verb_to_trust wrote:I mean, Lebron did say it did he not? Unless they left out the part where he said , 'this would never happen but' I don't see why we shouldn't be killing him for it. Part of me things he's acting out like this because he's jealous of all the dub nation focus. He's not the center of the NBA universe anymore.
You'd have to read the whole article to judge the context if you really wanted decide whether you should be killing him for it or not. Like I said my initial reaction was to kill him for it. After the reading the article it gets a big shoulder shrug from me.
It goes back to when Melo and LeBron met each other for the first time and how they instantly loved each other's game blah blah blah and how leading up to the draft they would BS about how great it'd be to play together. Then it goes on to how they thought the Cleveland-Detroit rivalry they'd have would be awesome but obviously didn't happen. Then it gets to when LeBron, Wade, and Bosh all signed 3 year extensions so they'd be free agents in 2010 and how they "told" Melo to do the same, but apparently he missed the message. Then it has a whole big "what if" section about Melo, how basically everybody around him has failed him and if he'd been drafted by the Pistons he'd have multiple rings and people would perceive him as an all-time great. Sprinkle in some quotes from LeBron about how great Melo is, yadda yadda yada, then end by saying how much he'd still like to play with him and the other two before his career is over for a season. Then as an afterthought he says he'd take a paycut to do it.
It sounded like a wistful daydream, not an actual declarative statement of intentions to me. It also felt like a writer just trying to make his story come full circle, so he ends it where it began basically.
A stupid thing to say, but I don't really care to kill him over it, especially not on the heals of the unfollowgate nonsense. Idk.
