Thursday night, his LeBrontourage and ESPN enablers dressed him in a clown suit, topped it with a black hat and turned him into a buffoonish laughingstock and villain. It had everything you come to expect from Vince McMahon and the WWE. In one night..James goes from being the 'baby-face' (good guy in rasstlin' terms) to the 'heel' ( bad guy in rasslin' terms).
Will he recover?
For seven years, James seemed to delight in, court and fuel himself with universal adoration and respect. It’s gone now, and it’s not coming back. He’s a hero in Miami, a coward in New York, a spoiled, narcissistic punk most everywhere else.
Cavs fans burned his jersey in the streets. Police protected his house in Akron and a giant “Witness” banner in downtown Cleveland.
Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert eviscerated LeBron’s reputation, telling the Associated Press that James quit in the playoffs, wouldn’t return phone calls or text messages for more than a month and described James’ televised reality-show exit self-promotional and cowardly.
“The Decision,” LeBron’s emotion-free, lovemaking session with Jim Gray, Stu Scott, Mike Wilbon, Jon Barry and Chris Broussard, is something sports fans will never forget.It was America’s first all-male, PG-13 celebrity sex tape.
The problem is, LeBron’s handlers failed to warn him that sex tapes enhance the careers of female celebrities. The men, unless strapped like Tommy Lee and performing opposite Pamela Anderson, don’t get much bounce or they’re ridiculed.
“I wanted to do what was best for LeBron James,” King James told Wilbon. “What LeBron James was going to do to make him happy.”Yep, his most memorable speaking line from LeDecision was delivered in third person. He’s a joke, and only the insanely dishonest will defend his performance and the decision to host LeBron-apalooza.
LeBron and Maverick Carter, the King’s right-hand man, actually thought a $2.5 million check to the Boys and Girls Club and online scholarships to the University of Phoenix would clean up this mess, would ease the pain in his hometown.
Can LeBron handle the mental abuse he’s about to endure? Will being reviled energize him the way being revered did?
He’s a target now. The preening and dancing and powder-throwing have a stench, a B.O., as in Bron Owens, the NBA’s Terrell Owens.
No one cares about LeBron giving the advertising dollars from “The Decision” to the Boys and Girls Club. James would’ve been better served cutting a personal check to a Cleveland/Akron charity and informing the Cavs he was leaving immediately after the playoffs.
It appears Dan Gilbert is irate because he realizes LeBron made LeDecision long ago. This whole spectacle was a gigantic tease, a charade. The Cavs‘ offseason approach (draft, free agency, Mike Brown, Danny Ferry) might have been dramatically different had the organization known from the get-go James was leaving.
LeBron owed Gilbert and Cavs fans a heads-up.
“I wanted to do what was best for LeBron James,” he said. “What LeBron James was going to do to make him happy.”When James announced his decision, he didn’t say he was joining Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and the Miami Heat. LeBron said he was going to South Beach.
There’ll be more new baby-mamas than championships.
I know the WWE is so jealous of LeBron's storyline. McMahon's rasslin' story writers could not have scripted a better storyline for the last few months of James' life. Last Thursday was like a Wrestlemania press conference. A very sad day for the NBA..
As a UK basketball fan..I got caught up in the whole glam show with King James showing up at Rupp and being the "Y" in Kentucky for the day. However, the glam stops when he comes across as being larger than the sport. To each their own..but I won't lose sleep if he never puts on the BLUE again.
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