As a Knicks fan, I was annoyed that Lebron didn't choose us. We vainly believe that ours is the biggest stage, the "if I can make it there" city above all others.
My personal reaction was "He's just chicken. He doesn't want to be The Man."
After another night of reflection, and after finally sucking it up and watching his interview with Wilbon, I am not hating on Lebron.
Not that there are many among us who find it in us to feel sorry for celebrity mega-million overgrown children, and it's certainly been fun to accuse Lebron of refusing to grow up, the man I saw in that chair was no child.
The man I saw in that chair looked as though this process had aged him. Perhaps most of us can recall the trauma involved when we first left home, when we first informed our parents that we were off to seek our own, individual destiny. Speaking strictly for myself, it was difficult, it was painful, but it was also right and ultimately proved so.
And in that process I earned my adulthood, and cast aside my childish perceptions.
The man I saw in that chair seems to have begun that process.
And to those who criticize the whole idea of a dedicated show, that's just silly. It made perfect sense to do it the way he did, because there was always going to be enormous media glare when he made the announcement, so why not control it? And pay some charities some money while doing it. Genius. Bravo to the person, not Lebron, who thought of it, and bravo to Lebron for proving it.
You know, we're always so eager for heroes in this country, seemingly so we can then tear them down. Michael Jordan goes to Atlantic City during the playoffs and a scandal erupts? I have a long memory. A very long memory.
Perhaps we will now begin trying to tear Lebron down. Certainly Cleveland intends to. But let me ask them one thing: Does a child owe his family the right to keep him a child, and keep him at home, for their own self-interest?
Lebron did indeed give that region an exciting decade of basketball. They had seven years to figure out how to get some talent around him, and in the end he supposedly "quit" because he didn't bust his ass til the final whistle.
Yes, I was surprised, but what I knew at that moment was that he was done with Cleveland. He had stopped believing in this franchise, in this assemblage of players. He was perhaps tired of being Mr. Cleveland.
I don't blame him, and I don't hate on him for going to a warm weather city in a state with no income tax to join two other superstars in search of titles.
Because as we all know and as he correctly said, Lebron James will ultimately be measured for greatness on the basis of how many titles he won, and not on the basis of where he won them.
And please remember, he will be only 31 when this contract expires. There is another max contract in perhaps another city awaiting Lebron, and who is to say he can't go home again, this time as a full grown man and perhaps a champion already, to take one last crack at doing it for the home folk?
southernVal
Hilarious….Imma borrow this and post it on my facebook page Mo!!!!
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As a Knicks fan, I was annoyed that Lebron didn't choose us. We vainly believe that ours is the biggest stage, the "if I can make it there" city above all others.
My personal reaction was "He's just chicken. He doesn't want to be The Man."
After another night of reflection, and after finally sucking it up and watching his interview with Wilbon, I am not hating on Lebron.
Not that there are many among us who find it in us to feel sorry for celebrity mega-million overgrown children, and it's certainly been fun to accuse Lebron of refusing to grow up, the man I saw in that chair was no child.
The man I saw in that chair looked as though this process had aged him. Perhaps most of us can recall the trauma involved when we first left home, when we first informed our parents that we were off to seek our own, individual destiny. Speaking strictly for myself, it was difficult, it was painful, but it was also right and ultimately proved so.
And in that process I earned my adulthood, and cast aside my childish perceptions.
The man I saw in that chair seems to have begun that process.
And to those who criticize the whole idea of a dedicated show, that's just silly. It made perfect sense to do it the way he did, because there was always going to be enormous media glare when he made the announcement, so why not control it? And pay some charities some money while doing it. Genius. Bravo to the person, not Lebron, who thought of it, and bravo to Lebron for proving it.
You know, we're always so eager for heroes in this country, seemingly so we can then tear them down. Michael Jordan goes to Atlantic City during the playoffs and a scandal erupts? I have a long memory. A very long memory.
Perhaps we will now begin trying to tear Lebron down. Certainly Cleveland intends to. But let me ask them one thing: Does a child owe his family the right to keep him a child, and keep him at home, for their own self-interest?
Lebron did indeed give that region an exciting decade of basketball. They had seven years to figure out how to get some talent around him, and in the end he supposedly "quit" because he didn't bust his ass til the final whistle.
Yes, I was surprised, but what I knew at that moment was that he was done with Cleveland. He had stopped believing in this franchise, in this assemblage of players. He was perhaps tired of being Mr. Cleveland.
I don't blame him, and I don't hate on him for going to a warm weather city in a state with no income tax to join two other superstars in search of titles.
Because as we all know and as he correctly said, Lebron James will ultimately be measured for greatness on the basis of how many titles he won, and not on the basis of where he won them.
And please remember, he will be only 31 when this contract expires. There is another max contract in perhaps another city awaiting Lebron, and who is to say he can't go home again, this time as a full grown man and perhaps a champion already, to take one last crack at doing it for the home folk?
Hilarious….Imma borrow this and post it on my facebook page Mo!!!!