1. The Twitter account of @thorpjoshua has written LeBron James questions of late. “What is your favorite soccer club?” “Would you rather ride a shark or a lion?”
Now, @thorpjoshua has 76 followers, so he isn’t famous. But he did evidently strike a cord with LeBron by asking him, “How do I get my baby to fall asleep?”
LeBron answered: “Put my performance in the 2011 Finals on! Night night immediately”
That was the unfortunate Finals against Dallas for LeBron, and that he jokes about it shows his sense of self-depreacting humor … or maybe the sedative value in it today.
2. A couple of interesting interviews on my 640-AM radio show Friday: First, Fox Sports announcer Chris Myers, who went to Hollywood Chaminade in high school with Dave Shula, joked how a prom party ended at the Shula household – with Don Shula not home – and involved things, “I still can’t talk about.” Dave Shula might get grounded four decades later.
Also, former Jets General Manager Mike Tannenbaum offered this view about the Dolphins front-office model for having the prospective general manager and coach Joe Philbin share power: “There are a lot of different models that work in the NFL. I think sometimes the media makes a little too much out of who quote unquote has final say over the roster or budget. Because The most successful times I had in the nfl is when everyone’s in the same room you had really robust debate, really disagree a lot, and then come out and say hey this is the best decision we made for the orgnaization and now everyone’s going to wor their tail off to make it work I had final say for running the new yrok jets draft for seven year and not everyone agreed with the picks we made. Ultimately it had my name on it. Not everyone agreed with the picks we made. If a coach had a really strong disagreemnt with the player, we tried to find a different player, because you don’t want to set that player up for failure. I always used to say we’re going to have debate before the day we turn the cards in, because once the draft starts you have to react to what the board’s doing. To me, it goes back to preparation and communication.”
3. Forget the losses to New York and Brooklyn. What you have noticed since the Indiana win a few weeks ago is that coach Erik Spoelstra is using Chris Bosh and Birdman Anderson more and more. It’s an effective tandem. It also is something to get accustomed to for the playoffs when more size is needed.
4. Playoff predictions: New England 34, Indianapolis 28; Seattle 24, New Orleans 20; San Diego 30, Denver 27 (upset alert); San Francisco 23, Carolina 21.
5. I’ve gotten deluged on Twitter and in the radio show for saying it’s time to sit back with the Dolphins and see who they hire before offering more angst and doubt over their decisions. This isn’t an unusual model they’ve chosen. They have smart people at the controls. The question, as it has been for the last decade, is whether they can come up with the right people in the right situation.
Article source: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-dolphins/sfl-hyde5-the-funny-way-lebron-puts-child-to-sleep-20140111,0,6461761.story