“I’m sorry. This is not NBA basketball.” [Bob Finnan]
“All of the anguish from last summer, all of the losses from this season, all of the frustration from two prolonged losing streaks and all the aggravation from a roster ravaged by injuries cumulated into a crashing, reprehensible, resounding thud Tuesday night at Staples Center.” [Jason Lloyd]
“[Last] night was an absolute disaster for Cleveland sports. With the 112-57 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers (the NBA’s worst in 13 years and third largest margin of victory in LA’s storied history), the Cavaliers fell flat on the faces yet again.” [Jacob Rosen]
LeBron’s “Karma”-gate
“An expert now in Eastern religions, LeBron James, who can do anything (just ask his entourage), chided Cleveland fans for being unkind to him Tuesday night. He said they had bad karma because of it.” [Bill Livingston]
“James had to be laughing as he tweeted his comment, knowing that just last season when he was a member of the Cavaliers, they went into the Staples Center on Christmas and beat the Lakers 102-87.” [Ryan Isley]
“About a hundred different thoughts went through my mind when I first heard [Bron's tweet]. The biggest thought, though, is ‘why is karma on LeBron’s side’? After all, Dan Gilbert never said anything negative about LeBron while he was a player in Cleveland, and if we’re being honest, there were some opportunities for Gilbert to deliver some harsh words at times for LeBron’s actions and performances.” [Andrew of WFNY]
And to round things out, a WFNY mailbag, where Scott Sargent fields questions about possible trades, draft prospects, and the possible lowering of ticket prices next year.
On The Twitters
“The ankle is getting Better! Another great day of rehab.. Almost back!” [Boobie Gibson]
“Cavaliers play the Nets on the 24th of this month… That’s like the Washington Generals playing the Washington Generals.” [realcavsfans]
“My ankle is ok” [Christian Eyenga]
Hollinger’s PER Diem does not paint a pretty picture. Some parts:
-With an average scoring margin of minus-10.2, the Cavs have fared even worse than last season’s two doormats, 12-win New Jersey and 15-win Minnesota. The Playoff Odds project them to finish with only 17 wins, and they’re the only team assigned no chance whatsoever of making the playoffs.
-But they’ve lost 21 of their past 22, and most haven’t been close — 13 were double-digit defeats, including Tuesday night’s 112-57 embarrassment in L.A. As of this writing, the Cavs are threatening to have both the league’s worst offense and the league’s worst defense — Tuesday’s shameful showing dropped them to 30th in offensive efficiency, and they’ve plummeted to 28th on the defensive end.
I’ve been fine with spectacular losing all along, because the only way this team is going anywhere is a complete overhaul and rebuild, so I suppose that’s the only way those bullets are good news.
What a ridiculous sentiment that Dan Gilbert hasn’t taken shots at LeBron- first with the Comic Sans-gate letter and then he called him an asshole on twitter
@Reggin Willie
Reading comprehension fail. The article says Gilbert “never said anything negative about Lebron WHILE he was a player in Cleveland.”
Why hasn’t LeBron been fined up the wazoo for his twitter comments? He should also have drawn a severe fine for Contractiongate.
Part of me wants to see the Cavs at least win enough games to beat a franchise-worst 15-67 (incidentally, since I also want to see them get whatever few wins they can get against the Heat, here’s another thing to bite on: this was also the record of the ’07-’08 Heat, which still had Wade, and had either Shaq or, after he was traded, Shawn Marion on the team–of course, they were otherwise trying to unload and tank on purpose in order to clear the way three years down the road *cough*collusion*cough*) Failing that, they at least need to beat the 9-73 record, which I think is nearly 100% certain.
I think they can get 16 or 17 wins without Sacramento passing them on ping-pong balls.
Can’t say I’m upset about last nights Heat game lol….
http://fanaticvice.com/clippers-knock-off-heat-karma-knocks-out-lebron/
Now Lebum is saying he didn’t “tweet” that. The only thing worse than the tweet is not owning up to it. Just another PR misstep for the “King.”
Why wasn’t LeBron fined for contraction-gate, why wasn’t Amare fined for Mello-Gate?
LeBron should really just shut the hell up. He’s really an idiot — no joke.
Players have the ‘right’ to talk to other players and state their opinions about almost anything except how the Refs call a game. It’s coaches, management and ownership who have a ton of rules about talking to/about other players and teams.
So, there is no reason to fine LeBron in any way shape or form about his apparent contraction statement or his tweet about karma. Just like if how D-Wade was trying to persuade Bron/Bosh to come to Miami, there is nothing against the rules about Amare talking to Mello about coming to NY.
What bothers me most about LeBrons statements is that he doesn’t think about what he is saying and seems to consistantly put himself in position of backing off of statements. He did this with the ‘race was a part of the negative recation to the decison’ comment, his ‘contraction’ comment and now his ‘karma’ comment. I can give him a pass on the first one because I really do think he just responded to a question and then the media made it bigger, I understand him taking back his contraction comment because he realized he needs to take view that are supported by the players association and not play into the hands of owners, but this tweet was really just stupid. He put himself in this position without any reason for it. IF I gave him the benifit of the doubt and he really didn’t mean it towards the Cavs in any way, then… well wait, I don’t give him that benift – he’s just an ass.