Adrian Wojnarowski Details LeBron, Free Agent Coup

Incredible story from Yahoo!'s Adrian Wojnarowski on how much of a douchebag LeBron James really is.

Even better is this paragraph that can be found near the middle of the piece:

Riley believed he could unload those contracts. And mostly, he believed in his own power of persuasion. He is still the biggest presence, biggest voice in the room. Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey, a statistics analyst, met with Chris Bosh at 12:01 a.m. on July 1 armed with an iPad. Morey’s cult followers on the web hailed it as a resounding success, but Riley never believed he was losing Bosh to the MIT gang.

Wonder who that particular cult following might be...?

Guys, new slogan. "The Dream Shake: The Most Badass Official Daryl Morey Cult On The Internets."

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I LIKE IT!!!

by mangelq75 on Jul 16, 2010 10:00 PM CDT reply actions

Love it

(mostly because it’s so true)

"voted for the Jazz"
ooooh, that’s like being a pedophile – it never goes away. //grudgedave//

by ressaliance_00 on Jul 16, 2010 10:00 PM CDT reply actions

We love us some Morey

And by the way…Brad Miller needs to make a decision

by danielcp0303 on Jul 16, 2010 10:02 PM CDT reply actions

lawls

go interwebs

by basketball is cool on Jul 16, 2010 11:14 PM CDT reply actions

The Dreamshake may be included in that number, but I'm sure it also includes CF and other Rockets fans on the internet.

by DribbleHooper on Jul 17, 2010 12:27 AM CDT reply actions

I'm embracing this

Drink the Kool-Aid

Daryl Morey is god

by xNevermind on Jul 17, 2010 12:32 AM CDT reply actions

Woj is so right....i say we ban James and the Heat from the NBA for two years, the time they wasted....and also the Heat should be forced to pay reparations to Cleveland and Toronto and Pat Riley and Wade should be fined and further banned for tampering

it’s what they did to USC and USC’s offense was smaller

ROCKETS!!!!!!!!!!!!

by Roxbybirth on Jul 17, 2010 12:46 AM CDT reply actions

I do really want to see Lebron go back to Cleveland when he plays them.

When Crazy Pills made his way back here….man he got some hate. Every time he touched the ball….

Lebron will be a good 50-60 times worse I expect.

That game should be on NBATV at the very least.

Daryl Morey is god

by xNevermind on Jul 17, 2010 12:53 AM CDT up reply actions

Fascinating ... but piecing together other news items on Lebrongate, this seems to be how it really happened

Wow, I’m waiting for when Lebron’s emotional issues backfire on Wade and the Heat. Even now Wade is the one explaining to the press that Lebron did not quit in the playoffs. Cmon, Wade, why are you explaining? Sooner or later, they will get sick of continuing to enable Lebron.

Follow Crazy Pills’ example, get a psychiatrist for him.

by RoxBeliever on Jul 17, 2010 7:19 AM CDT reply actions

Was thinking the same thing

What was the deal with that? Is Wade Lebron’s mom? “Please, leave little Bronny alone! <LeBron hides behind mom’s skirt> Little Bronny didn’t quit.”
Of course he quit. Because he knew back then that he was gonna team up with Wade and Bosh so he said, F this, next year I will win automatic. What a circus! It just pisses me off that fans and GMs bothered to woe and hope for the three queens while they knew what was gonna happen LONG time ago. Tools!

"He’s been following him around for two weeks like his lapdog". - Stan Van Gundy about Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade

by RocketsAstros on Jul 17, 2010 8:16 AM CDT up reply actions

"woo" instead of "woe"

"He’s been following him around for two weeks like his lapdog". - Stan Van Gundy about Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade

by RocketsAstros on Jul 17, 2010 8:17 AM CDT up reply actions

"The Heat don’t bother scouting internationally. They didn’t believe much in the college draft."

Below is the total quote from the Woj article. Seriously? The heat don’t bother scouting or believe in the college draft? They just rely on free agents? So, basically, if they don’t get the biggest free agent haul in history then they are screwed. That’s a huge gamble. But more importantly, moving forward, it will mean that they will have no way to identify players who can contribute when the stars are injured or having bad games. That reminds me of the Yao and T-Mac years before DM came onboard. Without Brooks, Lowry, Landry and Scola who were identified using the college drat and int’l scouting, the Rockets would be in place to win 15 games next year.

I don’t like how the article portrayed Riley as some kind of genius while it portrayed Morey as the “MIT crowd” – and not in a positive way. Riley is completely dependent on getting immature 25 year olds to like him. Morey doesn’t have to beg a 25 year old to “play for my team”. He can just go find the good players on his own and hope that the stars recognize his ability to put a team together. Yao did. That’s looking pretty good.

“Riley ran the Heat franchise in a bold way. He had two things to sell the best players in the NBA: South Beach and his bigger-than-life persona. The Heat don’t bother scouting internationally. They didn’t believe much in the college draft. They constantly planned around free agents and trades, a high-risk, high-reward way to steer an organization.”

by ClutchFanSince94 on Jul 17, 2010 12:09 PM CDT reply actions

If Riley worked for any other city in this league, he would be sooooo screwed.

That can work for Miami with its clubs (and today’s superstars being shallow enough to care more about that then I don’t know, THEIR LEGACY AND BASKETBALL.) And it could work for New York, where he worked before.

In any of the Texas teams? Any of the small-market teams? LOL. So he’s not a genius, he just works for a place which young guys with lots of cash want to play for reasons that have nothing to do with basketball.

Minnesotan Rockets fan

by Barragan on Jul 17, 2010 1:32 PM CDT up reply actions

I for one welcome our new statistically-inclined overlords

I am not, however, down for any arranged marriages with Dreamshakers. No offense.

by pjibiest on Jul 17, 2010 12:38 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs

The Rockets just signed Brad Miller!

by danielcp0303 on Jul 17, 2010 1:08 PM CDT reply actions

Finally!

Well now I am happy with the team. If Yao stays healthy, this is a really good team both in season and in playoffs. Miller can play with the bench, uptempo. Two completely different styles for teams to have to prepare for. We can cover a bunch of matchups with our lineup potential.

by svspider on Jul 17, 2010 3:14 PM CDT up reply actions

Interesting to hear about LBJ immaturity

Because you generally hear about how his difficult past has made him some a mature person, so hearing that the USA Team thought about leaving LBJ off the roster is quite interesting. LBJ has put himself under the microscope with this whole ‘decision’ thing and there’s probably some stuff that’s gotten out that he never wanted people to know.

by jroberts5 on Jul 17, 2010 2:14 PM CDT reply actions