Yes, and Magic trying to kiss his ass. "I'd like to see LeBron get used to taking the shot in crunch time," Really?. from a guy who as a young player in the league played C over an injured Kareem and led the Lakers to a title over the Sixers?. Just lost a lot of respect for Magic, Bird would have called him a pussy and moved on.

Well, if we're talking about hype, Jeremy Lin isn't even second team all NBA. You know the media is jumping on the latest fad, and Lin was two straight weeks on the cover of SI. Was really hoping for the jinx to kick in on him injury wise, but once the Broncos start OTA's, we'll be back to 24 hours of Tebow and Elway.

Do you honestly think he's 2nd team all NBA? He's better than any combo of Williams, Paul, and Rose? If he played in Portland instead of NY you'd never have heard of him.

no one whose opinion is worth a damn thinks lin is 2nd team all-nba lol. the "lolz" was more for hoping he would get injured (wtf?) anyhow. i think we would have heard about him because he happens to be asian-american and played at harvard, combine that with helping revive a massively underachieving knicks team (or was it?) and the present state of sports media and this is what we have. he's not all-nba but this is tebow only from a media coverage perspective, whatever "underdog" story people apply to tebow actually kinda sorta rings true for lin. and he doesn't completely suck either. it doesn't matter cause a string of bad games and people will be ready to tee off on him (which actually happened like a week ago after the miami game)

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nothing like espn and new york to ruin a perfectly good sports story!

there are times i wonder which one does more in the minds of some posters here. funny too, since people never seem to have a problem when the same teams' shortcomings get magnified for the same reason!

Lebron basically had about as perfect of a game as humanly possible. He definitely should have taken the final shot, but he got Haslem a wide open look, he should have knocked it down. 16-24, 35 pts, 10 boards, 6 dimes, 3 blocks, 0 TOs.

there is nothing lebron can do to win in terms of public perception at this point, short of putting up nightly oscar robertson-esque lines and winning the next 5 titles (although that would be an issue since he said he would win 7!)

agreed and it cant be mentioned enough...its something that will be exposed much more in the playoffs where every possesion counts...your man can run by you five or six times in february against charlotte and its not a big deal....you can also turn the ball over seven or eight times in the cold months....but both of these things will not be ignored in the post season

Dude went absolutely cyborg in the fourth, and technically made the right basketball play at the end. I don't even know what to make of it anymore.

Edit: maybe no one else knows or cares now either. I'm a bit surprised there weren't 30 Kobe v LeBron posts on here.

I hate that it just opens the doors for idiots to complain about Lebron, but he really should have taken the shot there. He had a running start at Millsap with Howard behind him, there was no real double team that he hasn't beaten a million times before.

El Heat playing more like ElDeBarge so far. Is this for real or just Blake's ownership of Battier?