Why LeBron may regret his staged drama

• newarkcatholicfan

  

  It’s about LeBron getting the stage to himself on Thursday night.
  
  
  http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-lebrondecision070710
• wes_mantooth

  

  smh @ KING NO TITLE
• ICEMAN59

  

  The Yahoo article is a pretty good read . . . couldn't agree more, LeBron is a douche.
  
  This attempt at elevating his "brand" only makes him look like a spoiled idiot. He's getting some really really bad advise. And, if he seriously announces that he's leaving Cleveland via a televised special, he's an even bigger idiot . . you don't do that to your home town in that manner.
  
  So, if LeBron stays . . . good for Cleveland and good for me as a Cleveland sports fan, but he's still a jackass . . . . and if he's using the special to announce he's leaving, he's an even bigger idiot than I thought.
  
  Ringless Circus . . . classic.
• Fab1b

  

  Truely I don't think he cares! The only way this looks good for him is if he stays. If he leaves he stuck Cleveland with a shit roster and no chance to land anyone else because he waited. I'm really over this, it's becoming with me if he stays good, the team I root for will be good. If he goes then the Cleveland team I root for will suck, what else is new to Cleveland fans.
• just_a_swimmer

  

  As smart as he is I just don't understand how he continues to screw up.
  He truly is full of himself. Stay or go it really doesn't matter at this point. He has done nothing to help the situation in Cleveland.
• jordo212000

  

  Good read. Wonder if S&L read this story? The writer made the same exact points I did when he called me out for being an idiot. Haha. Open your eyes S&L
• ricola

  

  a lifelong Cleveland and cavs fan, but LBJ is really looking more and more like a spoiled brat in all of this. So sick of yhe whole scenario, am like most...don't even care what happens anymore. if he stays, good, if not, we're back to having three sucky Cleveland teams, and he'll become the all time villain of cleveland, taking Modell off the hook. If he's end up in miami, it would be interesting to hear the reception they would get from here out in Cleveland. He and Bosh would be public enemies one and two. Would make Boozer's reception seem tame.
• elbuckeye28

  I really do not see how Lebron is being portrayed the way he is. For a year, news outlets have been examining every one of Lebron's actions and words and speculating on this decision. For the last few weeks Lebron has been relatively quiet about this whole situation while the news and other have been talking about it constantly. Finally, as the decision approaches(after the year of endless speculation) he decides to have a major press conference and now it is because he is a egomaniac. While I don't disagree that Lebron(and the majority of professional athletes) has a large ego, I think he has been relatively reserved through this entire process, given the ridiculous amount of attention he has received.
  
  As for the article, while the author brings up some valid points, the dramatization (OOOO the poor people holding signs for Lebron but he does not care about them) weakens the argument.
• Ironman92

  

  I wonder how we would act in his shoes......it's easy to say what we'd do......but it's impossible to know for sure.
  
  
  Wherever he lands...I'll root for him.
• jordo212000

  

  wes_mantooth;414809 wrote:smh @ KING NO TITLE

  
  I see what you did there
• Swamp Fox

  I think that most of us would be able to say what we would do because I don't think we would be making the "announcement" in a made for TV Melodrama starring ourselves for a solid hour with numerous commercials, before we inform the fans about which team was the lucky winner of our services. I think that you or I would have taken a few minutes with a reporter, announced where we had decided to go and that would be that. I Think you'd have to look pretty hard to find very many people who give two shakes of a dog's tail what Lebron does or doesn't do at this particular time. It is extremely disappointing to say the least.
• elbuckeye28

  Swamp Fox;415188 wrote:. I Think you'd have to look pretty hard to find very many people who give two shakes of a dog's tail what Lebron does or doesn't do at this particular time.

  
  HMMMMM all you have to do is open a sports page, go to a sports website, or even sign on to facebook to see there are thousands of people who care about this decision. In fact, a qwe have been bombarded with the media interpreting and speculating on the situation for a year, but you're right, it's hard to find anybody that cares.
  
  Just a quick search and the front page of CNN, ESPN, and MSN have Lebron articles. Jon Stewart did a segment on the Daily Show and Betty White made a video as well. This is the most anticipated signing ever, but nobody cares huh.
• HitsRus

  

  I think it is pretty funny that the people who say they don't care, keep posting on it over and over.
  
  I care about LBJ...he means a lot to Cleveland and Ohio, not just in basketball terms but in money that he brings in for the area and the publicity that he generates.
• Swamp Fox

  I really don't think so. (in answer to "ebuckeye28") The media creates and the people follow.
• reclegend22

  

  He's been a self-serving drama whore since his days at Akron. Nothing new here. The only thing news worthy here is that people are actually surprised by this.
• Heretic

  

  Ironman92;415095 wrote:I wonder how we would act in his shoes......it's easy to say what we'd do......but it's impossible to know for sure.
  
  
  Wherever he lands...I'll root for him.

  
  If I was in his shoes...
  
  1. Call every GM of a team I'd consider playing for. Say, "I'm coming for a visit. Get the two best bitches you can find to greet me at my hotel." Rail them all night long.
  
  2. Pick the team whose GM did the best job of finding me sex toys.
  
  3. Make announcement on live TV while in hot tub with two new chicks. It likely will wind up only being aired on Skinemax or the Playboy Channel, but that's okay.
  
  Then again, with my personality and lack of morals, I doubt I'd ever have a clean image to maintain, so comparing "hypothetical me" to LeBron really isn't an apples-to-apples sort of thing.
• Writerbuckeye

  

  The day of the classy athlete who truly thinks about the ramifications of things before giving in to their ego is all but gone.
  
  Lebron handled most of the intense scrutiny leading up to tonight pretty well. He was mostly quiet and above the fray.
  
  Then he goes and has a ONE HOUR special to make a two minute announcement.
  
  There's no way he looks good coming out of this cluster fuck, no matter which city he selects.
  
  If he stays, he looks like a total attention whore who needless dragged his fans and hometown through shit before making a decision.
  
  If he goes, he is the scumbag who not only turned his back on all the loyalty shown by his owner, fans and home town, but he used an hour long nationally televised special to drag their faces through his ego-driven feces while doing so.
  
  I haven't been a strong NBA fan for quite a few years now, and this whole episode simply reinforces why I've most avoided the league since some classy guys named Bird and Magic stopped bouncing the basketball on the court and everything was focused on the previous attention whore known as MJ.