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what?
Lebron had the number one jersey. So fuck all those people who spent their $100 to $250, huh? Throwback?
And why would a company move up the production schedule until the last minute in case a player changes jersey numbers? And shipping all of that from China? And get all the 23's out the stories and do what with them?
Much less the next Lebron is in production now, and I'm sure they designed it with the 23 in mind. Scrap all of those and start over again?
This is on LeBron not Nike...
https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-anthony-davis-getting-le-brons-no-23-on-hold-233907363.html
When the Lakers inquired with the league about the jersey change, they were informed the March 15 deadline had passed, sources close to the situation told Yahoo Sports. However, the league would have allowed it if the team were able to work it out with Nike, the manufacturer of the jersey, sources said.
But due to production issues and the massive financial hit Nike would have absorbed from the No. 23 James inventory that’s already been produced, Nike could not accommodate the request for this season, sources said.
RIF.
Its on Nike.
It literally says it the sentence after the one you bolded.
This is about jersey inventory. Lebrons 23 Laker shirt was top seller league wide last season. Due to that high demand Nike produced a shit load and now has inventory to fulfill that demand. They need to move that product before he switches numbers.
And that is still on LeBron because if he would have put the request in on time there wouldn't be an issue with production or the inventory...
He made the request before back in Cleveland before he went to Mia... So he know how this works...
Look, I know all things NBA related makes niggas get emotional (and I'm sure you will cuss me out)
I just basically threw that out there, I wasn't thinking much about the process.
I don’t think it works like that. When you switch teams there’s nothing they can do. He couldn’t have put it in when he went to Miami or everyone would’ve known he was switching teams
Just like people always say “if Jordan wasn’t retired, Rockets wouldn’t have won a chip” even though Jordan wasn’t retired for the second championship, Jordan averaged 30 points per game in the Eastern Conference Finals against Shaq and Penny, and the Rockets dominated the Bulls during that time. Wasn’t even close.
Won’t stop people from saying it.
So whatever. People are going to say what they want to say.
Bottom line, Warriors won and Hakeem’s Rockets won.
Everything else is just flapping gums.
Good comparison. Even if he had retired a full two seasons, Jordan's assumed automatic eight-peat is an annoying argument for ignoring the benefits of all that time off in the middle. The fact that motherfuckers just pretend that he didn't come back in the middle of the Rockets run and his whole Bulls career was [Lavar voice]"undefeated, never lost"[/Lavar voice] after the first ring might be the #1 widespread ignorant sports argument ever.
You're saying its on Bron because he decided to switch too late. Im saying its on Nike because they told Bron "Hold on, we gotta move these #23 units first".
Im not certain this woulda been different had it made the announcement in march tho. That inventory was there or had been ordered in production by then also.
LeBron’s M.J. tribute is all about business
By Adrian Wojnarowski
Yahoo! Sports
March 2, 2010
LeBron James isn’t honoring the greatness of No. 23, but manipulating Michael Jordan’s marketing savvy. The changing of his jersey number as a nod to M.J.’s basketball career is a purely fictional cover story. It’s a tribute to Jordan all right, but more like a cynical ode to his business sense. James wants to grow his global brand and push product; flooding the market with a fresh jersey number does the job.
Between now and then, James ought to spare us the fantasy that moving from No. 23 to No. 6 is about anyone or anything else.
All about Michael?
This is all about LeBron.
When LeBron James should be most concerned with taking Kobe Bryant’s NBA title, he’s making a bid for his standing as the No. 1 seller of NBA jerseys. James watched Bryant make the switch from No. 8 to No. 24 and how it moved him to the top of the list. For the past two seasons, James has finished second to Bryant. No more, James decided. Kobe gave him the blueprint for selling out stock, and now LeBron’s embraced it.
Looking back, Bryant never tried to turn his jersey change into some magnanimous gesture. He switched numbers, and that was that. He wanted to sell jerseys, and he did. He never pretended it was a genuflection to anything but commerce.
Somehow, James has boxed himself with this ridiculous story about how no one should ever wear No. 23, and he’s the first to give it up and maybe everyone else should follow him. This was met with a roll of the eyes, with everyone asking: Wait, you’re giving up No. 23 to take … No. 6?
What about Bill Russell and his 11 NBA championships? Jordan, the greatest ever, cleared a path for the worldly basketball star. But Russell was a black star in turbulent Boston in the 1960s. He anchored the greatest dynasty in the sport’s history, and they’ll remember him as the most dominant defensive player to ever live. In the end, James and everyone else understand this has nothing to do with Jordan or Russell, with No. 23 or No. 6. This is business, and he’s insulting everyone’s intelligence suggesting it’s something else.
