shame on all 3.
1. on lebron for telling the world he was leaving for miami while still
IN CLEVELAND. classy lebron. way to build up the cav fans hopes and then
shatter them like glass. that was the most stupid thing i have seen in a
while. if it were me, regardless if i were staying or leaving, i would
not have made that decision IN CLEVELAND. do it in your old high school
gym. or do it in a major city without an nba team. but not IN
CLEVELAND. i just see this as lebron cementing his reputation. no not as
a superstar, but as a self-centered overhyped very good basketball player
who cares more about promoting himself and getting his name out there than
winning. if he cared about winning he would have gone to chicago. as a
bulls fan i am glad he is not going to make his home in the united
center. as it stands now, he's on a team with a lot of talent, but i'm
not sure how much of a "team" it is or will be. and speaking of "team"…
2. on dan gilbert. i don't say that because of the screed he wrote in
the plain-dealer after james jumped ship. i say that because of the
screed he wrote after he enabled james for 7 years. i'd be hella pissed
too after i did everything i could to coddle the league's most marketable
loser and came away with nothing. gilbert didn't have the balls to tell
james no. his general manager didn't have the balls to tell james no.
his coach(es) certainly didn't have the balls to tell james no, but then
again none of the 30 nba coaches, with the slight exception of phil
jackson, have the balls to tell any players no. instead of building an
actual team to complement james gilbert through his gms threw players on
this team with no rhyme or reason. the offense was pretty simple- give
the ball to lebron and get out of the way. the players he was surrounded
with were slightly better than average and only because they were with
lebron were they perceived as being better than they were. i can't shoot
for the life of me. if i were on the cavs for the last 7 years i would
have been a valuable role player to have on their team. why? because i'm
a teammate of lebron james. and lebron james is king. he's god. he's
the akron hammer. he must be that damn good because espn said so. and
speaking of espn…
3. on espn for that masturbatory celebration of all things lebron james.
i didn't watch it. but i saw clips of it on other shows. in a few words,
that was horrible. here was a supposed news organization making a story
that could have been covered in 15 minutes last for 5-6 hours, not
including the 1 hour special itself. keeping secret from your own
reporters that you had even a special planned is a nice move. so is
finding out where hoopstar christ is going 30 minutes in the interview
when it was promised the announcement would come within 15 minutes of the
start of the show.
really, everyone looks sleazy in this deal all around, hoopstar christ
especially. if anyone wants to know why i haven't consciously voluntarily
watched any nba game in 13 years, look at this incedent. i'm a hockey
fan. i can guarantee you that sid crosby or alex ovetchkin should either
of them hit the free agent market would ever do something like this,
mainly because publicity stunts like this embarrass all parties involved.
the players especially. and both of those players respect the nhl and
hockey too much to ever do something like that.
good luck (n)ever winning a championship in miami, provided they have
enough basketballs to go around.
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