Austin Carr Inducted Into Inaugural NCAA Basketball Hall of Fame

Austin Carr has been announced to be part of the inaugrual class of inductees to the NCAA Basketball hall of fame (with other greats such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar).

Its a very, very high honor and AC is very deserving. Here are some notes on his HOF Notre Dame Career:
"The consensus player of the year for Notre Dame in 1971 and a unanimous first team All-America player, Carr holds the NCAA tournament career record for scoring average at 41.3 points per game. He also holds the tournament game records for points with 61, field goals with 25 and field goals attempted with 44. Carr was named to the ESPN Top 50 college players of all-time in 2005."

Way to go AC. "Mr. Cavalier" is a 100% class act and a Cav through and through. I also think he is cool as hell because he gave me (just a random crazed fan) a hug with tears still in his eyes at the draft party just after we won the lottery. THAT is a guy who loves the wine and gold.

LeBron is Eastern Conference PotM for March 2007

LBJ was named Eastern Conference Player of the Month for March 2007.
He posted stats of 30.3 ppg on .484 shooting, 6.7 rebounds and 7.0 assists per game in 15 games (Cavs went 11-4 in these games).

This is LeBron's 5th PotM award and he is still the only Cav to have ever won the honor.
Its all on the Awards Page.


All things considered, LBJ finished the season strong. He will most likely (in my estimation) finish 4th in MVP voting (Dirk, Nash, Kobe).
Remember he finished 8th his first year, 6th his second year and 2nd his third.
Also, looks like he has first team All-NBA locked up again as well (he was 2nd team his 2nd year and 1st team last season).
I keep track of that kind of crap on his NBA Page

Three LBJ Commercials

Added two new commercials and one old one for LeBron to the LeBron Phenomenon Commercials page.

The funny Cub Cadet commercial.


The dramatic Windows Vista commecial.


And the oldy Sprite ''Toy Riding a Dog'' commercial.

LeBron Shoe Leaks! (V and Soldier)

A leak has surfaced about the Air Zoom LeBron V


Also, (much like the LeBron 20-5-5) LBJ has an alternate shoe coming out called "the Soldier".


Check out the new Nike Year 5 Page in the LeBron Phenomenon page to check it all out.

(FYI: if you want to check out two awesome LeBron shoe pages, look at LeBron Talk and Nike Lebron.net. That's what I do.)

THE Ohio State University to Wear LBJ

Kindof a cool story I think. The Buckeyes are going to be a "LeBron" team. This means the jerseys will no longer sport the Nike logo. Now they will sport the LBJ 23 logo.

Also, they'll be a new style of "form fitting" jersey for a tailored look
(check out USA Today's coverage.)

This is pretty neat. I remember when a bunch of teams (Cinci most notably) became Air Jordan teams and started wearing the Jumpman logo and how cool I thought that was.

James (almost) sets All-Star Voting Record

Hard to believe but an Ohioan, playing in Cleveland has set the record for most votes ever for the NBA All-Star Game. James received a ridiculous 2,558,278 votes.

All this after all we hear is "he's gotta go to LA or Chicago or NY to be popular. Seems like he's doing just fine to me.


(UPDATE: I have updated this post because, James' total is actually second all time to Yao's total from last year)

LeBron Can Jump High

Added the vid of LBJ's big dunk against Philly back in November on the videos page.

Blog Update

Guys, I have upgraded our blog from Blogger Beta to Blogger V1.x
This means lots of new features (like better history organization, tagging and other stuff).
But, to use all of this stuff, this means that I have to rewrite the stylesheet (ugh). So, bear with me while I struggle through it.

Dwayne Jones is Officially a Cav!

Dwayne Jones played six minutes last night which means he's officially a Cavalier (you have to take the floor in an official game to be counted as having played for a team).

Congrats for sticking it out.

Added LBJ dunk on Duncan

In the Video section of the Multimedia page.

As Reghi would say: "LeBron Loves Levitation"

Congrats to Big Z

Last week Zydrunas Ilgauskas became the the Cleveland Cavaliers all-time leader in offensive rebounds. Being the leader in any cumulative category for a team that's been around for 37 years is a big deal.

Z has been on the Cavs longer than any other player in history with 11 years in tow. By the time he is done he should be the all-time leader in several categories.

To keep perspective, look how much he's changed. I try and use the earliest available picture I can find of the player when they begin their Cavaliers tenure. Just looking at the difference of what he looked like when he first suited up at 20 (before he went off for his first surgery) and what he looks like now lets you now how long he's been here.

On a personal note, Z is one of my all-time favs. A guy who has really embraced Cleveland as his second home. His quote of "...I couldn't sign with another team because I'd be checking the box scores to see how the Cavs did..." let me know that he plans on retiring here as well.

If LBJ and crew can secure a Championship before Z hangs it up, I can easily see number 11 hanging up in the rafters.

