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First LeBron announces his return to Cleveland with an essay. (BTW I think that essay was outstanding. It was truthful and you could see he has learned from his many mistakes.) Now Melo has announced his return to New York with a letter. The letter in no way carries the weight of LeBron's essay but essentially Melo has followed the same path.

Is this the new trend? What is your opinion?

Personally, I love it. It took me less than one minute to read Melo's letter versus waiting 15 minutes for a press conference to start, and then watching for another 30 minutes with over half of that time filled with dumb questions asked by reporters. I like the idea of written announcements, if this is the new trend.

To me, I'm not watching the press conferences anyway and in this day of instant news and analysis you hear about everything almost immediately. The medium used is irrelevant to me. Just a bunch of pampered millionaires trying to gain support in any way possible.

I wish he would have added the additional paragraph in which he comes clean and says that with Wade getting worse on a daily basis, Bosh getting older and no cap space to bring in any meaningful talent, it was time to get out while the getting was good.

Whatever.

They are all a bunch of spoiled attention whores loving the ghetto fabulous life.

I've spent the better part of my 44 years on this earth around basketball as a player/coach/fan. They are like overgrown spoed children saying "look a me I can make the WHOLE DAMN WORLD stop and pay attention".

It's typical.

We need to sop worrying about it. In the grand scheme of life, they are basketball players. Me. Playing children's games. They are not actually that smart (do you REALLY think these guys wrote their ownetters or make all their own financial and business decisions? Why do you think LeBrons mom and Carmelo's wife keep them on such short leashes?). And they don't actually affect things in the world that actual matter beyond their charitable foundations.

I'm pretty much do e with the whe drama mama game.

Make it a not just a new trend, but a communication requirement in ALL sports. Make reading and writing in coherent sentences and paragraphs a valued skill to a portion of the population that currently only knows how to communicate in 140 characters or less.

I'd rather have LeBron, Melo and other stars write a thoughtful letter/essay than have a press conference. IMO, the press conferences are a waste of time.

I miss the days of reading the newspaper, OR when you had to read the internet versus video/audio. With a letter the player's full intent is displayed uninterrupted. The other thing I like is you can't replay it. It's written, it's read, it's time to move on. We're still talking about the decision 1.0 and it's old. This letter will die in two weeks max.