I love the fact that Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks get the last laugh. I love the fact that LeBron James and company are eating crow for a post game dinner. I love the fact that when LeBron vowed to take his talents to South Beach it wasn’t enough. I love the fact that every jilted Cleveland Cavaliers fan is reveling in the moment. I love the fact that the scoreboard read: Mavericks 105, Egomaniacal Spoiled Brats 95. I love everything about this. Because maybe someone will learn that just putting together the best guys on paper , can’t beat a team that plays unselfishly  and with heart. THIS is why I love sports. Your turn. Tell me what you think!

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This cartoon that I drew for the Chicago Tribune last year is pretty appropriate about now. Except it appears as if Dallas might just be able to pull off the Monster Mash. LeBron really has gone from playing like this:

To playing much more like this:

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This weekends cartoon from the Chicago Tribune. The Bulls are taking on the Heat in the NBA playoffs.

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There’s no crying in Baseball. Basketball, apparently, is a whole different matter. Members of the Miami Heat actually teared up in their post-game press conferences Sunday night after dropping their 4th game in a row. The Avs have lost 15 of their last 16 and I don’t see any Hockey players crying in their beer. Course maybe that’s whats wrong with the Avalanche. They seem like they have stopped caring.

When LeBron “took his talents to South Beach” I’m sure this isn’t exactly what he and his teammates had in mind. It reminds me a bit of a pickup basketball game we played in one morning before school.
We had a bunch of guys in our neighborhood who were not bad (OK, I WAS really bad) but certainly not to the level of the starting 5 from our 8th grade team that we played that morning. We beat them. A bunch of Sandlot kids beat the starting 5 for the Morehead Red Raiders. Why? Because our guys played together as a team while the real “team” played selfishly, and with arrogance. Sure it wasn’t an official “game”. But it was a lesson. A lesson in teamwork. Which is what 99% of the players in the NBA could stand to learn. Especially the Miami Heat.

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I remember collecting cards as a kid. Mostly ABA and NFL players as I recall. Not much into the baseball thing growing up in West Texas. But still some things should just be sacred. So I’m a bit saddened by the whole Race Card that’s been pulled out in the LeBron taking his talents to South Beach aftermath. I don’t remember Shaq or Kareem Jabbar having issues as they moved on to other things.

It’s not that LeBron left Cleveland, but the WAY he left Cleveland. The hour long special. the dragging it out all summer to make it a soap opera. The whole “Win LeBron Sweepstakes”. It smacks of self importance, which is what I think most people are bothered by. But a Racial issue? I don’t see it that way. I think it’s more about the majority of Americans struggling to get by on the little they make, or in many cases, don’t make, seeing some guy make a big spectacle out of getting more money and, in this instance, building a team with his friends, like we did in grade school.

It’s bad for the NBA. It’s bad for basketball. And it’s bad for kids who just want to collect their favorite players bubble gum card (sans the bubble gum) so that years from now they can remember over beers after work that their Mom threw them all away.

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