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Originally Posted by tendulkar23
I find your accusation that you've never seen an athlete remorselessly burn a city so bad, hilarious. IMO it's a lot worse to demand a trade and ditch a city than to leave after your contract is up. Even with LeBron doing it via "The Decision", it is still not as bad as a franchise player, like Kareem Abdual Jabbar, demanding a trade.
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Not necessarily at least if a player demands a trade you know where he stands and the team gets some assets in return for the player.
A good example is right now with Melo where he clearly stated that he had no intentions of staying in Denver, so now the Nuggets are able to trade him and actually get a damn good return for him if the package from the Nets goes through.
Lebron sat there and said how much he loved Cleveland, how much he loved playing there and how they were such a fun team and he loved playing with those guys but then at the FIRST opportunity he had to bolt he did. There is a reason that he turned from the media's poster boy to getting raked over the coals after he made that decision.
I am in the group that feels that these three had decided they were going to play together from the Olympics in 2008 like all the rumours state and that all the Free Agency posturing was just a way for them to feed their egos by telling them how awesome they are and to make some cute little documentaries.
For an example more close to home if in 2002 Iginla had spent all season stating how much he loved the Flames, that he loved the city, loved playing with his teammated, that he felt like he had an opportunity to win a Championship with this team but then at the end of the season fled to the Avalanche or Red Wings at his first opportunity to leave as a FA.
I have a feeling that Iggy would have been just as villified in Calgary as Lebron is in Cleveland right now had that happened and that people on this board would probably not be justifing that decision.