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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Imagine if you will, John Elway leaving the Broncos to play for the Raiders in 1995. Imagine what that would have felt like as a Broncos fan and you can get a sense of what it’s like in Cleveland today after losing LeBron James to the Heat. Here’s my cartoon about it all over on ESPN.com. I feel for the folks in Cleveland. Yeah, even the Browns fans.

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