Even the Positives Have Become Negatives

Regarding J.A. Adande’s column on June 6 (“Even in Defeat, at Least the Heat Had a Shot at It”): Gee, so the Heat’s season was worth celebrating because it was better than the Lakers’?

Adande’s pro-Shaq bias is absurd -- the Big Ingrate nets five rebounds in Game 1, but Shaq was just “conserving energy” for trips back downcourt? He and Plaschke need to join S.A. (Shaqophants Anonymous). New groups are forming all over town.

Shaq played his butt off all season, then ran out of gas in the playoffs. This is what the Heat got for its 59-win season. Some achievement.

In Lakerland, a year like that wouldn’t even rate a mention.

John DeCure

Long Beach

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Is J.A. Adande on Shaq’s public-relations payroll? Or is he just afraid that if he says anything critical of Shaq, he won’t be invited to Shaq’s parties?

I hate to interrupt his lovefest, but Adande is so distracted that he has no idea that he and his biased columns are the laughingstock of the everyday reader.

Stay in Miami, J.A.

Andrew Shubert

Woodland Hills

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Adande thinks the Heat had a “season worth celebrating?” I know it’s tough to think objectively when you talk with a guy as funny, charming and quotable as Shaq, but give me a break!

Did the Lakers have a season worth celebrating last year when they made it further than the Heat did this year and still didn’t win it all? Since when has coming in second or third been a cause for celebration when we are talking about L.A. basketball?

There are no division championship banners hanging in Staples Center. For the Lakers, it’s all about championships.

Jason Conrad

Newport Coast

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Adande rants about the Lakers and still doesn’t get it that had Shaq stayed, they would have been worse, because Kobe would have left and they would have gotten nothing.

Rod Clarida

Brea