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Originally Posted by Omega
 i dont understand what is wanted. is it expected that people across the globe will join hands and announce in unison that lebron is the single best player in the NBA. look people have different opinions. and plain and simple lebron does get a lot of coverage. tons of it. i cant watch more than two seconds of espn without lebron showing up in some way some form. |
What's wanted is fair, balanced, objective coverage, something E.S.P.N. doesn't offer in the slightest. The talking heads over at E.S.P.N. take any given team and chalk their success up to their star player. This leads to them talking continuously about Kobe Bryant as being the lord most high among the N.B.A. landscape because his team is in first place. The majority of their coverage gives very little credence to the rest of the team. Sure, they'll bring up Andrew Bynum every now and again, but for the most part the talks over at E.S.P.N. spend about 50 percent of the time talking about the teams and 40 percent of the time talking about the star players, five percent of their time talking about the role players, three percent of the time talking about the coaches, and two percent of the time talking about personnel.
For example, they'll talk about how Allen Iverson is failing his team while being one of the top three guys in his position, yet they'll never ever question why the hell Anthony Carter is starting. Because the time they spend talking about the star players is way off kilter, the fact goes unmentioned that while Bryant has had quality top tier second and third men on the floor, the Cavaliers short of James and Zydrunas Ilgauskas are absolutely atrocious. Aleksandar Pavlovic has had the worst production of any shooting guard in the league and Larry Hughes, Daniel Gibson, and Eric Snow were among the bottom 20 at their respective positions. Those things would never get mentioned on E.S.P.N.
E.S.P.N also spends far too much time talking about the story that is the most sexy rather than being objective. Jason Kidd is a former star player in the N.B.A., but by no means is a top player in today's game at the point guard position. Still, they buried his name in every story they possibly could to milk the New York metropolitan area and made him into an N.B.A. All-Star over the likes of Chauncey Billups who is the second best point guard in the league and Jose Calderon who very much deserved it over Kidd.
In addition to all of this, they cling to points like they're the only thing that matter. In a recently televised game, the Denver Nuggets took on the Los Angeles Clippers. They talked about how horrid defensively the Nuggets were despite having easily one of the top three defensive centers in the game and they talked about how Allen Iverson stepped his defensive game up in recent months. Meanwhile, Corey Maggette and Al Thorton pour on 61 points and they have the audacity to credit Carmello Anthony with being one of the top two or three small forwards in the league. Apparently the likes of Paul Pierce, Caron Butler, and Josh Howard, the first or second best players on their respective playoff teams who contribute not just on the offensive end, but the defensive end as well, are all worse than the terribly one or at best two dimensional Carmello Anthony because they don't score as much.
The people on this particular board want fair and balanced coverage, something that E.S.P.N. has not been towards James who has scored more points while being more efficient with his shooting attempts while averaging more assists while averaging more assists per turnover while averaging more blocks while averaging more rebounding while averaging drawing more fouls while averaging less fouls while averaging the same amount of steals and turnovers than Bryant.