I will never root for LeBron James…
LeBron James's signing with the Miami Heat is bad for LeBron, bad for the NBA and, potentially, bad for the Denver Nuggets.
If LeBron James bailed on Cleveland in the least classy way possible (as he ultimately did) I was all set to use "LeBron James is a selfish, clueless dickhead" as my column header, but Deadspin's Drew Magary beat me to the punch earlier this morning with a much more succinct, articulate and humorous diatribe than anything I'd have come up with. But regardless of what name-calling you want to deploy in reference to LeBron (and trust me, they're all warranted at this point), it doesn't change the fact that his signing by the Miami Heat is bad for everyone involved and the NBA in general.
First off, I feel awful for the city of Cleveland and Cavaliers fans everywhere. Like Denver, Cleveland is a small market city by professional sports standards and, also like Denver, its basketball franchise did whatever it could (read: spend gazillions of dollars, fire two coaches, fire two GMs and make countless deals to get "the King" a ring) to build a team around its superstar in hopes of keeping him there. Therefore, I don't begrudge Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert one bit for his post-announcement comments referring to LeBron's "shocking lack of disloyalty" among other much more colorful statements. Gilbert and the Cavaliers did more for LeBron than Glen Taylor and the Timberwolves ever did for Kevin Garnett and yet LeBron didn't have the courtesy of talking to Gilbert face-to-face about his decision, opting instead to string Gilbert and Cavaliers fans alongside the rest of the world.
Second, I regret re-upping my season tickets for the 2010-11 Denver Nuggets season, because I don't want to support the NBA with my dollars right now. The system is broken. Two franchises - Toronto and Cleveland - died this week, meaning as a Nuggets season ticket holder I'm stuck with two more worthless games that combined will cost me about $600 to sit through. And while I appreciate Gilbert's comments guaranteeing that Cleveland will win a championship before Miami does, the Cavaliers effectively have to start over (just as Denver might next year...more on that shortly). By LeBron, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade effectively colluding to play together in Miami, they've ruined the competitive balance of the NBA in one week. Suffice to say I'll be rooting boisterously for the Celtics, Bulls and Magic to kick the Heat's ass in the Eastern Conference next season.
LG Flat-Screen TV Gets Skinny
Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- Think your TV is pretty slim? After seeing LG's new television, you may want to put that flat-screen of yours on a diet.
The South Korean electronics manufacturer unveiled a television Wednesday that is less than 7 millimeters thick.
The product, which is so new it doesn't have a name, was brought on stage briefly during an LG press event at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. It looked to be not much thicker than a piece of posterboard.
A spokeswoman said the TV should be available late this year.
Previously, LG's thinnest TV was 23.3 millimeters thick, or about three times as wide as the new hyper-slim television, said Woo Paik, LG's chief technology officer.
"This is a brand new product, and it's very exciting," Woo said at the event.
Few details on the super-skinny TV were immediately available. LG announced a number of new television products in its Infinia line, and representatives said most of the company's TVs this year will be connected to the Internet and to other home devices, a trend the industry calls "connected TV."
Bad Habits Take a Decade Off Life: Study
PARIS (AFP) - – Middle-aged male smokers with high cholesterol and blood pressure die, on average, a decade sooner than peers without any of these heart disease risk factors, according to a study published on Friday.
Many studies have shown that not smoking, eating healthily and exercising cut heart disease rates.
But few have tackled the problem from the other end: to what extent is life expectancy shortened by having these heart disease risk factors?
To find out, researchers from Oxford University sifted through data from 19,000 male civil servants who were examined in the late 1960s when they were 40 to 69 years old.
Participants provided detailed information about their medical history, lifestyle and smoking habits, and doctors recorded their weight, blood pressure, lung function, cholesterol and blood sugar levels.
More than 7,000 of the surviving participants were re-evaluated in 1997, 28 years after the initial examination.
The study, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), found that the men who faced a triple risk threat at the outset were two-to-three times more likely to have died of a heart-related problem than men free of all three risk factors.
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