Cavaliers have agreement to acquire Kevin Love

[The Cysko Kid]

I'm excited about the cavs. Losing Wiggins sucks but right now he doesn't compare to Lbj, kyrie or love. Not to mention with that kind of star power we shouldn't have any problems attracting free agents.If the cavs are champs and it shuts up all the Cleveland haters in the country I'm all for it.

[The Cysko Kid]

Imo the NBA is immensely more entertaining than soccer. I don't hate soccer but it is a pretty unexciting game for me to watch.

[Browns149]

@the-cysko-kid said:

Imo the NBA is immensely more entertaining than soccer. I don't hate soccer but it is a pretty unexciting game for me to watch.

I can't agree. the NBA is all about flash and me, me, me. There is VERY little us, and a whole lot of "look at me".

I know the Spurs win with a team first attitude. But most people don't even know who they are. Most people know Lechoke lost the finals more then the Spurs won it.

That is the problem with the NBA.

The only part of an NBA game that is exciting is in the last 2 minutes if the game is close. Otherwise it is boring

[Axe]

I have to agree.. I grew up a huge college & NBA round ball fan but things have changed.. I hate to say it but I'll watch upper echelon soccer (Not this MLS horseshit we get served) before the NBA.. I still love the NCAA tourney but the NBA lost me a while back.. I try every yr to re engage, but nah, so far I'm just not buying..

[Browns149]

@axe said:

I have to agree.. I grew up a huge college & NBA round ball fan but things have changed.. I hate to say it but I'll watch upper echelon soccer (Not this MLS horseshit we get served) before the NBA.. I still love the NCAA tourney but the NBA lost me a while back.. I try every yr to re engage, but nah, so far I'm just not buying..

for sure. Watching the Barclay's Premire League is way better then the NBA.

I was an NBA fan back in the 80's with the Celtics vs Lakers. And the Cavs with Price,Nance,Hot Rod, Brad Daugherty, Lenny Wilkens, I went to many games at the Richfield Coliseum.

But when MJ started his "SHOES" career in Chicago, he made the game all about him. Don't get me wrong, Jordan was the best player I have ever seen, but he ruined the "GAME" of basketball. He made it all about "ME". And it has just gotten worse. The actual game of basketball barely exists in the NBA post Jordan era

[The Cysko Kid]

@browns149 said:

I can't agree. the NBA is all about flash and me, me, me. There is VERY little us, and a whole lot of "look at me".

I know the Spurs win with a team first attitude. But most people don't even know who they are. Most people know Lechoke lost the finals more then the Spurs won it.

That is the problem with the NBA.

The only part of an NBA game that is exciting is in the last 2 minutes if the game is close. Otherwise it is boring

I get what you're saying, but the spurs definitely won the Championship more than lbj lost it. They literally destroyed the heat. One guy couldn't have made up all that ground himself.

And at least they score in basketball. Yeah, Germany trashed Brazil in the semis but the vast majority of the time the score is 1-0 or even 0-0. It's just hard for me to watch guts pass the ball around for a couple hours. It's not particularly exciting to me.

I think a large part of that has to do with what you grew up on. To me, as a kid, soccer didn't even exist so I have no particular attraction to it now

[Browns149]

@the-cysko-kid said:

I get what you're saying, but the spurs definitely won the Championship more than lbj lost it. They literally destroyed the heat. One guy couldn't have made up all that ground himself.

And at least they score in basketball. Yeah, Germany trashed Brazil in the semis but the vast majority of the time the score is 1-0 or even 0-0. It's just hard for me to watch guts pass the ball around for a couple hours. It's not particularly exciting to me.

I think a large part of that has to do with what you grew up on. To me, as a kid, soccer didn't even exist so I have no particular attraction to it now

I agree with you.

I grew up playing baseball in Cleveland, Ohio. My dad was a coach and a former minor league player.

Then we moved to North Olmsted, Ohio. And that city is a soccer nutz town. There was no baseball system there.

I played soccer when I moved there, and I played well into my high school years. My high school won the state title in soccer in 1986????? and it was AWESOME.

Not sure of the year......................It was the 80's afterall and I was in high school

[nickers]

This must suck for Wiggins to be on hold for a month...I would've rather waited and got Love in FA.

