LeBron takes out an ad.........For Akron.

• hoops23

  

  "To My Family, Friends and Fans in Akron:
  "For all my life, I have lived in Akron -- and for that, I am truly a lucky man.
  
  "It was here where I first learned how to play basketball, and where I met the people who would become my lifelong friends and mentors. Their guidance, encouragement and support will always be with me.
  
  "Akron is my home, and the central focus of my life. It's where I started, and it's where I will always come back to. You can be sure that I will continue to do everything I can for this city, which is so important to my family and me.
  
  Thank you for your love and support. You mean everything to me."
  
  
  He then signed "LeBron" at the bottom of the ad.

  No mention of Cleveland or the fans who supported him for 7 years... lol.
• Pick6

  

  Lebron can take the ad and shove it up his ass
• Swamp Fox

  Loyalty to your hometown is admirable. I think what he did for his home was good. I think he could have showed at least a little bit of loyalty to those who played shoulder to shoulder with him for seven years and came ever so close to winning it all, rather than running off into the night with never so much as a mention, a goodbye, a thanks for giving me my start in the NBA. I am still repulsed by the manner in which he left the ones who were so sure that this man would lead them to the Championship that would have meant so much to everyone in Cleveland. Of course, we had no idea at that moment that this man we idolized, and yes, loved, was no leader.
• dave

  What a fucking retard, his circle is really doing everything wrong.
• Pick6

  

  If he was truly sincere, he would have said something much sooner, instead of a month later after he is doing all of his partying and whatever.
• Midstate01

  

  Or after Z ran his own ad.
• dave

  Exactly, some of his buds saw what Z did and must have thought that was a great idea.
  
  I highly doubt Lebron will come back to Akron much and continue things like his bikeathon out in public. He will always have to go to SVSM where they still worship him.
• killdeer

  

  so, completely act like a selfish douche, then when the PR shizzle hits the fan, his handlers finally crank up the feel-good machine and work on a little damage control??
  
  Really??
  
  All the people he pays to make himself look artificially genuine and selfless should be fired immediately.
• krazie45

  

  He's about a month late on this....just looks bad now considering no mention of Cleveland and the fact that Z did it a couple days earlier. This is why you let professionals handle your career. Entourage doesn't work in real life.
• IggyPride00

  

  If you really look at it, he has never considered himself to be a Clevelander. He didn't root for any of our sports teams, and kept his home in Akron even when he played for the Cavs.
  
  Spite aside I don't think he ever felt a whole lot of connection to the city of Cleveland. Akron may have been close geographically, but I get the sense (and looking back now it is more apparent) that he had about as much an emotional connection to the city as he did to Timbuktu before coming the the Cavs, it just just happened to be close to Akron.
  
  That's why leaving "home" in retrospect wasn't as hard a decision as many had thought it might be a ahead of time. He has always been clear about Akron being home, so I truly think in his mind that playing basketball in Miami as opposed to Cleveland doesn't really constitute having left "home" as many Clevelanders had talked about before "the decision".
• GoChiefs

  

  hoops23;439870 wrote:No mention of Cleveland or the fans who supported him for 7 years... lol.

  
  Yes, bc the Cavs fans have been so great to him huh? I'm not saying he shouldn't have, but lets be real, you wouldn't either if you were in his shoes. I know, I know. But you wouldn't have done what he did. But thats besides the point. All Cleveland has done is shit on him the last month. Again, not saying he doesn't deserve what he gets, but Cleveland doesn't deserve a mention from him either.
• krazie45

  

  Someone over at RCF posted this and thought it should run in the ABJ. I thought it was pretty good:
  
  "Dear LeBron,
  
  Since you were a child, we've supported and loved you like our son... Then you turned your back on this town. You clearly do not understand that while the Cavaliers may play in Cleveland, they have always represented all of northeast Ohio -- Akron included. We may be two different cities, but we're in this fight together. It's not just the fight for a sports championship... It's so much more than that. But when you shat on Cleveland in prime-time national television, you shat on Akron too.
  
  We raise our children to value things like loyalty, commitment, and dedication, however after 25 years here you clearly possess none of those qualities. For the first time in your life, you have made us ashamed that you're from Akron.
  
