The first few seconds of your first earthquake are disconcerting. You don’t know what’s happening. The undulation, the noise, the inability to focus -- it’s all disconcerting. But once you’ve been in a few, you know the feeling. You don’t relax, but you don’t panic, either. Such is another week in the dramatic life of LeBron James. Another ‘quake? Big deal. It’s like he lives in a village called Frackingtown. Kyrie Irving’s gone? Isaiah Thomas’ hip is jacked up worse than the Cavs thought? … Kevin Love’s shoulder? Irving’s knee? Dwyane Wade’s knee? For that matter, Larry Hughes’ foot? Guys go down next to James year after year, yet very little has stopped the party since 2007 -- and not at all since 2010. And while a whole lot of …show more content…
Irving had earned his stripes and James was expecting a grand pursuit of Paul George or Jimmy Butler this summer to close the gap with the Golden State Warriors, not losing one of his best teammates and having to scramble. James was floored when the trade demand surfaced, even before it went public. As such, JamesWorld views this as “a Kyrie thing,” not a LeBron and Kyrie thing, or a LeBron thing. This is all on Kyrie. His unhappiness at his secondary role to James is right out of the Stephon Marbury Chronicles, when the then-Wolves guard chafed at being Robin to Kevin Garnett’s Batman. (By contrast, Tom Gugliotta was just fine being Commissioner Gordon.) One can think Irving is nuts for wanting to leave James, yet understand his position as well. At 25, he’s already got a ring. And there is no doubt that playing with James is hard. Entire franchises bend like palm fronds in a gale to his every wish and desire. Things are done his way, all the time, every day. He’s not wrong to ask, because until last year, when Irving rose up over Stephen Curry in the last minute of Game 7, no one in wine and gold had done anything championship worthy other than him. 0:42Play In The 2016 FInals, Kyrie Irving sealed Cleveland's title with a clutch jumper. But now, Irving has. And he’s young enough to want to bend a few palm fronds his way. I think he’s still nuts
To be able to keep composure and focus on one shot under those types of conditions is not an easy task. Amazingly, he made clutch shots time and time again for the Bulls. Being able to think and react in highly pressured situations for James on the other hand, has not been accomplished. I have seen James, with the ball in the final seconds of the game, and he was unable to hit the winning shot. You can see the pressure all over his face. He does not have the ability to plan and if necessary, counter plan under extreme conditions. A good example is in this past year’s Olympics he clearly did not play like a champion. When the team was down, he didn’t try to take the game over like a champion would.
Many thought that he would never play basketball again, but he came back “better than ever”. Kyrie Irving has already earned the legacy of one of the best point guards to ever play basketball. He has all the traits of a hard worker: motivation, perseverance and humbleness. No matter what it was, he continued to be meek survived through all of his trials and tribulations. He saw the value of working hard and utilized that when he was at his lowest points in his
The next four years, LeBron helped the Cavs improve. In the 2006-2007 year, the Cavs beat the Detroit Pistons in the semi-finals but lost in the finals against San-Antonio Spurs. During the years 2007-2008, the Cavs failed to make it to the playoffs. The following year, 2008-2009, they acquired point guard Mo Williams and Shaquille O’Neal. They lost in the second round of the playoffs to the Boston Celtics. In 2010, his contract was over with the Cavaliers. He decided to go to the Miami Heat and made two more lifelong friends, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh. That season, in the playoffs, they beat the Philadelphia 76ers, the Boston Celtics, and the Chicago Bulls but lost to the Dallas Mavericks in the championship. The next season, in 2011, the Heat beat the New York Knicks, the Indiana Pacers, and the Boston Celtics. In the championship game, the Miami Heat beat the Oklahoma City Thunder. In 2012, they beat the San Antonio Spurs in the Finals. When his contract expired in 2013, he decided to go back to the Cleveland Cavaliers where everything
He is also vying to bring back Middleton and his friends, and finally put the 2013 sign fiasco to bed.
LeBron James calls himself King James because he has won 4 MVP’s throughout his NBA career, and he is very dedicated and a very great leader to all of his games as well as his teammates. As I observed the 2015 Finals, LeBron James played the hardest out of each player on his team as well as the opposing team. James did not have a lot of help going against a strong team like the Warriors because two of the starting players from the Cavaliers got injured and had to sit out for the rest of the season. Kevin Love got injured way before the finals took place, and Kyrie Irving got injured during game one against the Warriors. Rodger Sherman, website sport journalist stated that, “James' average line in these NBA Finals is 36.6 points, 12.4 rebounds, and 8.4 assists per game. Only Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal and James Worthy have managed to do that in a single NBA Finals game since 1986” (web). Rodger
Lebron James, the number one player in the world, was quite busy posting pictures on his social media of his vacation in the weeks after their loss in the NBA finals to the Golden State Warriors. One would never know that there were frustrations and turmoil brewing back at home within the franchise of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Today, when watching the coverage on ESPN, it seems the foundation of the franchise is getting ready to be dismantled. The reports seem to suggest that Kyrie Irving is at the point of his career in which he no longer wants to be known as the number two man on the Cleveland Cavaliers and that he has demanded a trade.
