LeBron James Expresses His Feelings On The New NBA Basketball

The Cleveland Cavaliers have lost two games in a row, to arguably two of the worst teams in the NBA, the Charlotte Bobcats and now the Atlanta Hawks last night. Before the game last night in Cleveland, LeBron sounded off on his thoughts on the new NBA ball and some of the new rules implemented by commissioner David Stern.

"It's not a good basketball, it kind of feels like a basketball you buy for your kids at Christmas or something."

"Sometimes it feels good, sometimes it doesn't, it's got no consistency."

"Sometimes you can grip it, and sometimes during the game it sticks to your hand," he said. "It won't bounce, it will just roll on you. I don't know why we can't get used to this ball. But it's just not good."

He feels that the ball is hindering how the game is being played everyday. We have to agree to change the foundation of the game by changing the feel of the basketball seems to be a bit extreme, not too many players seem to feel that the new ball is a positive change, if any at all feel that way.

"You can shorten our shorts, tell us how to wear wristbands, things like that. Change the dress code. But the one thing we care about is the basketball," he said. "When you start changing the thing we play with every single day, it doesn't make sense to me -- at all."

"Technicals are being thrown like Peyton Manning passes," James said. "You have to watch you say and me being an emotional player, I've always been passionate about the game. So I've got to be cool."


We're not sure if anyone caught the end of the game last night vs. the Atlanta, but James was so furious that with 8 seconds left on the clock, he pulled a Randy Moss and walked off the court in the middle of play towards the locker room. Of course, the Cleveland media who is all about James and walks on eggshells in fear that he will leave town on the drop of a hat, didn't mention one word of it.

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