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08-17-2010, 05:42 PM #41
WE fill the seats, and therefore, WE help pay your salaries. The athletes are the ones that should show class more than anyone. If it wasn't for us, they wouldn't get to play a game for a living while making ridiculous amounts of money.
100% agree with this nadeau01
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08-17-2010, 05:45 PM #42
10000% agree. Well said.
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08-17-2010, 05:46 PM #43
Agreed, he should have shown more class. But no matter how you cut it, it's still hypocritical to say someone is classless when you do not show it yourself. I do agree 100% with the second part of that statement though. The only problem is that the "WE" is so huge that the athlete can whoever they want, because for every fan LeBron lost in Cleveland, he gained in Miami.Last edited by Jay520; 08-17-2010 at 11:00 PM. Reason: mild language
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08-17-2010, 05:46 PM #44
no, thats why he chose free agency, he knew he wasn't going to win while in Cleveland. And his promise is the same kind of sports talk that just about every player of every team talks about. You ask a player that is on a 20-62 team what he thinks will happen next year and he'll say the goal is to win it all. Players just say what the fans want to hear. He wasn't going to say 'I'll give it my best shot for a few seasons until I can try elsewhere'
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08-17-2010, 05:50 PM #45
That's a copout. The team he had in Cleveland was good enough to win a title. No team wins 60 games in the regular season if they aren't a championship caliber team.
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08-17-2010, 05:50 PM #46
Except he didn't say that his goal was to win a title before he left.
He made a promise that he wouldn't leave until he won us a title. And he broke his promise.
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08-17-2010, 05:51 PM #47
While it is called free agency, there was no sign of Lebron leaving not until the day before "the Decision". He even said in Larry King Live that Cleveland has an edge. He was clearly playing the mind game and built up the hype. This is the part where upset a lot of people. And I'm not just talking about people in Cleveland only. It really upset a lot people who don't even follow basketball.
Is it how a #1 guy in NBA should act when he leaves the city? He could easily tell the owner and work something out. Lebron is so full of himself and this whole thing already planned WAY before this year.
And it is hard to believe how an owner doesn't care when he is the golden egg. Or it is hard for the owner to pay maximum salary to a person without caring him.
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08-17-2010, 05:55 PM #48
They were good enough to win a title, but a big problem came in that they were built to matchup with and beat the magic and the Lakers, the Celtics caused huge match up problems that were exposed in that series. Just out of curiosity, do you blame Chris Bosh at all for LeBron's departure? Had Bosh been willing to go to Cleveland (to my point of star players not wanting to go there), than there's a good chance LeBron would have stayed.
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08-17-2010, 05:57 PM #49
A few days ago Bosh and Lebron said that they never even talked about Cleveland. Of course, we don't really know I suppose, but they said that Cleveland was never brought up or an option. I'll see if I can find that story.
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08-17-2010, 05:59 PM #50
I'd believe it, but Bosh was the one who refused to go if I heard correctly. I remember very clearly that just before Bosh announced Miami, Toronto stated they would do a sign and trade on Bosh to Cleveland for JJ Hickson and a few others. Bosh just refused to agree.
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