Raps vs Cavs

Who is the best player to come out of the 2003 NBA draft? What’s that? Do you hear the chant? D-WADE! D-WADE! D-WADE! This guy is the most exciting player in the NBA. The Score’s show Court Cuts devotes and entire section of each weeks highlights to this one player. No one and I mean no one attacks the basket like this guy. Every night he plays he makes the highlight real and he does it with or without Shaq. Wade kept his team around 500 while Shaq was out and still managed to put up huge numbers. 28 points, 9 free throws, 4.8 boards, 7.8 assists 2.1 steals and 1.3 blocks per game! He has more blocks than Chris Bosh! It is true, I do have a bit of a man crush on Wade and I do have him on my fantasy team but I still think that I am unbiased about this.

Tonight the Raptors are going to face the player who was supposed to be the best pick in that draft. Lebron James has had a very disappointing year. All of his stats are down. He recently said that his goal was to become a “global icon”. I think he should be more concerned with getting his free through percentage above 70%. There are also some interesting statements being thrown around sports media circle questioning his commitment to his team, his coach and his daily effort. If I am Lebron, I am pretty concerned with people questioning my commitment levels. Does he want to be a global icon for excellence or for the guy that never tried hard enough to reach his potential? I am sure that the long lists of companies that he endorses don’t want to be associated with someone who has the reputation of a slacker.

I am calling the Raptors to win tonight. Bosh will put up 28 and 9 boards. I am interested to see how Parker deals with being matched-up with another big name. He did a great job on Kobe and played Vince well too.

On another note, we are getting ready to put out our first top 50 fantasy player list. We will be getting baseball done first so that people can have another cheat sheet for the upcoming drafts.