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Having to explain your joke = fail
Having to explain your joke and it still is re ed = epic fail
that doesn't make your post any less re ed
Having to explain your joke = fail
Having to explain your joke and it still is re ed = epic fail
Coming from you, it can't hurt
Can you explain this to me please?
Well, the cynicism was faint to say the least, but I can see where you were going with it. Still, I disregarded said post and went with the travelling remark. In all honesty, I didn't see your response lol.
It's all good
If he was ditching Cleveland there'd be no reason to file for the change now. He would just request a new number on arrival in the new city.
If anything, this is more evidence that LeBron is staying Cleveland- which of course, anyone with half a brain knew anyway.
Don't players get a bonus on jersey sales? If they do, I can see Lebron making this change to decrease the difference in money he could lose going to another city and selling more jerseys. It could point to his greater consideration of staying in Cleveland, and as you say it's not an automatic choice to leave or he's just take care of that when changing teams.
lebron ain't leaving and wade is staying put. new york better hope they get bosh and joe johnson...
new york media overhyped the 2010 free agent season and new york has screwed their franchise for the next decade. i wonder who they are going to overpay for if bosh and jj don't come there.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/bal...urn=nba,225050
Heat are '95 percent' sure Wade will re-sign this summer
By Trey Kerby
I recently attended a taping for Rick Reilly's "Homecoming" featuring Dwyane Wade(notes). At every commercial break, someone from the crowd would yell about Wade coming to play for his hometown Bulls. Every time, he would just smile.
I've got bad news, Bulls fans, it sounds like it ain't happening.
"The bottom line is he has publicly and privately said that this is where he wants to be," [Heat owner Micky] Arison said before Saturday's game against the Milwaukee Bucks. "I believe him. I'm 95 percent sure that he would be here next year. You can never be 100."
Of course, Arison is in the midst of signing up season ticket holders for next year, so he's going to want to paint a pretty picture of the upcoming season. But there are a lot of reasons Wade wouldn't want to leave Miami.
As Ira Winderman details, if the Heat can snag a good free agent this summer, they'll have a decent nucleus that can compete in the East. Plus there's no income tax in Florida. Oh, and it's Florida. The appeal is pretty obvious.
But don't worry, Chicago. Brad Miller(notes) is going to play forever. That's an OK consolation prize in my book.
Related: Dwyane Wade, Brad Miller, Milwaukee Bucks
Only LBJ is staying put. Miami and Toronto are going nowhere, no reason for Wade and Bosh to stay there if they value winning.
I'm pretty sure the issue isn't him not getting it, it's the fact it isn't funny.
He wants to retire number 23 to honor Jordon, but switches to Julius Erving and Bill freakin' Russell's number.Exactly what I was thinking. Lame ass excuse from LeBron. Everyone knows its about the money. It's not about honoring .
Cool LeBron is staying in Cleveland.
All your posts suggest that you are a re
You realize that you're gonna have to change your screen name, right?
Or, he could add a X and an = 6 and he'll be a-ok for the next season...
LeBron’s M.J. tribute is all about business
By Adrian Wojnarowski
LeBron James isn’t honoring the greatness of No. 23, but manipulating Michael Jordan’s marketing savvy. The changing of his jersey number as a nod to M.J.’s basketball career is a purely fictional cover story. It’s a tribute to Jordan all right, but more like a cynical ode to his business sense. James wants to grow his global brand and push product; flooding the market with a fresh jersey number does the job.
Between now and then, James ought to spare us the fantasy that moving from No. 23 to No. 6 is about anyone or anything else.
All about Michael?
This is all about LeBron.
When LeBron James should be most concerned with taking Kobe Bryant’s NBA le, he’s making a bid for his standing as the No. 1 seller of NBA jerseys. James watched Bryant make the switch from No. 8 to No. 24 and how it moved him to the top of the list. For the past two seasons, James has finished second to Bryant. No more, James decided. Kobe gave him the blueprint for selling out stock, and now LeBron’s embraced it.
Looking back, Bryant never tried to turn his jersey change into some magnanimous gesture. He switched numbers, and that was that. He wanted to sell jerseys, and he did. He never pretended it was a genuflection to anything but commerce.
Somehow, James has boxed himself with this ridiculous story about how no one should ever wear No. 23, and he’s the first to give it up and maybe everyone else should follow him. This was met with a roll of the eyes, with everyone asking: Wait, you’re giving up No. 23 to take … No. 6?
