ANGRY CLEVELAND FANS BURNING LEBRON JERSEYS.

Now hes opening casinos to steal more money...but its going to a good cause: winning a championship.

keep it real now... wrote:

Thank you so much America for focusing on our true problems. Don't worry about the economy, healthcare or the Gulf spill. We need to focus on what truly matters ---what color shirt Lebron James will wear!

The economy? Cleveland knows about the economy. We've been getting reamed in the ass for years now. That's why this was such a big deal--kicking people while they're down. When there aren't jobs to find, you have to have something, and sports is about as good as anything for filling that niche. Bye-bye to that--except that I think you're going to see the hard-core Cavs fans now being rabid on a par with the Dawg Pound. Oh, and do you have any f***ing idea, you ignorant scum, how important Lebron is to the Cleveland economy? They pull in $3.7 million for each game, with double the attendance in his tenure compared with prior to that. You're looking at 41 X $2million = $80 million just for the games. Then you add in merchandise sales, and all the bars and restaurants and parking garages for each game. The bars and restaurants in the stadium district are now basically done, their income is going into the tank--when the Indians started to lose again in the early 2000s, dozens of bars and restaurants shut down all around the stadium district, and though LBJ helped bring some of them back, we hadn't even hit 1990s-Indians levels, and now we're going to lose a lot more. So LBJ leaving is not only psychically depressing during a recession, it's literally economically depressive as well.

Maybe you should think a tad bit before you post.

And Gilbert being an idiot for trying to 'buy a ring' by replacing a coach with poor post-season performance with a guy with rings? That's logical; what Lebron did was the looking to buy a ring. Hell, the Bulls would have been a better fit for building a team, the Heat are literally just buying a ring, since they had TWO guys on the roster prior to today. He at least could have not built up a national television event for days and hours on ESPN to announce that he's abandoning his hometown when it needs him most.

How quickly Dan Gilbert forgets that magical night in 2007 when LeBron scored his teams final 25 points (including the game winner) to beat Detroit in the playoffs.

Yeah, guess he quit on his team that night, right Mr. Gilbert?

You should be thanking his a** every chance you get for getting 20,000+ people into your arena 41 times a year. They damn sure weren't there to see Drew Gooden or Delonte West.

The whole spectacle is now over. Like a previous poster said, lets get back to the other issues that are real world issues.

Also, think how his teammates feel. He's been close with Antawn and Mo, and he ditches them. Yeah, you have to do what's best for you--but part of what's best for you is being a good guy, a loyal teammate. Did Kobe jump ship when the Lakers were sucking? Did Paul Pierce? Did Scotty Pippen ask to be traded when they lost Mike? You don't go mercenary looking for a ring--you play for your team, and you work to build a real legacy. The Cavs were making the moves to try to win--landing Byron Scott was the third-best move in free-agency, behind the Heat getting the mega-3 and the Bulls getting Boozer. This hurts his legacy down the line, because the titles he's going to win aren't going to look as good--both because he hunted them out, and because he played with a literal dream team--compared to, say, Kobe, who stuck it out and let the Lakers build on him as a foundation to a dynasty.

Rene the Cart wrote:

[quote]keep it real now... wrote:

he's abandoning his hometown when it needs him most.

Lebron's HOMETOWN is Akron not Cleveland.

Nobody made Lebron James responsible for the economy of one of the most corrupt cities in the united states. He is simply a basketball player who wants to do what is best for his career. I have had season tickets for a few years and had to already buy them for next season which are worthless. I drove a couple hours to get to the games and only missed 2 games in the last 4 years. I will probably sell all the tickets (if anybody wants to buy them) except the 2 games Lebron will be back in town.

As for Gilbert, he first made inflammatory remarks about the team after game 5 against Boston before the playoffs were even over. To come out and slander the guy that made him millions of dollars all those years he was grossly underpaid borders on criminal. The year Lebron took the team to the finals, he was making $5.8 mil and the value of the cavs has increased in value $100 million besides earning another $90 mil profit over the last 5 years.

Himler wrote:

and they are making room for Brad Miller to join the team as well.

I though he was the twin that ran the 800 for Wisconsin?

i used to be a lj fan, but no longer. i dont like the way this narcacistic baby played this out. he can go where he wants, but the way he did it was diserespectful and immature.

Rene the Cart wrote:

Also, think how his teammates feel. He's been close with Antawn and Mo,

Are you serious? In your idiotic post you forgot to mention the team loyalty of Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen. Could you add Shaq in there when he went to the Heat? What about Dennis Rodman going to Chicago? Did you forget the traveling big shot show in Robert Horry? Maybe you forgot Derek Fisher going to the Lakers. If Lebron was "close" with any of his teammates, it would have been Andy and Boobie who he has been with for 6 years, not Mo and Antawn.

hope he fails wrote:

i used to be a lj fan, but no longer. i dont like the way this narcacistic baby played this out. he can go where he wants, but the way he did it was diserespectful and immature.

He used the unbelievable nationwide interest in his "decision" to raise $1 MILLION DOLLARS for the boys and girls clubs of america.

What about kids do you hate so much?

Mr Mountain wrote:

He used the unbelievable nationwide interest in his "decision" to raise $1 MILLION DOLLARS for the boys and girls clubs of america.

What about kids do you hate so much?

Yeah, he's a real hero for promising someone else's money to charities.

39294 wrote:

so...he's an ego maniac apparently that's giving up $ and the spotlight in order to attempt to win and thats a bad thing. (snip).

Giving up money? Ha-ha. With all his outside interests, endorsements, LRMR company, etc., he is going to be raking it in. That $30 million or so he passed on from Cleveland will be chump change to him. And giving up the spotlight? Wait and see on that one. It's all about LeBron, baby!

I think that everyone who is looking down upon the angry Cleveland fans is forgetting is that these are the same fans that fostered him from high school, watched him win a high school national championship, said "yes you can!" when people doubted him going pro, embraced him and his entire organization when he came to Cleveland, were there for the first chalk toss, for all the wins and the losses and they felt a little betrayed by his last game in a Cleveland jersey (pissed because delonte was sleeping with his mom).

We fostered him and supported him in every thing he did, sure we had some critical points when he didn't play like a "king" but that is only fair when you proclaim yourself as such. He didnt give it 7 years to win a ring but he gave a few. Either way he betrayed our support and our city and what we witnessed was murder to Cleveland.

What the hell are you talking about? Fans are a bunch of freaking pussies. You fostered and supported him? Really? Shut the f*** up. You just wanted to win and feel good by living through the hard work and talent of someone else. If Lebron James was a scrub you wouldn't have gave two shits about him.

On top of that, no NBA player is obligated to play for their home state. If anything, be grateful that he did for three years.

Go f***ing fly a kite. Maybe one day you'll grow up to be a man that doesn't worry about shit that doesn't make no damn sense.

It took Lebron so long to announce is decision because they had to surgically remove Austin Carr's lips from his behind.

L Train!!!

King James!!!! No!!!!

LOL, forgot all about Austin Carr. Was in Ohio a few times and heard his 'commentary' during games. They better put that guy on Suicide Watch.

Burn the whole city , the place sucks , bull dozer it and lets use it as waste dump for the gulf oil left-overs.

yeah, all you people not from cleveland, y'all just don't get it.

cleveland guy wrote:

yeah, all you people not from cleveland, y'all just don't get it.

The sad part is that the rest of the world, thankfully, couldn't give a damn about an overpriced "freak" like LJ. If this is "big" news in the US, then your priorities are way out of whack. He is changing addresses, big deal - it's not like it hasn't been done before. Move along, nothing to see here.