For the third straight year, the Wizards had the fortune of facing LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round of the playoffs. Absent pretty much everyone last season, the Cav’s sweep of the Wiz in the first round was essentially a given. This year, with the recent return of Hibachi Arenas, the Wizards felt like they had a swagger that they could take into the series. To take it further, Wizards guard DeShaun Stephenson kicked the sleeping dragon and called LeBron “overrated.”

DeShaun, let me break something off for you. Overrated is a guy who scores 11 points a game and gets 3 assists a game challenging a guy who is bigger, stronger, faster, and scores 30 points, 9 rebounds, and 8 assists a game. Overrated is the 15 points you’ve scored in the two losses in Cleveland while LeBron has gone for 30 and 32 respectively. Overrated is that shitty growth you have on your chin after making a stupid agreement with Drew Gooden to grow out shaggy beards. Overrated is your entire Wizards team that is once again in a 2-0 hole because you decided to call out arguably the best player in the NBA.

I should also mention that Brendan Haywood is a punk and a bitch. That flagrant, though it looked worse than it probably was because LeBron was off-balance, was unwarranted and uncalled for. I get that Washington is trying to send a message that they’re going to play physical. I get that they want to rough up LeBron in the series. There’s other ways to do it, Brendan. My suggestion is that you take that double flagrant, take your 10 points and 7 assists, take all that smack talk you and your boys were running to the King before the series started, turn that sumbitch sideways, and stick it straight up your candy ass.