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Trailer For LeBron James Documentary MORE THAN A GAME Throws The Hammer Down!!!
Beaks here...
The Cleveland sports fan has lots of synonyms for heartbreak: The Catch The Drive, The Fumble, The Shot, Red Right 88, and Jose Fucking Mesa. Right now, they have only one synonym for hope: LeBron.
Born and bred in Akron, Ohio, and currently the starting "small forward" for the Cleveland Cavaliers, LeBron James has been destined for greatness ever since he appeared on the cover of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED in 2002. Though just a junior at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School at the time, the magazine had the temerity to dub him "The Chosen One". Many sportswriters and fans bristled at this premature coronation, but in the eight years since, he's more than earned the hype. Right now, he's attempting to take his Cavaliers back to the NBA Finals to give the beleaguered city of Cleveland a shot at its first professional sports championship since 1964 (when some badass named Jim Brown dragged the Browns to an NFL title). He will also be named the MVP of 2008-2009 season very shortly.
If you watched the 60 MINUTES profile of LeBron from a few weeks ago, you got the feeling that his ascent to superstardom was more saunter than struggle. Kristopher Belman's acclaimed documentary MORE THAN A GAME would, on the basis of this just-released theatrical trailer, seem to claim otherwise. Though LeBron's talent was almost always undeniable, playgrounds are littered with preternaturally gifted ballers who blew it by running with the wrong crowd or believing too much in their own greatness. LeBron's story is one of brotherhood and loyalty, and a single-minded determination to win not as an individual, but as a team.
Since LeBron James is one of the film's executive producers, I'm sure there will be charges of hagiography. Obviously, I won't have an opinion until I see it. But if LeBron James leads the Cavs to an NBA Championship this year, I'll have already seen him perform one miracle. Belman won't have to work too hard to sell me on a second.
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to the other guys. The ones that didn't become millionaire NBA players. Go Cavs!
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You think my fanboy slavishness to Spielberg/Pixar is a wee bit stalkery, wait'll Beaks interviews Mr. James.
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book it.
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Laker's will be the champions this because that's what the NBA wants. And because Jack Nicholson performs fellatio on Kobe during timeouts.
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... duller than Harry's writing.
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And from what I've been hearing it is actually pretty great. Can't wait!
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Poor man's hockey.
Any "sport" featuring a free, unhindered scoring chance, especially just because da big man hit my widdle hand, is lame beyond belief.
Put midget goalies over the baskets and I'd watch, what's Vern Troyer up to these days? -
but to diss basketball? really guys?!!! try picking up a ball and go five on five. FUCK IT!, go two on two on a serious level and you'll be sore the next day. It's rougher than it looks.
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Fuck it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Had to say it.
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... is fantastic! Greatest sport/ sports league ever!!
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Nothing but thugs and thieves..well football is kinda the same isn't it?
Who cares about basketball....yawn
But hey! This made news on AICN!!!!!! -
Apr 20, 2009 9:07:09 PM CDT
Re: Cavs/Cleveland pro-sports championship drought
by helpful electronic lab partner robot
The Cavs are, have always been, and will always be nothing more than third tier in Cleveland sports. Even if the Cavs somehow manage to go all the way, this '09 team will not be looked upon anywhere near as highly as a Super Bowl/World Series winning Browns/Indians team would be.
In fact, if they do win the finals (I recognize that it's WAY to early to speculate on such things), the average Clevelander would only hold onto the fact as yet another way of highlighting the pathetic state of the Indians and Browns. "Even the fucking Cavs won a championship before them", etc. etc.
As for LeBron, who gives a shit. Show up to a home playoff game in a Yankees jersey? Fuck you very much. -
Apr 20, 2009 9:12:44 PM CDT
Okay, honestly, hockey is the least entertaining sport in the wo
by dr sauch
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Out of all the AICN 'reporters' the only one I could probably hang out with is Beaks; everyone else is either self-absorbed(sup Mori) or just a big liberal vagina.
p.s Celtics/Bulls game was amazing. -
Couldn't watch it, so had to follow it on a score updater and almost had a bloody heart attack. KG can't get back quick enough.
