It's clear to me the NBA wanted 7 games but they only got 6. I rooted for Miami because 3 black men decided to take their own future in their hands and not be slaves to racist owners like Dan Gilbert of Cleveland. Many racist fans there also burned LeBron in effigy, and treated his departure after 7 years of hard labor, as if he were a runaway, ungrateful slave who dared to leave their plantation. Thousands of them plus most of the white sportswriters were rooting for him to lose and be a failure in Miami.
This is why I rooted for Miami and him.
I also knew that this was probably the last chance for Dirk, Jason and Kidd to get a ring. But hundreds of great players over the years never got a ring and it did not detract from their greatness. Race has been made a sub-text in this season and in these playoffs, just as race has been the defining issue in America ever since the country was born. Just read the comments from 'so-called' white 'fans' around the country who see race first and sports second. They are pitiful little creatures cursed with the foul DNA of their worthless, racist, slave-owning ancestors. For this reason Miami's winning was more important to me for it's racial significance.
But it didn't happen this year and may never happen. The sports establishment is determined to punish LeBron in particular, and his teammates collectively, for daring to do what white folks do routinely - determine and be in charge of what's best for their own future. And they wanted to send a message to future uppity blacks that they too will be dissed and cursed and reviled if they dare to leave their plantation without 'massa's prior approval.
The NBA controls who wins or loses with their referees, and who gets punished or not is also controlled by them. It was very evident how this worked in this series. Even the sub-standard coach of Miami who never played a day of Pro basketball, had to follow the League's dictates, and coach as poorly and ineptly as possible when the game was on the line.
No one remembers that ESPN went to LeBron and suggested the staged format where he was to announce his decision to leave or to stay. LeBron gets all the flack and hatred for this, while ESPN gets away scott-free with none.
In the final analysis, the NBA is just a business pretending to be a game, that can't escape the racism that this country was founded on.
Just read the 'comments' section of any sports column or blog about LeBron and Miami, and you'll see what I mean.
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