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freedarko.blogspot.com - 1/10/2009

Bites Eat Everything

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The more I watch LeBron this season, the more perplexed I am by Kobe Bryant. Last month, I said that LeBron + Kobe = MJ, which of course assumes that Jordan is monolithic, or that the various phases of his career (worth talking about) don't in some ways embody opposites, or at least ...

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thepaintedarea.blogspot.com - 1/12/2009

LeBron: Better Than Bird?

— thepaintedarea.blogspot.com — What a great time to be an NBA fan, with so many future Hall of Famers active.... Among them, it is in my opinion most exhilarating to watch LeBron James, just turned 24, and Chris Paul, turns 24 in May, as young players who are already mounting a charge ... (more) LeBron: Better Than Bird?

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blacksportsonline.com - 1/11/2009

The "King" James Chronicles

— blacksportsonline.com — The King James Chronicles Story by Donnie Burton The lights dim as the fireworks and 20,562 crazy... fans shake, and rattle the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. When lights come back up the big three Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen along with defending World Champion Boston ... (more) The "King" James Chronicles

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blog.cleveland.com - 1/12/2009

Out and About

— blog.cleveland.com — Carolyn rounds up the links from around the blogosphere.... (more) Out and About

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Doing Lines: LeBron, Wade Keep Killin' It
FanHouse — ... the list. The game of the night in Cleveland lived up to the hype ... for one team. Boston watched LeBron James throw up one of the most complete games in recent regular season history: 38 points, seven rebounds, six assists, four steals and three blocks. Those usual weaknesses of LeBron, three-pointers and free throws? The Chosen One shot perfectly from the line (9-for-9) and above 40% (3-for-7) from deep. And all this came in a 15-point win over the champs. G.O.A.T. Dwyane Wade had a lesser opponent (the 8-29 Kings), but did some major ...

Ballin’: Wade Overshadowed By Continued Awesomeness of LeBron and Kobe
The Big Lead — ... As we seem destined for a Lakers v. Cavs NBA Finals, the recent play of LeBron and Kobe has Free Darko trying to define two seemingly undefinable seasons. ...

Jordan, Kobe, & LeBron
BallerBlogger.com — ... LeBron’s domination of the Celtics inspired Bethlehem Shoals at Free Darko to compare Kobe and LeBron in the light of Jordan’s basketball immortality: ...

Coast To Coast
WaitingForNextYear — ... standpoint, it’s all too brilliant, and so seamless you might not even notice what a radical notion it is. The key point here is valid in my mind. There’s much more joy in watching the unexpected that is LeBron James vs the scientific and rigid approach that is Kobe Bryant. Both are great players, but great players on very different axes. There’s no limit to the potential of LeBron James if he can prove that winning can exceed what most great players thought was a mere vacuum. [ Bites Eat Everything ] Did you notice Jawad Williams wasn’t on the Cavaliers’ bench? ...

A New Way to Lure LeBron to New York: Have D'Antoni Promise to Make Him a Point Guard
The Sporting Blog — ... Enter Mike D'Antoni. Previously, it's been said that LeBron likes D'Antoni because he likes to run. But the draw of playing for the new Knicks now needs to be less vague than that; this season, it's not like James needs any help getting out on the break or playing up-tempo. What if, though, D'Antoni made him a point guard? That's what some commenters on FreeDarko have suggested. They've even gone so far as to claim this would have to be "D'Antoni and Walsh's selling point." ...

While We’re Waiting…
WaitingForNextYear — ... I keep thinking of the autism scale, a metaphor that inevitably posits Tim Duncan. A performance like LeBron’s thrashing of the Celtics [that] night was, at both ends of the floor, consummate. You couldn’t hope for a better synthesis of form and function, style and substance, physical gifts and basketball acumen. It’s that stretching of possibility we’ve always marvelled at in LeBron, except this year, this night, he not only reached those limits—he kept on extending them.” [ Bethlehem Shoals/Free Darko ]“”When your bullpen is good, you know you can scratch and claw to get back ...

Kobe gets assist-happy, hounds Lebron, Hollinger heard crying from Australia
NBAMate — ... Of course I must be careful not to fall guilty to the same grand delusions drawn from one game as Hollinger himself. I’m not in any way suggesting that yesterday’s game proves Kobe is the better player. For the record, I don’t bother entering that argument, for several reasons, but perhaps the main one being there are two hundred million people having the same argument every day. Free Darko weighed in recently in his own inimitable style (you’ll need ten minutes to read it and three hours to read all the comments, many of which are well-informed) and ...