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still won't be better than that masterpiece.
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Try to catch it on NBATV if you have it. One of the best first round playoff games I've ever seen in twenty years of watching the NBA Playoffs.
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My current locale (currently offshore Angola) doesn't lend itself to watching Basketball. The ESPN we have on board WAS showing the match, but the Radio Operator wouldn't turn it over. Cunt. I am hoping the Celtic make it through the first round so that I can catch some of the matches once back in the UK.
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But yeah, Celts need KG if they're gonna make a serious run.
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oh wait, we don't have an NBA franchise anymore...
hey, at least our soccer team is good! -
Apr 20, 2009 11:07:54 PM CDT
Helpful Robot--Get that weak stuff outta here!
by patrick_bateman_trashed_my_401k
Dude seriously, after the Browns suckage and Indians' collapses in the past decade, I'm pretty sure the Cavs have moved to the top spot.
People just go Browns games to tailgate and get drunk and act like assholes. And even if LBJ doesn't bring home a title this year, who gives a fuck if he likes the Yankees. If Desmond on "Lost" was a fan of "Two and a Half Men" or some other horrible show, he would still be awesome. -
Desmond is a Glasgow Celtic fan....kinda the same as liking Americas Next Top Model.....
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Jim Brown didn't play in that pussy AFL.
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Now matter what y'all are claiming about the Cavs or the Lakers, the Boston Celtics are still the defending NBA champs. And I heard that the KG is hurt thing is all a Doc Rivers Strategy.
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I was thinking that myself, but who knows. Biggest work ever?
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As a long suffering Ohio sports fan, I would love nothing more than to see the Cavs win it all this year!
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Gasol is one annoying-looking motherfucker.
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I love sports. I used to play high school basketball, boxed in Golden Gloves for two years (before I realized that a slow white guy with a glass chin is not going to be heavyweight champion of the world), and played a little Div. II football. I love watching football, basketball, football, boxing, MMA, hockey and even the World Cup for soccer.
But I also feel that people's obsession with sports is just out of whack. I don't know what this film is like, but I hope they show how damaging the goal of being an athlete can be. Think about, so many kids kill themselves or only apply themselves for sports, and only an X number of them will make it to college or the pros. And those in college are not studying or learning a useful skill, they are just trying to make it to the pros (which only a few of them will). Sports is just creating generation after generation of illequipt people with no marketable skills (and the majority of them are poor minorities to begin with).
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this looks like it could be entertaining. lebron seems like a likeable guy, and i root for him whenever he isn't playing the lakers. a lakers/cavs final would be GREAT. i have no doubt the league wants that, but that's not why it's going to happen. it'll happen because they're the two best teams in the NBA.
right now it may look like the hawks are the best bet to knock the cavs out of the east, but there's no chance of that happening. james and the cavs are on a mission this year, and that team has got crazy chemistry. as a lakers fan, i'd be very worried if they met in the finals. but damn would that be an entertaining series.
basketball a poor man's HOCKEY?! hahahahaha i don't doubt that hockey is a tough sport to play, but who gives a shit when it's so boring to watch unless you're in the arena? enjoy the NHL while it lasts...
BULLS/CELTICS was amazing! great, great game, just like the first one. this is going to be one hell of a series, and the celtics will be lucky to make it out of the first round. they were built to win last year, and they're just too old and getting older by the game. sitting KG as a strategic maneuver? no way. no one is that stupid. not even doc rivers/danny ainge. well, maybe ainge... but still, if i was a celtics fan i guess i'd be desperate to believe that too, at this point.
gasol IS annoying looking, and my least favorite laker. but still...
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Fuck punk ass LA with the face splooger Kobe. Fuck Cleveland with the false messiah Lebron!
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A few years ago, you would have actually been correct. Since then, you are so far off on Cleveland sports it's not even funny. I'd say Cleveland is and always will be a football town - and the Browns are the most important team to the city no matter what their record looks like. But the Cavs practically share almost all of their spotlight, and the Indians are so far down the list now it's not even funny.