  How mighty presumptuous of you to think you still have our love and support, after turning your back on us in the manner which you did. Sorry, but we will no longer stand behind you. You may return to our city in the future, but it will never again be your Home."
  
  Signed... "Akron"
• enigmaax

  Maybe that should start something more like: "Dear LeBron, Ever since we figured out that your talent could be our meal ticket, we have conditionally supported you."
• krazie45

  

  enigmaax;439946 wrote:Maybe that should start something more like: "Dear LeBron, Ever since we figured out that your talent could be our meal ticket, we have conditionally supported you."

  
  LOL he's not Barack Obama.....and people wonder why LeQuitter has such a big ego
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Pick6;439893 wrote:Lebron can take the ad and shove it up his ass

  
  I'm sure they ran a few thousand papers, so that would lead to a very large ass!
• Enforcer

  

  Thats pretty Funny
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Would Akron react the same way if they had an Akron native playing for Cleveland, was the 12th man, and decided to go ring chasing? You know, since they raised him and everything.
• hoops23

  

  LeBron did cancel his Akron Bikeathon.
• enigmaax

  ernest_t_bass;439957 wrote:Would Akron react the same way if they had an Akron native playing for Cleveland, was the 12th man, and decided to go ring chasing? You know, since they raised him and everything.

  
  It is funny how buying tickets for someone to entertain you is considered "support". If LeBron had never played basketball nor made his own money, what would Akron do to support him besides a couple indirectly distributed tax dollars. I'm not sure anyone was running up to LeBron when he was five going, "oh LeBron, we are all brothers in this city and you are poor - let me support you".
  
  Gotta love Mr. High and Mighty Sports Fan who throws away money on basketball tickets and LeBron jerseys. Aren't there people who could actually use that money? But you choose to supplement a millionaire basketball and ignore your homeless and that makes you dreadfully loyal and all about values. Dipshits.
• thedynasty1998

  

  How quickly Ohio fans want to forget about how the OHSAA wanted to declare Lebron ineligible and everyone hated him because he was driving around in his Hummer. He wasn't being supported in Cleveland then.
• krazie45

  

  thedynasty1998;440016 wrote:How quickly Ohio fans want to forget about how the OHSAA wanted to declare Lebron ineligible and everyone hated him because he was driving around in his Hummer. He wasn't being supported in Cleveland then.

  
  Really? Because as I recall though there were those who criticized LeBron for his hummer, most people supported his appeal to let him play. Twist away though....whatever it takes to make it fit your argument.
• Bigdogg

  Hey LeBron... you can take your apology and your trophy and shove 'em straight up your ass!
• thedynasty1998

  

  krazie45;440034 wrote:Really? Because as I recall though there were those who criticized LeBron for his hummer, most people supported his appeal to let him play. Twist away though....whatever it takes to make it fit your argument.

  
  I don't recall that, but maybe that is true in your area. And no, I'm not twisting anything. I just don't think Cleveland can claim to have supported Lebron for all these years and act like Lebron didn't do anything for Cleveland.
• gut

  dave;439901 wrote:What a fucking retard, his circle is really doing everything wrong.

  
  Well, as mentioned, it's not like these guys are that smart or professionally trained.
  
  I don't know which is sadder, the fact that his people are advising him to do this, or the fact that he seems to think this is a good idea.
  
  It all may very well be the immature response of a whiny child more than a PR move - just a subtle dig on CLE as payback for the stuff being said and written about him.
• SportsAndLady

  

  enigmaax;440001 wrote:It is funny how buying tickets for someone to entertain you is considered "support". If LeBron had never played basketball nor made his own money, what would Akron do to support him besides a couple indirectly distributed tax dollars. I'm not sure anyone was running up to LeBron when he was five going, "oh LeBron, we are all brothers in this city and you are poor - let me support you".
  
  Gotta love Mr. High and Mighty Sports Fan who throws away money on basketball tickets and LeBron jerseys. Aren't there people who could actually use that money? But you choose to supplement a millionaire basketball and ignore your homeless and that makes you dreadfully loyal and all about values. Dipshits.

  
  Can you deepthroat all of Lebron's cock, or just most of it?