So, when the heat dumps Michael Beasley’s 5 mil contract, they will have enough money for one good role player, and then the rest of the team is gonna have to be rookies and minimum contract dudes to even fill a bench. Sure, the Heat will have three monsters on the floor to start, but the bench seems like it is gonna blow so hard. They better have some big leads when the big guys take a breather, or they better attract some veterans who will take no money to try to get a ring.
Maybe the big three will each give up a milli or so each so that they have a bit more cap space? If not, I don’t know what kind of team the Heat can actually field.
I’m really excited to see this. I think if they get really lucky with the scrubs, they can actually be ok when one or two of the big three come out for a rest. It could also be a massive failure when all three are on the floor together.
I also really hate Lebron now, which is kind of nice. I kind of wish I had a kid now, just to see his or her reaction. It seems like everybody except Miami fans would now despise him, but I wonder about kids who don’t yet have a developed sense of sports loyalty.
Yep, a team can get lucky with the scrubs at times. I also think they could focus on getting defensive specialists and ball-distributors since the Heat is probably going to make it illegal for anyone other than the big three to score.
I don’t think anyone should hate Bron for leaving Cleveland. All those people there are stupid as shit. He doesn’t owe them to stay there. Why would anyone stay there, with that team? However, he totally dick-moved the city and team by not telling them he was going, by drawing it all out even though it seems obvious that he worked this thing out with Wade, Bosh and Miami long ago, and by grandstanding with this ridiculous press thing. I hate him for those reasons.
Yeah, I don’t think most people (except Cleveland people) hate him for leaving, it’s how he did it and where he went. In addition to doing the whole obnoxious special just to jab a stick in the eye of Cleveland, it seems like a lot of people hate him now because he went to a situation with other superstars, where he doesn’t have to be the man (rather than, say, Chicago, where he’d have better teammates but still be the main guy), and, in sports-fan world, this makes him a pussy or something. I’m not sure about that perspective, but it is weird that, in going to the Heat, he seems to be shying away from the kind of alpha dog status that justified the special in the first place.
I think the great Michael Lahey once said, “The Bron will never will a championship.” He told me he sticks to this, although the Heat adding Juwanna Man concerns him. That guy has a tasty spirit.