Doing what for years?
Yeah, for me the argument is much less about his tiredness and much more about being fair to the fans. Imagine you're a mom or dad making ends meet and you had this one date circled on the calendar to take the kids to go see their favorite player LeBron and then game day comes, and you find out he ain't even playing. I just think it's a dikk move. Of course he's taken a beating but damn, there's gotta be some way to protect the fans in this instance. Like, it should not and would not be required, but I think the team could earn a lot of goodwill if they would announce some time ahead of time that LeBron will be taking rests on certain days or something. I dunno, shyt, something
Damn, first you think I said "LeBron has the right to be tired" which was never uttered, now you can't read the very next sentence in the post where I precisely describe exactly what you've been doing for years. Your reading is really slipping my dude.
That's your opinion. I also think it's dumb as fukk to COMPLETELY take the paying fans out of the discussion and focus only on LeBron's physical condition. But hey, that's the beauty of diversity of thought. We don't have to agree
Yeah I mean because of this, I can definitely revise my position from "it's a dikk move to take random rests" to "just have the team announce ahead of time when you will take random rests to be fair to fans". I mean it's always on the back end of a back to back on the road or whatever anyway. The circumstances are usually predictable when the schedule is released so just figure that shyt out and let people know so working families aren't setting themselves back to come see the LeBron-less Cavs
Hell yes. I'm sure the scenario I posted above is not uncommon, especially for these road games. Kids grow up worshiping LeBron, families want to buy tickets to the game because it might be one of the few, if ONLY, times LeBron is coming to their city that season. Game day rolls around and LeBron just takes a pass. Yes I definitely think they care
I think "mad" is the wrong word, at least for me. I can't speak for the dude on twitter. I just enjoy the debate
Yeah season ticket holders are not who I'm concerned about here. They see their favorite players regularly, presumably.
I think there's a difference between "owing" the fans something, and being considerate or respectful of their time and money. If everyone just walked around only doing what they "owed" for people, society would suck.
These folks are just dumb bro.People are entitled as fukk
Imagine thinking that Lebron owes it to catering to the finances/time of individual fans when he feels like he needs to pace his insane workload
You don't think entitled is overboard? If you are a working family and you put down a few hundo to treat your kids to a game to see LeBron and he doesn't show up, you think it's being "entitled" to wish you would have known ahead of time? To have your time and money respected?People are entitled as fukk
Imagine thinking that Lebron owes it to catering to the finances/time of individual fans when he feels like he needs to pace his insane workload
But you didn't know ahead of time!! So the "had plenty of opportunities" part isn't really relevant, because THIS is the opportunity you chose. If you already put the money down and your kids were all excited, you don't think that's a let down? fukk them right? They can just eat that $300 or whatever, cuz fukk em?This "bu...bu...but what about the fans" shyt kills me
1. For starters Indy is in the Eastern Conference. It's very likely he's going back there again this year and they have had plenty of opportunities over the last 14 years to see him.
2. If Bron is worn out or tired come playoff time, how many fans are gonna give him a pass because he played every game during the season?
3. This ain't new. We know that teams rest guys. We can't act like this is some shocking development. If you are going to a game for a specific player, meaning you don't really care about your team, it's on you to check the schedule.
