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Looks like our plan worked - we didn’t watch the Cavaliers, and apparently they played with some actual energy and got the win over the Hawks last night.

(This isn’t entirely true - we flipped it on for a moment, watched Ira Newble (!) take two straight threes, assumed the worst, and went elsewhere.)

Anyway, the boycott is over, and we feel obliged to watch the game against the Rockets of Houston tonight.

By all accounts, LeBron was dominant last night, which he agrees with completely.

“When I’m in an attack mode, my team kind of vibes off that,'’ James said. “We came out with a focus to get a road win and we did.'’

“The fourth quarter is when I need to put my cape on,'’ James said. “If I’m going to be a leader that’s when I’m going to have to be at my best.'’

We’ve long called his attack mode “Angry LeBron”, which isn’t all that original or creative, nor by any rights do we have hold on it - any of you guys over at Page 2 are welcome to it.

Speaking of the fiasco of the last 36 hours, the following will be our final word on it in public, beyond the obligatory series of passive-aggressive jabs. With all of your help, we think our point was made sufficiently, and the last thing we want is to go from “the site who hated the tights” to “the site with the Scoop Jackson beef”.

If this isn’t fun, there’s no point to it. Alas:

1) We never, ever said we wanted Scoop Jackson fired or even disciplined. We like Scoop as a person. We just wanted “Orange Roundie” off the ESPN site. It’s now there less, so that’s something.

2) Scoop could’ve avoided all of this if he’d just contacted us himself instead of going through Deadspin. “Tell the guys over at YAY…”? Are we that hard to find?

Anyway - thanks again for all of your support. The person who overnighted the wedding cake went too far, but such is life.

NOTE: The server move is probably going to happen this weekend sometime, which is when everything gets UGLY for about three weeks design-wise. We may just operate out of two places - not sure how this is gonna go down yet.

NOTE 2: The Players Union is suing the NBA over the Roundie and technical fouls. Strangely enough, there’s no mention of this on NBA.com.

NOTE 3: None of this will stop us from getting that “League of Roundie Henchmen” stuff designed and up sometime in the future.