Would you still rather have LeBron James?

As stated in the other thread.

Lebron is the biggest cry baby around. He whines and cries and shows horrible sportsmanship and still gets his way. Way to show little kids how it’s done! Fuck Lebron. I hate him more than I hate Kobe.

It would be interesting to break down how many times Lebro/Melo/Kobe/Durant/Howard touch the ball per game and the outcome of points/assists etc. I bet Lebron’s points per touch and assist are lower than Durants and Melo’s

I choose LeBron.

I would take melo over lebron in a heartbeat. For most of that reasoning that has been stated. I cant stand Lebrons prima donna attitude, or his clowning when everything is good, and frowning when its bad. Man up and play. And his attitude and effort last night was eerily like JR’s in game 6 against Utah. So even with lebron supposedly the greater player, I would still take melo.

That aside, I still feel melo is on lebrons level as far as ability, and in the long run will have the greater career. Melo can post up, as well as hit the jumpers at a good clip. Lebron only has his freakish size/speed combo. So what happens when he starts to lose that step? and he is only a big body? is he going to learn to be a more consistent shooter? probally not. I wouldnt trade melo for the world, well maybe the world, but nothing less..lol. Lets go nuggs.

put the question “who do you take, lebron or melo?” to a national audience of basketball fans and i bet that goes 80/20 for lebron…if not higher. give any GM the chance right now to take lebron or melo and i bet 30 out of 30 GMs take bron (that includes wark). yet on denver stiffs, melo wins in a landslide. boy oh boy, i do love my fellow stiffs.

im not sure if this question implies whos the better player, or who do you want on your team? obviously, who you want on your team is a matter of personal opinion. but you gotta be KA-RAY-ZEE to objectively say carmelo anthony is a better player than lebron james.

surely, that last sentence will go over well…LET MY CRUCIFIXION BEGIN!!!!

I’m willing to bet we’d all be his biggest fans. He is a bad sport and whiny, but hey, we still love Melo and he spends half his time on the court whining to the refs.

Is Lebron the much, much better player and leader? Yeah, probably. He’ll go down in history alongside names like MJ, Magic, Bird, Oscar Robertson etc etc etc. As sure a hall of famer as there ever was, probably with 6 or 7 MVPs to match. Melo, if he’s lucky, might one day finish in the Top 3 of MVP voting. Maybe HOF material. Maybe.

But do I wish we’d drafted Lebron all those years ago? Nah. I’m perfectly fine with how Carmelo has turned out. He’s an amazing scorer, he’s an exciting player to watch, he’s just what we thought we were getting when he was drafted. Well, maybe he’s fallen a little short of expectations, but he does continue to improve (and mature) every year.

And without Melo…well, this would be an entirely different team. It would be weird. These Nuggets, the current ones, may be maddeningly inconsistent, but they’re a ton of fun to watch and follow.

So, short answer: No. I don’t wish we had landed Lebron way back when.

Yeah, it was really bad, but what’s with everyone immediately saying he doesn’t have the heart to win or that he doesn’t care the way Kobe and MJ did? He’s been solid in the other 9 playoff games. Tough loss, but all it takes is a Cavs win in Boston (and the C’s aren’t even a great home team) and all these questions will look silly.

But then again Lebron’s a cocky bastard. What the hell does “3 bad games in 7 years” mean? I don’t know. On the one hand I feel a tiny bit bad for him, but on the other hand he makes millions of dollars, calls himself “King,” and says he’s played 3 bad games in his career.

Melo as a person is just so much more likable than Lebron…

.. we would be Cavs fans now… and I BET EVERYTHIN I GOT we would never ever wonder, “what if Melo was a Nugget?”

no one is saying Melo is better as a player. we know lebron’s better. seriously.

Did no one read the part where it says “LeBron > Carmelo?” HE ACTUALLY SAID THAT IN THE POST

I like Melo more because he is a Nugget. I hate LePout because he is over-hyped by the media and he doesn’t have the clutch gene that I love to see. Melo is super clutch along the lines of Kobe and MJ. I also detest the way LePout has treated his team in Cleveland and I am very glad we aren’t having to deal with that as fans of the Nugs.

However, if we were going back to draft day and I had a choice between LePout and Melo I would instantly, without a second thought, take LePout and build a team around him. I would change it up though and have him running point from day one and bring in athletic bigs to speed up the game and take advantage of his freak athleticism.

Also, I absolutely hate LePout’s personality as I see it. All I ever hear him say is the game is easy for him and he is the greatest. He doesn’t ever give his opponents credit when the beat him and util he starts to do that teams will always go after him balls out because they hate him. He won’t ever win a title until he learns some modesty.

I’m starting to lean heavily toward Lebron leaving now. Before I suspected the Cavs would still win the series and that Lebron would re-sign, but after seeing this team implode, I don’t think he will anymore.

Lebron will be gone. Shaq, see you. Ilgauskas, retiring? Mike Brown, you should have been fired 3 years ago. Cleveland, sorry. Maybe next decade.

They were down 9, yeah…but hey, miracles happen. T-Mac once scored 13 points in 35 seconds. Reggie once scored 8 in 9. They have Lebron James on their team, and they just quit. And not the cool kind of quit.

Mo Williams, man, he just strolls down the court with 45 left, takes his time when DO YOU KNOW LEBRON IS LEAVING NEXT YEAR AND YOU WILL HAVE FUCKING NO MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP FOR THE REST OF YOUR CAREER is what I was thinking. I don’t like Mo.

Seriously though…why not just fire a quick 3 and pray it goes in? And on defense…they didn’t put any effort into the final few possessions. Didn’t foul Rondo either, despite the fact that he was shooting worse than Nene from the line. Pretty sad.

Although I think LeBron is a better overall player than Melo, if their positions were switched, I don’t think either would have won a ring at this point. Besides all that, I believe that before Melo actually signs an extension, it would be foolish to assume that he won’t flirt with other teams next offseason. There has been much Bron bashing about how he’s handled his pending free agency. Of all the reasons you can find to hate LeBron, this isn’t a good one. As a player looking at a career in which he’ll last 15 years at best, his priority is to what’s best for himself amd his family when it comes to contract negotiations. By the end of the summer, he will have put himself in the best possible financial situation possible (contract + endorsements, etc). Although we as fans want our athletes to be loyal, the reality of the salary cap makes that a largely unrealistic goal. Few athletes stay with 1 team their entire career and even the one that do will flirt with other teams (see Tim Duncan nearly signing with Orlando years ago). Be prepared Nuggets nation, if Melo doesn’t sign an extension, the circus in Cleveland with LeBron this year will be our circus next year with Melo. And yes, he will be justified in looking for the best possible deal. Sorry for the long post folks!

I mean if I were a Cavs fan I’d be pretty upset right now. But instead a lot of them are resigned to the fact that Lebron probably won’t be back, and don’t seem very unhappy. Guess that’s what makes it Cleveland.