[/caption]I am certain that if I ask my sister, who is an avid fan of both the Soaps and Reality Shows, she would tell me that she has never heard or seen such drama to compare to the drama that played in the media over the breakup of LeBron James and the Cavaliers.
To read the e-mail of the Cavaliers owner, Dan Gilbert, you would think that he was talking to a piece of meat. In a past blog, I said that LeBron should remain in Cleveland, but the Cavaliers’ owner in his response was way out of order.
Lest we forget that Basketball is a business and Mr. James has more than paid dividends for the Cavaliers ownership. If LeBron was injured, or was a lesser player who had put in his time to improve the team and some better athlete could be had, the Cavaliers would have traded him.
Ask yourselves: why did the Cavaliers owner fire Mike Brown, replacing him with Byron Scott, even though coach Brown had a great winning percentage and even achieving the goal of taking the Cavaliers to the finals?
But when LeBron decided to leave to better, in his view, his chances to win a championship, he is the Benedict Arnold of the sports world.
Many of us have been critical about how the professional athletes covet money, but Mr. James left millions on the table to secure a championship – shouldn’t that be lauded?
I say to the Cavalier owner, Dan Gilbert, perhaps he should have offered LeBron a piece of the team’s ownership if he thought that LeBron was that important to his franchise. It is obvious that Mr. Gilbert did not think that LeBron was worthy of owning a percentage of the Cavaliers - so stop the bitching!
The constitutional right to contract is there for everyone to exercise, and LeBron exercised his right to sell his skills, even at a lesser cost for winning the ultimate prize in his given sport.
I say to all the long suffering Cleveland fans that they might get the last laugh. Wade, Bosh, and LeBron, no matter how formidable on paper they look, may not pan out in chemistry on the court – remember Karl Malone playing besides Kobe for the Lakers?
To be fair and objective, it was rather tacky for LeBron not to have told the Cavaliers ownership of his decision to leave in person, but Dan Gilbert’s response wasn’t warranted even for LeBron’s slight.
In George Orwell’s 1984, he says that, “Freedom is Slavery.” Perhaps Mr. Gilbert thoughts were that LeBron James was living in that fictitious world, ergo the tirade.
As a Cavs fan, Cleveland fan, and an Ohioan I was glad to see Dan Gilbert's letter. Again, as a Cleveland fan we're pretty realistic, so the guarantees, well we'll see, but I absolutely loved the passionate response he had. No one disputes James' right to leave, he's a free agent, but he broke up with us on national television. Prime-time! And didn't even try to explain or thank the fans who had loved him and stuck with him.
ردحذفIf he'd had a press conference in Cleveland saying hey fans thanks for your support I appreciate the seven years you gave me and actually showed some emotion I may just have been mad with him for a bit and moved on, but he told the nation that Ohio's not good enough, basically that Cleveland is a bunch of losers. You can always beat up on your siblings, but you don't give other people ammo to shoot them in the heart which is what he did when he went to Connecticut to tell Cavs fans on national television that sure we can have mixed emotions but he's going to Miami. After LeBron's lack of emotion Cleveland fans NEEDED Gilbert's letter. He also waited with his decision until most free agents were signed, way to screw Cleveland. Leave and don't come back.