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King James wants Spoelstra to bow to him
Adrian Wojnarowski
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports 11 hours, 53 minutes ago
Erik Spoelstra reached out to Mike Brown over the summer and searched for insight into both basketball’s blessing and curse: Coaching the two-time MVP LeBron James(notes).
Over and over, Brown uprooted his offensive system to appease James only to have it never work. Brown praised James’ character publicly when he would’ve preferred to have been truthful about James’ narcissism. James defied Brown in public and private, disregarded his play calls to freelance his offense, and belittled him without consequence within the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Meticulous in his preparation, Spoelstra spoke with several past coaches, and league sources said a clear and unequivocal picture appeared on how to proceed: End the cycle of enabling with James and hold him accountable.
And surprise, surprise: LeBron James has responded with a test of his own organizational strength, pushing to see how far the Heat will bend to his will. This season, James is hearing a word seldom uttered to him in Cleveland: “No.” And it keeps coming out of the coach’s mouth, keeps getting between the King and what he wants.
Can I stay overnight to party in New Orleans after a preseason game?
Can I play the clown in practice?
Can I get out of playing point guard?
No. No. No.
Wait, what?
No, LeBron.
No.
Even within a month of the season’s sideways 9-8 start, the NBA witnessed a predictable play out of the James-Maverick Carter playbook on Monday morning. They planted a story and exposed themselves again as jokers of the highest order. They care so little about anyone but themselves. Still, no one’s surprised that they’d stoop so low, so fast into this supposed historic 73-victory season and NBA Finals sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers. They want Spoelstra – and Pat Riley – to bend to them, to bow to the King the way everyone has before them.
Nevertheless, here’s what was surprising – even troubling – when the Heat talked on Monday before a victory over the Washington Wizards: In the blink of an eye, Dwyane Wade signed up with Team LeBron to scapegoat and sell out Spoelstra.
“I’m not going to say he’s ‘my guy,’ but he’s my coach,” Wade said.
Wade’s always been loyal, and that’s why it was so surprising to witness him bail this fast on Spoelstra, whom Wade knows too well. Spoelstra is a good NBA coach. Everyone knows that Wade isn’t a star who plays hard all the time, knows that he takes plays off on defense. They know that Spoelstra did a terrific job coaching 90 victories out of that flawed Miami roster the previous two seasons.
As much as ever, the Heat need Wade to influence James. Only now, it’s clear James is influencing Wade. With Udonis Haslem(notes) out for the regular season, the locker room misses one of its vital voices. Now, Wade is struggling on the floor and James is the devil on his shoulder, whispering that he doesn’t need to be accountable, that there’s an easy fall guy for everyone: Spoelstra.
Those who know Wade well, who care about him, were disappointed Monday. When Spoelstra needed Wade to stand up for him, Wade never shrunk so small. Spoelstra was Wade’s guy, but Wade’s finding it much easier to align himself with James’ coward act than do the right thing. This was something that you’d expect out of Chris Bosh, who’s never been a leader, never a winner, but Wade?
“He knows better than this,” one of Wade’s former assistant coaches said. “I’m not saying he hasn’t changed some, but he knows right from wrong. And this is wrong.”
The fundamental problem for Spoelstra isn’t that James doesn’t respect coaches – he doesn’t respect people. Give LeBron this, though: He’s learned to live one way with the television light on, and another with it off. He treats everyone like a servant, because that’s what the system taught him as a teenage prodigy. To James, the coach isn’t there to mold him into the team dynamic. He’s there to serve him.
Wade was one of the Team USA players who’d watch incredulously as James would throw a bowl of fries back at a renowned chef and bark, “They’re cold!” Or throw his sweaty practice jersey across the court and command a team administrator to go pick it up. Everyone wants James to grow out of it, but he’s never showed much of an inclination for self-examination and improvement. And he’s never surrounded himself with people who’d push him to do so.
