I buy all of LBJ's shoes when they come out... it's a hobby I guess. But they are not really "wearable" outside of the gym. Not like Jordan's (some of them). They are cool looking, but not out on the street. But these look very different. Can totally see lots of people sportin' 'em in jeans.
Every where I click, listen or read pundits are lining up to opine about Lebron going to New York or Brooklyn or New Jersey or anywhere but Cleveland. Granted, LeBron is fueling the fire by waxing so eloquently about those destinations, but to read into everything the man says is pointless. We're two years away from any decision and the Cavs management is definitely on the clock, but so many things can change while NY waits for him to save their basketball lives.
Kelly Dwyer blogged precisely about this yesterday over at the BDL. He acknowledged LeBron's and the Cavs situation and asked his fellow writers to place a moratorium on writing about LeBrons not so impending free agency.
Well fodder is fodder and so many can't help themselves. We Cavs fans need to develop a tougher skin and bring facts to the arguement, not just emotion and fervor.
Some facts: -Cleveland can offer more money and years to LeBron in terms of contract. -Since the CBA was created, no player offered a max contract has left his orginal team to take less money. Not even Shaq, despite what Terry Pluto has writen and said. This is just not how the NBA works. A player either forces his way out by demanding a sign and trade or gets his money and dogs it until he's traded. -Over YaySports The Cavalier has some much more entertaining thoughts to combat the naysayers.
Take a deep breath and don't let the pundits or internet trolls get you worked up, we'll get through this and then we can wait for it all to start again in 2016.
I finally got to updating the stats for the year. Pretty eventful year it was, too. LeBron became all-time leading scorer and only 2nd behind Price for assists. Big Z became all-time leader in personal fouls as well.
Playoff stats will be updated after each round. Hopefully, that's a lot.
LeBron James is the Cleveland Cavaliers' All-Time Leading Scorer
On March 21st, 2008, at 23 years old, LeBron James passed Brad Daugherty to be the Cleveland Cavaliers' All-Time Leading Scorer.
Brad had a great career, but due to severe back issues he was forced to end his career at only 28.
So, cheer for LeBron. He is now officially the face of the franchise (probably forever). But also have a toast to Brad Daugherty, a classy player and person who was part of one of the best eras ever in Cavs History.
LeBron is now gracing three major magazine covers at once.
ESPN the Magazine chose LeBron as the cover manfor their 10th anniversary issue to represent the Next 10 years.
SLAM Magazine has him on the cover for an article about three aspects of his life: Personal, Basketball and Business.
Probably coolest of all, LBJ is on the cover of Vogue... with Giselle. He is only the third man to be on the cover of the magazine in its 116 year history.
At just 23 years old, LeBron James has past the legendary Austin Carr on the Cleveland Cavaliers All-Time Scoring List. As of last night, LeBron has 10,267 career points. Austin has 10,265.
Congrats to LeBron. He needs 122 more points to pass Brad Daugherty to become the All-Time Leading Scorer in Cavaliers History.
LeBron Drops 50 on Knicks, Almost Gets Accosted by Fan
LeBron went off in the second half of the Kicks game and ended up with 50p 8r 10a 4s. That's a good night.
But, what made this blog worthy is some dude tried to "get him" in the fourth quarter at MSG LBJ actually gave the dude some respect before security "escorted" him out.
(UPDATE: So according to reports, the kid who ran across the court and got to LeBron should LeBron's hand and said he was a big fan. LeBron didn't even flinch. He just said: "Thanks, What's up?"
Here's my thing, if a dude sprinted towards me, and I'm on the court, and I'm in NYC AND I'm a celeb like LBJ. I wouldn't be saying "what's up?" Guess he's cool like that.)
LBJ was voted to start in the All-Star game in the Big Easy. He got the 2nd most votes in the league with 2,108,831 (because the chowda-heads took care of their own giving Garnett 2,399,148). If you're counting, that is four starts in a row.
The dudes over at NikeLeBron.net have come correct again with the latest on LeBron's shoe line (honestly, its the only "shoe-centric" blog I subscribe to. Its easily the best LBJ Shoe site out there, hands down). After some sketchy first reviews of the V, this colorway should quiet some people down. The V's look great.
I know I'm too old and out of it to say it, but I'll "cop" these first day.
LeBron and Jimmey Kimmel on the Cover of ESPN the Magazine
Promoting LBJ hosting the ESPYS with Kimmel, the duo were featured on the cover of the magazine for June 16, 2007 Check it out here (click for hi-res) with all the other Cavs Magazine covers.
LeBron's girlfriend gives birth to son Associated Press
CLEVELAND - LeBron James' girlfriend, Savannah Brinson, gave birth early Thursday to the couple's second son, Bryce Maximus James.
Keith Estabrook, a spokesman for the Cleveland Cavaliers star and his family, said Bryce weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces and was 21 inches long. He was born at 12:51 a.m. at Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital, near his father's hometown of Akron.
"Savannah and the baby are healthy and doing well," Estabrook said.
The boy was born as the Cavaliers prepared to host the San Antonio Spurs in Game 4 of the NBA finals Thursday night. The Spurs are one win from a four-game sweep.
The 22-year-old James and his girlfriend had their first child, LeBron James Jr., in October 2004.
I very rarely have an opinion on this site (that is Crunch's department). I view this site as a historical repository of Cavs stuff. There are lots of Cavs sites (blogs, forums, etc...) where people let off steam and state their theories about Cavaliers junk in general. So, I try and keep out of it. 1. because my command of the written word is bad 2. because... who cares what I think?
But, for the first time, I'm going to comment.
