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LeBron To Make "Decision" Tonight On ESPN: Will You Watch?

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

Rather than make a simple statement about the team he will decide to join - or, in the possibility of Cleveland, rejoin - in the NBA free agency period, LeBron James - on the heels of appearing on "Larry King Live" last month - has commanded an hour-long special tonight at 9 PM ET on ESPN. Titled "The Decision," all advertising proceeds will be donated to charity. In addition, James is expected to utter his "decision" within the first quarter of the program.

More info:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/07/sports/la-sp-lebron-20100708

How intrigued are you to watch this special? And do you think it's the right way for James to go in making this "decision"?
 
DToTheJ said:
In addition, James is expected to utter his "decision" within the first quarter of the program.
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I'll watch the first 15 minutes. If he doesn't spill the beans, I'm out. There's a Futurama block tonight on Comedy Central!
 
It'll be enough to keep me out of a bar tonight. I don't have cable at home - claptrap like this justifies my decision to drop it. It's Bugs Bunny cartoons on VHS for me tonight. ;D

I'm ready to completely give up on the WWENBA, and I've been a fan most of my life. First, the strike, then years of mediocre play. Now that the quality of basketball (Remember "NBA basketball games?" They're something to do between the hype and marketing) is getting a bit better, we get BS like this. Wake me when His Majesty actually does something other than fatten his wallet. :mad:
 
Nope. It's right up there with golf, billiards, poker, volleyball, Ironman, WWE, boxing, figure 8 racing, body building, hot dog eating and motorcycle jumping over casinos as dumb "sports" shows of all time.

I could have also included (in the Most Boring category) swimming, tennis, running, weightlifting, almost all forms of track and field, F1 and any NASCAR plate race.
 
No, because

1) I just don't care about the NBA
2) With so many people out of work and wondering how to pay the rent or mortgage
it is hard to watch a bunch of millionaires over-indulging themselves over personal preferences
and things like "if I join the Knicks I can party with Jay-Z".
3) Whatever he decides I'm sure that ESPN will talk about it exclusively and exhaustively,
just as they have for the past two weeks.
4) Even if I don't turn on ESPN I am two hours drive from Cleveland and I'm sure I will be
able to stick my head out the window and hear the screaming and gnashing of teeth if he leaves.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
No, because... With so many people out of work and wondering how to pay the rent or mortgage, it is hard to watch a bunch of millionaires over-indulging themselves over personal preferences and things like "if I join the Knicks I can party with Jay-Z"...
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I hear ya, and that's possible, but... Jay-Z actually has a controlling interest in the New Jersey Nets, soon-to-be moving to Brooklyn.

I was interested in how many folks not interested in the NBA (like myself) might sample the show. I'll probably DVR it and get to it when time avails, even after I've found out where LeBron is going. At least with a DVR, you can skip through all the commercials whose proceeds are going to charity, anyway... ::)
 
Who else but LeBron James would do something like this?

That would apply to everyone who has a giant-sized ego, that's who.

Meanwhile, I'll be watching Dragnet 1968 on DVD as I could care less about LeBron James and his over-sized ego and what team he's playing on next. Besides tomorrow we'll have our fill of it anyways on national news, local news, internet, etc.
 
Uh, nope. ::)

That's because I have a life. ;D

I'll hear it on the news tomorrow morning as I head to work, will say "hmm, that's interesting", then forget about it.
 
Not even 2 seconds of it. It sets a ridiculous president that fans must hang on every word that an overpaid over inflated egomaniac spouts from his/her piehole. I'll read the blurb where he's going on Twitter and life will move on without having to indulge in this dog and pony show.

ESPN is everything that is wrong in sports.
 
After twenty-seven minutes, including nine minutes of commercials, LeBron James told Jim Gray that he is going to join the Miami Heat.

I'll be waiting for Nets part-owner Will Smith to be called a "sucker" by Will Smith...
 
Robnoxious said:
ESPN is everything that is wrong in sports.
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Sorry, but if I worked there, this is what I'd do.

This is how a broadcaster stays relevant: By owning the biggest stories in your area. If I'm a country station, I'm covering Carrie's wedding. If I'm CHR, I'm at Lindsay's trial. Own the topic. Own it. Do it in a way no one else can. Knowing that CBS, which would have loved to do the same thing, but couldn't afford to pre-empt their prime time line-up. ESPN had nothing to pre-empt.

If you're saying it's a bad idea, you're letting your personal feelings get in the way of good programming. The publicity ESPN is getting out of this can't be measured in simple figures. Front page photos on all the papers, crediting ESPN. News clips on every TV station crediting ESPN. Huge!
 
I would fully expect ESPN to cover the news conference but they diminish their credibility in my eyes doing it tabloid style.

ABC had a segment on James tonight on their national news. It gave measurements on a multitude of body parts (applicable to basketball only....sorry girls). I found that not only tabloid journalism but irresponsible journalism as well. But everyone was beating the drum for the "big" story - similar to what was happening when Farve was "retiring".
 
landtuna said:
I would fully expect ESPN to cover the news conference but they diminish their credibility in my eyes doing it tabloid style.
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It wasn't "tabloid style." There was nothing "tabloid" at all about it.

It was cover to cover, total coverage. If that's tabloid, then it gives a better name to the tabloids.

The reporters aren't making this a story. The fans of the sport are making it a story. The reporters are simply covering it. Not to do that is ignoring the story, which would be irresponsible.
 
While the story is hard to ignore, does anyone not think that it is perhaps a little over-the-top for James to command an hour (actually, 70 minutes, after all is said and done) of airtime to publicly make his "decision"?

TheBigA said:
This is how a broadcaster stays relevant: By owning the biggest stories in your area. If I'm a country station, I'm covering Carrie's wedding... Knowing that CBS, which would have loved to do the same thing, but couldn't afford to pre-empt their prime time line-up. ESPN had nothing to pre-empt.
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Actually, if you consider what ESPN originally had during the 8-10 PM timeslot on Thursday night - "World Cup Primetime" - ugh, yeah, they had nothing to pre-empt... ;)

Now, CMT covering a Carrie Underwood wedding? It would be a matter of what to pre-empt: "Country Fried Home Videos" or the airing of that Pauly Shore movie for the 46th time...
 
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