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burninmylight on 11 July 2014
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VanceIX said:
burninmylight said:
VanceIX said:
kirby007 said:
As a total noob on basketball, isn't this saying he thinks his team of the last 4 years isnt good enough?

sounds like someone wants to be carried

Yes. He's talking about how he wants to put his city over basketball, but there's absolutely no way he would have gone to Cleveland if they didn't have Kyrie Irving and on the verge of getting Kevin Love. He's just switching to whichever team will get him a championship, instead of staying put and building his own legacy. 

This just in: good basketball players want to play with other good basketball players to give them the best chance to win. By the way, if he signs for max money, they wouldn't be able to sign Kevin Love, who will no doubt want to get paid as well. The Cavs just signed Irving to a 90$ million contract.

MJ and Kobe, along with Magic Johnson, Kareem, etc. all played for pretty much one team their entire careers, and when they did leave it wasn't because they saw greener pastures. Kareem was traded, Magic got AIDS, Kobe is still with the Lakers even though they suck, and Michael Jordan left to play baseball. They built their own legacies through persistence, not insta-championships. Lebron is the definition of a mercenary, while the other people who have gone down as the greatest were very loyal and stayed many, many years with their teams.

Kobe demanded the Lakers trade him at one point, and was almost a Bull. MJ was a Wizard for two years. But you can excuse those.

Kareem started his first few years in Milwaukee, and even won a championship there. He demanded the Bucks trade him to LA (greener pastures?), even though they were one of the greatest teams of the era. LeBron has never demanded a trade and has only left a team as an unrestricted free agent. So by your logic, Kareem should be remembered less fondly than LeBron, and Kobe was almost a quitter. I'd like to see your excuse on that one.

Oh, I almost forgot! Kobe refused to work out for a bunch of teams as a draft prospect. Him and his agent purposefully tried to move him away from certain teams, even if it meant moving down further in the draft. When he was selected by Charlotte, he asked to be traded, so Charlotte worked out the deal to get him in LA. What about that?