Believe it or not, this actually has me contemplating getting League Pass for the rest of the season.

It’s not Gasol-to-the-Lakers or anything, but look at the dynamics of how LeBron plays, and you have be a little curious.

Drive and dump to Ben…Ben can handle that, and we’re not entirely convinced (although we’re sure we wrote the opposite in the past) that Ben is completely washed up. Remember, he’ll be playing power forward for CLE, which paired with Z, makes them pretty big upfront.

Wally is perfect for LeBron – doesn’t have to handle the ball – just stand out there and shoot it.

Getting rid of Larry Hughes is great for chemistry, and as far as contracts, they’ve added nothing extraordinary in the long term.

We’ve always felt Delonte West was a good PG for a LeBron James, as well.

We’re down with this deal – it’s a risk, but a calculated one.

UPDATE: The infamous Farlane sent us this lil’ thing he made for us, inaccurately depicting what happened when we heard about the trade:

We will forevermore be of the opinion that Bill Belichick ran off the field early so that he had have to show us (yes, us…personally) his stupid face.

(Apparently Tom Brady left the field early, as well. Nice.)

Never in our life could we imagine openly cheering and jumping around for a New York team and/or a Manning, but that was just too awesome lasterday – good for the Giants.

We’re not sure which t-shirt will be more overproduced on cafepress – the “18-1″ or the “I’m F—–g Matt Damon”.

Personally, we’d like to see a really nice one that mimics those ones the NBA does. We don’t know the Pats that well, but we figure it’s something like

Tom &
Bill &
Randy &
Simmons &
Chowder

on the front, with a big “18-1″ on the back. (If anyone wants to hi-jack that, you’re welcome to it.)

Not much else to report this weekend – we caught the end of the Cavaliers game on Saturday when we realized they were playing the Clippers and it was on here.

Is LeBron really going to the bucket like this all season? Like literally whenever he wants?

Pau Gasol didn’t suit up for the Lakers lasterday because he was tired, ie HE DOESN’T HAVE HIS ELECTRIC.

Also – we meant to mention this a few weeks ago – RAMBO is possibly the most hilarious and awesome movie ever. If you’re between the ages of 25-35 and also a man, you’ll love it.

Oh, one more, just to keep the randomness flowing. How bad is Kwame creeping out everyone in Memphis? They’re not used to his kind of creepy, cake-smashing, virgin demeanor in those parts, y’know?

Good for them – in another life, we would’ve been the happiest boy on the planet. Many of your emails are asking us why we’re not.

We probably do owe you an explanation of some sort – loyal reader Johnny Casino sent in this lasterday, which is a nice summary of what we’ve been receiving.

Dear The Cavalier,

It makes me sad that you are indifferent towards the Cavs this year. Their record notwithstanding, LeBron is having his best season so far. I know I don’t need to give stats. But the guy is leading the league in scoring, leading the league in 4th qtr.scoring ,has career highs in field goal %, rebounds and assists. All while playing less minutes per game than last year. I love blog resurrection, but you should embrace the Cavs if not just LeBron for the season he is having.

Signed,

The Tar Heel, The Red Sock, BDP, Hey Deer and Mary Hartz.

First of all, Johnny is clearly a LONG, LONG, LONG-TIME reader.

(Interesting notes – we sold that maryhartz.com domain for like $300 – whoever bought it never did anything with it.

And JenWatch was “lonelygirl115″ before lonelygirl115 existed. We totally wanted to do that as a video, but didn’t want to play the guy ourself, so we tested it as a text blog first and then burnt out.)

Anyway, back to Johnny’s comments re: the Cavaliers. We spent a lot of time searching for the day that changed everything, but realized it was a steady process that happened in the 2006-2007 campaign.

Honestly, if you really want to see the full arc of emotion, click on the “Cleveland Cavaliers” category, start in October 2006, and read all the way through last season.

A summary, and we apologize to those of you who were here for all of this. On November 1, 2006, in celebration of the beginning of the season, we made this:

There was a great danger last season, and we said this as it was happening, that the apathy/malaise of LeBron could permanently damage our fandom if he kept that $#!t up.

We’ve mentioned this before – we have a fault (and it often works as a strength, actually) that people only get one chance with us.

We can’t help it – you mess up to a certain degree and we write you off. It’s not that we dislike you, or hold a grudge, or anything negative like that. Hell, we’ll consider you a friend and wish you the best life on Earth – we just refuse to invest anything emotionally or financially into you ever again.

You’ll note that we don’t really get fired up either way about the Cavs – we don’t dislike them or anything – we just no longer care.

It’s like a switch flips in our brain, and we don’t know how to flip it back. This, in the end, is what happened with LeBron James and us.

