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Shaq left Orlando. Please parallel with that more, writers...
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/7...u-go.html?pg=2What should he do?
Seriously. What should he do?
That's what LeBron James asks in his new TV commercial.
In case you were fortunate enough to miss it, LeBron poses a lot of questions in this interminable 90-second ad, which forces us to reflect once again on his horribly ungracious exit from Cleveland last summer — a.k.a. The Decision, as he and his lackeys called it.
The commercial opens with a profile shot of LeBron looking thoughtful, and then he asks, "What should I do?" He proceeds to ask the question repeatedly while we watch him in action on and off the court.
LeBron doesn't really want answers, of course; what he wants is your sympathy. What he wants is to reclaim the love and popularity he lost when he dumped his hometown in a stunningly narcissistic way to sign with a hand-picked, instant-championship team in Miami. When he asks, "What would YOU do?" what he is really saying is, "You would have done the same thing."
Which is wrong. Nobody else in his position has done what he did. No star player — Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, David Robinson, Bill Russell, or LeBron's new teammate, Dwayne Wade — gave up on themselves and their team to join another team just to win a championship. It was unthinkable to them. They wanted to beat those guys, not join them.
LeBron doesn't want answers to his questions, but he'll get them here anyway.
"Seriously, what should I do?" he asks, staring into the camera lens.
Well, for starters, LeBron, you should shut your mouth. Every time you open your big yapper on this subject, it just makes things worse. Like the time CNN's Soledad O'Brien idiotically served you up an excuse you hadn't even thought of by asking if race was a factor in your falling out with the public. You should have said no and explained that couldn't be the case because, after all, you made zillions of dollars off the public — white and black — before The Decision and you were still black back then, too. Instead, you saw an opportunity for sympathy and jumped onboard — "I think so at times," you said. "It's always, you know, a race factor."
As if you hadn't already alienated enough people.
"Should I admit that I've made mistakes."
It's a nice thought, but The Decision took way too much time and calculation for you to claim it was a mistake — the weeks you kept fans waiting, the egotistical TV special for the announcement, the callous departure. Don't go there. Besides that, you already told GQ Magazine there was "nothing at all" that you would change about the way you handled free agency.
"Should I really believe that I ruined my legacy?"
Legacy?! What planet are you living on, LeBron? YOU DON'T HAVE A LEGACY. What you have is lots of money and, let's see, ZERO rings after seven years in the league. Listen, LeBron, you are a product manufactured and paid for by Madison Avenue and, more specifically, Nike, the evil shoe giant that loves to produce in-your-face ad campaigns. They had shoes to sell, you were supposed to be the next big thing, soooo ... You are a pitchman. Even if you win a ring now, it won't be much of a legacy. You couldn't do it with your team; you had to do it with someone else's.
"Should I just sell shoes?"
Bingo.
"Should I tell you I am not a role model?"
Oh, pa-lease. Next question.
"Should I be who you want me to be?"
As Cleveland fans noted in their clever rebuttal to your commercial, why don't you be who you said you'd be? You said you were going to take Cleveland to a championship "and I won't stop till I get it."
"Should I remind you that I've done this before?"
Done what? As you ask this question, the camera shows a kid staring at what appears to be a high school trophy case. What does this mean? That you abandoned your high school for another high school? Or that you won a high school championship and therefore you know how to win a world le?
(You gotta be kidding. LeBron, please, stop; you're making this way too easy.)
"Should I tell you I'm a championship chaser. That I did it for money? Rings?
Tell us you did it because you couldn't handle playing the lead role, that you needed someone to lean on, that you don't have the stomach for it. As proof, you can point to Game 5 in Boston.
"Should I accept my role as a villain?"
Look, you abandoned your hometown in the worst way — the same town that wrote a song begging you to stay. If that weren't bad enough, now you're fishing for sympathy from a public that's just happy to have a job while you're making $40 million a year and your biggest problem is you got your feelings hurt. Yes, the villain role fits.
"Should I stop listening to my friends?"
Yes. All three of them.
"Should I try acting?"
Isn't that what you were doing all along?
"Should I remove my tattoo?"
Good idea. The "CHOSEN 1" tattoo on your back is vain and presumptuous and no longer applies.
"Maybe I should just disappear."
You did it in the playoffs; you can do it again.
Shaq left Orlando. Please parallel with that more, writers...
LeBron isn't the first player to leave a team in free agency dumb . No one is saying he is so that parallel is pointless.
time to move on
Somebody needs to take a chill pill.
We at LRMR are disappointed and displeased with the efforts of that monkey JJ Hickson to soil and mar the good golden boy image of the greatest show on Earth, the immaculate one, LeBron James. We are surprised that a player whom LeBron took under his wings and helped make a better player and person would attempt to call out his big brother like this. It's shocking really.
The Chosen One has respectfully declined to comment on JJ Hickson and other such venomous haters. However, we at LRMR are diligently working with Commissioner Stern to void Hickson's NBA contract with Cleveland and have him blackball from the NBA. We already have verbal agreement from one owner (the, the, the Rock) to not acquire Hickson after his current contract is terminated.
When we finish all the formalities, we at LRMR will show a peace offering by opening up bank accounts in the value of $25.00 for each of JJ Hickson's 13 children by 15 different women, as college funds knowing full well none of them will be smart enough to go to college. But by the time they are each 18, they can use that money on all the crack cocaine that is available in the Marietta projects in Georgia. His kids will be taken care of, at least for a couple weeks after they turn 18.
We ing do this for the motha ing kids.
it was great to watch lebron watch wade try to win the game last night like the spectator he has been in crunch time. more evidence of the claim against his self-proclaimed 'legacy' status.
Agreed.
Yes he did, but Shaq was not a product of Florida either carrying the love and adoration of that entire state, much less region. Sure he was loved and adored when he booted for L.A. but to compare what he did to what LJ did is silly.
The quote I was taking issue with was:
This is silly. They didn't have the OPTION to get up and leave. There was no Free Agency for most of those guys listed, and for the ones that were, they got lucky enough via FA and the draft before all was lost to ultimately win.obody else in his position has done what he did. No star player — Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, David Robinson, Bill Russell, or LeBron's new teammate, Dwayne Wade — gave up on themselves and their team to join another team just to win a championship. It was unthinkable to them. They wanted to beat those guys, not join them.
Who says LB wouldn't have quit on Boston had he been given the chance? He did it with IU...
IU and the Boston franchise are 2 separate dynamics there.
I hate Boston but one thing I know following that team especially back in the day (all of the 1980's) those guys were a brotherhood. Bird, Mchale, DJ, Cornbread and of course Chief were all about beating their foes on the court. Different kind of cats back then jacob. Your right, I can't guarantee that LB wouldn't have bolted for another team but odds are they wouldn't have especially the way LJ did it. I stayed away from all the threads regarding LJ but given the podium, it was, is and will always be flat out cowardly of him at least in my opinion.
dondt know why the embed isnt working
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7xlzLOZH5c
travel much?
the butthurtedness just won't ever die
Relax and enjoy the show. Lebron is a great indivdual player who never learned the fundementals of team play. As a result he will always be a day late and a dollar short when it comes to a championship.
Meanwhile, Scott has the Cavs playing some hardnose team ball the way the game is suppose to be played. Look for the Cavs to be over achievers this year, which follows years of under achieving Lebron.
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