The 10 worst NBA decisions since "The Decision" by LeBron James
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🗓️ 7 July 2020
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Ben Golliver and Michael Pina commemorate the tenth anniversary of LeBron James's "The Decision" television special by running through the 10 worst NBA decisions of the past decade. Before they dig into the list, Ben and Michael recall where they were when they found out James had picked the Heat in 2010, whether Miami's four-year run was a success or a disappointment (or both), and why "The Decision" left such a major mark on the league. Then, it's time to dig deep on blown draft picks (Anthony Bennett), terrible trades (Jayson Tatum), insane free agent contracts (Ian Mahinmi), and much more.
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| 1:25.0 | What's up, OpenFore Glow. This is Ben Gover, what the Washington Post. I am joined on the other |
| 1:36.8 | line by Michael Dupont. Peanut now Michael, this week is the 10 year anniversary of the decision |
| 1:43.8 | LeBron James's nationally televised special in 2010, where he picked the Miami Heat and the |
| 1:50.0 | pleasures of South Beach over returning to Jury Cleveland, Ohio to play with the Cavaliers. |
| 1:57.4 | In hindsight, probably not the most controversial and illogical decision, but at the time it was |
| 2:03.6 | obviously a very, very big deal. He wound up undoing a lot of the damage by going home in 2014, |
| 2:10.2 | as we know, winning the title in 2016, as everybody remembers. But Michael, I wanted to |
| 2:16.3 | use the decisions 10th anniversary as a jumping off point for discussion of the 10 worst NBA |
| 2:24.0 | decisions of the past decade. How does that sound? This is, I mean, I don't think I've ever been |
| 2:30.2 | more excited to do an episode with you Ben. Yeah, this is sort of like the mountain rush |
| 2:37.0 | more of mistakes or something like that. I don't know exactly what we're going to call it, but |
| 2:40.8 | we're going to dig into that in a minute. Before we do, what do you remember about the decision, |
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