Go West, Young Men: The Heat’s Failure of Courage
June 12, 2012 13 Comments
Among the reasons the Miami Heat are so easy to hate is that James, Wade, and Bosh chose to play together in the NBA’s weak eastern conference. If the boys considered themselves such hot stuff, why didn’t they join forces in Golden State? Yeah, I know payroll may be part of the answer; to talk about the NBA nowadays, you have to be an accountant. But it can’t be coincidence that the three all-stars thought it would be fun to play together where they could let most of the league’s best teams fight it out amongst themselves, while they sat back, ready to face whomever was left standing.
