Dan Gilbert Basically Telling LeBron... F U

• osu45804

  

  http://www.insidehoops.com/blog/?p=6178
  
  LOL
• Automatik

  

  Typical Cleveland.
• wes_mantooth

  

  This posted on the Cavs site, so it is legit. I love it.....best owner in Cleveland sports.
• Footwedge

  Dan's a tad pissed off I see. If it weren't on the Cavs website, I would not have believed it was legit.
• chicago510

  

  "I PERSONALLY GUARANTEE THAT THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS WILL WIN AN NBA CHAMPIONSHIP BEFORE THE SELF-TITLED FORMER ‘KING’ WINS ONE"
  
  You can take it to the bank.

  Who wrote this? Sleeper?
• dave

  A little too bold, but I love Gilbert.
• miller45452003

  What a GOLDEN OWNER, but how do we win Mr. Gilbert? Johnny Flynn?
• Fly4Fun

  

  Sleeper = Dan Gilbert apparently.
• Automatik

  

  People are bashing LeBron about being classless. IMO that letter is about as classless as you can get.
  
  Guaranteeing a championship? Bwahahahahahaha
  
  How is he gonna do that when he still has to go against Boston, Orlando and now Miami. Cleveland is as fucked as ever.
• Azubuike24

  

  Fans like Sleeper are the ones that make me want to enjoy every single moment of tonight's crazy coverage and relish in every moment of agony the city of Cleveland and that franchise will go through going forward. If it's all downhill until the franchise leaves town, that would be fine with me.
  
  However, I know how it is to TRULY love a team. Invest everything into them, year in and year out, no matter what, even if it makes you look like a homer or even delusional at times. Unfortunately, the LeBron era started with VERY FEW fans of that ilk for the Cavaliers, and it's going to end with just as many or more making their grand exit into apathy or to another franchise just like the King did to Miami.
  
  To the true Cleveland fans who can't even define their feelings right now (to that brink of emotion we can allow sports to take us to), I'm sorry.
• gut

  I love it!
  
  But it's hard to imagine that coming from anyone other than Mark Cuban. Wonder if the cite was hacked? The personal guarantee of CLE winning a title before Leboob just seems a little too over the top.
  
  However, I think they said on ESPN that Dan found out with the rest of us during the announcement. They were talking about Lebron one day regretting not telling Dan ahead of time, and if true that's just unbelievable classless to me and would explain Dan's rant, but still a bit too much.
• Mooney44Cards

  

  What do you want him to say? Good luck LeBron?
  
  I mean seriously, one classless act deserves another.
• GOONx19

  

  There is so much more to tell you about the events of the recent past and our more than exciting future. Over the next several days and weeks, we will be communicating much of that to you.

  This will be interest to say the least.
• gut

  Automatik;417133 wrote:People are bashing LeBron about being classless. IMO that letter is about as classless as you can get. .

  
  Ehhh, I say more marketing than classless. Lebron over this whole ordeal has been pretty classless, IMO. Bringing attention to the Girls & Boys club? Good. Having them there so they can witness your stellar example of turning your back on the fans and hometown to become a mercenary? It really doesn't get much lower than that. Ohhhh how I wish we could of seen a camera shot of some sweet little 10 year old in tears hearing the announcement.
• ironman02

  ESPN is running with it. It's on the bottom line already.
• chicago510

  

  The Cavs PR team has a lot of work to do...mostly because theres not a lot the front office can do.
• Footwedge

  At least the boys and girls club made some money tonight.
• BCBulldog

  

  I was never a fan of any NBA team in particular. I liked watching Jordan with the Bulls and even Wizards and LeBron with the Cavs, but never did I call myself a fan of any of those teams. Now after reading Gilbert's letter, I am and will always be a Cavs fan.
• genghis dong

  We lost with him. We can lose without him
• raiderbuck

  I think he's a little perturbed...
• killer_ewok

  

  Wow.
• j_crazy

  

  Bold statement hope he delivers!
• BCBulldog

  

  j_crazy;417163 wrote:Bold statement hope he delivers!

  
  Someone has to since LeBron failed.
• TBone14

  

  Awesome! Go Cavs. I'm wearing my Tyrone Hill jersey on top of my Mark Price throwback to dinner tomorrow night. It is back to the true Cavs fans now and hopefully Mr. Gilbert's guarantee comes true.
• BCBulldog

  

  TBone14;417173 wrote:Awesome! Go Cavs. I'm wearing my Tyrone Hill jersey on top of my Mark Price throwback to dinner tomorrow night. It is back to the true Cavs fans now and hopefully Mr. Gilbert's guarantee comes true.

  
  Mind if I join you true fans. I've never had an NBA team, but with an owner like Gilbert, I want to join in. Being a lifelong Browns fan, I really get the pain that Clevelanders are feeling tonight.