This sounds like a strong possibility, I personally think Lebron is already a joke for joining a team with Wade and Bosh but if Carmelo signs with the Heat, I can’t even imagine what this does to Lebron James legacy, especially if they fail to win a championship. If they do win with a team of Lebron James, Carmelo Anthony, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh, I wouldn’t look at it as being anything amazing. I would look at James and Anthony as bigger jokes.
I also saw a graph of Heat and Spur fans in the United States and I’m proud to say that my area (Chicago) are going for the Spurs but 90 percent of America is rooting for the Heat according to this graph…If you are a Heat fan outside of Miami, then you have got to be a phony. How can anyone want the Heat to win?
It’s not my graph, it’s one that was figured out by some NBA expert…I think the graph was more about which areas had more fans. Not so much about who’s rooting for the Heat. I can’t imagine too many people actually hoping the Heat win.
Because Lebron knows he can’t win with Wade and Bosh anymore so he’s taking another easy way out by trying to team up with Carmelo Anthony. I think he’ll look even worse if this does happen. I don’t see how he wouldn’t look bad here. Or maybe he gets points for being able to recruit the best players to be his teammates?
Why do you think that’s an *easy *way? It’s the *only *way to win in the NBA today. You need a few superstars and a bunch of adequate surrounding players.
He’ll get more stupid criticism no matter what he does. But every title he wins from here on out is going to be won primarily because of him; same as the ones he’s got already.
This is not going to happen, and it would be a bad move for everybody.
Even with the league’s “Max Salary” policy (which is what allows Miami to have James, Wade, and Bosh), Carmelo would still be leaving tens of millions on the table to fit under the NBA’s laughable “cap,” unless they drop Bosh and/or Wade, which they wouldn’t do. And Carmelo does nothing to solve Miami’s “no real point guard” problem and is a serious liability on defense.
The Spurs and Mavericks weren’t full of All-Stars. It seems to me that this superstar trend is a Lebron James thing. I know the Thunder have a big three but that team was built through the draft and I don’t have a problem with a team adding key pieces but I think Lebron is a joke for thinking the only way he can win is to recruit the top players in the league.
I think he’s OK with looking worse if it means winning more championships. As he should be. That said, I’m not sure this’s Carmelo thing is remotely realistic.
That’s true. Just Duncan, Parker, Ginobili, Finley, Steve Smith, David Robinson, Kevin Willis and Sean Elliott; and Nowitzki, Caron Butler, Jason Terry, Tyson Chandler, Shawn Marion, Peja and Jason Kidd.
I don’t think teaming up with 'Melo has the same “taking the easy route” stigma as teaming up with Wade. Wade in 2010 was an all-NBA 1st teamer/top 5 player in the game. Melo’s more of a top 15 talent.
I don’t think he’ll look any worse than Wade does when he flops and cries to the refs pretty much every trip down the floor. Kidding aside…
I’m actually kind of a fan of Lebron, such an amazing athlete, but during these finals the Spurs pretty much encapsulate everything that i like about watching basketball (team defense, good ball movement on offense, making the extra pass, no one player tyring to do too much), and the Heat are everything that i dislike (bad defense, isolation dribble drives…). While Melo is certainly a scorer, i think probably just exacerbates the problems they already have.
Ok none of these guys besides Dirk Nowitzki and David Robinson were superstars like these guys Lebron is trying to play with. Tim Duncan was key to the Spurs 1999 championship but he wasn’t really a superstar back then, he was a guy like he is today, a guy who knows his role. None the less Duncan is regarded as a superstar but he’s not a superstar in the way Shaq, Iverson, Kobe, Grant Hill, Lebron, Durant, Dwayne Wade and Carmelo Anthony are.
Most of these allstars that you mentioned were past their primes and won by being excellent role players.