Pistons are up right now 63-51 in the 4th against the Cavaliers in Game 7 of the series...the split second Lebron exits the playoffs, I will cease caring at all about the NBA Playoffs, or the NBA as a whole.

David Stern was asked the question during an in-game interview on whether he thought Lebron was as good as Michael Jordan. David Stern didn't like the question at all, saying "one player isn't going to carry the league anymore." Uh, hate to break it to you Commish, but Lebron is a lot bigger than you or the entire league. He's the show. Not the Pistons, arguably the best team in the NBA and certainly best defensive team. Not the Heat, with the other game-changer in the league, Shaq, on their team. Only Lebron matters in a league that continues to be as irrelevant as the day Michael Jordan stopped winning championships with the Bulls.

In fact, I'd be willing to bet that you could go back in time a few years and find that the rapid rise of the NFL's popularity has come largely at the expense of the NBA. And if Stern thinks he can get away without acknowledging the larger-than-the-league status of Lebron, and how important he is to the success of the league over the next decade, he better just go ahead and retire.

And that's enough words wasted on that!