If you’re Ed Stephanski, and you flat out know that ‘Dre isn’t coming back, is there any reason you wouldn’t extend a one-year offer to Iverson? (Assuming AI would want such a thing, of course.)
All he wants is the veteran’s minimum and to be a starter. FOR ONE YEAR. Which would give us the flexibility to join the Dwayne Wade sweepstakes next summer (provided Sammy is moved for an expiring contract and they don’t use up the ‘Dre money).
Can you imagine seeing AI back in an Erz uni? How badly would you want to be there when #3 walks out of the tunnel and returns to his home floor for the first time? I’m getting goosebumps just thinking about it.
We ain’t winning anything any time soon anyway. So again, I ask: WHY NOT?
I don’t know, man. I’d like to think that this was just one huge PR misstep on Nike’s part. Someone panicked, took the tape...all hell broke loose. I really hate to think of LeBron having anything to do with it directly. But, hey, we’ll never know.
What's Nike so afraid of? "The King" plays a competitive sport. Getting beaten on a play happens to every player, every game. Getting posterized has happened to every great player in the game at least once. Even Mike (with Scottie by his side) got baptized by John Starks.
Do you think that Bron told the Nike boys to go get that video? The report said that he huddled with Nike officials before the confiscation happened. That could have been his reps pushing it. In my heart of hearts though, I gotta say, I think he was relieved to have them make the recommendation. That is, if he didn't give the order himself. Did the game stop immediately after the play? Did the ref just blow the whistle and guys in suits just walk onto the court? When did this huddling happen? During a timeout? The baptism happened early in the game and they kept playing. Did security roll up on the perpetrators as the game continued? How exactly did they know exactly who had video? The crowd had to have at least a hundred people. I would kill to have been a fly on the wall.
This is like the entire world knowing that the Zepruder film exists, but no one other than Zepruder himself having ever seen it.
To me, Bron comes off like a bigger punk for suppressing freedom of the press than he would have for having a youtube clip of him getting yammed on. What's he so afraid of? Devin Harris had his best year ever after his similar embarrassment last summer. If you don't want guys bouncing the ball off your dome with two handed stuffs while their bent knees are wrapped under your armpits and they yell with their eyes closed, then don't play professional basketball. At the very least, don't underestimate your opponent and jump late.
