Ass. Hole.
According to Michael Lee, James just misses the Wizards:
Seriously? His team is practically walking the red carpet to the Eastern Conference Championships will the 19-win Wizards just got a new head coach and a talking draft. The two teams are in completely different worlds right now but James can't help but make some snide remark. As Lee points out, neither Detroit nor Atlanta have really touched him in their match ups, but when Washington did get physical in last year's playoffs James had fits.
And his "they tried to be physical and they lost" comment is a little misleading. The big mistake was then-coach Eddie Jordan going on TV midway in the series and all but guaranteeing that James was going to get knocked on his ass on every possession (something Cavs coach Mike Brown took full advantage of). There's the fact that ex-Wizard Larry Hughes was telling his new Cav teammates what plays Washington was running. There's the story of Arenas being around for only one-out-of-three of the match ups. This isn't like those Lakers-Kings match ups of the 2000-2003 Era where both squads were relatively healthy and the superior team (Lakers) still won. Yet James obviously wants people to see it that way (whether he's the Kobe or Shaq in this analogy is unknown).
You'd think that the Wizards would be long forgotten, with Washington finishing with the worst record in the Eastern Conference and hoping for some lottery luck and the Cavaliers a championship-caliber team staring down an unimpeded path to the NBA Finals. But before the Cavaliers smashed the Atlanta Hawks 105-85 -- Cleveland's sixth consecutive double-digit win this postseason -- James was asked about the suspensions the league levied on Orlando's Rafer Alston and the Los Angeles Lakers' Derek Fisher and used the opportunity to needle the Wizards.
He mocked the Wizards for trying to get tough with him last postseason, a tactic that led to Cleveland Coach Mike Brown pounding tables and some amusing face scrunches, constant lip-touching and nauseating over-acting by James. The crack-the-could be-king tactics also failed to slow down James and the Cavaliers, who beat a banged up Wizards team in six games.
"Washington tried something and it didn't work," James told reporters in Cleveland last night. "They lost in the first round again. We all know Washington is not a physical team. They tried to be physical and they lost."
Seriously? His team is practically walking the red carpet to the Eastern Conference Championships will the 19-win Wizards just got a new head coach and a talking draft. The two teams are in completely different worlds right now but James can't help but make some snide remark. As Lee points out, neither Detroit nor Atlanta have really touched him in their match ups, but when Washington did get physical in last year's playoffs James had fits.
And his "they tried to be physical and they lost" comment is a little misleading. The big mistake was then-coach Eddie Jordan going on TV midway in the series and all but guaranteeing that James was going to get knocked on his ass on every possession (something Cavs coach Mike Brown took full advantage of). There's the fact that ex-Wizard Larry Hughes was telling his new Cav teammates what plays Washington was running. There's the story of Arenas being around for only one-out-of-three of the match ups. This isn't like those Lakers-Kings match ups of the 2000-2003 Era where both squads were relatively healthy and the superior team (Lakers) still won. Yet James obviously wants people to see it that way (whether he's the Kobe or Shaq in this analogy is unknown).
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