The idea that James is honoring Jordan is, well, pure mythology. In a lot of ways, LeBron’s working to distance himself from him. Truth be told, they are rivals far more than confidants. With different lines of shoes, they are competing for power within Nike. They’ll be competing in the Eastern Conference, where the Charlotte Bobcats have beaten the Cavaliers two of three times this season and could be an opening-round opponent. They’ll be competing in collective bargaining talks, owner versus player.
They’ve never been close, although Jordan has never been overly generous with the next generation of NBA icons. He’ll show those players within the Jordan Brand some attention, but his interaction with LeBron and Kobe mostly stems from professional courtesy. Jordan is still protective of his legacy as the greatest player ever, and he’s never been terribly motivated to lend a hand in the overtaking of that.
Around the time James started with his bit about retiring Jordan’s number, Jordan sat with Pat Riley in Miami for a Cavs-Heat game in November. It didn’t go unnoticed to those sitting around them how often James would peer over, searching for some kind of approval from Jordan. He’d make a play and glance over – and it was probably no accident that Jordan offered little to no response. After all, Jordan was there to promote Dwyane Wade as an endorser to his line of shoes, so James was treated as afterthought.
“He’s always looked for that approval from Michael,” one Jordan associate says, “and I don’t know that he’s ever really gotten it – or ever will.”
So James filed paperwork with the NBA prior to the Wednesday deadline, and should he stay with the Cavaliers he’ll wear his Olympic team No. 6 next season. Should he leave, he can wear whatever he wants. Between now and then, no one else will care much about how many jerseys he sells, about how far he surpasses Bryant on the NBA’s list in 2011.
For all his fascination with global branding, with empire building, peddling jerseys doesn’t move LeBron closer to Jordan and Bryant and Russell. Only championships do.
This time, the Cavs have delivered James the supporting cast to do it. No more excuses. James comes armed for the Lakers now. He comes with his legacy on the line, measured in one indisputable and defining way: Before he beats him in the NBA Store, LeBron James needs to beat Kobe Bryant in the NBA Finals.
BGOL reaction:
AD Introductory press conference right now. He said hed take this Lakers team over anybody. Somebody forgot to tell him he not posed to want to play with Bron. 
LeBron’s M.J. tribute is all about business
By Adrian Wojnarowski
Yahoo! Sports
March 2, 2010
LeBron James isn’t honoring the greatness of No. 23, but manipulating Michael Jordan’s marketing savvy. The changing of his jersey number as a nod to M.J.’s basketball career is a purely fictional cover story. It’s a tribute to Jordan all right, but more like a cynical ode to his business sense. James wants to grow his global brand and push product; flooding the market with a fresh jersey number does the job.
Between now and then, James ought to spare us the fantasy that moving from No. 23 to No. 6 is about anyone or anything else.
All about Michael?
This is all about LeBron.
When LeBron James should be most concerned with taking Kobe Bryant’s NBA title, he’s making a bid for his standing as the No. 1 seller of NBA jerseys. James watched Bryant make the switch from No. 8 to No. 24 and how it moved him to the top of the list. For the past two seasons, James has finished second to Bryant. No more, James decided. Kobe gave him the blueprint for selling out stock, and now LeBron’s embraced it.
Looking back, Bryant never tried to turn his jersey change into some magnanimous gesture. He switched numbers, and that was that. He wanted to sell jerseys, and he did. He never pretended it was a genuflection to anything but commerce.
Somehow, James has boxed himself with this ridiculous story about how no one should ever wear No. 23, and he’s the first to give it up and maybe everyone else should follow him. This was met with a roll of the eyes, with everyone asking: Wait, you’re giving up No. 23 to take … No. 6?
What about Bill Russell and his 11 NBA championships? Jordan, the greatest ever, cleared a path for the worldly basketball star. But Russell was a black star in turbulent Boston in the 1960s. He anchored the greatest dynasty in the sport’s history, and they’ll remember him as the most dominant defensive player to ever live. In the end, James and everyone else understand this has nothing to do with Jordan or Russell, with No. 23 or No. 6. This is business, and he’s insulting everyone’s intelligence suggesting it’s something else.
The idea that James is honoring Jordan is, well, pure mythology. In a lot of ways, LeBron’s working to distance himself from him. Truth be told, they are rivals far more than confidants. With different lines of shoes, they are competing for power within Nike. They’ll be competing in the Eastern Conference, where the Charlotte Bobcats have beaten the Cavaliers two of three times this season and could be an opening-round opponent. They’ll be competing in collective bargaining talks, owner versus player.