[Westside Steve]

@miktoxic said:

hey, at least it's not soccer.

that is true. Basketball still sucks though and seems more annoying because of its higher profile here.

frankly I despise March Madness as well.

WSS

[Westside Steve]

@nickers said:

This must suck for Wiggins to be on hold for a month...I would've rather waited and got Love in FA.

Yep. Since that's how much we will have to pay him next year anyway but we would still have Wiggins and Bennett.

WSS

[Kosar_For_President]

@browns149 said:

I agree with you.

I grew up playing baseball in Cleveland, Ohio. My dad was a coach and a former minor league player.

Then we moved to North Olmsted, Ohio. And that city is a soccer nutz town. There was no baseball system there.

I played soccer when I moved there, and I played well into my high school years. My high school won the state title in soccer in 1986????? and it was AWESOME.

Not sure of the year......................It was the 80's afterall and I was in high school

BS dude, I was on the NO travel soccer and baseball team who won state. Although I was 10 when you were in high school.

[jrb12711]

@browns149 said:

I can't agree. the NBA is all about flash and me, me, me. There is VERY little us, and a whole lot of "look at me".

I know the Spurs win with a team first attitude. But most people don't even know who they are. Most people know Lechoke lost the finals more then the Spurs won it.

That is the problem with the NBA.

The only part of an NBA game that is exciting is in the last 2 minutes if the game is close. Otherwise it is boring

I'd meet you halfway with everything you're saying. the NBA is exciting IF you support one of the 4-5 teams that actually have a chance. The fun part about the MLB or NFL is that worst to first teams happen every year. That just isn't the case in the NBA for a good number of years. Right now (barring injuries of course), I'd put $1k down that the Finals of the NBA will between the Cavs/Bulls against the Spurs/OKC or MAYBE the clippers if the Sterling thing works out. No other team in the East even comes remotely close too.

So yeah, NBA is finally exciting in Cleveland again but if I was say a Sixers fan why the hell would you even tune in?

[Zombo]

This is awesome, I was all in on Love.

The pressure is on the Browns this year to deliver the Holy Grail before the Cavs do.

Soccer ... still gay.

Zombo

[Tour2ma]

Reports are Lebron had been humming this song non-stop...

[The Gipper]

@browns149 said:

I can't agree. the NBA is all about flash and me, me, me. There is VERY little us, and a whole lot of "look at me".

I know the Spurs win with a team first attitude. But most people don't even know who they are. Most people know Lechoke lost the finals more then the Spurs won it.

That is the problem with the NBA.

The only part of an NBA game that is exciting is in the last 2 minutes if the game is close. Otherwise it is boring

Go watch Muggle Quidditch.

[Westside Steve]

@the-gipper said:

Go watch Muggle Quidditch.

I think that's going on in Cleveland this weekend isn't it? That's an event in the Gay Games I believe.

WSS

[The Gipper]

@westside-steve said:

I think that's going on in Cleveland this weekend isn't it? That's an event in the Gay Games I believe.

WSS

I know you'll be there.

[hoorta]

Zombo said:

This is awesome, I was all in on Love.

The pressure is on the Browns this year to deliver the Holy Grail before the Cavs do.

Soccer ... still gay.

Zombo

My money will be on the Cavs to bring home the Silver B-Ball first. Too bad they had to unload Wiggins to get Love, but fair trade off I guess. If they had managed to keep Wiggins, and get Love somehow, it would have been over, Grover.

Looking at this realistically- the Cavs now have a 5 year window to get it done- until Father Time starts catching up with LBJ- that will make him 35.

Cowturd's fill-in on ESPN did have a fair point- there was outrage in the NBA when Le Bron & Pals stacked the deck in Miami, not so know. Maybe NBA fans are immune to it. I guess I can look at it a little differently now that the deck is stacked in our favor.

[miktoxic]

love in cleveland does not automatically make the cavs as good as what the heat were.

i mean i don't see it. should have kept wiggins.

[thenew23]

@browns149 said:

The only part of an NBA game that is exciting is in the last 2 minutes if the game is close. Otherwise it is boring

Isn't that how all sports are?