We believe it may be irreversible, which is a shame, considering he’s also tainted the Cavaliers franchise and the NBA as a whole – two of the great loves of our life, along with our Mommy, synthetic protein, and jardoes.

We encourage you to read the entirety of those posts over the course of a few days/weeks – the transition from raw, uncontrollable passion to complete ambivalence is fascinating.

By the way, while on the hunt for posts, we ran into this Vince Carter photoshop we did. We had no recollection of doing this, and it made us laugh.

So did this:

Almost all of these are funny also, although they let them run long sometimes. For some reason the Home Improvement one kills us.

Instead, we invented a new kind of cereal called “Boring Flakes”. They taste like typing paper, and the mascot is also a piece of typing paper.

When you take a bite of Boring Flakes, nothing happens to incite any sort of reaction, and shortly thereafter, you’re finished with them.

You may be wondering what else we’ve been up to. Here’s an email we sent to the post-production team regarding a scene from WSM?:

My thoughts:

1) We have everything we need, and [redacted] IMO.

2) Will need to go through [redacted] and decide [redacted]Henchmen/etc [redacted]. This is not my strength, [redacted] get the story [redacted].

3) Obviously [redacted] sounds, [redacted] to be done. [redacted] music, which is what will really [redacted].

4) Two shots I’d [redacted]. A slo-mo of [redacted] hopefully watching the [redacted]. I think this will give [redacted] right now.

5) In terms of story, much like [redacted], once Merri walks out of [redacted] of making it as [redacted] as possible. This isn’t about some [redacted] – it’s about Merri
[redacted] the greatness that [redacted].

Read point number two carefully, because the most shocking secret of all is contained therein…we have a WEAKNESS.

From here, we were going to post something about our sister’s new boyfriend, but instead, we’re just posting this video, which makes us wish we did more drugs – if we did, we imagine we could survive on this for days:

Well, the Cavaliers went ahead and extended Coach Mike for two years, which by our math, saves us about $300 in “we’re not getting League Pass again until the Cavaliers get a new coach” fees.

We don’t need to go in-depth on this, do we?

In other Cavs news, LeBron got away with drunk driving at 100mph.

Not to jump to conclusions, but c’mon.

LeBron James was ticketed by the State Highway Patrol for reportedly driving 101 mph on Interstate 71 near Medina. The Cavaliers star was cited in a 65 mph zone at 2:43 a.m. on Dec. 30 – his 23rd birthday.

Cleveland attorney Colin Jennings filed a not guilty plea for James on Tuesday in Medina Municipal Court. Other details about the traffic stop were not available.

Where to begin?

23rd birthday, 2:30am, “other details not available”. Also, this was neatly buried and unreported for two weeks.

Read into it what you will – the real hilarity is that they entered a “not guilty” plea.

And not to be completely Mr. Conspiracy Theory, but is it a conflict of interest if ESPN owns a big chunk of NBA China?

Let’s just say that, as noted in the previous post’s comment section, we’re totally in his head. Completely, 100% in his head. He’s freaking out on a daily basis, and it’s all our fault.

Anyway, to the titular statement. We saw the Cavs were playing in a war-like match with the Hawks last night, with the score at halftime something like 38-35.

We called our family to see if they were watching, and they were – LeBron, et al were doing that thing they did last year where like, they don’t care, don’t feel like it, whatever.

It made us think back to a couple nights ago with that Toronto game – where everyone made like this huge deal because LeBron scored 24 in the fourth quarter? All because he was inspired by Chris Bosh’s girlfriend heckling him?

At the time, we wondered why he needs to be heckled by the Dinosaur Queen to play hard. Nobody else wondered, so we just kinda forgot. Now we remember, though. Oh yes, we do.

Whatever – this is why we stopped watching the NBA, and it seems we were right. (Again.)

Moving on, let’s go to a more life-discussion topic. Remember those energy drinks we were addicted to after the drive back to LA? Well, we had four of them last night at like 7pm. No idea why.

It was like some little piece of us was all like, “You need it. Think how good it would feel. You can toss and turn all night, hopped up on that caffeine and the vitamins and the Yellow Dye #2483XXX and the various acids. Do it.”

Also, we hugged a girl lasterday. On purpose and with permission this time. Afterward, we were like, “Hey, we should do that again sometime.” She was like, “Okay, and next time, when it’s over, you should look at me and say something like, ‘Hey, we should do that again sometime.’”

We thought for a second, realizing that’s what we just did. We noted it to her, and she said, “I know. If I could hug like that for the rest of my life, I would die a happy 17-year old.”

“No”, we said, “you apparently haven’t been listening in school. Each 365-day cycle that passes, you add one year to your age. It’s called getting older, or the aging process.”

