An automatic from the moment LeBron, more than 20 minutes into "The Decision," finally confirmed that he was taking his talents to South Beach.
Just don't forget that the whole holiday is a festival of hoops nowadays, with the NBA thankfully sticking to the "five live games" blueprint for Christmas that was introduced a couple of seasons back. The result in 2010 is more than 12 straight hours of Christmas coverage, starting with Chicago at New York on ESPN at noon ET.
The two ABC games are next: Boston at Orlando as a heated prelude to Heat at Lakers. Then we'll dribble back to ESPN for two more games, with the first starting at 8 p.m.:
Carmelo Anthony and Durant squaring off in a Denver-Oklahoma City scoring duel … after which the
Golden State Warriors (coach: TBD) make a rare prime-time appearance by hosting the Blazers.
thats pretty damn close