If the person who wrote the article was comparing the 2 leagues, I tend to agree. But comparing sports is idiotic.

I consider myself a total sports fan. I play and watch football, basketball, hockey and baseball.

I actually don’t understand people who stick to 1 sport. And as most said Ovechkin is awsome, but Kobe and Lebron are huge, and rightly so.

hockey, baseball, basketball, football, tennis, golf………all have greats why compare which is better? they all got, as$ holes, men of class, over rated, under rated people. Some have heart and passion Jeter, Lb23James, Crosby, wayne99G. …. then they got

puszY like vince carter who do not play thier best…

somebody above said:”Fivas your nothing but a mutt and the NBA is a joke. Basketball is filled with over paid thugs. Kobe Bryant is the most selfish rapist. Shaqs a big dumb animal. Ron Artest haha…..Marbury is a PRIME example of a no good piece of shit…..hes nothing but a thug like yourself. The only reason why the NHL is not on TV is because all the blacks don’t want it because the lack of black people in the sport”

Kobe a rapist?? ha ha kobe could take your sister, cousins, momma, aunties, “neices”, your “girlfriend”, “wife” if he claps 4 times he will have females lining up to suck anything he says, even his friends di*k*.

over paid thugs??? what makes you a thug? “50 cent sold crack” if george w bush sold crack would he be a thug too?

tats’ do not make you thug, bad talking meadia(like barry bonds, like jose conseco, iverson or shaq)

now lets thing about this an over paid “thug” or a lying by**h. which is worst???

“iverson the thug” it’s practice, we here talking about practice. Not a game this is practice, a game is a game this is practice, practice, prac, man we talking about practice what do you not get…. practice…. practice…..

or susan smith “crying” to the world, a man drove my car into a ditch with my two kids in it…LIAR LIAR LAIR SHE DID IT.

LADY WHO CLAIMS BILL COSBY IS HE DAD BUT WILL NOT GIVE BLOOD SAMPLE….OH THE PAIN THE PAIN….(YEA THE PAIN OF NOT GETTIN $$$$ OFF HIM)

KOBE ….. YEAH RIGHT HE HAD LIKE A CELLY FOR EACH COAST OF GURLS HOW WILL SUCK, BLOW, LICK, SWALLOW…ANYTHING HE SAID, KOBE DONT GOTTA RAP SHY*…..BUT AGAIN SHE WILL NOT GO ON THE STAND AT COURT…..

CHANG THE LAWS SO THAT LIARS LIKE HER PAY FOR HIS LEAGAL FEES, AND DO THE TIME HE COULD OF FACED AND SEE HOW QUICK THE LIARS FIND A NEW HOBBY AND QUIT ALL THE LIES.

“OVER PAID THUGS” TELLING KIDS STATY IN SCHOOL, READ TO ACHIEVE, YOU CAN BE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO BE…… WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH THAT???

AS FOR HOCKEY AND NOT WATCHING BECAUSE LACK OF BLACKS, HA,

IN BASEBALL AND BASKET BALL I GOT MUCH LUV FOR NONE BLACKS

DIRK, NASH, Roy Halladay, Andy Pettitte, RANDY JOHNSON, Pat Hentgen. the list goes on…..

once again ladies lie ok so before you side with this money hungry skettle bomb, h()e,bytch, slut, may tag girl, liar, gold digger, tipical i want to be famous broad. women start / cause alot of drama she wanted to be another one of dem money hungry i got $ $$$ $$$ off a famous man.

lil kim . i sucked biggies dik

Monica Lewinsky….. men “are doggs” so why do women temp them so much.

2pac rape case, pac gotta rap some1?? ha ha ha

woman are not to be belived until proof is there

Kobe a rapist??? ha ha well old McDonald had a farm e i e i oh and on this farm he had a bytch and he name was Kate Faber. with a lie lie here and a “turth” “truth” there here a lie there a lie every where a lie lie oh this bytch is full of shy* e i e i o.

**BLUE JACKETS IN 2000 THEY NEVER LOST A PLAYOFF GAME EVER..HMMMMMMMMM SEEING THEY DID NOT LOSE E-V-E-R IN THE PLAYOFFS AND HAVE NO CUP 1+1-2= zer0

NAHSVILLE-1998 THEY BEEN THERE FOUR TIME AND WERE BEAT BY THE SAME TWO TEAMS TWO DIFF YEARS…. LOL

KEEP IN MIND THAT IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS TO GET CUPS AND REAL TALANT BUT BEFORE YOU RUN YOUR MOUTH ABOU THE NBA….. LOOK BACK TWO OR THREE YEAR BEFORE YOUR “2000 CUT OFF AND SEE THE NHL IS NOT ALL THAT HOTT WITH NEW TEAMS/ MOVED TEAMS.

2000 MINNI. WILD
07-08 DIV. CHAMPS.

As opposed to hockey, where certain people are paid to pretty much be thugs. (ie: enforcers)

1) Circumstances or not, you cannot tell me or anyone that Larry Hughes’ contributions to whatever team he is on is worth over $13 million.

2) Raiders fans get blacked out of their own games because it is unlawful to subject people to cruel and unusual punishment.

4) The last two minutes of an NBA game are only exciting if you’re at the arena or a record is about to be set (not really a record, but Kobe’s 81 was damn entertaining). The problem with watching the NBA on tv is a close game takes about 10 minutes to complete the final 2 with all the friggin time outs that are taken.

5)LeBron being more popular than Ovie doesn’t make him better. LeBron has more things going for him – like English as his first language, Sports networks being on his nuts since his senior (or maybe even earlier?) high school season, and Nike (which is basically only a B-ball company now – Adidas and others have them in Soccer, Nike Bauer isn’t that good for hockey, and Adidas and Under Armour have over taken them for football), just to name a few.

Just because you have a hard cap doesn’t mean the players don’t make any money. I don’t think there is a single player on a NFL roster that is crying poor because they have a hard cap. I think the NBA could easily institute a hard cap, but in fairness, I think it would have to be 5 – 10 million dollars above the current soft cap. And in case you haven’t noticed, many owners are losing money on sports teams because; like in Tennesse, for anything not college or football, nobody shows up. Ever seen a Marlins game? You can count the number of fans in your head without any sort of aid. Same goes for Predators / Grizzlies.

Quoth the article: “Since 2000, the NHL has added two teams and relocated none; meanwhile, the NBA has added a team (the woeful Charlotte Bobcats), while relocating two others (Seattle-to-Oklahoma City and Charlotte-to-New Orleans).”

FAIL much?

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/090227

LBJ, KOBE, Duncan, Dwight > Ovechkin