Goodbye Lebron smh

• mallymal614

  According to ESPN, the Cavs don't have a chance. All we hear about is Chicago, Miami, and New York.
• mallymal614

  Sorry, just my vent for the day. I might as well put that channel on mute.
• jordo212000

  

  Like I said in another thread... the only thing that will keep Lebron in Cleveland will be loyalty to NE Ohio. How loyal is Lebron? I don't know.
  
  The reason I say this is because at this point, those other cities are in much more favorable positions IMO
• newarkcatholicfan

  

  Miami bound c-ya loserville.
• BR1986FB

  jordo212000;401273 wrote:Like I said in another thread... the only thing that will keep Lebron in Cleveland will be loyalty to NE Ohio. How loyal is Lebron? I don't know.

  
  I guess you'd have to ask the Dallas Cowboys & New York Yankees.
• Strapping Young Lad

  

  I don't like LeBron, but I'll like him even less if he splits Cleveland. Gotta stay loyal to the home-team. If he's the best player in the world (which he isn't, but he could be someday) he can win anywhere. It may not be tomorrow, but someday. And it will likely be Cleveland's first title. He'd be immortalized.
• thedynasty1998

  

  jordo212000;401273 wrote:Like I said in another thread... the only thing that will keep Lebron in Cleveland will be loyalty to NE Ohio. How loyal is Lebron? I don't know.
  
  The reason I say this is because at this point, those other cities are in much more favorable positions IMO

  
  That is the ONLY reason to stay. And even if he does leave, I don't think that means he's not loyal.
• jordo212000

  

  thedynasty1998;401284 wrote:That is the ONLY reason to stay. And even if he does leave, I don't think that means he's not loyal.

  
  I would disagree. He is no dummy, he knows how much he means to that city and Cavalier fans. If he leaves the franchise is suddenly not worth nearly as much as it was with Lebron, the team will suck, and fans/the city will hate him. A "loyal" player would not knowingly do that to his team.
• BR1986FB

  Not a fan of this writer but his comments about Lebron's ego are spot on...
  
  Summer of LeBron overshadows draft
  
  By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports
  7 hours, 55 minutes ago
  
  NEW YORK – This was the way LeBron James(notes) fantasized the free-agent frenzy playing out, the hijacking of a sport unfolding over the NBA Finals and draft. Now the arms race for basketball’s biggest soap star has transformed into the most fascinating free-for-all this sport’s ever witnessed. Tampering is out of control, side deals promised everywhere, and James and his inner circle have the NBA where they’ve always wanted it: on its knees, bowing down to the King.
  
  Despite the extravagant dinner party to entertain LeBron and his extended list of enablers that the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports the Knicks are planning for July 1, an executive with a team in pursuit of James believes it could be Broiled Walsh and D’Antoni served to empty seats. “LeBron’s taking appointments with teams in Ohio that day,” the official said.
  
  In this twisted, bizarre and broken culture of Stern’s NBA, the Chicago Bulls and Miami Heat overshadowed the draft with what passes as accomplishment now: Gutting good players off rosters, clearing cap space and praying World Wide Wes is lying to everyone else, not you. Ernie Grunfeld was the most unpopular man in the sport for letting the Chicago Bulls use the Washington Wizards as a repository for Kirk Hinrich’s(notes) $9 million contract, the 17th pick in the draft and $3 million.
  
  To listen to World Wide Wes, LeBron will never look back on Cleveland. “He’s up out of there,” is the way he tells it to people, but LeBron’s Akron crew has to tsk-tsk such public talk because they all live in Northeast Ohio, and maybe always will. “We’re going to Chicago,” William Wesley tells people, “and Chris Bosh(notes) is coming, too.”
  
  Free agency started months ago, and there isn’t a day that passes that the biggest stars, agents and teams aren’t negotiating in violation of the NBA’s make-believe rules. Just make sure Phoenix Suns GM Steve Kerr sends his five-figure check for making a joke on a radio show about James. This is the biggest farce the NBA’s ever endorsed and enabled, and that’s saying a lot considering the people responsible for running this Truman Show starring LeBron, Wes and Maverick Carter.
  
