LeBron’s Decision | A Retrospective

“I’m gonna take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat” 10/10 LeBron

Of all the things an Englishman would expect to see in an NBA video, Brass Eye was a million miles away. I already loved this channel but I am recommending it to my Partridge friends now.

As I got into European Football more, I find it INSANE how in Football your lauded if you go win trophies in different leagues and teams when in basketball your RIDICULED to know end for leaving your team 😅

I always thought that he was going to Miami after he made the announcement to not weat 23 for the next season. It was after a game in Miami and Miami was one of the teams that had retired 23 in honour of MJ.

This is when players were no longer at the mercy of owners, it was the other way around. The craziest thing is people don't even realize the decision raised MILLIONS for the boys and girls club

On the topic of superteams that were formed in NBA history, the Lakers in the late 60s and early 70s had 3 of the top 5 guys in the league (Wilt, Elgin, and West)

As a Cleveland native. I didn't put blame on him. Look at the roster. I was just disappointed he made an hour long special out of it

Just had to pause for a second when you were talking on Mike Brown's firing. Mike Brown was and is a phenomenal defensive coach, and you can see that wherever he's been. Warriors defense was unreal with him as assistant. The Kings success this year starts on the defensive end, and he's grown a lot as a coach on the offensive side of the ball. He's crushing it and I'm rooting for him. Mike Brown on his first Cavs stint was, in a word, flawed. Granted, his personnel outside of LeBron wasn't great, but come playoff time the offense was always stagnant, and always defaulted to "hey LeBron, do something amazing". You can imagine why LeBron wouldn't be enthused about another season or more of that. On top of this, he was still figuring out how to read and apply mid-game adjustments and was simply outcoached in '09 and '10. The Magic series especially showed how SVG would be constantly adjusting and changing what wasn't working, while the Cavs continued the same old gameplan every quarter and every game. Given all that, there was not a lot of confidence that LeBron would want anything to do with him that summer. It's understandable that they thought that, coach of the year or not, firing him would give the Cavs a better shot at keeping LeBron in town. Great video though. Very thorough.

Im 16 minutes in and Im loving every minute of this video. Its hilarious

The reason I think it’s acceptable for Lebron to join Miami is that Lebron was getting no help in Cleveland and Boston had a big three too

Something I would love to see is someone who just DOES NOT announce their new team. NOBODY KNOWS. NOBODY TALKED ABOUT IT OUTSIDE THE ROOM. It's Opening night. you're looking through every game, waiting to see their jersey. Then suddenly everyone sees someone like Zion WIlliamson exiting the tunnel in a Mavs jersey and you're like... Holy shit... what...

I laughed so much at the "We had a much better reason to hate on Aldridge than Cleveland on Lebron, because Aldridge had a much better cast". Because it sums up why Lebron left so much. The cavs (and have been for the most part) were a really shit organization. You had one of the most generational talents and weren't able to build something decent with him, even making confrontations between players BEFORE he was even drafted. Then he blossomed into a perennial MVP candidate and made some good HEAD coach decisions (They could've done way worse than Mike Brown, but his coaching staff was horrible) but still have a shitty roster. They had really good pieces: Big Z, Varejao, Mo Williams. But at the end of the day, they weren't able to use those pieces to either further the roster or properly compete. Miami on the other hand is a team like the Spurs, always competing, and, most importantly, well run. People like to joke about LeGM but in most of his teams, the front office is a shitshow. Miami is the only exception for Lebron and he got to the finals 4 times, won 2, and faced some of the best teams we've seen in NBA history. Why? Because they had a specific culture they were following, had a great coach in Spo, who was backed by Pat Riley when Bosh and LeBron thought he wasn't the right man for the team, who re-watched the Mavs-Heat Finals of 2011 for supposedly TENS or even HUNDREDS OF HOURS to try and figure out why the lost and what he needed to do, so he ended up adapting the whole offense to not only create one of the first "position-less" teams in the NBA, making both D-Wade and LeBron the primary ball handlers and playmakers instead of the traditional point guard, but also the first to succeed with "small-ball". The front office also showed their class. They consistently pursued free agents like Ray Allen or made trades like for Rashard Lewis. They signed good veterans and took a chance on some players that were "problematic" (like Birdman who was coming from being waived and had to earn the spot in a 10-day contract) or with other issues (Greg Oden for example) because they had to do something to complete and further the roster after losing so many picks acquiring both Lebron and Bosh with sign-and-trades. They were able to make more good roster decisions with basically no first round picks until the year LeBron left where they had the 26th pick. It's always easy to root against the superteam, I don't blame anyone for doing so, but critiquing the players for trying to be successful is stupid. If LeBron would've never left, he would be ringless. Because even when he went back to Cleveland, the only reason they were able to make a decent team around LeBron was not of skill or competence, it was luck. They got the 1st Overall pick in 2011 because they accepted a salary dump trade with the Clippers (which are the dumbest team in history for sending an UNPROTECTED FIRST ROUNDER IN A SALARY DUMP), where they got Kyrie, who was the right choice, but they also selected Tristan Thompson with the 4th, over much better players like Jonas Valanciunas, Klay, Kawhi, Vucevic. The next Year they selected Waiters with the 4th pick, over Dame, Harrison Barnes, Drummond. On 2013, they got lucky again but selected Anthony Bennet (the other top options weren't superstars but every other top 10 player had a better NBA career with the likes of Oladipo, Cody Zeller, KCP and CJ Mccollum). Then they got lucky AGAIN, with the Wiggins pick. They had literally 2 1st overall picks, 2 4th overall picks, like 2-3 more late rounds picks and did SHIT ALL. And they were barely able to trade the 1st overall pick on 2014 for K-Love. The only good trade they made around that time was getting J.R Smith and Iman Shumpert. Cleveland has been a shitshow for the whole time.

As much as I was disappointed he wasn’t coming to Chicago after all, I did have the suspicion he wouldn’t come because at the time, the Bulls had every difficulty drawing big names to play for them. Couldn’t get Yao, Kobe, T-Mac, KG, Ray, they couldn’t get anybody until Pau FINALLY came, but left after 2 years which still shocked me that he even picked the Bulls after so much success in L.A. and then there was D Wade who also shocked me by leaving Miami to come to his hometown team and I was like “The Bulls are finally getting better at this free agency thing!” But that lasted even less longer than Pau and then Cleveland with D Rose happened and that was an eventual dead end, as well. So in retrospect, LeBron in Miami was a gift to every NBA fan who witnessed it all as it happened. Sure, the Bulls are still stuck with 6 titles partly because the Heat stopped them from getting 7, but they did all they did with STYLE! And like it’s said in the video… KD to Golden State doesn’t happen without LeBron to Miami. The Heatles gave birth to Dub Nation who culturally eclipsed Rick Barry, Wilt Chamberlain, Run TMC, and the “We Believe” crew led by B. Diddy.

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I mean KG did say "we knew LeBron couldnt beat the 5 of us" or something like that. Basically it was 1v5 & other teams knew it

Love these retrospectives videos

Loving your channel. You’re vids are great. Can’t wait for this

Just got yelled at by my boss for laughin so loud haha. The Gender Reveal for Free Agency had me dyin'!!!!

Convincing players to sign to Cleveland would be a lot less crucial if they did a good enough job drafting, coaching, and training that they had a viable roster. Spurs and warriors, notable for not firing Mike Brown for no reason, say hi