However, Isaiah is suffering from and a non-fixed hip Injury. Therefore, if Boston wanted Kyrie that bad they had to come off more assets in the deal. Also, former Cavs Star Kyrie Irving requested a trade earlier in the year and was said that he basically did not want to play the shadow of former teammate LeBron James and that he wants to go somewhere else where he can be the number one man on the team. Everyone was shocked to hear about the news considering the fact that LeBron James led them to go to 3 straight finals since he has been back in Cleveland. Other stars in the NBA had words about the request saying that it was “crazy” and that anyone would be lucky to be guaranteed a shot in the finals every year. Why would Irving want to leave a situation where he could play with the league's best player LeBron James? On the other hand, stars Isaiah Tomas and Jae Crowder are more than happy to join King James and the Cavaliers at another chance at a ring. This next season will continue to get more exciting to closer it gets. The Pre-season starts in October and everyone can’t wait to get a sneak peek and see the new teams in action for the first
The media focus on James has been going on for years, since he’s been a big name in the league for almost a decade now. It started when James made his first decision to leave Cleveland and go to Miami to join the Heat. ESPN made James looking like a diva as they set up his decision in 2010 with an hour long TV special that ended with James taking his talents to South Beach (Heisler). However, they neglected to mention the 3 million dollars the show was making, which James donated to charity. James was the main person blamed for this TV special, but he made no money on it and it wasn’t even his idea. It was ESPN. ESPN controls sports media which gave them the power to hype up the sickening decision that James had to make in the offseason. Viewers ate it up so they decided to broadcast his decision to up their viewership even more than the hype did. Every NBA season many players enter free agency and have the option to sign with a different team and not once has there been a television special
It is often debatable if Lebron or Kevin Durant is better. Lebron has been playing 13 years in the NBA and he is 31 years old. He has a wife, a young daughter, and an athletic son that is already being recruited.( LeBron James is better than Kevin Durant because he has been playing longer, he has more awards than him, and he is more successful than him, talented and academically). Lebron James is better than Durant.
This happens to be an incredibly popular statement that I have seen being used across social media. Many fans label Kevin Durant as a ?coward? or a ?snake? and claim that he ruined the landscape of the NBA. Throughout this article I am going to be talking about my thoughts on two differing perspectives: Kevin Durant couldn?t win so he left to win a guaranteed championship, and this is exactly the same type of rivalry we have seen throughout the history of the NBA. At the end, I will reveal my true personal opinion on the subject and my current thoughts about the Warriors and this series going forward.
LeBron James (King James) is an American professional basketball player, who is born on December 30, 1984. He is playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers, and he is a small forward and a power forward. LeBron plays basketball for living. He plays in the NBA league. LeBron is married to Savannah Brinson, and has three kids.
As the summer winds down and the NBA season is upon us, the Golden State Warriors are planning for their fight to claim another championship ring. Last season, the Warriors won the most games in a single season in NBA history (73), but fell just short of winning back-to-back championships. Having recruited superstar Kevin Durant, who joined the team this summer, seems to have made Golden State even more frightening than it already was. However, past experiences have shown us that a cluster of superstars on one team doesn’t necessarily mean an automatic ring.
LeBron James is 15th on the all-time scoring list. If he continues at his current pace it will only take him six years to be
The thesis will take an in-depth look on the journey of Lebron James. From the beginning days in Akron, the fame of his early days in Cleveland, to his villain days in Miami and back up the mountain to being a hero in Cleveland, it will all be discussed. Lebron James is not only a once in a life-time type of athlete, but once in a life-time person and businessman as well. The tactics and lessons one can learn from his strategies are infinite.
To be fair, the Cavs may never have another media day as wild as the 2014 version. LeBron James had recently announced his return to Cleveland and Kevin Love was traded to Cleveland a little more than a month later, forming the NBA’s most recent ‘Big 3’ with dynamic point guard Kyrie Irving. Although Irving and Love continue to recover from injuries that forced their exits in the 2015 playoffs, the Cavs should be one of the favorites to win it all when both players reach optimal