  The Bulls believe they’re going to get James, and that’s why they so confidently cleared the cap room needed to sign James and Bosh. The Bulls think they’re getting James and Toronto’s Chris Bosh, that the supporting cast of Derrick Rose(notes) and Joakim Noah(notes) make them the most attractive destination. Nevertheless, the biggest myth of free agency, some executives pursuing James say, is that recruiting Bosh is telltale to the cause. “Bosh is attaching himself more to LeBron, than LeBron is to him,” one official said.
  
  New Jersey is trying hard to deliver Chris Paul(notes) for James, but here’s one problem: New Jersey would never offer center Brook Lopez(notes) in a package, and Hornets GM Jeff Bower wouldn’t even accept a trade that included the burgeoning 7-footer for Paul, a source said. Most of all, the Nets’ puncher’s chance is the excessive ego of James feeling lured to the possibilities of Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov.
  
  &#8220rokhorov is the draw,” one Eastern Conference official said. “The King thinks he can be a billion dollar guy.”
  
  Prokhorov is expected to fly to Akron – perhaps as early as July 1 – and here’s an idea for him: He might want to sign his GM, Rod Thorn, to a contract, because some peers believe that without a contract soon the Nets top executive could walk away and retire. No one ran a smarter, shrewder draft campaign than Thorn, who turned insufferable Minnesota GM David Kahn into a basket case over the Nets threatening to draft Wesley Johnson(notes).
  
  Even the least provocative and interesting of writers bought the bait the Nets were plotting a package deal with Johnson and free agent Carlos Boozer(notes). The Russians running the Nets want marquee free agents and Boozer doesn’t fit the sexy splash they’re angling for in July. For everything breaking loose on draft night, the Cavaliers had never looked so unappealing and distant in the James sweepstakes. The Cavs couldn’t give away a $30 million contract to Tom Izzo and they can’t get Byron Scott to take the offer of a job over the possibility of two others in Los Angeles that he’ll probably never get. Cleveland had no draft picks on Thursday and little more than sentimentality to sell LeBron James to stay home.
  
  The most unforgettable moment of the offseason had to be the Cavs’ new GM, Chris Grant, standing there at his introductory news conference reading a list of scripted compliments about his owner that the organization laid out for him. The Cavs can script these things, but they’re losing control of the free-agency narrative. For so long, Gilbert enabled everything with LeBron – the bigger-than-life billboards, the full-time jobs and summer league roster spots for his buddies and the endless capitulations that contributed to his obsession with creating a culture of all him, all the time in the NBA.
  
  LeBron’s title chase is lurching closer and closer, the Ego Championship of the NBA. All hell is breaking loose, broken rules and broken promises ruling the day. Somewhere, James was smiling on Thursday night. All these kids getting a dream fulfilled, all these picks walking to the podium, and it was still all about LeBron James on draft night. On your knees, people. Bow down to the King. Bow to the chaos.
  
  http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-lebronfreeagent062510
• Sage

  

  I don't know how I feel about Woj. I get what he's saying with LeBron, but God, the guy is a businessman and Woj makes him out to be the Anti-Christ at times, and his hatchet is starting to dull with all the enthusiasm he brings to hacking away with it.
  
  But, the man does have some quality sources and breaks a lot of NBA news. Writers that I respect way more than I ever have or will respect Woj seem to really respect the guy, so there's that.
• hoops23

  

  Woj loves to hate LeBron. Want hits to your posts? Bash LeBron.
  
