A 2014 “The Decision” Retrospective

Four years later, I’m stateside for LeBron’s latest announcement.

He’ll dominate the news cycle for the weekend. There’s a reason he announced it at 12 PM Eastern Time on a Friday. What are people going to talk about? The WNBA? AFL? The World Cup Final? Nope. It’s LeBron’s Weekend. Again.

But I don’t forget where we’ve been. And neither should you. For your reading pleasure, we’ve collected our articles surrounding LeBron’s 2010 Decision. Enjoy, reflect, comment.

Goodbye

Dear Paints in the Point readers,

We haven’t published any new posts in quite some time now. You probably know what this means.

Paints in the Point Podcast: Season 2 Episode 9

The Champ, The Custodian, and The Franchise predict playoff teams, attempt to explain the McDonald’s Ice Man, delineate the skill levels of people playing summer basketball, give their picks for end of the year awards, and talk about their new segment, “Get It Son.” The episode wraps up with Wildcard Time, a surprise guest appearance by Dana, a brief discussion about fantasy football, a recap of Dinner with Del Suggs, their favorite Michael Jordan, and NBA 2K11.

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Paints in the Point Podcast: Season 2 Episode 8

The Champ, The Custodian, and The Franchise discuss girls who have gotten pregnant or fat since high school, the NBA preseason, Gilbert Arenas’ faked injury, USC’s alleged NCAA infractions, summer basketball games, their fantasy football league, and Catland. The Freelancer guest stars during Wildcard Time, and two new segments premiere: Champ’s Impression Time and Custodian Interview Time.

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Season Preview: 2010-2011 NBA Season

 

Mr. James has been studying all summer to prepare for the new NBA season, but has anything really changed?

 

In preparation for the start of the NBA season tonight, why not read some of our season previews from last year?

Nothing much has changed, right? Right?

Even if there have been things that have changed over the summer, most of the information is still good— I’m not changing anything in my Clippers or Lakers preview (or for the Lakers, maybe I’ll just add this on). 

Paints in the Point Podcast: Season 2 Episode 7

The Champ, The Custodian, and The Franchise discuss the NBA Preseason, and going to a Wizards game. “True or False” makes its glorious return, and The Franchise introduces a new segment (replete with a new theme song) called “Buy or Sell.” As always, the episode concludes with Wildcard Time.

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Paints in the Point Podcast: Season 2 Episode 6

In an echoey (and short) edition of the Paints in the Point Podcast, The Champ, The Custodian, and The Franchise discuss the depth of the Lakers, Ben Folds’ new album, and The Freelancer guest stars in Wildcard Time.

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Paints in the Point Podcast: Season 2 Episode 5

The Champ, The Custodian, and The Franchise discuss potential destinations for Carmelo Anthony, the furniture at the University of Akron, elaborate pranks, and the song “Magic Chair” by Del Suggs.

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Paints in the Point Podcast: Season 2 Episode 4

The Champ, The Custodian, The Franchise, and special guest star Anderson Varejao discuss week one of the NFL, amateur magic, and Batman villains.

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Paints in the Point Podcast: Season 2 Episode 3

The Champ, The Custodian, and The Franchise talk about the start of the NFL season, LeBron James sightings at the University of Akron, and college football. An early Wild Card Time gets derailed by the newest segment of the Paints in the Point Podcast, the “Upper Decker Hour.”

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Paints in the Point Podcast: Season 2 Episode 2

The Champ, The Custodian, and the Franchise talk basketball. New segments abound: Champ Time, Custodian Time, Franchise Time, and True or False. Wild Card Time features questions from The Freelancer.

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Paints in the Point Podcast: Season 2 Premiere

The Champ, The Custodian, and the The Franchise are back to talk basketball.

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Stratego

The Celtics have an obvious offseason strategy. Their problems last year were their age and their lack of athleticism. So, what do they do? They release Tony Allen (for the record, young and athletic and could defend LeBron/Wade). Then, they pick up Jermaine O’Neal (who lost his youth and athleticism long ago) to replace Kendrick Perkins. Now they have reportedly picked up Shaq (see: Jermaine O’Neal parentheses).

So to recap, they had a problem with their old age and not being able to respond to athletic teams, and in this offseason they got older and less athletic (all due respect to Von Wafer, although I think that goes without saying).

Brother Red Part III: The Departure

If you had pets, do you remember your parents detailing the virtues of taking your aging, and often failing, pets to the farm? This mysterious farm that had acres and acres of open fields filled with mice that your cats could play with or tennis balls your dogs could catch. You thought, “I don’t want to give up my beloved friend, but if (s)he is going to be happier, then who am I to stop this?” You let them go, comforted by the fact that your pet would be better off.

The Shoe is Falling

Chris Paul wants out of New Orleans. I don’t know whether to be happy that there is an NBA story not circling around the Miami franchise or to be sad that CP3 wants away from New Orleans.