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Everybody ting on King James, but they all tuned in to watch, record numbers..he brought in those ratings, in addition to getting over 4 million $ to the Boys & Girls Club, which directly saved thousands of lives around America..
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5371061
Watched by nearly 10 million. Behind only 1 MNF game (and beating every one) and some tween show called iCarly.
It's unknown what ratings would have been if it were on broadcast TV.
I think it would've beaten the ratings for the Lakers/Celtics final. People didn't really care about the so-called storied rivalry because most fans intuituvely knew that 1. This is weakest era in the NBA since the late 70s, so there wasn't the same amount of "heat" as in years past, and 2. That the Celtics would need a miracle to beat LA. Granted, they went up 3-2, but not many really believed Boston could close out LA, and then when you throw in the Lakers getting their 1023902940th lucky break in the their franchise's history with Perkins going down, I gather most people tuned out.
So yeah, the press conference of a ringless player ostensibly overshadowed Kobe winning his second ring.
so they could Witness for themselves and then justify the hate..makes perfect sense to those of us without scrambled eggs between their ears...
and stop spreading boys and gulls club lies...that was using them as props if he could have used the special olympics that manipulating sac of would have as well...
I'm glad he's in Miami man this hate fest for him is what I've been waiting on for a long ass time....Now Kobe by default will claim is rightful throne...and makes those who previously hated come to see the light of truth..
Cmon Harlem...we both know that 'Bron haters will always be 'Bron haters...no matter how much money LeBron's decision raised for charity, people always wanna be negative. By announcing his decision in the manner he did, even though it pissed off his fans, he did help many young children. I personally think he thinks the tradeoff was worth it
It certainly overshadowed anything he did in the Eastern Conference Finals tbh. At least according to these facts.
I'll have to wait for the Lakers fans to come in and explain to me what this really means.
Last edited by Zelophehad; 07-11-2010 at 07:30 PM.
The article is factually incorrect, MNF averaged well above 10 million viewers. The Pro Bowl nearly beat the 9 million rating. As to Lebron being a life saver, he obviously wanted to use the charity as an excuse for his attention whoring, if it was all about the charity he would simply write that check out of the 50 million/year he makes.
So one the one side we've got this guy here who thinks Lebron used the kids as props and that the money that went to them doesn't count for anything. The prop $4 million dollar ring was better in that it went to a much more needy cause. Am I gathering that right?
Also, Kobe will be coronated by some imaginary fiefdom in the coming days. Any other takes?
Start a thread about it..step up out of the shadow, you're Luva's ing sidekick, have some ambition..
Extremely well said, my man..Cmon Harlem...we both know that 'Bron haters will always be 'Bron haters...no matter how much money LeBron's decision raised for charity, people always wanna be negative. By announcing his decision in the manner he did, even though it pissed off his fans, he did help many young children. I personally think he thinks the tradeoff was worth it
The NFL towers above any sport in North America, not a fair comparison to a flawed league like the NBA..
Predictable.
From a TX executive standpoint? Or a basketball fan standpoint?
Did you personally predict that this would go down like this in a one hour special?
Or was it just predictable in hindsight? Which everything is really.
The ratings are predictable. I didn't predict this show would happen, but once it did, I knew it was going to get stupid high ratings. The ESPN hype machine nearly ed itself a couple of times before the show.
Maybe he was cheap and didn't want to go over what are his normal standard charity expenses for the year and decided if ESPN (whose idea this was) wanted to throw this special he could donate some money to the boys & Girls club (a wonderful charity organization btw) to help out underprivileged children) that it was a great move that will change the lives of countless underprivileged children. Who knows maybe one day on of those kids will get a computer and internet of their own and then they can log on and wonder why some faced, whiny is ragging on the very guy who him a chance to turn his life around. Becuase he didn't say which city he wanted to play a game in with the most tact.
So once everyting happened you were smart enough to predict what you knew would be predictable.
How Visionary.
I think you've confused yourself. Good work.
listen dude..u can say whatever kind of about Kobe you want..we've heard it all before. I'm going to continue peddling the LeTank Hate...I've been waiting for this to slip and the Media and the Fans turn on him...This single-handedly and overnight ruined his rep and lost millions of fans...MJ, Magic, and even now Larry Bird all giving Kobe props as the best player alive...all the ing legends on Kobe's side now and more will soon come out the wood works to follow...Now Kobe is being re-evaluated by the haters and given his rightful place in History among the butt-hurted.I'm loving this ....Lebron (Pippen Lite) to Miami...
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...3171997.column
I'm sure the little children whose life's hopes and dreams are one step closer to coming true, plan on turning the Charity down because it didn't come from a place of honesty and as you would point therefore doesn't count. Shame they could have used those spaceheaters and blankets.
people only have themselves to blame for lebron's media attention. espn wouldn't be pulling this stuff if lebron didn't attract so many viewers and be so profitable.
What will Kobe's crown look like assuming its not some imaginary throne you were talking about earlier. Any king on a throne needs a crown. Maybe this new found movement can look to reopen the MVP votes of the past fourty seasons and give Kobe more total awards than Bob McAdoo and Dave Collins now. He did just lose in a landslide to Lebron in back to back years. Since he's the King of the world now. I guess a lot of thing are going to change.listen dude..u can say whatever kind of about Kobe you want..we've heard it all before. I'm going to continue peddling the LeTank Hate...I've been waiting for this to slip and the Media and the Fans turn on him...This single-handedly and overnight ruined his rep and lost millions of fans...MJ, Magic, and even now Larry Bird all giving Kobe props as the best player alive...all the ing legends on Kobe's side now and more will soon come out the wood works to follow...Now Kobe is being re-evaluated by the haters and given his rightful place in History among the butt-hurted.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...3171997.column
Predict my next move Nostradamus. It's gonna be quite a doozy.
Yes but if Lebron didn't exist ESPN would a respectable honest, well run media organization? Hmmmmm.... I'm gonna have to say no that. The big League at ESPN has sucked in my book since they broke up the Big Ticket. Plus the comedic quips and one liners make the channel awul. ESPN bukkaked its integrity long before Lebron came around.
They'res some weird trolling going on in here.
wtf is iCarly?
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