Contraction is Good?

Ok, so everyone who knows me knows how personal I took LeBron's 'Decision' this summer.  It has nothing to do with him leaving Cleveland, he's two years older than me and I'm putting all my effort into moving out of Ohio, it is about having some CLASS.  And right now this, I'm sorry I try not to cuss, arrogant asshole says contraction would be good for the league because there is not enough talent to go around.  Seriously?

The NBA's CBA is looming over the current season, which has had the most hype before a season since Jordan announced he would play with the Wizards.  With the league claiming record losses for individual teams their goal is to create a hard salary cap (not allowing teams to go over and pay tax, like the current system) which would in turn lower max contracts by roughly 33 percent.  Of course talking about a pay cut for a guy like LeBron is not going to fly with him, we all remember that NBA players make so little that Latrell Spreewell couldn't feed his family.

Asked by reporters about the issue before the Heat's game against the Suns last night, LeBron said "Hopefully the league can figure out one way where it can go back to the '80s where you had three or four All-Stars, three or four superstars, three or four Hall of Famers on the same team," James said. "The league was great. It wasn't as watered down as it is [now]." 

So I guess this also explains some of his reasoning for going to Miami, he wants the league to be smaller with stacked teams.  I tend to feel that there has been a major boost in talent in the last seven years and that league is headed to unprecedented levels.  Some teams are bad because their owner is cheap (I'm looking at your Sarver, you OWE Steve Nash) and others because their management ran them into the ground (How do you like coaching college basketball Isiah?) I mean if you have two top 10 picks in the same year and your draft two point guards and leave the best point still on the board both times then you don't deserve to win, imagine David Kahn if you had Steph Curry instead of Johnny Flynn and the rights to Rubio.

James talked about imagining Kevin Love on a good team, you don't have to imagine, that is what free agency if for, but unlike LeBron I don't think Love is ever to going to try and take the easy way out.  Love strikes me as the kind of guy who mans up and takes his team to the next level.  Great players make everyone around them better.  Garnett dragged mediocre Timberwolves teams to playoffs because he was an animal in practice and made guys like Anthony Peeler and Troy Hudson better players.  Jordan brought out the best in everyone because he made guys play to their potential. 

James has always been content to blame other guys, let his teammates take the fall and never owned up for his actions.  He had the nerve to say he spoiled Cleveland fans after he had the worst playoff performance by a superstar I have ever WITNESSED and that he rarely has a bad game.  LeBron quit in game 5 and since that day I have never looked at him the same.  For a man who says basketball means everything to him, he wants to be the best ever, he's a competitor, a warrior, a king, all this bullshit he fed us he just left on the court that game.  Then he had the gaul to hold a show about where he was going to go to in free agency and we all tuned in like suckers, thinking no he wouldn't do Cleveland like this, not on national television.  BOOM.  Headshot.  Just like that he spit in our faces, then he came to Cleveland with the Heat and spit in his former teammates faces and now he is spitting in every player in the league's face and to everyone who works for the NBA.

Let's just apply this to real life, imagine that wherever you work the guy or girl that just won employee of the month walks in and says, "none of you do your job well enough, I have to carry everyone, we need to fire some people and keep only our best employees."  Would you want to hit that person?  Unfortunately no one in the league will likely do something about this, but if I'm Derek Fisher I'm sending a message on Christmas to LeBron.  Shut up and just play.