LeBron James has a championship...now what?

[Western cuba]

Lebron James, Mr. Choke, Mr. "I'm taking my talents to South Beach" finally has an NBA championship. Frankly...I can't hate him much anymore. He cleaned house. What about all of you? Like him more, still hate him, neutral, what?

AS A CLEVELAND FAN, I still hate him for leaving us like that.

As a Cleveland fan I'm glad he left. Him winning the championship for Cleveland would of been about him not about us. ESPN wouldn't give shit about us winning our first championship since 1964 in any major sport. It would of just been about him. The good thing is that Cleveland can now move on with the likes of Irving and our #4 draft pick this year.

[Andrewsburgville]

If I understand this right, this LeBron James person is basically Christiano Ronaldo, except he's throwing balls instead of kicking them.

Except, Ronaldo is the best, and Lebron is only among the best. He lacks clutch at times.

[Sibirsky]

Lebron James, Mr. Choke, Mr. "I'm taking my talents to South Beach" finally has an NBA championship. Frankly...I can't hate him much anymore. He cleaned house. What about all of you? Like him more, still hate him, neutral, what?

Winning the title does not change the absolutely classless way he left Cleveland, stabbed those fans in the back, ripped their hearts out and stomped all over them. All on national TV.

I still dislike him.

[Vettrera]

I'm glad that Wade & Battier won, but not so much for LeBron
I think he's way too old to be as cocky and immiture as he is
I hope he learned something from this season. He can't just
shrug of his haters, he needs to own up to why they hate him.
It's not because he moved to Miami it's the disrespectful and
show-offy way he did it. He acts like he's the best player ever
and that the NBA..and the world owes him somethings

[Sibirsky]

Fine. Lebron James, Mr. Choke, Mr. "I'm taking my talents to South Beach" finally has an NBA championship. Frankly...I can't hate him much anymore. He cleaned house. What about all of you? Like him more, still hate him, neutral, what?

I don't follow basketball very much, except what's unavoidable because I live where the Nuggets fail year after year, but I did think James' treatment of Cleveland left something to be desired. Then again, it's a free capitalist nation, if he can peddle his talents elsewhere, more power to him.

It's not about peddling talents elsewhere. That is perfectly ok. It's the way he left his old team and fans. That is not ok.

[Gauthier]

That's nice. But I still remember that LeBron ditched Cleveland for Miami, only to have the Ring taken away from him by Dallas.

[Jefferson and Paul]

LeBron is king. He finally got the ring he deserved.

[Vettrera]

I don't follow basketball very much, except what's unavoidable because I live where the Nuggets fail year after year, but I did think James' treatment of Cleveland left something to be desired. Then again, it's a free capitalist nation, if he can peddle his talents elsewhere, more power to him.

It's not about peddling talents elsewhere. That is perfectly ok. It's the way he left his old team and fans. That is not ok.

Yeah, I'm okay with you trading for championships and money. But when you're not dignified about it, there's an issue.
It's kinda like that Pocahontas thing. You can own/win everything, but you don't have crap unless you understand others.

[Sibirsky]

If I understand this right, this LeBron James person is basically Christiano Ronaldo, except he's throwing balls instead of kicking them.

Except, Ronaldo is the best, and Lebron is only among the best. He lacks clutch at times.

Like in this year's finals.

No wait...

[Jefferson and Paul]

I'm glad that Wade & Battier won, but not so much for LeBron
I think he's way too old to be as cocky and immiture as he is
I hope he learned something from this season. He can't just
shrug of his haters, he needs to own up to why they hate him.
It's not because he moved to Miami it's the disrespectful and
show-offy way he did it. He acts like he's the best player ever
and that the NBA..and the world owes him somethings

Wha..? LeBron is one the most unselfish and humble leaders the league has ever seen...

[AiliailiA]

I'm glad that Wade & Battier won, but not so much for LeBron
I think he's way too old to be as cocky and immiture as he is
I hope he learned something from this season. He can't just
shrug of his haters, he needs to own up to why they hate him.
It's not because he moved to Miami it's the disrespectful and
show-offy way he did it. He acts like he's the best player ever
and that the NBA..and the world owes him somethings

Keep posting like that
Carriage returns bricks
We could make a wall
Give us bricks of text
So we can make a wall

... please don't take this tooo seriously. I'm making fun of your phone, or whatever pathetic excuse for a computer you used to post that.

[Ameriganastan]

That's nice. But I still remember that LeBron ditched Cleveland for Miami, only to have the Ring taken away from him by Dallas.

(Image)

Yeah...that was last year. This year, Dallas collapsed like a house of a cards, and Miami won the title.

[Gauthier]

That's nice. But I still remember that LeBron ditched Cleveland for Miami, only to have the Ring taken away from him by Dallas.

(Image)

Yeah...that was last year. This year, Dallas collapsed like a house of a cards, and Miami won the title.

LeBron tried to call his shot like Babe Ruth and bricked. That's the point.

[Vettrera]

I just hope he grows up a bit. I see signs of it. I want to see a mature LeBron, that's someone I can get behind.


And if Josh Smith leaves Atlanta I'm rioting...

[Qazox]

Now we will inudated with even more MIAMI HEAT bullshit than before.

I have nothing against LBJ as a player; but as a person, he's a pompous ass and will be an even bigger one now.

[Ameriganastan]

Dan Gilbert's congratulatory tweet makes thanks Miami and OKC for an exciting finals...but makes no mention of LeBron. Fair or foul?

[Gauthier]

Dan Gilbert's congratulatory tweet makes thanks Miami and OKC for an exciting finals...but makes no mention of LeBron. Fair or foul?

