I hate this team so much. How can anyone cheer for this garbage?
"But I'm from Miami, what do you expect?"
As I said at the beginning of the year, Miami fans are the absolute worst, and have been the absolute worst for a long long time. Does anyone care about any of their teams unless there IN the playoffs? No. Over and over again, no. Marlins? University of Miami? Heat any other year? Empty seats, Empty stadium. They don't deserve to have a team, let alone a good team. They have no investment in this team, rather, they watch the Heat as the rest of us would go watch a concert; let's go be entertained for a few hours and call it a day. That's not sports. That's not being a fan. But let's see how many layers deep we can go here. They don't just have a good team, but they have perhaps the most annoying, front-runner of a group of players maybe ever. Let's take LeBron. The way he quit on his Cavs teammates last year was one of the many reasons why I never wanted him to be a Bull. You think Jordan ever would've gone out like that? Or could you ever see our beloved Derrick Rose quitting? But that's the difference. Miami fans don't care. Their mindset is basically, "get me out of the tanning bed when we have a team in the playoffs, then maybe I'll care...maybe." Sometimes you learn more about athletes observing their reaction in victory more so than in defeat. How can LeBron be taken seriously when we know his true colors when he faces adversity? He quits. But now, with the backing of other all-star teammates he's dancing around the court - laughing at the Bulls as they hustle out the end of the game. Watching LeBron and Bosh wag their tongues after hitting a shot makes me physically ill. Chris Bosh may be even worse. He's another athlete who wants all the glory without any of the adversity. He, also, bailed on his Toronto teammates last year as it became clear that he crumbled under the task of actually leading a team. What the Heat has done, specifically LeBron and Bosh is unprecedented. I care. Miami fans don't. As much as I hate Boston sports and all their teams at least they care. At least they expect something out of their athletes. But again, maybe that's why LeBron and Bosh decided to take their talents to South Beach. They cracked and folded under the pressure of playing in front of powerhouse sports cities like.....Cleveland and Toronto. I bet Wade told them, "Listen. First of all, they'll love you no matter what. The people here don't care about the game as much as they care about the entertainment. If we don't win, they'll go back to the tanning beds, spiked hair, and douchey muscle shirts and tell their friends they never cared in the first place. But if we DO win...they'll show up by the 2nd quarter and cheer during the 4th quarter. It's perfect." And that's the draw. But it takes a certain athlete to embrace that, while it takes a certain athlete to embrace the pressure that comes with playing in a true sports city. LeBron yells at his teammates when they're losing and soaks up the spotlight when they're winning.
Our beloved Bulls are on the brink of elimination now after a great effort (for Miami fans, effort is something that the rest of the sports world appreciates, even in loss). Looks like I'm about to become the biggest Mavs fan outside of Dallas. For the soul of basketball, and for the spirit of professional sports we all should be.
Evil is winning. Brevity is the soul of wit: Shakespere
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