As they lose again tonight it is against the better angels of my judgment that I have one thing to add that I have not read anyone else mention.
Did this consensus unusually ominous Winter of Discontent not start in the Summer? With Kyrie Irving's shocking demand to be traded? It did.
Did Bed Bugs not have his fill of playing with LBJ? He did.
Is this Winter Classic Collapse not qualitatively different from others. It very much appears so. This finger pointing team meeting, Lue's "agenda" comment aimed at James, other agenda comments by players, especially by Isaiah Thomas, are those not different? They are.
The ultimate question thus is, "Has LeBron James lost 'his' team?" Are players tired of his shit? I don't know to any reasonable level of confidence about the rest of the team but Irving clearly did and he is flourishing in Boston while the "Cavs" players are having finger pointing meetings, at Kevin Love, at LeBron James and that is all new.
NEVER did I think that Kyrie Irving, The-Earth-is-Flat-Kyrie, would flourish in Boston AND leave The Land of Drama a dysfunctional, blaming mess. A TOTAL disrespect of Irving and his critical role on those Cleveland teams, that was.
I find it reasonable inference from facts that other current members of the Drama King and his Court saw part of what Irving saw (whatever that was) and that this has festered and increasingly grated on them since it leaked that Irving wanted out.
It is all consistent with LeBron James having lost the team, losing a team is usually forever, and by a preponderance of evidence it all started with Kyrie Irving's bold, and in retrospect prescient, move.
Did this consensus unusually ominous Winter of Discontent not start in the Summer? With Kyrie Irving's shocking demand to be traded? It did.
Did Bed Bugs not have his fill of playing with LBJ? He did.
Is this Winter Classic Collapse not qualitatively different from others. It very much appears so. This finger pointing team meeting, Lue's "agenda" comment aimed at James, other agenda comments by players, especially by Isaiah Thomas, are those not different? They are.
The ultimate question thus is, "Has LeBron James lost 'his' team?" Are players tired of his shit? I don't know to any reasonable level of confidence about the rest of the team but Irving clearly did and he is flourishing in Boston while the "Cavs" players are having finger pointing meetings, at Kevin Love, at LeBron James and that is all new.
NEVER did I think that Kyrie Irving, The-Earth-is-Flat-Kyrie, would flourish in Boston AND leave The Land of Drama a dysfunctional, blaming mess. A TOTAL disrespect of Irving and his critical role on those Cleveland teams, that was.
I find it reasonable inference from facts that other current members of the Drama King and his Court saw part of what Irving saw (whatever that was) and that this has festered and increasingly grated on them since it leaked that Irving wanted out.
It is all consistent with LeBron James having lost the team, losing a team is usually forever, and by a preponderance of evidence it all started with Kyrie Irving's bold, and in retrospect prescient, move.