If you just look at the numbers that the Cavs put up. The have sold out every home game this season but 1, and they are the 5th highest value in the league at nearly $500 million. Their television ratings are the highest in the NBA - in fact if you look at their Nielsen ratings, nearly twice the amount of people watch the Cavs that watch the Lakers or Celtics.
And thus to say your reaction of the Cavs winning a Championship would only be used to spit how the other teams are doing, it seems as though you haven't been near Cleveland in years. No athlete has more appeal and dominance over Northeast Ohio than LeBron. He isn't just some superstar NBA player, he is God in Cleveland. And who cares at all if he wears a Yankee cap and his favorite football team has always been the Cowboys - it's pretty silly you even complain about that when we could have a rapist like Kobe or a thug like Pierce. The worst thing LeBron has ever done is get an insane speeding ticket and it's easy to say that likely no one remembers it.
But go on and believe otherwise, you'll be eating your words as this postseason rolls along and he brings Cleveland their 2nd Finals in 3 years and wins MVP in the next couple weeks. -
Apr 21, 2009 7:49:37 AM CDT
Continentalop, and on top of what you just said
by shut the fuck up donny
an unbelievably large percentage of the athletes who do make it are broke within 3 years after they're done playing the game--due to their lack of any skill/knowledge outside of the narrow scope of their sport.
I guess I'm a little off-topic, but I'm quite indifferent to LeBron or the Cavaliers for that matter. For me, it's college football and nothing else.. heh.. -
Even I see the undertones to hating basketball on here. Even I have to say, "you guys are a bunch of fucking dorks."
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That's like saying filet minon is a poor man's bologna sandwich.
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This film came in first runner up at last year's Toronto Film Festival. The only film that was voted higher was Slumdog Millionaire and we all saw how that turned out this award's season. That's a pretty good vote of confidence when you consider that it played against films like The Wrestler, Rachel Getting Married, Brothers Bloom, Hurt Locker, etc.
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I knew about this project for a while. It looks promising. Lebron James ride ( From high school to the top of the NBA food chain was unbelievable.
As for the people ( NOT EVERYONE) on this talk back that have negative shit to say about BASKETBALL--A sport that I love AS mUCH AS Drawing, writing and watching film.
I have a little advice for ye
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GET OFF YOUR FAT, FLABBY, LAZY, HIGHLY OPINIONATED ASSES AND GO GET SOME EXCERCISE!!!!!
Do some push-ups, Jog, run, better yet get some pussy for Christ sakes and maybe, just maybe after you break a sweat you'll realize you can do something other than being an online annoyance! -
Whatta fuckn ASS!
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Clueless. Cleveland LOVES the Cavs. Did you see how crazy it was when the won the fucking conference finals? It was only the conference finals!
You're mistaken if you think the people of Cleveland won't care if the Cavs won the title. That's fucking stupid. -
..they think someone is disparaging hockey the least little bit, then say that "basketball sucks".
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sorry it's true. the popularity of hockey ranks somewhere below volleyball and slightly above boxing. or somewhere below stamp collecting and slightly above cancer. take your pick, i think i'd rather watch the WNBA than hockey.
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how a high schooler with no job has a Hummer? No one, especially mainstream media ever looked into stuff like this. I'm not denying th man's talent, but even if it wasn't NCAA you would think it was some sort of recruiting violation on the high school level.
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He's the King...Chicks give him Hummers all the time!
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Yeah, because THAT'S the motto of this site.
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ba dum bum chhh. Good one.
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If I remember correctly, the explanation was "his mom bought it."
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Yeah, I remember the "explanation." His mom who either wasn't working, or making very little money bought a brand new Hummer. I want an explanation, not an "explanation."
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It was confirmed the kid was on his way to the NBA to potentially millions upon millions of dollars. Lets not forget he inked a 90 million dollar contract with Nike before he even stepped foot on Cleveland's Court.
You don't think the Car Dealer knew this?
Job or no Job, bad credit or none trust me, Lebron's Mom couldve went to NASA and got a Space Shuttle on Lay-a-Way if she wanted.
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