Brian Windhorst took his talents to south beach?

jc23 · Post #1 » by **jc23** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 2:23 pm

I just saw on first take that he is now the Miami Heat beat writer, so does that mean he left Cleveland.

If someone could just chime in on this with some information I would appreciate it. anybody? thanks

tidho · Post #2 » by **tidho** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 3:46 pm

He joined ESPN, exclusively to cover the Heat.
I guess ESPN believes LeBron will be news worthy this season.

For Brian, LeBron was his chip in the big game and he jumped when the opportunity came up. Not being mismanaged by LMR he didn't become a doeche in doing so.

Post #3 » by **B Mac** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 3:55 pm

Hard to blame him.

If I remember correctly he actually has a good deal of family in Miami as well.

Benedict_Boozer · Post #4 » by **Benedict_Boozer** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 4:14 pm

He mentioned once in an interview last year when someone asked whether he "lived and died" with the CLE losses like the fans do and he said flat out that while he has grown close to some of the players, it was purely a job for him.

While I like Windhorst, one of the best beat writers in the game, I'm not surprised at all he bailed to cover Lebron.

mg · Post #5 » by mg » Tue Oct 26, 2010 4:40 pm

Sorry but Windy does look like a sellout. Can't say that I blame him. He's tied his cart to LeBron for over a decade now.

I can understand 'moving up' to cover the NBA for ESPN but that is not what happened.

mcfly1204 · Post #6 » by **mcfly1204** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 5:57 pm

Yes, Windhorst is a sellout, but sellouts = intelligent (if the price is right).

gflem · Post #7 » by **gflem** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 6:10 pm

Well, I will miss his reports. He was a first rate hoops reporter. Hard to blame him for trying to move up. He wasnt making tens of millions, and even if he took a $10,000 or so raise it (who knows how much of a bump he got) it was a career decision to leave the PD for espn. I wish him the best, like with Z I hold no ill will for him leaving.

Post #8 » by **Rise Against** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 10:00 pm

Seems like Mary Schmitt Boyer will be taking over his twitter.

mcfly1204 · Post #9 » by **mcfly1204** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 11:43 pm

gflem wrote:Well, I will miss his reports. He was a first rate hoops reporter. Hard to blame him for trying to move up. He wasnt making tens of millions, and even if he took a $10,000 or so raise it (who knows how much of a bump he got) it was a career decision to leave the PD for espn. I wish him the best, like with Z I hold no ill will for him leaving.

Even if he makes the same amount of money, he would be National and he would be living in Miami, not Cleveland this winter. It is impossible to look down on him for the move. That being said, I am certain he is making more with ESPN than he did with the PD.

rjgraca · Post #10 » by **rjgraca** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 11:50 pm

It's a career move for Brian Windhorst who had hitched is wagon to Lebron, as mentioned before, for quite sometime.

gflem · Post #11 » by **gflem** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 3:32 am

Exile23 wrote:Seems like Mary Schmitt Boyer will be taking over his twitter.

Please, I hope she isnt taking over his position. Just another downer for this season I guess.

Pula_86 · Post #12 » by **Pula_86** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 2:18 am

This guy is a joke and fraud pretending to be hurt when he did not come back to Cleveland.

KING JAMES1978 · Post #13 » by **KING JAMES1978** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 2:38 am

Windhorst is a LeBron writer first and then a Cavaliers writer.He don't write for the Cleveland.com anymore?

RRT · Post #14 » by **RRT** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 2:52 am

KING JAMES1978 wrote:Windhorst is a LeBron writer first and then a Cavaliers writer.He don't write for the Cleveland.com anymore?

To his credit, he only wrote for cleveland.com for 2 years after coming from akron, and he made his career out of reporting LeBron, so really all good with me, that's his business and whatever worked for him so far he should keep on doing that, he has no obligation to anyone.

prekazi · Post #15 » by **prekazi** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:18 pm

LOL! Until now I thought he was still working for PD because this was his twitter account and it's still active : http://twitter.com/PDcavsinsider

Just realized that now Mary Schmitt Boyer is tweeting from it.

Post #16 » by **TheOUTLAW** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:29 pm

i don't blame him. He built his career around reporting on Lebron and has built up alot of goodwill in doing so. Good luck to him?

OptimisticCav · Post #17 » by **OptimisticCav** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 3:01 am

By far my favorite Cavs reporter ever.

But have you read the things he's "reporting" lately? He's becoming Lebron's apologist. His last article was fully on why Lebron is "different". Then it went on to talk about his haters and why/how he's being hated, and why he doesn't deserve it.

gflem · Post #18 » by **gflem** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 3:10 am

Havent read his stuff, but its not surprising if he is being an apologist. Hell his employer ran the special, you dont bite the hand that feeds you. As the syaing goes "Everybody has their price".