Strangely enough Marc Stein on ESPN was rating the free agent possibilities of where Heyward will be landing. His suitors include Boston, Miami and returning to Utah. Stein was rating each team's chances and believes that "both Miami and Boston check all of the boxes", pointing out that both teams are winning, and perhaps one Gordon Heyward away from dethroning the Cavs.
I was a bit baffled that ESPN portrayed both of these teams as equals in the winning department, seeing as one team was the number one seed in the East, the other finished 12 games behind the number one seed in the East and out of the playoffs. Equal?
I have no horse in the race, as I am a fan of neither of these teams, but it irks me when certain teams get media boosts, just because of the more glamorous locales. It's bad enough to listen to Stephen A. Smith slobber over South Beach, but to hear a supposedly objective checklist of "positives and negatives" of a franchise, and the "ready to win big" category is graded as "even" for two teams that finished so far apart makes one wonder what it is about Miami that causes the media to overrate them?
The same thing happened with Orlando in this mid 2000's: I remember that they were always on national broadcasts, and everybody in the national media prognosticated that they would be better than the Pistons- who they could never beat (sorry T-Mac, Grant).
I was a bit baffled that ESPN portrayed both of these teams as equals in the winning department, seeing as one team was the number one seed in the East, the other finished 12 games behind the number one seed in the East and out of the playoffs. Equal?
I have no horse in the race, as I am a fan of neither of these teams, but it irks me when certain teams get media boosts, just because of the more glamorous locales. It's bad enough to listen to Stephen A. Smith slobber over South Beach, but to hear a supposedly objective checklist of "positives and negatives" of a franchise, and the "ready to win big" category is graded as "even" for two teams that finished so far apart makes one wonder what it is about Miami that causes the media to overrate them?
The same thing happened with Orlando in this mid 2000's: I remember that they were always on national broadcasts, and everybody in the national media prognosticated that they would be better than the Pistons- who they could never beat (sorry T-Mac, Grant).