What’s more, the timing of this leak was no accident, because James and his business manager had to like the idea of someone else going on trial this week. When the public wanted to talk about James’ return to Cleveland, about the callous way with which he left, about the disjointed start in Miami, they thrust everything onto Spoelstra.
Part of them believed they could deflect Week at home in Ohio, and part of them probably believed they could indeed align the public with them against Spoelstra.
After all, the coach had it coming to him. Of this, LeBron James was sure. Spoelstra had the audacity to do something that Mike Brown never had ownership’s backing to do in Cleveland: To push James, call him out, coach him.
The funniest part had to be how they leaked the idea that Erik Spoelstra was panicking now, behaving like he feared for his job. Truth be told, he’s been behaving in the opposite way. Spoelstra isn’t running from LeBron, but running at him.
Someone’s scared here, but it isn’t the coach.
Adrian Wojnarowski is the NBA columnist for Yahoo! Sports.
King James wants Spoelstra to bow to him - NBA - Yahoo! Sports
This james guy is really sick and wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i think i'm the only person who foresaw the heat exploding from ego problems
Nope, I saw it too as did many of us.
Interesting that Coach Mike Brown coddled james so much, but then he also coddled Jackson when he was here too, although to good effect, so it probably shouldn't be a surprise.
Just glad the Spurs aren't plagued with prima donas.
You and everybody else outside of the Heat organization?
There are two things that will stop the Heat: injuries, and their own egos. They've had trouble with both.
It's like Lebron is Hiroshima and Wajnarowski is "Little Boy".
Amen. But I think credit goes to Pop and Timmy (and before him DRob) for creating an enviroment where it's not acceptable. You never know how Tony would be had he landed on another team with another coach. Or look at Jax when he was here. Not that he (Jax) was a prima donna, but Pop doesn't get enough credit for keeping everything in check.Just glad the Spurs aren't plagued with prima donas.
and how is this related to the Spurs? we don't need more threads about that clown
James is stupid. I hope he never win a ring
Hopefully Riley won't can this guy and start coaching himself.
Keep this garbage in the NBA forum! WTF?!
Spoelstra is a good coach... "King" James put that on your swollen head..
I never though I'd say this, but ducks was right.
James is a of the highest order, a clown who doesn't have the heart, discipline, or desire to ever be a championship player. Not only that, but from the many stories that have been confirmed by a lot of different people, James is just a world class asshole. He's a Randy Moss-esque asshole with a bigger sense of en lement. He's just flat out a horrible person. I've wanted to like this guy from day one, wanted to see him succeed, but now I just wish he'd disappear.
Wojo needs to relax. He is annoying.
I never liked lebron, hes too immature, and has the biggest ego in the league. Howard is also super annoying.
Nothing that a good ole slide your foot under the mug when he's comin down from one of his high flyin moves humble pie practice experiances but that's just me...lol
i told every since one of my friends this before the season started and they all thought i was stupid but look whats happening
LaBronda Prima Donna.
'Nuff said.
He has two modes of writing: fellatio and kidney punch. Generally, I like his points of focus so far but it's clearly ranting.
How do things like this go without being reported? Are they acting like this is common knowledge, or have they been suppressed until Lebron's team starts to struggle?
Yeah, it does smack of piling on. Where were all these stories before, Woj?
No. Almost the entire media jacked them off and said they were the only contender for the Lakers. This means the masses of idiots (general USA population) thought in the same way.
If Ducks WAS one of the first to say this, he was dead on. LeQuit is a -made, punk-ass, jerk of the highest order.
I remember hearing several of these diva stories at least a year or 2 ago, as well as the story of Bowen getting onto James during tryout workouts for his asshole behavior. This isn't new.
I don't know if he was the first, but I know he's been saying these things about Lebron well before anyone else was. He was pretty much just being a hater IMO, but he turned out to be right.
ducks would post up what a crappy player he was after he missed a game winning basket or after the Cavs lost a game they should have won. It's sort of like someone who rooted against the Bills in the 70s saying "I told you Simpson was no ing good."
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