Fair. It was Oklahoma vs. Miami, not Oklahoma vs. LeBron.

[Pope Joan]

In basketball, and in other pro sports, we have convicted killers, wife beaters, tax cheats, drunk drivers, drug abusers and on and on.

LeBron is none of those. He's never been in any kind of trouble. He was drafted (not by his choice) into a terrible team and transformed it into a contender. Once he left, it was terrible again. The owner of that team made statements that showed he regarded himself as a plantation owner and LeBron as his slave.

He was at a Miami pep rally, full of cheering fans, and told them "If this team plays up to its potential, then we will win some rings. Not one, not two, not three..." and that is, as far as I can tell, the only "bad" thing he has done. Even that one "bad" thing should be judged in context.

The hate speaks ill of the haters; they look like morons.

[TaQud]

Now we will inudated with even more MIAMI HEAT bullshit than before.

I have nothing against LBJ as a player; but as a person, he's a pompous ass and will be an even bigger one now.

[Franklin Delano Bluth]

This:

free

Contradicts this:

capitalist

Make up your mind!

[Qazox]

In basketball, and in other pro sports, we have convicted killers, wife beaters, tax cheats, drunk drivers, drug abusers and on and on.

LeBron is none of those. He's never been in any kind of trouble. He was drafted (not by his choice) into a terrible team and transformed it into a contender. Once he left, it was terrible again. The owner of that team made statements that showed he regarded himself as a plantation owner and LeBron as his slave.

He was at a Miami pep rally, full of cheering fans, and told them "If this team plays up to its potential, then we will win some rings. Not one, not two, not three..." and that is, as far as I can tell, the only "bad" thing he has done. Even that one "bad" thing should be judged in context.

The hate speaks ill of the haters; they look like morons.

The "one Bad thing" aka THE DECISION was the biggest EGOTRIP ever. Why buy time on a national network (for $5 million/hr); rent out a Boy and Girl's club in NJ (granted he gave them $400k); and waste 57 minutes talking about how much he loved himself before stabbing his hometown in the back just to play with two friends, one of which was one of his bigger rivals D-Wade (Durant and Rose are the other two) and the other one no-one gave two craps about, just because he couldn't win a title by himself or convince any of his friends to play in his backyard.

I don't begrudge LBJ going to Miami, 99999/100000 of us would rathe be in Miami at any given moment than Cleveland, but it's the egotisical way he did it that people can't forgive him for. If he had a normal presss conference and said the same thing, odds are HE wouldn't be perceived as such an egoistical ass-hole.

The "Not 1, not 2, not 3... etc." really was the Heat management telling them to say that, I blame Pat Riley for that BS. The introduction they had, I didn't/don't even have a problem with and actually watched it on TV.

[Frisivisia]

In basketball, and in other pro sports, we have convicted killers, wife beaters, tax cheats, drunk drivers, drug abusers and on and on.

LeBron is none of those. He's never been in any kind of trouble. He was drafted (not by his choice) into a terrible team and transformed it into a contender. Once he left, it was terrible again. The owner of that team made statements that showed he regarded himself as a plantation owner and LeBron as his slave.

He was at a Miami pep rally, full of cheering fans, and told them "If this team plays up to its potential, then we will win some rings. Not one, not two, not three..." and that is, as far as I can tell, the only "bad" thing he has done. Even that one "bad" thing should be judged in context.

The hate speaks ill of the haters; they look like morons.

The "one Bad thing" aka THE DECISION was the biggest EGOTRIP ever. Why buy time on a national network (for $5 million/hr); rent out a Boy and Girl's club in NJ (granted he gave them $400k); and waste 57 minutes talking about how much he loved himself before stabbing his hometown in the back just to play with two friends, one of which was one of his bigger rivals D-Wade (Durant and Rose are the other two) and the other one no-one gave two craps about, just because he couldn't win a title by himself or convince any of his friends to play in his backyard.

I don't begrudge LBJ going to Miami, 99999/100000 of us would rathe be in Miami at any given moment than Cleveland, but it's the egotisical way he did it that people can't forgive him for. If he had a normal presss conference and said the same thing, odds are HE wouldn't be perceived as such an egoistical ass-hole.

The "Not 1, not 2, not 3... etc." really was the Heat management telling them to say that, I blame Pat Riley for that BS. The introduction they had, I didn't/don't even have a problem with and actually watched it on TV.

Really, that had to be one of the worst offseasons in NBA history. All of the superstars came to very few teams, leaving the NBA with several super-franchises and a bunch of squabbling rats. My team actually lost all but maybe 2 or 3 good players that year.

[Maurepas]

AS A CLEVELAND FAN, I still hate him for leaving us like that.

As a Cleveland fan I'm glad he left. Him winning the championship for Cleveland would of been about him not about us. ESPN wouldn't give shit about us winning our first championship since 1964 in any major sport. It would of just been about him. The good thing is that Cleveland can now move on with the likes of Irving and our #4 draft pick this year.

I disagree, tbqh. It's a different sport, but take the story of the New Orleans Saints, we finally got a superstar in our small market, and the team not only won a championship, it was all about the city the whole time.

That's what I really didn't like about the whole LeBron thing, it was a triumph of the larger markets over loyalty to the smaller ones. And since Chris Paul followed suit, I can't say I was wrong.

[The Andromeda Islands]

It's 2012!

LeBron James has an NBA Championship ring.

I rest my case!

[SaintB]

I don't care really; until people start comparing him to guys like Micheal Jordan and Charles Barkley who were in their prime long before and honestly much better players than he was at that point in their lives; then I get a bit irate.