players and people in general would understand that.  Probably not the fans from the cities they left, but hey, it’s just basketball.  It’s still a business and people aren’t playing based on loyalty to a team like they would for international games such as the Olympics.

But I joined onto the LeBron hating bandwagon that so many have been on for the past few years, and more so due to recent events, but in the same way, you can’t really blame him for choosing the Heat over Cavaliers.  Sure Cavs made adjustments to the team to appease him such as bringing Jamison in and all that in order to try and win championships and it didn’t pan out as much as they hoped.  Then again LeBron did sort of quit on them that one game with a 9 point deficit against Boston, but so did the rest of the team.  So he’s the leader, sure, but if the team really wanted to win, they shouldn’t need their leader to be in the mood too and should go after it.  But I digress, LeBron probably should have stayed over in Cleveland and since it’s his home state it would be much better for the team if he was there and loyalty would be great.  But now they see him as a traitor to their state, which I kinda think is stupid, but I’d probably feel that way if Kobe decided to leave.  Although he did try to leave at one point that people seem to forget and forgive him for despite his constant bitching about it at the time.

All in all, I think this will be an interesting season for basketball, three all-star players are surely going to be on the radar and I would think people would watch that team much more because of it.  People are going to join the bandwagon of either loving them or hating them, I’m a little unsure how I feel about it since I still do like Bosh and Wade, but hate LeBron a bit.  Though my reasons for hating him are pretty small, it’s really just because of that one hour decision to choose what city to play for since that was so annoying.  But I think people take the whole loyalty to the team a little too seriously.  If you want to watch players who are loyal solely to their teams, then go watch college basketball where players are probably from that city and play only for that team until they graduate and move on.  NBA has players who have to look for their best interests, can’t just stick with a team because the city is nice, they want to win championships and if they have the opportunity to do so, then just go for it.  If you were in the same position you would probably make the same decisions.