SPIN: Iverson tried to warn Lebron...

[JahBuhLun]

LeBron didn't do anything wrong but feed into what the media made him to be, and then subsequently get blamed for it.

I think doing 'The Decision' was stupid, and that his pr team (or homie Maverick, whatever) should've headed that off, but we had already made him the most important person in the sport. So what's an ESPN special to the most important person to the sport? Nothing.

But America for some reason values loyalty in their athletes. They expect it out of them, even though, as we saw with Peyton Manning and Jim Irsay, these teams will drop you and never look back. So it became, "oh, LeBron left Cleveland, he's not loyal, fukk that negro." LeBron was just looking out for self. For basketball reasons, I don't like teaming up to win a 'chip, but he did what he had to do. I'm not about to vilify the man.

Face it, LeBron was never going to win it in Cleveland, and nobody else of HOF caliber was going to sign with Cleveland, If Lebron would've gotten injured and had to sit out the majority of the season, the Cavs would've drafted a fairly decent player, but he was basically stuck with a lot of AI's hand me downs, Eric Snow, Larry Hughes.

 

[Ain't That Something]

TBH IN this society its the little things that make for big results. Just by the whole televising your decision on national television and aligning with stars, people were rubbed the wrong way, including myself. As a Knick fan I was extra salted, but I just accepted the fact Lebron crumbles under pressure and he wouldve been ran out of NY anyway. But back to the point, Lebron fukked up with all that shyt during his free agency. It showed who he really was though. Someone with a swelled head who was so smug he had to nationally televise his decision to go to a team. I mean if we look at the NFL Free Agency, Peyton Manning was the biggest NFL Free Agent ever and his signing went smoothly with little drama. Something that also plays into it is the fact that people always canonize public figures beginning to worship them and expecting them to do no wrong or have no negative traits about them. Then when they see someone make a mistake it is a huge deal.

Like it's been pointed out before, the decision was ESPN idea. They approach the niggga then when shyt backfired turned on him to crucify him.

 

[lachreyatarbabypits]

scust @ the media vilifying a man who has no off the court issues and is a selfless player that chose to play for another team

Actually leaving was what he did wrong. That was what made people hate him. Because we all see Lebron as a future Hall of Famer who people would think of as a legend, ANd we would all put him in the top tier of athletes. They did it to Shaq too but with Shaq it wasnt too big. But besides Shaq I cant really think of any superstar to leave their team for another before Lebron. This is going to play heavily into the Finals too. The loyals versus the disloyals. The hardcore fans vs. the casual fairweather fans. Kinda probably a reason the league and everyone wanted this matchup.

@ Aint That Something: Just because ESPN created the idea doesnt mean Lebron had to agree to it nahmean.

 

[Based Lord Zedd]

Like it's been pointed out before, the decision was ESPN idea. They approach the niggga then when shyt backfired turned on him to crucify him.

Because they make money off people watching the decision and people watching talk about Bron everyday. ESPN playing chess Bron playing checkers. He's a grown man he could've said it was a bad idea, he should have been able to see the backlash coming.

 

[Ain't That Something]

Loyalty? The nikka did his time. Cleveland don't own the man. Yall act like the nikka ask to be traded early or held the team.hostage. he did his time took them to the finals while surrounded by scrubs what else did he owe the Cavs?

 

[iPod Raheem 2.0]

His exit wasn't befitting of his legendary career. shyt makes me break down, brehs...

 

[King Jove]

if the cavs would have got amare, i think lebron would have stayed.

the best they could bring in was an over the hill antawn jamison

 

[MsChungLee]

nikkas refuse to answer the question of what LeBron did wrong. What did he do?

They don't like him because: He left Cleveland.
People don't like that he did "The Decision".
And a lot of Cleveland fans and even Dan Gilbert said publicly that he felt Lebron quit on them during the play offs...

I don't think he deserves the amount of hate he gets though.

 

[Carolina Slim]

"The Decision" and the way it went down (the whole pep rally scene in MIA afterwards) is the main reason that Bron was catching that heat. nikkas is quick to replay that whole "not one, not two, not three..." scenario when Miami catches an L. I wasn't mad at Bron for the decision, I just didn't feed into it. I wasn't bout to rush in front of the TV and sit there for a hour long fluff interview when I could just find out later that night or the next day if I wanted to.

ESPN is good about building someone up to tear em down. I seen it coming with Bron and I definitely saw it this year with my nikka Yung Lin.

 

[King Jove]

espn is the damn devil.

E! network but with sports that gets to caught up in trying sell a storyline instead of report and analyze sports.

they tried their best to hype up jimmer fredette then it backfired

 

[PortCityProphet]

How is Lebron fake?

maybe not fake but tries too hard to be liked

 

[Ain't That Something]

They don't like him because: He left Cleveland.
People don't like that he did "The Decision".
And a lot of Cleveland fans and even Dan Gilbert said publicly that he felt Lebron quit on them during the play offs...

I don't think he deserves the amount of hate he gets though.

Here's how I view the whole.LeBron.quitting on Cleveland thing. It's like being in a soul.sucking relationship. U go to work for 12 hours. Come back ya girl.at home.ya house ain't clean ain't no food on the table, so u end up cleaning and cooking, and the one thing ya girl could.do right is have that bomb ass puss so u take her ass too the room and she just lays there for 7 years same cycle. That nikka didn't quit he was tired.

 

[calh45]

The media wants "villians". That's the whole problem with how sports are reported now. Iverson touched on it a bit and what he said will always be true, but we need to start looking at sport's journalism almost in the same way we look at WWE. They create contrived arguments against players just so someone will pay attention. They did it with TO and now they're doing it with Bron. All that shyt TO did that was considered "cancerous" is now "not a big deal" Remember when TO screamed at his o-coordinator and it was a horrible thing. Brady and Warner did the same and it's cool.

Who cares if he left Cleveland? Free agents do that all of the time. Who cares about the decision? High school football players do that same exact shyt during an all star game broadcast by ESPN aka the same folks roasting Bron for the decision. Why is it such an indictment that he claimed they might win 6,7 or 8 ships?? MJ won his first at the same age as Bron is now and went on to win 6. Bron doesn't take the "shot" at the end of the game? My response to that shyt is this ain't the movies. Stop projecting your fairy tail onto that man. The media has tricked people into thinking Bron has done these heinous acts when it's happened before and it's not a big deal.

 

[PortCityProphet]

The media wants "villians". That's the whole problem with how sports are reported now. Iverson touched on it a bit and what he said will always be true, but we need to start looking at sport's journalism almost in the same way we look at WWE. They create contrived arguments against players just so someone will pay attention. They did it with TO and now they're doing it with Bron. All that shyt TO did that was considered "cancerous" is now "not a big deal" Remember when TO screamed at his o-coordinator and it was a horrible thing. Brady and Warner did the same and it's cool.

Who cares if he left Cleveland? Free agents do that all of the time. Who cares about the decision? High school football players do that same exact shyt during an all star game broadcast by ESPN aka the same folks roasting Bron for the decision. Why is it such an indictment that he claimed they might win 6,7 or 8 ships?? MJ won his first at the same age as Bron is now and went on to win 6. Bron doesn't take the "shot" at the end of the game? My response to that shyt is this ain't the movies. Stop projecting your fairy tail onto that man. The media has tricked people into thinking Bron has done these heinous acts when it's happened before and it's not a big deal.

truth

 

[AITheAnswerAI]

Real talk...they'll love you if you're the good ol' boy that entertains them. The second you get too confident and do something they don't like they turn on you with the quickness. "That ni**** who does he think he is!??"