Lebron James Heats Up the Boys & Girls Club..

[HarlemHeat37]

The articles are starting to pour in..I posted the good parts for you guys, I thought it would be a nice gesture..


You already know LeBron James will be a member of the Miami Heat next season. You might not know just how much cash Thursday's very public decision will pour into one of America's most trusted nonprofits.

The Boys & Girls Clubs of America will earn more than $2.5 million (with another up-to-$1 million matched by James' sponsor Nike) from ten minutes of advertising time slipped into the telecast of the biggest free agent announcement in NBA history. Frank Sanchez, vice president of the century old organization, tells The New York Times that the money will likely go into repairing basketball courts and funding fitness programs at the nonprofit's 4,000 Clubs.

"He didn't have to do this," Sanchez tells The Times. "He could have just said it and walked away."

Tonight it's not just Floridians celebrating. Workers and members at Boys & Girls Clubs across the nation are being asked for sound bites in the wake of James' big give. There's not much to say except thanks, and relay just what the money means.

Pandit Wright, president and CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington tells WUSA9 "any Boys & Girls Club is deserving."

Lynchburg, Va. Boys & Girls Club executive director Mark Sheehan elaborates. "We can keep a youth out of trouble for a year for about $1,500 a year," he tells ABC 13.

Do the math however you want. LeBron's decision pays off, and not just for him.

Basketball is a great sport and all, but sometimes you just have to sit back and appreciate the human part of the game..

[TheMACHINE]

props to Harlem moving his obsession from Kobe to Lebron.

Blessing to us all.

[himat]

Dammit I don't know if you're trying to be annoying or if you actually fell for LeChoke's cover up.

[BadOdor]

For the fucking kids, yo!!

[sabar]

He did this to deflect the inevitable hate his decision was going to bring forth.

It was a massive failure. Overnight Lebron became more hated than the Lakers and Kobe by nearly every NBA fan.

[Dro210]

Lynchburg, Va. Boys & Girls Club executive director Mark Sheehan elaborates. "We can keep a youth out of trouble for a year for about $1,500 a year," he tells ABC 13.

Do the math however you want. LeBron's decision pays off, and not just for him.

I'm doing the math... and if Nike matched a million dollars, that brings the total donation up over $4 million.... Which means LeBron James, in 1 hour, just kept about 2700 kids out of trouble for an entire year.

Father Teresa indeed.... or maybe Saint James

[TJastal]

He did this to deflect the inevitable hate his decision was going to bring forth.

It was a massive failure. Overnight Lebron became more hated than the Lakers and Kobe by nearly every NBA fan.

LOL that's a major stretch.

IMO nobody but you and a handful of Cleveland journalists are gonna give a rat's shit about Lebron's announcement in a month.

[BanditHiro]

He did this to deflect the inevitable hate his decision was going to bring forth.

It was a massive failure. Overnight Lebron became more hated than the Lakers and Kobe by nearly every NBA fan.

Hmm... if you ask most Celtics fans who they hate more Lebron or Kobe and the Lakers they would more than likely pick the latter. If you asked fans of the western conference teams who they hate more LeBron or Kobe and the Lakers they would more than likely pick the latter (hate stemming from jealousy).

To say that everybody hates LeBron for what he did this offseason is so riddikulus, and like Tjastal said the only people who are going to care what he did this off-season are people like you who will hang on to this like Kobe haters hang on to the raping scandal.

Seriously people like you need to get their heads chop off. They can put back and you can continue on with your life but hopefully you at least learned your lesson.