What about Bill Russell and his 11 NBA championships? Jordan, the greatest ever, cleared a path for the worldly basketball star. But Russell was a black star in turbulent Boston in the 1960s. He anchored the greatest dynasty in the sport’s history, and they’ll remember him as the most dominant defensive player to ever live. In the end, James and everyone else understand this has nothing to do with Jordan or Russell, with No. 23 or No. 6. This is business, and he’s insulting everyone’s intelligence suggesting it’s something else.
The idea that James is honoring Jordan is, well, pure mythology. In a lot of ways, LeBron’s working to distance himself from him. Truth be told, they are rivals far more than confidants. With different lines of shoes, they are competing for power within Nike. They’ll be competing in the Eastern Conference, where the Charlotte Bobcats have beaten the Cavaliers two of three times this season and could be an opening-round opponent. They’ll be competing in collective bargaining talks, owner versus player.
They’ve never been close, although Jordan has never been overly generous with the next generation of NBA icons. He’ll show those players within the Jordan Brand some attention, but his interaction with LeBron and Kobe mostly stems from professional courtesy. Jordan is still protective of his legacy as the greatest player ever, and he’s never been terribly motivated to lend a hand in the overtaking of that.
Around the time James started with his bit about retiring Jordan’s number, Jordan sat with Pat Riley in Miami for a Cavs-Heat game in November. It didn’t go unnoticed to those sitting around them how often James would peer over, searching for some kind of approval from Jordan. He’d make a play and glance over – and it was probably no accident that Jordan offered little to no response. After all, Jordan was there to promote Dwyane Wade as an endorser to his line of shoes, so James was treated as afterthought.
“He’s always looked for that approval from Michael,” one Jordan associate says, “and I don’t know that he’s ever really gotten it – or ever will.”
So James filed paperwork with the NBA prior to the Wednesday deadline, and should he stay with the Cavaliers he’ll wear his Olympic team No. 6 next season. Should he leave, he can wear whatever he wants. Between now and then, no one else will care much about how many jerseys he sells, about how far he surpasses Bryant on the NBA’s list in 2011.
For all his fascination with global branding, with empire building, peddling jerseys doesn’t move LeBron closer to Jordan and Bryant and Russell. Only championships do.
This time, the Cavs have delivered James the supporting cast to do it. No more excuses. James comes armed for the Lakers now. He comes with his legacy on the line, measured in one indisputable and defining way: Before he beats him in the NBA Store, LeBron James needs to beat Kobe Bryant in the NBA Finals.
The article above isn't totally true. Kobe specifically stated that he was changing numbers in order to better incorporate the newly aquired Lamar Odom (whose number is 7). He said, this is to show the fans that we are going to be working and winning 24/7.
Kobe's # change was a marketing decision that was part of his change of image..it worked..
The maximum sentence for rape in California without any other charges is 8 years..that's probably why he picked the #8 in the first place, so it makes sense that he changed it..
But he was tried in a Colorado court.
LeBron’s New Jersey Won’t Bring Him More Money
SportingNews
Very few people believed LeBron James when he said he’s changing his number from 23 to 6 specifically to honor Michael Jordan. Yesterday, Adrian Wojnarowski wrote a well-received column that stated what we were all thinking: LeBron’s doing it for the money.
Yet, as Darren Rovell noted today, things are a little more complicated than that:
In the NBA, unlike the NFL, the money made from jersey sales and other licensed products has been shared equally since the 1995 group licensing agreement was put together by the union.
That means that LeBron’s teammate Anderson Varejao makes as much as LeBron, even though sales of James’ jersey ranks second in the league and Varejao isn’t close to the top 50.
So while LeBron’s new jersey will likely increase the total number of jerseys sold, the change wouldn’t give him any more money than it would for any other player. Woj responded to Rovell and said that becoming the top player on the jersey sales list matters in terms of his status as a global icon, but that’s an indirect money issue rather than a matter of pure dollars and cents.
Selling a new jersey doesn’t necessarily increase the total number of LeBron jerseys on the market—it just replaces the old ones with the new number. Maybe it makes LeBron marginally more marketable, but we’re already talking about the best and most talked-about player in the league.
If LeBron really cared only about money and marketability, he wouldn’t have bothered with the number change and would’ve bolted to the Knicks this summer without a moment’s thought. As hard as it sometimes is to believe, other things matter.
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