Don’t Hate The Player

What does LeBron owe Cleveland? What does he owe the game?

Can anyone really be mad at him for playing the game better than everyone else?

I’m not talking the X’s & O’s of basketball. I’m talking the masterful media-playing, leak-planting, ESPN-Show Running display that he has put on in the last week.

If you are sickened and disgusted by the selfishness that the James camp has shown since July 1st, there is only one way to show it. Don’t care. Don’t tune in to watch it, don’t log onto ESPN to read about it and don’t call into the radio shows to talk about it. Just don’t care.

The whole reason LeBron can get away with it is too many people pay all their attention to him. He has the stroke to make people hang on every word. He likes that power. Why wouldn’t he take it for all it’s worth?

So before anyone says that he can’t go on national TV to “break up” with Cleveland, the only home he’s ever known, remember that the Cavs let it get this far. They signed an endless string of has-beens and never-will-bes to support him. They could have had 2 titles in the bag already making it impossible for him to leave, but they went with Shaq and Mo-Pete instead of KG and Tony Parker. They practically begged him to go elsewhere to win.

Couple that with the little reported locker room dissention in the playoffs this year (there are whispers that 1 teammate crossed LBJ in a way that the few journalists who will talk about it term “unforgivable”) and he has absolutely no reason to feel any loyalty to the Cavs.

So LeBron, enjoy your moment in the sun, go to Miami or Chicago or New York and play to win. Cleveland will be exactly the same with out you. This is to say, chamionshipless.

JGK