1. LeBron is playing in Cleveland tonight. First of all, the fans don't owe him anything. He earned hundreds of millions of dollars playing for them. He earned worldwide fame. He became one of the best players in the league. And then he planned a huge spectacle to tell everyone that he was leaving them. I don't have a problem with any negativity they throw his way all night. He's a professional athlete getting paid millions of dollars. He can deal with it.
In fact, I'm watching just to hear them boo. I want to see and hear the most outrageous coordination of boo-chanting in the history of sports. I have a feeling it will be a letdown in that regard, but that's why I'm watching.
2. The Heat in general have been a letdown. There is a lot of trash being thrown at Coach Spolstra, but I think the issue is that LeBron and Wade are having a hard time coming to grips with the fact that they can't play together. Sure, when they were on Team USA it was easy. No one cared about how many points you scored, you only played a handful of games, and you were playing against (mostly) inferior competition. Oh, and you both knew you weren't the Alpha Dog (that was Kobe and they all knew it), so it was easy for you to accept your roles and play together. But now you're back home in the NBA and things are a little different. And you don't know how to play together.
Maybe they are going to figure it out. I'd be surprised if they've already resigned themselves to thinking they just cannot do it. But they certainly don't want to let people know that's what they're thinking. That after all that hype, they both realize they kinda sort made a bad decision.
Or maybe they'll start winning when Pat Riley starts coaching.
3. Tony Kornheiser offered the explanation that the NFL decided not to suspend Andre Johnson because the Texans' next game was on the NFL's Network and Johnson is basically the only draw to that team. Granted, Mike Vick is also playing, and he's probably been the most talked about positive story in the NFL this year (it's a shame Brett Favre and the Cowboys got more attention for so long). But it's a pretty reasonable point. As Adam Schefter said -- if that fight had happened on the street, they would have been arrested. Andre Johnson was openly pummeling Cortland Finnegan in the face! How is that not a suspension? Didn't Kyle Turley get suspended just for throwing his helmet?
GAME TIME. THE RETURN OF LEBRON!
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