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Listened to this BS Report Podcast w/ Brian Windhorst. Very good listen with tons of insight about the 2014-2015 season.

http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=12594321

Not listening to anything that fat leech has to say

Really? I like BW. I think he has a very good perspective. To each their own, I guess.

I think he's a typical BSPN cockroach riding the coattails of Lebron. He stirs crap up because I'm starting to believe he's really not in Lebrons inner circle.

You know he was with The Plain Dealer first, right? The only reason he went to ESPN is because ESPN offered a boat load more than PD and all he did was write about LeBron, since BW has known LeBron since his days at SVSM.

Is Kyrie the 2nd best player in the east? Serious question.

huh?

For someone not inside LeBron's inner circle, he sure knows a lot about LeBron's inner circle.

He was most certainly in that inner circle, but I believe he no longer is and that is why he is making so many stupid reports since the return went down.

I tend to believe what Windhorst is saying as he has first hand accounts of what was going on. His life would also be much easier if he just said everything was going well. Even if he is not in LeBron's "inner circle" (which I think he is), if you listen to the podcast many of the things he talked about have nothing to do with knowing LeBron personally. Many things can be observed, and have been corroborated, just by being around the team a lot.

I could be wrong here, but it doesn't seem like BW is as close to the situation as he once was. When LeBron separated himself from ESPN, I think that included BW.

Pure speculation, but to hear him talk he doesn't sound like he's really got a clue.

He follows the team on an almost daily basis. He is literally reporting on things he sees with his own eyes (and that other people have noticed as well).

So do other hacks for other teams. What's your point?

Lebron didn't want people to know he had a daughter recently. Yet some of you think he's just going to let lockeroom drama and issues leak like they have? Lebron isn't stupid. He and his circle calculate and control everything that gets leaked. Do you really think he'd let someone like Windhorst leak every detail about the team and more specifically him?

Good lord the edit / delete feature on this new site layout is irritating.

Locker room drama like him calling the plays? Love being upset? Taking a two week vacation? The team liking Lue more than Blatt?

Everything Windhorst said with Simmons, Simmons said something like, "Well, yeah. Everyone knew something like that was going on."

It's called hyperbole and dramatization. ESPN manufactures headlines and stories to sell to people like you.

Bulls lost to the Bucks tonight. That puts us up 3 on them and the Raptors with 7 to go.

How would Simmons know anything about the situation?

I'll be at the game tonight! Cavs n Heat! Let's handle business and get some payback!

I guess Kevin and Iman practiced, but I'm not sure if they're playing though.

With a 3 game lead and 7 games to go, I don't know if we can hit cruise control just yet. It would be nice to clinch the 2 seed ASAP so Blatt can start resting everyone before the playoffs.

Two things ... First, ESPN is a borderline shady news organization that sometimes would rather "make up" the news rather than report it. They remind me of the bad guy in that Bond movie "Tomorrow Never Dies" where they'd have no qualms with kicking off a war, just to be the first to report it. They love to take things out of context or even just invent things that aren't there to just have a story they can push. They've been outed many times in the past for telling their reporters to be the first to break stories, even if they don't have all the facts.

Second, Windhorst USED to be a guy very well-connected to Lebron and his people, but now not so much. ESPN hired him specifically BECAUSE he was attached to Lebron's undershorts and wanted to get all the inside data they could. At some point I think Lebron realized the guy was making a living off of nothing but tagging along for the ride and got tired of him. Now, I don't think Lebron gives him any inside information, but ESPN keeps him around just on reputation alone.

It was no big surprise that during this past summer's free agency, that ESPN was pretty much dead-wrong on every "breaking" story they released. It was almost like Lebron and his crew was feeding them bad info deliberately. ESPN reports that the "letter" was the only thing delaying his decision ... we find out later that Gilbert and Lebron buried the hatchet about that a week prior. ESPN reports that he's leaning towards returning to the Heat ... he goes to the Cavs.

I don't think Windy has reported anything this year that hasn't been just straight rumor. He has no real inside info anymore. When Simmons says something like, "Well yeah, everyone knew something like that was going on." He might as well just say ... "Well we're not sure, but at least it fits our network agenda"

Irving and Love, questionable.

Losing either will hurt, losing both would be devastating against Miami.

http://fox8.com/2015/04/02/irving-love-questionable-for-cavaliers-against-heat/

Cavs haven't lost with at least 2 days of rest since the 3rd game of the season. However no Irving and Love would nuke that advantage.

Which part is dramatized and/or hyperbolic?

Because he knows people within the league? Why would he lie?

How Love and Lebron don't like eachother. There was reports that Lebron and Kyrie didn't get along. Reports that the team turned on Blatt. Lebron supposedly quit on the team before his 2 week break. Reporters try to play the role of psychoanalyst.

A lot of this is the same crap we heard when he was in Miami. No coincidence it's the same guy reporting it. Yet Miami is about as family oriented of a professional team as there is.

Is this the playoffs? If not, who cares? I don't care about a 2 seed. I would like to see us rest some players at this point

I'd prefer to start resting guys more as well ... who cares if you're the 1/2/3 seed? It's minimal

I know having people healthy is the most important thing but having the second seed will give us home court for at least two rounds

The coach said he doesn't care about the seed.

Delly for threeeee

The only "advantage" of seeding is getting a cupcake matchup. I'd LOVE to face Boston or Brooklynn in the 1st round as opposed to Milwaukee even though we're better than them all.

I wonder how badly Wade is hurt? That fall he took looked really bad.

I'd rather play Milwaukee, that team is terrible.

Just saw these Timofey Mozgov local ads.

Fantastic. Better than Vizquel's old Willoughby Supply spots.

Hopefully we lock up the 2 seed soon. Our guys would get some nice rest before the playoffs. A win Sunday just about wraps it up.

The Bulls are getting curb stomped tomorrow.

So awesome that the playoffs start two weeks from tomorrow. NBA and NHL playoff season is one of the best times of the year.

shumperts sweaty ass caused that. same thing happened 2 or 3 games prior, someone fell right from where he had just taken a jumpshot the possession prior.


lol

Lebron wants to post up more in the playoffs. It'll be scary when he plays bully ball on the block.