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Hey guys look at this really long post I typed up. Please read -
Maybe he doesn't care what you, and every other media outlet filling your brain, thinks. Maybe he figures he can't get ahead of this so the best thing to do is try and go away for awhile.
I doubt it will work. Lebron is about to become a villian. Every accomplishment scoffed at, every failure leads to a flaw of character, every mis-step calculated and re-calculated until every last drop of blood is evicerated from this pop-culture tizzy. Now who's masturbating? Now who's making money for sponsors, and none of it will make its way to charity. I saw this with Michael Jackson, Tiger Woods, but they deserved it.
You people are trashing him and he's done nothing like what Ron Artest, Rasheed Wallace, Allen Iverson, Charles Barkley, or Rick Mahorn did before him. He got on TV too much. He used his celebrity to make money for charity. He dissed Cleveland. He hasn't won a Championship. Forget the 66-win season that ended in the Conference Finals. Forget upsetting the Pistons in 2007 on the way to the first NBA Finals in Cleveland history. No, he didn't bring a ring so we can call him every name in the book. He went on TV and we all watched so it's okay to tear him apart--call him shallow, an actor, selfish, self-involved, without feeling.
I don't know Lebron's motivations, and neither do you. Grow up and remember there's a human being behind this. It's possible to be misinterpreted, to misspeak, to make a mistake. He's about to get that crown and we hate him for it. Why? Because he chose these guys with more talent over that crowd over there? He's not the first superstar to move a team. For every Tim Duncan and Kobe Bryant I can name a Moses Malone and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. You know what Kareem's reason was? He was lonely away from a big city. The guy on the bus half the year was missing having someone to talk to about his faith. That's why he left an aging, great team for a young and talentless one in Los Angeles. He smoked pot, too. Got caught a couple of times with it.
Yet every so often we talk about the greats and Kareem's name isn't thought about with any of the scrutiny Lebron James faces. He played with Magic because the Lakers ripped off some other GM. He played with James Worthy for the same reason. But this was the players deciding and we can't give them too much power, no, that would be wrong. They can be selfish with that power, as a rule, but James isn't selfish here. He played out his contract with the Cavs and left when he was no longer a Cavalier. He never said a bad word about them, but the owner let go.
You're jumping on him for no reason. A pop-culture story because we have nothing to write about in the middle of summer. There's an oil spill in the gulf, but Lebron James went to Miami. So which one are we up in arms over? Which one affects our lives more?
Don't do this until he deserves it. He capitalized on the media storm that was already there because there was money to be made for charity and he didn't have to start a basketball camp to do it (although he has one).
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