The LeBron James Thread

[OSUFan_88]

Re: LeBron James Signs With Miami Heat

How he chooses to announce his decision is still his choice

That doesn't make it the smart, respectful or right choice.

[Dice]

Re: LeBron James Signs With Miami Heat

Sorry to interrupt the discussion. BUT I'm not sure if someone posted this but this is hilarious!

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[LingeringRegime]

Re: LeBron James Signs With Miami Heat

It's generational for the most part, like others here have pointed out. I know that no one here is going to change my mind on how the thing went down, and I am sure I am not going to change anyone else's mind either (nor do I want to.)

He was a free agent so it was his choice (not knocking him for that), just the whole "look at me" persona is fairly disgusting, not to mention ripping the heart out of your home state on national television. I am not from the Cleveland area, but I from a "small market" that lost its beloved NBA franchise. So, I feel their pain in a lot of ways.

[roadman]

Re: LeBron James Signs With Miami Heat

It's generational for the most part, like others here have pointed out. I know that no one here is going to change my mind on how the thing went down, and I am sure I am not going to change anyone else's mind either (nor do I want to.)

He was a free agent so it was his choice (not knocking him for that), just the whole "look at me" persona is fairly disgusting, not to mention ripping the heart out of your home state on national television. I am not from the Cleveland area, but I from a "small market" that lost its beloved NBA franchise. So, I feel their pain in a lot of ways.

This is a very solid point and this is the way I feel as well.

[SoxFan01605]

Re: LeBron James Signs With Miami Heat

Sorry to interrupt the discussion. BUT I'm not sure if someone posted this but this is hilarious!

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That was awesome.

[King_B_Mack]

Re: LeBron James Signs With Miami Heat

First things first, all this talk about "you think Jordan wouldn't team up with Magic if he had the chance" kill that noise...

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If you think THAT guy didn't want to beat the breaks off the people that could be called GREAT players like him, you have a lot of studying to do in order to continue your hoops fandom.

That said you don't have to get bent out of shape with those of us that have a problem with how this thing went down. I'm a basketball fan through and through, I was born in June of '84 and have been watching for as long as I can remember. I love the sport, love watching, love playing and I love the NBA more than any league in the world. One of the things about all of this that bothers me is that this kind of thing just breeds copycats. When the Lakers made the move to get Gasol it changed the league and it sent every team out West and even in the East out there scrambling for big men to adapt to the change that was made to the Lakers. This thing down the line is gonna keep teams making moves and doing what they can (whether it's an overreaction or not) to keep up. I don't wanna see super teams competeing against each other, I wanna see the best players in the world going at each other every night to determine who deserves to be champion, not secretly conspiring to play together to beat another of the alpha dogs in the league and make all the tax free money they can and disguise it as a challenge.

You have the right to not feel the same way, you have the right to be fine with everything that has happened. But don't come here and tell us that we don't have a right to be upset with what's happening with the league right now or that we're somehow wrong for thinking that LeBron and Wade are wrong for how they've handled this situation. Teams having to find out his decision like every other person in the world? Wade using his kids and stringing along the Bulls and fans in Chicago when he had absolutely NO intention of ever leaving Miami? Bosh, don't even get me started on him basically just trying to create the Chris Bosh brand as opposed to expanding it like the other two were doing for their brands. This whole thing has been a farce and if I or anyone else has a problem with it, it's our right to have that opinion.
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[Jukeman]

Re: LeBron James Signs With Miami Heat



Players get pimped all the time...

I think you'll be a fan of NBA "one on one" league...That or you'd played too much of Jordan vs Bird as a kid...

[Jukeman]

Re: LeBron James Signs With Miami Heat

It's generational for the most part, like others here have pointed out. I know that no one here is going to change my mind on how the thing went down, and I am sure I am not going to change anyone else's mind either (nor do I want to.)

He was a free agent so it was his choice (not knocking him for that), just the whole "look at me" persona is fairly disgusting, not to mention ripping the heart out of your home state on national television. I am not from the Cleveland area, but I from a "small market" that lost its beloved NBA franchise. So, I feel their pain in a lot of ways.

Blame ESPN and other media outlets...

Bron's from Akron...You wouldnt call a Brooklyn boy a Harlem kid...

Im from Philly and I can care less about Chester...

[TribeWarpath]

Re: LeBron James Signs With Miami Heat

http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2010/07/inside_the_decision_miamis_cou.html

Based on this story is there really any doubt that LeBron didn't want to win a championship in Cleveland, but was more motivated on playing with his "friends"? Perhaps LeBron was afraid winning a championship in Cleveland would make it impossible for him to leave so he threw the Boston series? I'd hope not, but for anyone that watched the series it could be questioned if he gave full effort.

[jmood88]

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http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index....iamis_cou.html

Based on this story is there really any doubt that LeBron didn't want to win a championship in Cleveland, but was more motivated on playing with his "friends"? Perhaps LeBron was afraid winning a championship in Cleveland would make it impossible for him to leave so he threw the Boston series? I'd hope not, but for anyone that watched the series it could be questioned if he gave full effort.

So he didn't give his full effort when Cleveland blew the Celtics out? He played horrible the last two games of that series but if he really wanted to just get out of Cleveland as fast as he could then he wouldn't have played well at all during any games in the playoffs.

[daflyboys]

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Not sure if this was post and I'm not reading through 5,000 posts to find out. Originally posted at mvpmods:

"A waitress at the Winking Lizard in Lakewood threw this poster of LeBron James head first into the garbage can after watching LeBron's televised announcement on ESPN to leave Cleveland and play in Miami."

[Jistic]

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I just couldn't picture MJ, Olajuwon and Magic if they teamed up together doing a press conference like they did yesterday with smoke and laser lights. No way.

But for sure MJ wanted to beat the piss out of Doctor J, Isiah, 'Nique, Drexler, Magic, Bird, etc. He wanted to lift his leg and show the world that he was the Alpha, nobody else. So no in my heart of hearts I don't believe he'd team up with those guys....hell he was NOT hyped at all for Dream Team. Nike had a lot to do with that. MJ wanted to kill you, simple as that.

[TribeWarpath]

Re: LeBron James Signs With Miami Heat

So he didn't give his full effort when Cleveland blew the Celtics out? He played horrible the last two games of that series but if he really wanted to just get out of Cleveland as fast as he could then he wouldn't have played well at all during any games in the playoffs.

If he lost in the first round what would that do for his image? Despite what Gilbert says the only game I believe he quit in was Game 5. Plus the alleged elbow injury was all a sham. He obviously was using it as an excuse. By pretending to be hurting it would give him a reason to say he played poorly.

[Taur3asi3]

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After reading through this monolith of a thread it seems that non-cleveland fans are most disappointed and upset because they painted LeBron to be something he clearly wasn't and isn't capable of being. Maybe LeBron was never meant to be the alpha dog of a dynasty like Jordan or Jabbar. It isn't his fault people expected him to be something he wasn't.

[Court_vision]

Re: LeBron James Signs With Miami Heat

Sorry to interrupt the discussion. BUT I'm not sure if someone posted this but this is hilarious!

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Oh dammmmmmm.....*wipes away tears*

I feel bad for laughing so hard. That's just wrong!