Lebron James Posters

We need to hang the posters up on the walls, and display our favorite Lebron James wallpaper on our computers – the witnesses have work to do.  You can call me a fool, ignorant, or short sited, but the only thing keeping King James from the universally dubbed title, the “greatest basketball player of all time” is a few more years of good health, and a championship ring or two for the naysayers.  There, I laid it out on the table.  James was a national superstar years before his first NBA game (where he scored 25 points, 6 assists, 9 rebounds, and 4 steals against the craptacular Sacramento Kings).  As a High School student at St. Vincent St. Mary, he put the Cleveland town of Akron on the map.  Lebron led his team to three state championships.  By his senior year, his face could be seen gracing the cover of Sports Illustrated.  In 2003, the big question was, could this teenager from Akron, OH live up to the hype?  Um, yeh.

During his first year as a pro, his name was already being thrown around with the likes of Oscar Robertson and, proverbially, Michael Jordan.  And why wouldn’t it be?  He was accomplishing the same feats that they were at a young age.  In his rookie year, James became the youngest player ever to score more than 40 points in a game, not to mention average the better half of a triple double for the season.  Naming him the Rookie of the year was a clear no-brainer.  Since his start in 03′, LBJ has been breaking records and setting personal milestones that superstars with twice his experience would covet; the youngest player in NBA history to mark a triple double, six-time All Star, League scoring champion, league MVP, All Star game MVP (twice), and All-Defensive first team just to name a few.

Lebron James is a workaholic man child who, if he so desired could use his freakishly super human strength, size and endurance to moonlight for the Cleveland Browns.  Regardless of whether or not pigskin is in his future, James has an unmatched passion for the game of basketball, which he’ll undoubtedly harness to bring home championships to Cleveland, and turn the Cavaliers into a dynasty.  Haters, get that weak stuff the %$#* out of here!  If you love the game, and love what this phenomenon of a man has done for it, display your pride, hang up some posters, and decorate your desktop with Lebron James wallpaper!

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Kobe Bryant Posters

I hate to do it – really I do, but I’m throwing up Kobe Bryant wallpaper and posters on this site because I know there are you crazy fools out there who just gotta have it.  I’m not a Lakers fan by any stretch of the imagination, but as reluctant as I am to say it, the Black Mamba is one of the greatest basketball players who’s ever stepped onto the hardwood.  Very few other things on this planet create such an incomparable balance of fear and excited emotions in me than when Cleveland plays Kobe’s Lakers…the two teams, historically, are a far cry from rivals, but seeing two larger than life spectacles battling each other with a competitive edge sharp enough to slice ball hair…there’s just nothing nuttier.

Kobe Bryant is what Lebron James was years before he was the King James who we know and love today.  Kobe was the newest breed of superstar athletes called, “The Next Michael Jordan” (I just puked a little).  As you may have gathered, I hate that title (though I regretfully catch myself using it often), and what I hate more is that Kobe, on paper, is living up to the moniker better than my boy Lebron (give him time, folks), but he still has plenty of work to do.  Bryant has four rings under his belt, Jordan has six.  Kobe’s a 12 time All Star, Jordan’s 14.  Kobe’s seven time Defensive first team, Jordan is 9.  They can both dunk the lights out, but Jordan has him beat with two slam dunk contest trophies.

Both parties yield some impressive numbers, but in the ‘Most Valuable’ department, KB pales in MJ’s shadow.  Jordan has been dubbed the league MVP five different times, and Finals MVP all six times he’s made an appearance.  Kobe has been the league MVP once, and finals MVP once (same year).  Yeh, Jordan had Pippen, but Kobe had Shaq.  How can you possibly outshine Shaq in the finals?  Olajuwon managed to do it in 1995, but Kobe couldn’t.  Yeh, I took an opportunity to clown Kobe, but in fairness to him, there’s no one more cold-blooded in the clutch than Jordan, and until Lebron shows his true colors in a season or two, there never will be.

While Kobe is no Michael Jordan – dude, he’s not – he’s a ridiculous ball player, second best closer in the game today (behind James), and my number one favorite player to hate.  Whether you hate him or love him (I’m guessing you love him and hate me, and think I’m full of crap for the Shaq and LBJ comments and MJ comparisons), you need to show your feelings, and deck your crap out with Kobe Bryant wallpaper and posters.

