Cleveland to Lebron: Please stay

Sex Panther · May 19, 2010

CLEVELAND -- They're saying it on billboards, in song, in letters, in petitions and more.
Whatever the format, the message from Clevelanders is the same: Dear LeBron James, please don't go. Please please please don't go.

This hard-luck city on the shores of Lake Erie is desperately trying to show its NBA superstar that, with free agency looming July 1, the best spot for him is right up the road from his hometown of Akron, Ohio, the place where he's played for seven seasons as a Cleveland Cavalier and won two MVP awards.

And in the wake of a baffling early exit from the playoffs - a six-game series loss to the Boston Celtics - the grass roots campaign has taken on not just a new urgency but the sense of a last chance. Without James, after all, the chances of Cleveland breaking its 46-year titleless streak in major pro sports don't seem too good.

"He's a hometown guy. We definitely want to put that on his conscience," said 23-year-old Austin Briggs, of Cleveland Heights, co-founder of the Web site pleasedontleave23.com.
Want to join the band wagon? You can sign a "Stay LeBron" petition right on the hood of Brigg's souped-up 1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, dubbed the "Witness Mobile."
Even before the playoffs, fans had helped fund a banner near the home of the Cavs, showing James through his life with the words "Born Here. Raised Here. Plays Here. Stays Here."
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"Lebron, please, PLEASE stay"

Wherever he goes, one thing is true, "no other city is going to love you half as much as Cleveland does"

Sex Panther · May 19, 2010

I'm starting to feel really bad for this city.

They're the epitome of tough luck.

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