To Come...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Final Thoughts on Lebron
So I have made my return to talk about Lebron, and I feel I have given it enough time to sort everything out. To recap, here is what we know:
1) Lebron decided to waste an hour of our lives with "The Decision" on ESPN, with Jim Grey's corpse.
2) He spurned Cleveland for "South Beach" (hint: the Heat play in the slums of Miami, not South Beach)
3) He received a lot of sh*t from the media for this.
The natural reaction is "Lebron made a huge mistake, is still a child in an adult athlete's body, and is now one of the biggest a-holes in sports". That is exactly what I thought after his decision was made - but over the last few weeks I've changed my tune a little bit.
Why is that? For three reasons:
1) He was playing in Cleveland, which by all accounts is one of the worst major cities in America. I believe Forbes just named it their #1 most depressing city (or something like that), and according to my boy Joakim Noah, "nobody ever takes vacation to Cleveland". Who wouldn't want to leave here? Hell, Art Modell had a loyal following of Browns fans and still up and left the place. "South Beach" isn't perfect by any means, but anyone who tells you they would rather live in Cleveland is a Marv.
2) This isn't the 80's or the 90's. You don't have to do it by yourself. If Lebron wants to win championships, why not team up with two of the other top picks from his draft class, get a bunch of solid role players to take the league minimum, and cruise through the league? Sure, he will never have a legacy like Jordan did, but he will still have titles - right? And let's say Lebron has a real confidence - whereby he is happy with himself and he doesn't care what other people think. That's real.
3) This is the biggest reason of all and holds the most weight. It seems as if during the Celtics playoff series, the team dropped the bomb on Lebron that they knew Delonte West was banging his mom. Everyone on the team except Lebron and Z knew about it, and they weren't telling him. This had been going on for months. Would you want to return to a team that all knew one of the players was banging your mom? I wouldn't. That alone is enough (in my eyes) for him to leave.
I'm sure more things will come out as the NBA season nears in October - but I say give Lebron another chance. If Wade, Bosh, and him begin to embrace the a-hole images they've built over the past few weeks - it's fine to root against them. Just know that Lebron had his reasons to leave, even if his decision to do an hour-long special on ESPN was a poor one.
1) Lebron decided to waste an hour of our lives with "The Decision" on ESPN, with Jim Grey's corpse.
2) He spurned Cleveland for "South Beach" (hint: the Heat play in the slums of Miami, not South Beach)
3) He received a lot of sh*t from the media for this.
The natural reaction is "Lebron made a huge mistake, is still a child in an adult athlete's body, and is now one of the biggest a-holes in sports". That is exactly what I thought after his decision was made - but over the last few weeks I've changed my tune a little bit.
Why is that? For three reasons:
1) He was playing in Cleveland, which by all accounts is one of the worst major cities in America. I believe Forbes just named it their #1 most depressing city (or something like that), and according to my boy Joakim Noah, "nobody ever takes vacation to Cleveland". Who wouldn't want to leave here? Hell, Art Modell had a loyal following of Browns fans and still up and left the place. "South Beach" isn't perfect by any means, but anyone who tells you they would rather live in Cleveland is a Marv.
2) This isn't the 80's or the 90's. You don't have to do it by yourself. If Lebron wants to win championships, why not team up with two of the other top picks from his draft class, get a bunch of solid role players to take the league minimum, and cruise through the league? Sure, he will never have a legacy like Jordan did, but he will still have titles - right? And let's say Lebron has a real confidence - whereby he is happy with himself and he doesn't care what other people think. That's real.
3) This is the biggest reason of all and holds the most weight. It seems as if during the Celtics playoff series, the team dropped the bomb on Lebron that they knew Delonte West was banging his mom. Everyone on the team except Lebron and Z knew about it, and they weren't telling him. This had been going on for months. Would you want to return to a team that all knew one of the players was banging your mom? I wouldn't. That alone is enough (in my eyes) for him to leave.
I'm sure more things will come out as the NBA season nears in October - but I say give Lebron another chance. If Wade, Bosh, and him begin to embrace the a-hole images they've built over the past few weeks - it's fine to root against them. Just know that Lebron had his reasons to leave, even if his decision to do an hour-long special on ESPN was a poor one.
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