Comments on: Our NBA award votes

By: Max

Max — Fri, 18 May 2012 07:31:29 +0000

One more thing:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder
Read the list of symptoms and tell me that it doesn’t perfectly sound like LeBron.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:04:26 +0000

POST: And I wouldn’t have even started ranting against him if not for the Citizenship thing. That he should be named in such a way sounded like certain dictators winning Time’s Man of the Year or the Nobel Peace Prize to my ear. These kind of things happen but they always shock me. It’s actually funny, last year, LeBron wasn’t allowed to win MVP because of what he had done (and he has said so) but this year he wins MVP and maybe the Citizenship award. I thought he should have won MVP last year and this year but I would never have thought he’d get the kind of honors that are reserved for decency, How quickly people forget.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 17 May 2012 08:49:14 +0000

The Durant thing can be instructive here to hopefully just wrap it up. A big reason why I was flippant about your Durant example was that it was too limited and theoretical.   If you want to say Durant has displayed false humility, you should establish a list of significant events and statements to prove it when you act like I haven’t made any case against LeBron.
I don’t feel like I know Durant yet as well as I think I know LeBron.
Forget evil or anything silly.   I know LeBron is a magnificent, once in a lifetime, athlete who is also supremely intelligent and hard working in his craft.
What I think I know about Lebron is that he is overly self-promoting, somewhat given to delusions of grandeur and very out of touch with how he thinks people will react to his actions and statements. I also think these points against him are obvious. Taken together, and it is usually present in the little things when he speaks, he seems to be to be a classical narcissist. And I don’t think any of these things because of any individual things he has done but because of a consistent pattern.
If you consume basketball literature as I do, the behind the scene reports all confirm all of this consistently. Look up the stuff on how he acted during the Redeem Team. I love basketball and it’s silly but he embarrasses me.   Everyone who knows me says of me that I love everyone.   For some reason I hate LeBron. I find him to be profoundly unlovable and because I actually love the NBA and like to pretend that it is a special entity on this Earth, it is repugnant to me that he has done all of the things he has done while being the league’s best player by far.
This debate has gone a little too far at this point. It’s like we could just debate it endlessly but I don’t feel like you’re going to accept anything I say about it and we might just be looking at it very differently. I thought LeBron was the best from the very beginning but he has just done so many things to disappoint me and I come to basketball with my own passionate perspective.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:56:32 +0000

I thought it was a very bad case for saying Durant displays false humility and treated the point sarcastically. I meant no offense but was just trying to deal with the issue rather quickly and flippantly by saying you were looking at the issue of humility in too limited of a context. Humility is a state of mind and the greatest of the greatest can exhibit it if they are down to earth and have a proper sense of reality. Even if Durant thinks he’s the greatest basketball player, my guess is that he is not the kind of person who thinks that makes him better than anyone else as a person—-which brings me to one of things I hate most that LeBum did and I haven’t brought it up yet.
After the Heat lost year, LeBum said that the NBA fans who disliked him all had to go back to their lives now. I find his comment despicable but think it reveals his true character well. It is also, once again, the very opposite of good stewardship and was a case of him attacking and alienating the NBAs fans. Durant was raised better than for such a comment to even occur to his mind.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:48:22 +0000

It couldn’t be beyond debate. There is no magical formula or otherwise for judging basketball players and looking at their stats doesn’t help in an absolute sense since there is no non-arbitrary way to assign proportionate values to the various stats. Scottie Pippen has been known to contend that he was a better player than Jordan. You and I can only think he is wrong and Pippen knows a lot more about basketball than either one of us.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:45:24 +0000

Tampering.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:29:32 +0000

I already hedge on the injury issue and that is the only reason the Pacers have any chance.
The Bucks have had one team in their entire history that had any right to even compete with a healthy Heat squad and that was in the early 70s with Kareem and Oscar.
If local markets are apathetic because they don’t think they have any chance and ticket sales in general go down—the TV ratings of the Heat won’t make up for it.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:26:42 +0000

Rationalize means to justify something by logical or plausible means even if it’s not true.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:22:54 +0000

It’s not simply true or untrue but true or untrue on a case by case basis regarding each company and each of its employees. I can work anywhere and bring the attitude with me that I treat my company as a family and care about its health in all of its aspects including the workers. If the company doesn’t match my philosophy and passion, I may ultimately be very disappointed but at least I can know that I acted consistently with my own values.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:19:18 +0000

I think it shows a basic lack of care for the NBA and all of the players, coaches and people that have made the league what it was. Risking the NBAs demise is reckless and nearly criminal in my view.