Student Reporter Dishes About the King

Opinion

By Brannan Dortman

Husky Herald Reporter

  Lebron “The King” James. Lebron is considerably the best player in the NBA. Lebron plays for his hometown team, the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Cavs are the paper champs of the NBA. With stars like Lebron himself, one of the best young point guards in the league in Kyrie Irving, and the double-double machine in the pure shooter of Kevin Love. These three stars came together in the 2014 off season.

  This is not the first time Lebron has put together a team with three of the NBA’s top stars. In the 2010 offseason he left his now current team in the Cavs to “take his talents to south beach” or otherwise now as the Miami Heat. He joined forces with the league’s best shooting guard in Dwyane Wade and an up incoming center/power forward in Chris Bosh.

  The Big Three of Miami was the first of it’s kind. Miami fans had high hopes. But the team struggled to start the season. They started the season off with a 9-8 record. It was hard for this former top scorers on each of their old teams to mesh together and win basketball games. Egos were crushed but accepted. Once the team figured things out they went to finish off the season with a 58-24 record. Finishing on top of the Eastern Conference. The team then went on to the NBA Finals to face the powerhouse of the Dallas Mavericks and it’s franchise player Dirk Nowitzki. The Mavs turned out to be too strong of a team for the Big Three to surpass and they lost the series. But the Heat went on to win the next two NBA Titles against the Thunder of Oklahoma City and the San Antonio Spurs. Finally in the last year of the Big Three era, the Spurs got their redemption against the Big Three and defeated them for the NBA Championship.

  The Big Three of Cleveland in 2014 have found their early season struggles being below .500 win percentage at 19-20 with the All-Star break creeping up. A lot of sports analyst and fans are wondering if the team can get it together and compete for a NBA Title or if it’s time to give up and blow the roster up. There are many similarities in this two teams but the future of Cleveland is up for debate.