LeBron not being on the All-NBA 1st team is bullsh*t (sorry kids).
First off, he has the same amount of total votes as Amare (who isn't a center) at 494. BUT, he has almost DOUBLE the amount of first team votes (64 to 36) of Amare (who, again, is NOT a center).
Basketball is not Baseball. Its not like position players make a whole hell of a difference. i.e. it wouldn't make sense to vote a pitcher into a catchers position. But having designated positions based on your listed position from the previous year (yes, that's how they do it) to be elligible for a slot is just stupid. So, with that in mind... shoehorning Amare (THE FORWARD) in at center is stupid, too. Hell, Duncan is a center. The only one that won't admit it is the position listing.
LeBron again put up numbers that only Oscar could muster. His team hit 50 wins for the second straight year. Second best record in the East, on and on.
Flat out, he has different standards imposed on him than other players do (Like Jordan for example. Remember when he was dominant EVERY year but they gave the MVP to the Mailman twice seemingly just to break up the monotony? That was bull, too). LBJ puts up 27-7-6 AGAIN, but because before the season everyone EXPECTED 30-8-8 he "fell short". Well he didn't. He was the man when it counted. But, once again, the hype and the hate hurt him.
I know James mailed it in during some games in the middle of the season. Everyone admits that. But he never got the chance to catch eight 'oops a game from Nash either. Dragging a team through the defence intensive east for 80 games AND scoring and passing against triple teams every night can wear a dude out. So "dogging it" he has the best statistical season in the NBA... again. Where's the props votes? Oh... that's right. They are out West.
I get so uptight about this because it hits me where it hurts... STATS. That's what this site is about. Making stats (points, rebounds, VOTES!) available to the common Cavs fan. And by slighting him of his earned historical significance of being a life 1st teamer is crap.
Regardless, its in the books and its part of CavsHistory now. I'll update the site in a day or two when I get the formatting right.
LBJ was named Eastern Conference Player of the Month for March 2007. He posted stats of 30.3 ppg on .484 shooting, 6.7 rebounds and 7.0 assists per game in 15 games (Cavs went 11-4 in these games).
This is LeBron's 5th PotM award and he is still the only Cav to have ever won the honor. Its all on the Awards Page.
All things considered, LBJ finished the season strong. He will most likely (in my estimation) finish 4th in MVP voting (Dirk, Nash, Kobe). Remember he finished 8th his first year, 6th his second year and 2nd his third. Also, looks like he has first team All-NBA locked up again as well (he was 2nd team his 2nd year and 1st team last season). I keep track of that kind of crap on his NBA Page
Kindof a cool story I think. The Buckeyes are going to be a "LeBron" team. This means the jerseys will no longer sport the Nike logo. Now they will sport the LBJ 23 logo. Also, they'll be a new style of "form fitting" jersey for a tailored look (check out USA Today's coverage.)
This is pretty neat. I remember when a bunch of teams (Cinci most notably) became Air Jordan teams and started wearing the Jumpman logo and how cool I thought that was.
Hard to believe but an Ohioan, playing in Cleveland has set the record for most votes ever for the NBA All-Star Game. James received a ridiculous 2,558,278 votes.
All this after all we hear is "he's gotta go to LA or Chicago or NY to be popular. Seems like he's doing just fine to me.
(UPDATE: I have updated this post because, James' total is actually second all time to Yao's total from last year)
Happy November 16th. Its LeBron shoe day and i went out and bought em. Crunch suggested that I write something up, so here I go.
So, I live in LA... 2,500 miles from Cleveland. Wonder how popular LBJ is out here? I went to Footlocker in Santa Monica at 10:30am... AND THEY WERE SOLD OUT ALREADY! OK, they only open up at 10am, so we know that either there are some people more into LBJ than me or shoe "copping" is more popular out on the west coast.
Anyways, $150 bucks later, I had my Zoom LBJ IV's. (check them all out on my table)
Since I have all his kicks, I thought I'd review 'em all briefly. Air Zoom LeBron IV Heavy, not very detailed but feel great on the foot. I should explain what I mean by "not very detailed". The reason that LeBron's shoes are so cool is because they have lots of little cool details on them. They aren't just a shoe with his name on them. 3rd best overall
Air Zoom LeBron III Almost perfect. Tons more detail than the the other three. Even his name on the agletts (the tips of the laces). They are ulra cool looking and feel great to wear. But... 2nd best overall
Air Zoom LeBron II Cool freaking shoe. Looks like a bullet-proof vest. Nice velcro strap to tighten around your ankle. Not too heavy either. They are simpler than the AZLIII, but still have some cool nooks and crannies. #1 LeBron shoe so far! They are, by FAR, the most comfortable and freakin' great to play in.
Air Zoom Generation LAME name (how can they not name them "THE LEBRON" or something?). Too thin. Not good to wear or play in. But nostagia goes a long way. These are the shoes he wore in Game #1 and the ones he's wearing in his first "Tomahawk Dunk". The photo of that dunk has become THE iconic image of his career (see below).
Other Info. None of these are his best feeling shoe. The LBJ 20-5-5 shoe (below), is the best feeling shoe I've ever played in. But, since its not an "official" numbered seasonal shoe, I'm not counting it.
Thought the topic was interesting: "Is LeBron MEAN enough to get a championship" but the article was fluff basically. Check out the cover here on the magazine covers' page.
In the current issue of SLAM Magazine (the one with either Amare or Big Ben on the Cover)
There is a free LeBron DVD included with lots of cool stuff. So i added the vids from it to the Nike Year Four page of The LeBron Phenomenon section. Or, just check em here:
Friday, August 22, 2008
