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Brenda Haywood=Vanilla Ice

Brenda Haywood (aka Witness #33) is going to tell LeBron James what to do.

That’s right. She of the career averages of 7.5 points and 5.9 rebounds in 23.6 minutes per game as a role player is going to tell the new face of the league how it’s done.

“I mean come on man, this is the playoffs. He wears 23, he wants to be Michael Jordan, I can respect that, he’s a great player. You saw what Mike went through. Mike got fouled way worse than this. No one is trying to hurt him, everybody is trying to play basketball, trying to play tough. Play basketball and leave it alone.”

Listen, Brenda: the Spurs play basketball. The Pistons play basketball. It’s hard, it’s physical, and more often than not, it does LeBron and the Cavs in. Completely.

But fugazis like Brenda? You’re going to tell LeBron freaking James to “play basketball” when you’re the one out there trying to rekindle the fire of what might have been a lost football career?

You’re going to talk about playing basketball, but your team is the one getting outworked on the boards, 51-31, in a Game 4 at home that you absolutely have to have? You are the big 7-foot STIFF that hasn’t done jack in his career, standing around and watching your frontcourt get demolished on the boards, and then talking about playing basketball?

Brenda?

The Witnesses are a complete and utter joke. You don’t have to be a Cavs backer to realize that. We’re talking about a team that was talking unlimited trash before the series started, called LeBron “overrated,” talked about “wanting” the Cavs in the first round, and then go down 3-1 in the series that included a 30-point demolition in Game 2?

I thought that this series was going at least six, maybe seven. That was even after Game 2’s whitewashing. But seeing the gutless Witnesses and their lack of desire to do anything but talk, they’re going to come out flat in Game 5 with no heart. Let’s face it: Washington doesn’t want to win this series. They know that LeBron has their number.

Most of them know that their main claim to fame 15 to 20 years down the road when they’re talking to their grandchildren will be when they’re watching “LeBron’s Career Highlights: Volumes 1-30,” and they’ll have the right to say, “See that guy over there standing under the basket as LeBron dunks? That’s me!!!”

Yet, Brenda’s going to tell LeBron to “play basketball.” Brilliant.

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