Michael Jordan Posters

He hasn’t played a game of professional basketball in a couple years shy of a decade, yet still, there isn’t a single facet of hoops that isn’t in some way tied to ‘His Airness’.  From shoes, to jerseys, to posters, to Michael Jordan wallpaper, the man embodies the definition of lasting power.  The two active players who’re featured prominently on this site, Lebron James and Kobe Bryant, don’t yet even compare to the milestones and accolades that MJ accomplished during his 14 year tear in the NBA (not even mentioning his damage at Chapel Hill).

The man has a championship ring to put on every other finger, all of which he earned single-handedly…well not really…the Bulls were pretty slick, but Jordan walked away with the coveted Finals MVP title every time Chicago made an appearance.  He’s a champion in every imaginable earthly meaning of the word.  A six time NBA finals champion, two time Olympic gold medal winner, NCAA championship winner, three time All Star MVP, five time league MVP, defensive player of the year, career scoring PPG record holder, ESPY Athlete of the Century…he even took the dunk contest two years in a row (back in the good old days when superstars entered – can you imagine if Lebron, Kobe and Carter all showed up at once?).

Retiring three different times (once to pursue a freakin’ baseball career), Jordan holds a slew of incredible age-related records as well, including the first 40 year old in league history to score more than 40 points (43).  If you ask me, Jordan could come back and still be a decent ball player in today’s game…of course he’d get stomped by Lebron…yeh, I said it…that’s retribution for that shot over Ehlo in 89′!

He’s accomplished more in the game of basketball than any other athlete ever has, and probably ever will.  Whether you love him or think he’s a jerk with a gambling problem, you have to at least respect what he’s done for the game.  The man has left a legacy so thick that even teams who he never played for retired his number (look it up).  Stars like Lebron James and Kobe Bryant have, and should have, nothing but supreme respect for the man and the path he paved.  So slap some of this Michael Jordan wallpaper on your desktop, or a poster on your wall, and show some respect too!

Now that you have a whole gang of different NBA backgrounds to add to your computer desktop, you’d like to be able to show them off, right?  What sucks though is that typically you have to cycle them out one at a time.  It’s not exactly a difficult task, but it gets to be a bit of a pain when you do it all the time.  Wouldn’t it be a nicer if the shuffling was on auto pilot?  Well my friend, if you have Windows 7, it’s incredibly easy to make it happen.

First, download yourself a nice collection of NBA wallpaper.  You can stick around here, or scour the rest of the web – what’s important is that, for the ease of use, you save each separate collection to a different folder.  To make a Lebron James folder, just navigate into ‘Pictures’ within Windows Explorer (usually c:\Users\Public\Pictures), and click ‘New Folder’ on the top menu bar, and name give the new folder a name that makes sense (ie Lebron James Wallpapers).  Now any LBJ backgrounds you download, you can place them in here.

• When you’re satisfied with your collection (you can make adjustments any time), right-click on your desktop, and select ‘Personalization’
• Once you’re in the ‘Personalization’ panel, select ‘Desktop Background’ toward the bottom.
• Once in ‘Desktop Background’, select ‘Browse…’, and navigate to the location of your recently created folder.  In our example, it would be in your ‘Pictures’ location.
• Once selected, you can now check all of the wallpapers that you want to have in the shuffle rotation.
• After you make your selection, check the ‘Shuffle’ box and choose the how often you want the backgrounds to change (the default is 10 minutes).
• Now that you’ve created your new ‘Theme’, save under whatever naming convention you’d like.

That’s all there is to it!  Windows 7 not only blows its predecessor, Windows Vista away in stability, but with slick bells and whistles like the built-in background shuffle, you’re a fool not to make the switch.  Now you can have a Lebron James, Kobe Bryant, or Michael Jordan wallpaper theme, or just throw them all together into one superstar conglomeration.  Of course, if you’re if you want to switch away from the basketball motif (not sure why you would), you can find assembled themes for just about any other genre under the sun, or continue to pump out your own.  Have fun with it, folks!