It's Been a Bad Week for LeBron, but a Good Week for Point Guards Over the Age of 30

To say it's been a bad week for LeBron is an understatement. Check out happenings from the last 7 days:

1) Personal recruiting trip to convince Ron Artest did not succeed
2) Personal recruitiing trip to convince Trevor Ariza did not succeed
3) Ariza started a public relations disaster for LeBron, where Ariza alleged that LeBron said he would stay in Cleveland past 2010. Rather than LeBron just sit tight, he had it leaked that that is NOT what he said. I interpret that as meaning that he is not necessarily staying in Cleveland nor not necessarily leaving Cleveland. Whatever interpretation the public is supposed to have, I'm sure that public relations games with regards to his future were not on his list of things-to-do for the week.
4) Cavs assistant coach Jon Kuester, who called offensive plays during the season, left the team. The team now needs a new offensive coordinator, because the head coach (Mike Brown) is incapable of calling offensive plays for some reason.
5) To top it all off... he got dunked on at a camp by a sophomore from Xavier named Jordan Crawford... which prompted Nike to obtain all of the videos to ensure that no one ever sees LeBron getting dunked on. This just proves that LeBron is sensitive. Who knew?

You know who's having a good week?

1) Oguchi Onyewu - The huge 6'4" US Soccer defender signed a 3-year deal with AC Milan, becoming only the 2nd US player EVER, after Alexi Lalas, to play in Serie A, (the top league in Italy). Congrats!

2) Chad Ocho Cinco - Is planning to Tweet DURING each NFL game. I really could care less about Twitter, but I love how Ocho Cinco is always causing trouble for the uber-conservative NFL. Predictably, the NFL is not signing off on the plan, and I'm sure they will have a Twitter policy during the season, or at least fine Ocho Cinco repeatedly. I think Ocho Cinco should just skip the Twitter and move right into just using a mini-web-cam and microphone to broadcast his own color commentary on each game... as he plays.

3) Two Point Guards over the age of 30 - 31-year old Mike Bibby & 36-year old Jason Kidd - with very little NBA free agency dollars available this summer for free agents, Bibby somehow convinced the Hawks to re-sign him for 3 years, $18 million, and Kidd somehow convinced the Mavs to re-sign him for 3 years, $25 million. Congrats to them I suppose. I still can't believe a) how much money they received, and b) how they were able to get 3 years each. Did either of their GMs even watch them last season??? This does make it a bad week for some of the other free agents... like PG Andre Miller. The strange thing is, 33-year old Andre Miller posted an 18.71 PER (efficiency rating) on Hollinger's stats, compared to only a 16.95 and a 16.05 PER for Kidd and Bibby respectively. Miller also was more successful on 82games.com Roland Rating with a 4.3, compared to Kidd's 4.1, and Bibby's atrocious 0.0 (due to his terrible defensive skills). The point is, while Miller may not be as famous as the other two over-30 point guards, I'm completely surprised at how much the other two point guards are getting... and how Miller will be getting very little.

4) MJ & Gutsy Goldberg - For debating Tiger Woods vs. Roger Federer one year before Sports Illustrated did. Granted, Sports Illustrated calls it "the impossible debate." Either way, MJ & Gutsy Goldberg deserve credit for beating SI by one year on the story.