<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Hachi Bah @ Jul 12 2006, 06:51 PM) [snapback]5557[/snapback]</div>
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David Stern is a genius. Without him the NBA would be struggling like the NHL. He saw the potential in marketing his business around the best players and it was clearly a resounding success.
As far as Lebron, STOP HATING.
The media isn?t hyping Lebron because they drew his name out of a hat and decided they would pimp Bron to the sheeple. None of those other cats mentioned in this thread were doing the things that Lebron is doing in their 3rd year in the league.
He?s an amazing talent and apparnelty has all the intangibles that make great athletes mega superstars.
And who has to listen to the media to learn how good Lebron is? Honestly when you watch him play, you don?t sit mouth agape amazed at the things he does as such a young player? The people who keep chirping about Lebron being ?overrated? or ?hype? are either:
A. Haters
B. Blind
C. Don?t know what they are talking about.
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Actually, you obvisouly don't know what you are talking about. How is david stern soooooo great?!?! All he does is do whatever sells, and that's not right. This league isn't even about playing basketball!! The entire playoffs you can't watch a game without seeing a lebron commercial. The nba is not basketball it's marketing. David stern figures well I can't sell shoes and tickets to the white community if I have these players acting like "thugs'. I mean the dress code was enough to see what david stern is all about. Come on who says no wearing gold medallions!!! Then lebron was stuck with a gold spoon is his mouth as soon as he got to the nba. Half of the world have never even seen him play before but david stern just made sure he sold tickets. And I guess it coincidence that cleveland got the #1 pick. They didn't even have the worse record that year. Just for some reason david stern decided not to show the lottery ball anymore!!! Why? Because he decides which player will sell more tickets for which team. Don't get me wrong lebron is talented. But don't boast and brag on a player that hasn't won ANYTHING. Let alone he gets every call.
If you say lebron isn't hyped then you don't know basketball and you need to stop listening to everyone else. (david stern)
AND PPL HAVE THE NERVES TO COMPARE ANYBODY!!! TO JORDAN.
THE NBA IS A BUSINESS!!! NUTHIN OR NO ONE COULD CHANGE MY MIND!!!!
If you can't see this you don't know TRUE basketball.
Jordan even says it in the 100th edition of SLAM magazine.
He says, "When we played, they didn't have to market us as much as our game marketed ourselves. Today, it's a little different. You market the players before their games evolved."
It's the same case for lebron, but the sad part is it isn't lebron's fault. It's just that times have changed now. As soon as you graduate from college people are trying to get you to sign a shoe deal before the season has even started. Back then, only a handful of guys had shoes. Now since so many have different shoes people have to worry about selling, and that's the case with the nba today.
Jordan even says it in the 100th edition of SLAM magazine.
He says, "When we played, they didn't have to market us as much as our game marketed ourselves. Today, it's a little different. You market the players before their games evolved."
It's the same case for lebron, but the sad part is it isn't lebron's fault. It's just that times have changed now. As soon as you graduate from college people are trying to get you to sign a shoe deal before the season has even started. Back then, only a handful of guys had shoes. Now since so many have different shoes people have to worry about selling, and that's the case with the nba today.