This year’s Miami Heat roster features the Miami Thrice: Lebron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.
Classmates in the 2003 NBA Draft, they now form one of the most talented trios the NBA has ever seen.
For the upcoming 2010-2011 NBA season, the Miami Heat will be the focal point of the hoops community as many already anointed them as the 2011 NBA champions before they even set off on an NBA court together.
Seems like “Z” wants a championship ring so bad too.
Less than a week after Lebron James announced his decision to join Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to play for the Miami Heat starting this season, Lebron’s former Cavaliers teammate Zydrunas Ilgauskas decided to jump on the bandwagon too to lend his support to the triumvirate.
Who’s better? Kobe Bryant or Lebron James?
For the second straight year, the two basketball demigods are nominated in the ESPY (Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly) Awards for the Best Male Athlete category.
“This fall I am taking my talents to South Beach and play with the Miami Heat. The major factor was the best opportunity for me to win, to win now and for the future also. Winning is the most important thing for me. I feel like this is going to be the best opportunity.”
With these words uttered at ESPN’s “The Decision” last July 8 at 9:00 PM, Lebron bolted out of Cleveland to join Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in Miami Heat starting next season.
Classmates in the 2003 NBA Draft, they now form one of the most talented trios the NBA has ever seen.
Just moments after Lebron James announced his desire at ESPN’s “The Decision” to be part of the Miami Heat to be reunited with his 2008 Olympic gold medal team mates, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, Cleveland Cavaliers majority owner Dan Gilbert posted to the Cavaliers’ web site an open letter for Cleveland citizens regarding his feelings for Lebron’s decision.
It was a letter of disappointment, of frustration, of betrayal, almost of hatred for the man he now considers “our former hero”.
Read it in its entirety below:
Lebron James has finally made the decision.
In a one-hour TV special on ESPN titled “The Decision” last July 8 at 9:00 PM, Lebron has announced that he will be joining Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to play for the Miami Heat starting next season.
Thus ending weeks of speculation and leaving a heart broken city of Cleveland in its wake.
