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Originally Posted by tendulkar23
While everyone's on the topic of LeBron... To everyone who dislikes the guy, I just wanted to ask why?
He finished his contract and chose to leave because the GM in Cleveland brought in zero actual talent to surround LeBron. This can now be seen with the Cavaliers (best record in the regular season last year) in dead last.
In my opinion, most athletes want to win and LeBron did what was in his best interests.
On the other hand, you have Kobe, who is widely considered the best competitor in the game right now. However, people are very quick to forget that he refused to play for the Charlotte Hornets, who drafted him 13th overall and were forced to trade him. Are you kidding me? A kid out of high school, who isn't even a top 10 pick is demanding a trade before playing a game?
Another very quickly forgotten demand from the "Black Mamba" was his trade demand. The Lakers had been out of the playoffs twice in the first round and Bryant wanted out. He stayed because of the trade that landed Pau Gasol.
I think it's a lot worse asking for a trade in the middle of your contracts instead of playing out the entire contract and then making the move. LeBron gave Cleveland every season they signed him for, without any trade demands.
If Jarome went elsewhere at the end of his contract, would you be mad at him and burn his jersey? I wouldn't because we weren't able to surround him with a championship team, he should be able to chase the cup with a contender. Why should LeBron have some sort of debt to Cleveland? People think he's a backstabber for chasing a championship?
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This seems irrelevant and 4 months late, due to people just talking about his tweet re: the Cavs and how it lacked intelligence among many other things.
Yes Kobe is considered one of the best competitors in the league, which has a lot to do with the fact that the guy has won 5 NBA Championships. But this is not the media darling or the everyman's player you make him out to be. Although he has quite a following, up this year Kobe Bryant was without question one of the top 3 most hated NBA players in this league. The media and fans were quick to jump on his back when he requested a trade, among all of his other P.R mistakes. Your storytelling is off to as Kobe did make it clear he still wanted to stay in LA after that Stephen A Smith interview when he said he wanted to leave the Lakers, well before Gasol was a laker.
Also your writing this to die-hard Cav fans when you say "would you burn Iginla's jersey?" and putting anyone that might dislike Lebron into a bubble for reason they might have.
For the most part the people your referencing in your post are all Cavs fans and not the general sports public. Most people would've had no problem with Lebron going to another team, and it would've been a small issue had he not demanded the attention he did especially with "The Decision" and having to sit through the antics of all 3 of those guys through social networking, interviews among many other things.
But Lebron was already building up steam for being disliked when he wore his MVP shirt the same day the same day the Lakers had their parade, his performance against the Celtics last season leading into this offseason.