She touched our face and said, “You’re a beautiful man.”

We got shy, and explained how Jason Kidd doesn’t know it yet, but that we’re in his head, and it’s screwing up his basketball game on a nightly basis.

Turns out Jason Kidd is her cousin, and that’s when things got interesting.

NOTE: Nobody panic, but a City of Boston professional sports team lost. We’re pretty sure they’ve shut down the city.

Bet you thought you’d get no post today, being that we wrote something north of 10,000 words lasterday, huh? Well, this is a Blog Resurrection – that means you get posts EVERY DAY.

The Cavaliers actually handily winning a game last night inspired the following. You may need to connect the dots a bit, but struggle through, because it’s worth it.

If we were Jason Kidd, here’s how we approach out daily activities:

1) Do barbell curls.
2) Do dumbbell curls.
3) Lose to Bobcats, while getting 3rd consecutive triple-double.
4) Do barbell curls.
5) Do dumbbell curls.
6) Do dumbbell curls.
7) Do dumbbell curls.
Do dumbbell curls.
9) Do dumbbell curls.
10) Do dumbbell curls.
11) Do dumbbell curls.
12) Do dumbbell curls.
13) Do dumbbell curls.
14 Do barbell curls.

Now, it’s natural that at this point you’ll question us as follows:

Hey, how is it you know exactly what Jason Kidd’s days are like? Is it because you read this article about Jason Kidd and how all he thinks about and does are various kinds of curls? (Including the barbell AND dumbbell variations?)

The answer is simple – yes, that’s the article we read, and yes, we obviously digested the information.

Enough – let us let you peek behind the curtain. You may think we just let this stuff fly through our fingers and “happen”, but we’re gonna explain something right here and now.

This sentence -

(Including the barbell AND dumbbell variations?)

- originally didn’t have the “the” in there. Go ahead and read it without it, then re-read with it.

One is funny, the other is not. (It’s the former, not the latter – unless you’re in the upper portion of the post, when the latter was the former.) This, on the other hand, is clever but not necessarily funny:

Hey, is it true that this year’s Jordans (the 23s) are the last ones? Anyone know?

We’re super-busy working on possibly the longest Carnival of the NBA ever, which is due tomorrow. The record shall be ours – we know this, because there is no record so far that we know of.

So we’re like at the computer, we’re checking comments, and we’re writing for the site – it’s just that most everything you see that we’re writing right now will be up tomorrow.

Regardless, comment away – surely we can find something to talk about – maybe LeBron not doing anything for three quarters, then blowing up in the fourth against the Rnaptors? Coach Mike? Why does he let that happen?

Any answers? Same questions we’ve been asking for two years; you’d think someone would’ve figured it out be now.

Failing that, an in-depth discussion of which type of meat Chris Bosh enjoys most would be great.

Today, we’ll be kinda washing the decks of the site’s content and taking a look back at the last three weeks. The YAYsports! NBA Experience was pretty…interesting, we’re sure.

We were only able to check in periodically – each time we did, it seemed as if someone was complaining about someone else. Whatever – after our recap, let’s all agree to move ahead.

Part 1 of the Blog Resurrection shall entail a look at everything we know about the NBA – that’ll happen here in about two sentences, and will probably last three or four sentences, tops.

Part 2 will be a look at WSM? and the future of YAYsports! NBA.

In Part 3, which is easily the best part, we’ll go into our 3-week long excursion, during which time we drove from Los Angeles to Cleveland to Chicago, and back to Los Angeles. We’ll go into detail about such things as drinking Red Bull for the 1st (and 500th) time, making readers into Roundie Henchmen, relentlessly hitting on the girl who works the hotel desk, and why Claremore, Oklahoma is the most fun place on Earth.

Here we go – NBA Action, in which we ask you to answer some questions and curiosities for us:

a) The Lakers and their short shorts aren’t nearly as shocking as the Jazz not being any good. What’s the story on the latter? (btw those shorts would’ve given us a week of material back in the day. What if that had happened during the tights era?)

b) The Bulls fired Scott Skiles – we were in Chicago during this, and sports radio was ripping John Paxson to shreds. Also, is Ben Wallace fat or soemthing? We could swear we read something alluding to this somewhere.

c) The Cavaliers left us cold when we watched them Christmas Day. Amazing that Coach Mike is still there – even more amazing than Isiah Thomas still being in NYC.

d) We’re going to attempt to watch at least one of the 3 nationally televised games weekly from hereon. This, combined with the ongoing efforts of the subs, will ensure continual, and actual, NBA coverage.

Okay, well that was boring. Please keep in mind that we haven’t blogged for three weeks, and also that we don’t even like the NBA anymore. We’ll be back in a few – we desperately need to get the salt washed off the car asap.