The Miami Heat should not win.
They cannot win.
This should not happen.
The Miami Heat winning is bad for basketball, bad for the
NBA, and will continue the downward spiral that has been plaguing the smaller
markets for years in the league. If the Heat win, then coaches lose, smaller
cities lose, and pretty much will result in the continuation of the power
players have over everyone else in the league. If the Heat win, then amazing
coaches like D’Antoni, Sloan, Woodson, and Van Gundy will lose even more
leverage in the NBA—creating more incidents like what Dwight Howard did to
O-Town. Can you Heat fans even name your coach without looking him up? If the Heat win, then good freakin' luck keeping your star rookies and sophomores on your wimpy team that the NBA barely recognizes.
Expect Dwight Howard to move. Expect Westbrook to move. Expect Jennings to move. Expect Unibrow to leave New Orleans the second he has the opportunity. Expect Kevin Love to move. Expect Rubio to move. And like hell, expect Roy Hibbert to move, Jose Calderon to move, Danny Granger to leave, and poor Cleveland gets to worry about Kyrie Irving smacking his lips as his contract will eventually let up. Just witness all your favorite players cramp their way into the East Coast or the West Coast once the Heat win.
Team building be damned, slow and steady development be damned, finding the right coach be damned, this league is already flipping. If the NBA of the 90s had the patience of the NBA of today---Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, John Stockton would have bolted the teams that would eventually transform them into local legends.
Is all this premature panicking? Oh yes, most likely, but the fact remains that these players (LeBron, Bosh) took the easy way out----they merged forces in secret while playing for OTHER TEAMS (No better evidence then The Debacle), signed with a franchise that could spend the money, and together found a coach they knew they could manipulate and push around without issue.
For the sake of the NBA, don't let this be their year. The Oklahoma City Thunder spent years building this team and went through a plethora of challenges leading up to this NBA Finals. The Heat will have their shot down the road in the weakling Eastern Conference. But the Thunder? With the rising Clippers, Grizzlies, Nuggets, and Jazz emerging---one cant really expect a return appearance so suddenly.
This could be the Anti-LeBron in me. This could be the Anti-Heat screaming right now. But the fact remains is that if the Heat go on and win this thing with minimal bench, a terrible coach, and after having problems with the Pacers and the Boston Celtics (the Celtics?????!?), then the floodgates are going to open and The Decision will have sequels.
Don't. Let. Them. Win.
Expect Dwight Howard to move. Expect Westbrook to move. Expect Jennings to move. Expect Unibrow to leave New Orleans the second he has the opportunity. Expect Kevin Love to move. Expect Rubio to move. And like hell, expect Roy Hibbert to move, Jose Calderon to move, Danny Granger to leave, and poor Cleveland gets to worry about Kyrie Irving smacking his lips as his contract will eventually let up. Just witness all your favorite players cramp their way into the East Coast or the West Coast once the Heat win.
Team building be damned, slow and steady development be damned, finding the right coach be damned, this league is already flipping. If the NBA of the 90s had the patience of the NBA of today---Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, John Stockton would have bolted the teams that would eventually transform them into local legends.
Is all this premature panicking? Oh yes, most likely, but the fact remains that these players (LeBron, Bosh) took the easy way out----they merged forces in secret while playing for OTHER TEAMS (No better evidence then The Debacle), signed with a franchise that could spend the money, and together found a coach they knew they could manipulate and push around without issue.
For the sake of the NBA, don't let this be their year. The Oklahoma City Thunder spent years building this team and went through a plethora of challenges leading up to this NBA Finals. The Heat will have their shot down the road in the weakling Eastern Conference. But the Thunder? With the rising Clippers, Grizzlies, Nuggets, and Jazz emerging---one cant really expect a return appearance so suddenly.
This could be the Anti-LeBron in me. This could be the Anti-Heat screaming right now. But the fact remains is that if the Heat go on and win this thing with minimal bench, a terrible coach, and after having problems with the Pacers and the Boston Celtics (the Celtics?????!?), then the floodgates are going to open and The Decision will have sequels.
Don't. Let. Them. Win.
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