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3 point shots can on a nightly basis swing the outcome of a game in a substantial fashion last night the Lakers shot 22 of 41 including if you were watching that game against the Celtics some ridiculous makes down the stretch and I don't just say that because I had the Celtics on the money line and I was robbed highway robbery once more I've got the worst luck going right now.

Maybe in the history of gambling if you start about the time that I lost 30 thousand dollars on the worst call in the history of the NFL and then you got the Celtics up six points with a minute and a half left there up three and LeBron James is going out of bounds and throws the ball wildly back over his shoulder it somehow bounces right to a Celtics player and he gets a wide open three from the corner to tie it and then the Celtics play perfect defense block a shot somehow or

unable to grab the ball at all it bounces all the way out to Ray John Rondo who can't make a jump shot for his life for most of his career and he drains a jumper at the buzzer for the Celtics to lose by one for the Lakers to win by one.

I think we got audio on that it's awful it's horrendous it's brutal here's what it sounded like.

John Rondo.

I mean it was so bad even Lance Stevenson was three for five from three but here's the big takeaway in the larger context now that the NBA trade deadline has passed the Lakers are dead and the Lakers may be dead for the entirety of the time that LeBron James is with them and Los Angeles.

Because the big story I'm notwithstanding what happened with the Celtics win last night which is Fools Gold it really is and I'm not even just a 22 out of 41 from three will probably not happen again for a decade for the Lakers.

They aren't going to shoot that well from three point probably for another decade and they won by one point on the road despite shooting 54% from three which is just an unheard of percentage to make on three point shots.

Nobody wants to play with LeBron and nobody likes Rich Paul and nobody likes the way LeBron James has broken the NBA let me explain.

LeBron James made the decision three different times to leave his team when he was an unrestricted free agent he went to Miami he went back to Cleveland and now he's gone to Los Angeles along the way those decisions broke the NBA.

Let me explain why there is no franchise tag in the NBA so unlike in let's say the NFL where if a player decides he wants to play out his contract and then he wants to bail on the team a lot of CURT cousins the team has a couple of years to figure out what to do and to maintain the relationship with the player.

What was told of so many different NBA franchises was if you stink right now go into the lottery draft the best players that you can develop those players and you can climb to compete on a championship level.

That is a lie because if the player that you have drafted decides that he doesn't like the size of your city or the amount of attention he gets there all law Anthony Davis with the pelicans then that player forces basically the entire team to fall apart.

And this is a major flaw that exists right now in the NBA the biggest flaw that exists right now in the NBA is LeBron Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosch created the idea that superstar should all pay up pair up together and as a result the era of the super team was created which basically meant that about 25 or 26 teams in the NBA have no chance to win a championship.

And I've been ahead of the curve on this because I think it is a disaster for the NBA's overall brand and for the league in general because if you compare them with every other pro sports league in America or even pretty much every other pro sports league in the world.

The NBA is the only league where 90% of teams on the day the season starts have no chance to win a championship.

And ultimately what is it that makes fans tune in to the season it's the quest for a championship your team might not win a championship but if you are an NFL major league baseball.

If you are a NHL fan if you are a fan of any other pro sports league in America they can sell you hope especially if your team makes the playoffs and I think what has happened certainly is one LeBron got one up by the super team.

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