What's with all the hate?
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selahscall78 — 15 years ago(July 09, 2010 10:00 AM)
Im sad but you are right he is his own person he owes nothing to Cleveland. He has helped the city bring in billions and now he can go somewhere and start over. I understand why he left let him be. People need to get lives if and stop worshipping sports figures.
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Fatality1914 — 15 years ago(July 09, 2010 11:41 AM)
No, Kobe's arrogance and disrespectful ways is what led to conflict and Shaq being traded. And people forget but immediately after that the Lakers failed to make the playoffs for the first time in decades when it was the Kobe show. Showing that Kobe cant win by himself either, he needed Gasol and for Phil to come back before they started winning again.
Yeah, Jordan stayed loyal to the Bulls but didnt start winning until it stopped being the Jordan highlight reel with "those other players" to The Bulls playing as a team. So, going back to what I said before, if they had gotten Lebron players that could do what team mates do, TAKE SOME OF THE LOAD, then he would have won 3-4 championships by now. But who did they get? Shaq.38 year old, 100 pounds over weight, bad knees Shaq! What, was Kareem unreachable? Could they not pry Dr. J from his Dr. Pepper responsibilities?
And since all of my family lives in Cleveland, I just had to listen to my uncle rant about this for 45 minutes, I know how the economy is. I know how desperate the city is for something good to happen. I know all about the hurt feelings from the Mistake at the Lake, Art Modell and everything else. But to have one man, 19 when the city labeled him the great hope, (He never called himself King James, all the fans in the c2000ity did.) be the main light at the end of the tunnel is a bit much. Yeah he brought in a lot of commerce but how is acting like a bunch of spoiled A@@ babies going to lure in the next big thing? Do you think there are a bunch of high school and college players looking at Cleveland now saying, "I really want to go there and have an entire cities hopes and dreams depend on if I can hit this shot or take this team to a championship."?
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TaraAlexis — 15 years ago(July 09, 2010 07:28 PM)
Jordan won championships within seven years though. If he didn't I'm sure he would thought about leaving. And lol @ Lebron not being the best on his team. If you think Wade is better than Lebron, that's pretty funny.
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wildcat2000 — 15 years ago(July 09, 2010 10:05 PM)
Why should he have stayed loyal when he kept asking for help? Yeah they brought in Shaq but this wasnt the dominant Shaq from the Lakers, this was Shaq on his last legs as an NBA player. Who else did he have for help? Who did they have on the bench that could come in and make an impact consistently? I am a huge Cavs fan and I dont blame him at all. These are the same comments that Minnesota fans made when KG left and look where he is now. And yes, you can have 2 alpha males on the same team. Hell look at the Lakers of old, or the bulls of the 90's, or the Celtics of the past and even now. True Alpha males know when to step back and let somebody else run with it. And for all these so called fans of Cleveland, how can you say he was disloyal when you all are burning his jersey now, threatening to demolish his home, defacing his billboards?? Cleveland was horrible for years and instead of seeing that you can be good now with the right talent, you all are flipping out. Thats sad and would only serve to ward off any other talent that might think about coming to the Cavs because they will worry that if they leave you will do the same to them. Like Dwight Howard said, "He went as hard as he could for the city for 7 years. Treat him with some respect."
Exactly. I could not agree more. To think a player isn't allowed to leave their home-team until they win a championship is just stupid and immature.
Its not like they didn't try. One Finals appearance and a handful of Playoff upsets despite having a bigger and better team is pretty much it. It just never worked out. Get over it.
Lebron should be even happier he left after all his whiny @$$ fans showed their true colors. With that kind of behavior you don't deserve him or any other superstar to play in your city.
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ninevoltz — 15 years ago(July 10, 2010 02:45 PM)
Well, a lot of people are wondering why as United States collapses and going into a great depression is everyone concerned with LeBron James. The fact is that LeBron has accomplished more in one throw of the basketball than all of us here have accomplished in our entire lifetimes - combined. So yes, I think his decision is pretty damn important and more important than the general public's daily lives.