even MJ is against lebrons decision .
so, you kind of wonder, does lebron, who oft reminded us of his adoration towards Jordan, does feel a slight pinch?

zyth, good point. to obviously lebron has enough love for himself, to make up for any insecurities.

and yeah...the d.wade "misquote" was stupid to begin with.

but again: reporters keep asking every player they can about this, so they can change it up and turn it in to a hate story concerning the miami heat. that's probably why they (SLAM) asked ray allen (one of the most professional guys around) about it, and turned it into ray allen sounding like he doesn't give a shit that two of the leagues best 3 players are on the same team.

if lebron signed for another couple of years with someone else or cleveland, he risked the chance at failure again and eventually people would write him off as a disspointment. this way, he probably figured that the lebron fans will always defend him saying he probably "could've" won even without wade. but in his eyes, wade and bosh is a guaranteed ring.

"winning games is gonna be easy now." - lebron.

lazy much?

DWhistle invoking the WTC was stupid, but the overall point is correct: there will be times when they lose a few games in a row, and pundits will act like it's an unforseen catastrophe, but really it's just a couple of basketball games. They're going to lose a few this year, perhaps even *gasp* in a row, so let's not act like it's some huge tragedy when it happens.

9/11 is kinda weak, Wade. It'll be like the Permian extinction all over again!

OK, maybe my Israeli psyche is a little too jaded when it comes to Terrorism, but I see not a single thing wrong with the amended quote.

the misquote was that wade was supposedly saying that it WAS going to be like the trade centers falling, where he actually was saying the MEDIA was going to portray it that way.

it's a big difference; wade was saying that whatever happens with his team WON'T be anything like 9/11, but that the media is likely to hugely overreact. he wasn't saying that it actually was going to be that big of a deal, as he was quoted as saying.

come on, read it man, the retraction had nothing to do with adding "center" in parentheses.

Ignarus -- Sorry, I guess I didn't make that particular joke obvious enough. I thought it was funny that they would change that parenthetical part of the quote as well when editing it, when removing the parenthetical actually just made it ever so slightly more difficult to understand.