R. Your thoughts on all this free agency stuff?
SVG:
It’s gotten ridiculous I think. It’s really I mean it’s almost
like a parody of itself this whole situation now. Come on, an hour long?
It takes 15 seconds to say I’ve decided to stay in Cleveland but we’ve
got another 59 minutes and 45 seconds to, what? Promote LeBron James? As
if we don’t do that enough. Look, the guy’s a great player and wherever
he goes, my bet would be Cleveland, that place will be excited. But an
hour long special? 
R. Sign of the times, I guess.
SVG: It is a sign of the times. Unfortunately. It’s amazing that a
guy as good as Kobe Bryant simply extended his contract with no real
fanfare or anything else.
R. Kevin Durant did, too.
SVG: Yeah and Kevin Durant is more in the Kobe Bryant mode. You don’t
hear Kobe Bryant and certainly not Kevin Durant talking about their
brand. They don’t. I hear that from the other guys. I don’t hear those
guys talking about their brand, they’re simply basketball players who
want to be great players and win games. Not that those other guys aren’t
great players and don’t want to win games. They do, but there’s also
more to it. It’s not what I like. Other people, I guess, like it. I’m
sure it will be a widely watched show tomorrow. It simply will not have
me as a member of that audience.
R. Bosh and Wade had their announcement on ESPN. Said he’s joining
Wade.
SVG: Well, he’s been following him around for two weeks like his
lapdog. So that doesn’t really surprise me. 
R. What does that do to the balance of power in the East?
SVG: Certainly they’re, they were good anyway. They’re a team that
was, the last two years was a number 5 seed and now they just added one
of the best forwards in basketball. As far as a straight one-two punch
that compares pretty favorably to Kobe and Pau Gasol. It’s right there. I
think they’re instant contenders. I don’t think there’s any doubt.
They’re instant contenders to win an NBA championship. It makes them
very, very good. It’s not like they’re done. They’ve got a lot of money
to put pieces around them. … I don’t care, right now, I can tell you
they’ll get good enough pieces that they’re instant contenders.
R: Do you think Pat [Riley] will come back to coach?
SVG: I hope not. But I don’t have any knowledge.
R: As a coach, do you automatically start thinking about how this
affects your team?
SVG: I think right off the bat you know there’s another significant
contender in the East so that there’s no question it makes things
tougher and you’re gonna have to be better. I don’t think there’s any
doubt about that. You’re always sort of in the mode of, ‘What do we need
to do to get better?’ It doesn’t really change, just adds another very
significant competitor.
…I think a lot of people now will look at them as the team to beat in
the East. You’re talking two of the top seven or eight offensive
players in the NBA on the same team. I don’t think there’s any susprise.
I think it’s what pretty much all of us thought would happen all along.
I think these guys did a masterful job of creating suspense and
carrying out a great charade. I don’t think there was any doubt.
Stoudemire, I’m not sure anybody knew. But LeBron back to Cleveland,
Wade and Bosh in Miami, is pretty much what everybody thought.
R: Joe Johnson back to Atlanta.
SVG: Joe Johnson back in Atlanta. There’s no big surprise.
R: Talking about LeBron, are you thinking he wouldn’t be on TV if he
was going to leave?
SVG: That doesn’t have anything to do with it. I’ve always thought
he’s going back to Cleveland. I just think this free agent thing has
been a masterful publicity opportunity for all of them. They’ve done a
great job of creating more interest in this brand. If Wade just comes
right out and says I’m going back to Miami, he can’t get a film crew to
follow him around to do that. Bosh had to make it look like he
considered all these teams. And had to make it look like they were
really considering those other teams so there would be some suspense and
some interest. I think they did a great job of doing hat but in the end
I don’t think they surprised anybody.R: Think he could go to Miami?
SVG: If he went anywhere but Cleveland I’d be shocked, but I’d be
doubly shocked if he went to Miami.
[Wade and James] both want to be the
man. I think Chris Bosh was a different story. I think he had tried to
be the man. It didn’t work. I think he’s willing to be a very, very good
second fiddle. I think he’s seen what happened to Pau Gasol. Teams that
are good but couldn’t win the playoffs to being the second guy in L.A.
and it’s worked well for him. I’m sure Chris Bosh envisions something
pretty much the same. All those guys would love to be the man but it’s
not that easy as a lot of them have found. I think it’s great for the
Heat and good for him.
Putain de formatage mais amen.
Et il leur faut absolument un pivot
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