They’ve never been close, although Jordan has never been overly generous with the next generation of NBA icons. He’ll show those players within the Jordan Brand some attention, but his interaction with LeBron and Kobe mostly stems from professional courtesy. Jordan is still protective of his legacy as the greatest player ever, and he’s never been terribly motivated to lend a hand in the overtaking of that.
Around the time James started with his bit about retiring Jordan’s number, Jordan sat with Pat Riley in Miami for a Cavs-Heat game in November. It didn’t go unnoticed to those sitting around them how often James would peer over, searching for some kind of approval from Jordan. He’d make a play and glance over – and it was probably no accident that Jordan offered little to no response. After all, Jordan was there to promote Dwyane Wade as an endorser to his line of shoes, so James was treated as afterthought.
“He’s always looked for that approval from Michael,” one Jordan associate says, “and I don’t know that he’s ever really gotten it – or ever will.”
So James filed paperwork with the NBA prior to the Wednesday deadline, and should he stay with the Cavaliers he’ll wear his Olympic team No. 6 next season. Should he leave, he can wear whatever he wants. Between now and then, no one else will care much about how many jerseys he sells, about how far he surpasses Bryant on the NBA’s list in 2011.
For all his fascination with global branding, with empire building, peddling jerseys doesn’t move LeBron closer to Jordan and Bryant and Russell. Only championships do.
This time, the Cavs have delivered James the supporting cast to do it. No more excuses. James comes armed for the Lakers now. He comes with his legacy on the line, measured in one indisputable and defining way: Before he beats him in the NBA Store, LeBron James needs to beat Kobe Bryant in the NBA Finals.
BGOL reaction:
This was before the decision. Riley retired the number 23 as a tribute to Jordan so Bron wore 6.
Spo is an okay coach. He had no clue what to do. This is when they started out 9-8
Luda usually kills when guesting on tracks.
From the comment section
“LL said he had to re-do his original verse because Luda's verse was too nice. Luda was untouchable during that time period every remix he jumped on he killed it.”
They can get those kids In them sweatshops to work overtime
The boxer?rip Vernon Forrest
Real facts
He seems like he studies the song and the artist and blends.
Must be pretty professional as well. Shows up on time and respects deadlines. He seems to stay working
Seems LL got a habit of redoing verses
I know it was before The Decision. Jasonblacc said "He couldn’t have put it in when he went to Miami or everyone would’ve known he was switching teams." But the point is, he did. As the March 2010 article said, "James filed paperwork with the NBA prior to the Wednesday deadline, and should he stay with the Cavaliers he’ll wear his Olympic team No. 6 next season. Should he leave, he can wear whatever he wants." As the current situation shows, it's not that easy from a merchandise perspective. So LeBron declaring he'd wear #6 before The Decision was a huge tell.
Yes. My mind ran across him as I saw his cameo in the Welcome To Atlanta vid.
I don't think Nike should have to eat those loses and change the number. This shit is business at the end of the day and that wouldn't make any business senses for them.
That being said, I am surprised that Lebron doesn't have more power here.
That being said, I am surprised that Lebron doesn't have more power here.
from what I briefly read it seems like he could’ve pursued the matter more if he wanted to but didn’t want it to be a distraction
Marcus Morris and Nerlens Noel fired Rich Paul
Noel turning down 4 years and 70 mil from Dallas.
And then getting rid of your agent, because you think you were worth the max and counting on a qualifying offer and becoming a unrestricted free agent.
I wonder if this means Morris didn't know about the New York and other offers. They were saying that he was getting offers. I wonder if Paul was trying to lure him to the Lakers, but they didn't have the best offer.
Seems like Rich Paul is really only working out for KCP who keeps getting overpaid
Noel turning down 4 years and 70 mil from Dallas.
And then getting rid of your agent, because you think you were worth the max and counting on a qualifying offer and becoming a unrestricted free agent.I wonder if this means Morris didn't know about the New York and other offers. They were saying that he was getting offers. I wonder if Paul was trying to lure him to the Lakers, but they didn't have the best offer.
Seems like Rich Paul is really only working out for KCP who keeps getting overpaid
Marcus Morris and Nerlens Noel fired Rich Paul
Noel turning down 4 years and 70 mil from Dallas.
I wonder if this means Morris didn't know about the New York and other offers. They were saying that he was getting offers. I wonder if Paul was trying to lure him to the Lakers, but they didn't have the best offer.
Seems like Rich Paul is really only working out for KCP who keeps getting overpaid
granted it’s semantics but morris and paul were a mutual separation...noel is still w/ klutch
https://www.google.com/amp/s/clutch...ual-nerlen-noel-stays-with-klutch-sports/amp/