  He's done it since day 1.
• jordo212000

  

  I have to agree with Woj. Lebron has been annoying ever since he got knocked out of the playoffs against the Magic a little over a year ago. You can tell he loves the attention, the hype, and the fawning all over him. I found it even more unbearable when he would drop little nuggets to the media during the Finals to bring some attention back his way.
• enigmaax

  Yeah Lebron is the only player in the world who should not look out for himself. People take jobs in different places at different times for different reasons, but if Lebron leaves Cleveland he's an asshole. It is obvious that Lebron likes the attention, but so what? I get a little tired of hearing about him and the sense of entitlement - he hasn't won shit in the NBA, where winning shit is the most important factor in a legacy. But the worse sense of entitlement is the Cleveland fans who somehow think he owes them his entire life and livelihood...just because he was born close to there. Idiots.
• Nate

  I don't have a problem with what Lebron is doing. Nothing more than weighing his options. I, for one, hate reading Woj articles. He has bashed Lebron going to Cleveland all year.
• The Equalizer

  

  For what its worth, LBJ and his baby mama have signed up their little boy for another year at his prep academy. Of course he could easily eat a $20,000 tuition check and bolt but he's not 100% certain he's leaving I'd imagine if they wanted to make sure the kid didn't lose his place in the school.
• reclegend22

  

  ^^Lol. Yes, that is going to stop a multi-billion (sarcastic over-exaggeration, but you get the drift) contract with the New York Knicks and Madison Square Garden as a home arena.
  
  Spread the news,
  I am leaving today
  I want to be part of it
  New York, New Yorrrrrk
• reclegend22

  

  Sinatra, baby.
• Footwedge

  LBJ to Ok City. He will accept a less than max contract too. Wants to win 5 titles in a row with Westbrook, Durant et al. Even at 13 mil a year, he'll make 100 mil with championship endorsements.
• The Equalizer

  

  Who the hell said it would stop him leaving? All it does it make sure his kid has a place in the school next year incase, in the unlikely event he stays which says to me he's not 100% set on leaving yet, but it would depend on the offers and/or teammates he can pair with next month.
  
  I don't think he's staying with the cavs and I think he's actually going to chicago, or Miami depending on if the heat continue to clear room getting rid of Beasley. Wade, Bosh and him would make a devastating trio, like Boston without the AARP cards.
• Speedofsand

  

  Knicks set for Ohio meeting with LeBron
  http://newyorkpost.com/p/sports/knicks/piece_of_the_akron_5a3hg1Zg5RHMsJGopAwJ9N
  As The Post's Fred Kerber reported Friday, the Nets get first crack at James on Thursday in Akron, while Knicks officials expect to meet with him next, according to sources. James also has invited the Bulls, Heat and Clippers to meet with him either Thursday or Friday.
  
  Get your Akron on!
  
  The Nets go first, presumably out of respect to James' close buddy, Jay-Z, a minority Nets owner.
• sportswizuhrd

  I wish someone would interrupt these meetings. Planes with banners overhead or whatever.
• devil1197

  What exactly has LeBron done to amp the hype up?
  
  He has had exactly one, ONE major interview that comes to mind about the 2010 FA with Larry King.
  
  How many times do you see him on T.V. giving an interview or news articles coming out with comments from LeBron?
  
  So because the media blows up any comments that an "un-named NBA exec" says about LeBron that is somehow his fault? Right.
  
  And when anonimous sources say that LeBron will tour the cities, LeBron this LeBron that, its somehow his fault even though the reports are false? Right.
• Heretic

  

  RE: Woj -- basically what Sage said. He makes some valid points, but he's used the "LeBron's a spoiled bitch" card for about two months or so in about one column per week, it seems. Regardless of how valid anything he's saying is, when it appears that you're getting a chubby every damn time you say something portraying him in a negative light, it starts looking like you have something personal against the dude.
  
  RE: The Cavs -- not a good time for an organization to be in a bit of chaos with a new GM and no coach. And the postseason failings have been an organizational thing. The players go from loose and relaxed during the regular season to forcing things and struggling when under adversity in the postseason. The coach seemed to have NO control over things during those times. For two straight years, they've been an elite team that's been a couple steps below that level in the postseason. And now they're trying to induce their superstar to come back when they don't have a coach (because what big-name coach would want to come to a team without knowing LeBron's returning). Someone needs to step up and do something, because it looks to me that other teams are doing a lot more to make their franchises attractive than his is.
• killer_ewok

  

  Forget LeBron. The Knicks drafted Andy Rautins so I'm happy.