Lebron goes dunking

Lebron may not be interested in the entering the All-Star weekend slam dunk contest, but there's no doubt he'd be good at it.

LeBron Behind The Back Warm-up Dunk


courtesy of J.E. Skeets at The Basketball Jones

Spike Likes AZLBJIV

(a little late, but what the heck)

p.s.
Spike. You can't have him

James Player of the Week (again)

9th time

check out the awards page

Wanna keep up on LBJ's Kicks? (there's a lot of 'em)

Check out these sites:

Nike's Official AZLBJIV Site
LeBron Talk
Kaczalas LBJ shoe site
Got Brons?

LBJ Shoe Day!!!

Happy November 16th. Its LeBron shoe day and i went out and bought em. Crunch suggested that I write something up, so here I go.

So, I live in LA... 2,500 miles from Cleveland. Wonder how popular LBJ is out here? I went to Footlocker in Santa Monica at 10:30am... AND THEY WERE SOLD OUT ALREADY! OK, they only open up at 10am, so we know that either there are some people more into LBJ than me or shoe "copping" is more popular out on the west coast.

Anyways, $150 bucks later, I had my Zoom LBJ IV's.

(check them all out on my table)

Since I have all his kicks, I thought I'd review 'em all briefly.

Air Zoom LeBron IV
Heavy, not very detailed but feel great on the foot. I should explain what I mean by "not very detailed". The reason that LeBron's shoes are so cool is because they have lots of little cool details on them. They aren't just a shoe with his name on them.
3rd best overall


Air Zoom LeBron III
Almost perfect. Tons more detail than the the other three. Even his name on the agletts (the tips of the laces). They are ulra cool looking and feel great to wear.
But... 2nd best overall


Air Zoom LeBron II
Cool freaking shoe. Looks like a bullet-proof vest. Nice velcro strap to tighten around your ankle. Not too heavy either. They are simpler than the AZLIII, but still have some cool nooks and crannies.
#1 LeBron shoe so far!
They are, by FAR, the most comfortable and freakin' great to play in.


Air Zoom Generation
LAME name (how can they not name them "THE LEBRON" or something?). Too thin. Not good to wear or play in. But nostagia goes a long way. These are the shoes he wore in Game #1 and the ones he's wearing in his first "Tomahawk Dunk". The photo of that dunk has become THE iconic image of his career (see below).


Other Info.
None of these are his best feeling shoe. The LBJ 20-5-5 shoe (below), is the best feeling shoe I've ever played in. But, since its not an "official" numbered seasonal shoe, I'm not counting it.

Um Yeah,

That was pretty good.

Media Guide Update

I know its probably not the most exciting part of the site... but the Media Guide page in the Miscellaneous section has been updated with the new cover.

Playoffs and awards

Eastern Semi-finals:
1.)Cleveland v. 4.)Chicago - Cleveland
2.)Detroit v. 3.)Miami - Detroit

Eastern Finals:
1.)Cleveland v. 2.)Detroit - Cleveland

Western Semi-finals:
1.)Phoenix v. 5.)Denver - Phoenix
2.)Dallas v. 3.)LAC - LAC

Western Finals:
2.)Dallas v. 3.)LAC - LAC

Finals:
Cleveland v LAC - Cleveland
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MVP: Lebron James

ROY: Adam Morrison

6th Man: Andreas Nocioni

Comeback Player: Amare Stoudemire

Most Improved: Mickael Pietrus

Defensive Player: Bruce Bowen

Coach: Mike Brown

1st Team All NBA: Kobe, Lebron, Dirk, Nash, Duncan

Looks good to me.

Season Predictions

It's time to make some poor predictions for the upcoming NBA season.

Conference Records (wins) and 1st round match-ups and winners

Central
Cleveland 54
Detroit 53
Chicago 49
Milwaukee 44
Indiana 44

Atlantic
New Jersey 49
Knicks 40
Toronto 36
Boston 34
Phila 31

Southeast
Miami 53
Washington 46
Orlando 45
Charlotte 34
Atlanta 28

1.)Cleveland v. 8.)Milwaukee - Cleveland
2.)Detroit v. 7.)Orlando - Detroit
3.)Miami v. 6.)Washington - Miami
4.)Chicago v. 5.)NJ - Chicago

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Northwest
Denver 51
Utah 42
Minnesota 35
Seattle 34
Portland 31

Pacific
Phoenix 55
LAC 53
LAL 45
Sacromento 40
Golden State 39

Southwest
Dallas 53
San Antonio 52
Memphis 47
NOK 43
Houston 34

1.)Phoenix v. 8.)NOK - Phoenix
2.)Dallas v. 7.)LAL - Dallas
3.)LAC v. 6.)Memphis - LAC
4.)S.A. v. 8.)Denver - Denver

More to come later...