I agree but PA might if your superstar quit on you in game against Boston in the playoffs. He ripped off his Cavs jersey as he was leaving the stadium. It just pissed me off and I'm not even a fan or anything to do with the Cavs. If your going to leave your team and home just leave don't go on TV and make a complete ass of yourself and the NBA. It was a joke!
Well, it is my fantasy football league. So.....you know. I'd hate to inflate the perception of ourselves.
Gimme a break about how Gilbert winds up empty handed, that he put up with countless miseries and LeBron left him with nothing. Fuck that. Do you realize how many sold out games LeBron James created for that team? How much merchandise revenue he generated for that sad sack piece of shit organization? How many playoffs would they have even been in without LeBron? Fuck, the guy was personally responsible for pretty much every job created in the city of Cleveland for the past 7 years. How did Cleveland land LeBron anyway? Was it careful planning? The culmination of years of internally developing elite athletes? Positioning their salary situation to set up the perfect storm that got them LeBron? Oh yeah, that's right, they completely fucking tanked for an entire season because they had no better strategy than to lose a shit-ton of games, because that's all they were good at. Then they got lucky enough to get the right ping pong ball. Brilliant. Gilbert, if you want to write a sneering comic sans diatribe to "somebody" to blame, write it to yourself. Kobe and Jordan and Karl Malone had exactly the same sized mega asshole egos that LeBron has. Did those guys whore themselves out to the highest bidder too? No, because THEIR TEAMS GOT THEM SOME GOOD FUCKING TEAMMATES. After seven seasons, the best you came up with were Mo Williams, Larry Hughes and Antawn Jamison. Gee. I wonder why he left. Now James is on a team with goddamned Wade and Bosh. Who the fuck is going to beat those three all at once? Couldn't you at least contain the massive failing that is the Cleveland Cavaliers to Cleveland? Thanks for fucking it up for everybody.
I didn't see that (had a failure to care about the playoffs this year). But still, if you are an owner you gotta be an adult about it, unless your name is Cuban. You've had 7 years to get to know him - if he's such an ass (and I fully believe he is) then trade him. And if you choose not to trade him, then you gotta take what comes. barfo
Conversely, IMO, if Lebron hadn't gone "NATIONAL" with his over-the-top decision, I doubt Gilbert's diatribe gets written/published.
He lost over $100 million in a single day. People have committed suicide for MUCH less reason. All he did was write a RANT. Your condescension is no less ridiculous than his rant.
Serious question: Exactly how much money has the Cavs made in the last 5 years? $100M, $1B? I don't know, but my guess is that they've lost $ like most teams have.
I think, for Cleveland fans, it boils down to one thing - LeBron held a nation wide 1 hour event to to tell them "fuck you." What LeBron did today was extremely hard core. And super, super fucked up, IMO. He should have signed with another team in the style that 99.9% of FA's in NBA history had done. Just sign. He's a fucking ass. And he's going to pay for it. You think the Blazers have bad Karma? Oh boy. Oden might actually get healthy because all the shit Karma is on Miami now. With that in mind, hell - thank you LeBron!
Oh definitely. LeBron comes off as a mega douche in this whole event. I feel bad for the fans in Cleveland. (I feel bad for anybody living in Cleveland just on pure principle.) I don't feel bad for the owner, though. I hate it when somebody has a massive failure (seeing LeBron leave) and does nothing but point and cry about how he's a victim. LeBron made Gilbert an insane amount of money. Gilbert let LeBron down by not putting the pieces in place for him to succeed. Boohoo, Mr. Gilbert.
Remember when Shaq was yelling at Buss during games, "Pay me!" Buss sure was entitled to say some things after he dumped him, but didn't. No one ever agrees with me, but I have always thought that Shaq is the biggest ass in the league. (In more ways than one.) The program tonight wasn't originated by LeBron, I'm sure. ESPN just saw a ratings bonanza and asked him to do it. At the same hour on CNN, Larry King was interrupting his show to show a month-old interview he did with James. So ESPN wasn't the only one.
Condescension? I don't see see how that applies here. I criticized his RANT. One way or another, he screwed up to lose $100 million in a day. Either he put his trust in someone that he shouldn't have put his trust in, or he was simply clueless. Neither reflects well upon him. Even if LeBron is utterly evil, it's Gilbert's job to figure that out and act accordingly. barfo
I read Lebron asked ESPN to do this the Decision fucked up show and of coarse they could make money so they agreed.
Shaq is a mega ass (in more ways than one) and you're right that ESPN probably suggested the whole thing, but for somebody to not possess enough self awareness or sense to understand how this might come off is the kind of person I'd like to sell a bridge.
Actually, I have no idea. I assume the Cavs were a pretty profitable team because of all the sellouts and national tv exposure. It's pretty hard not to be profitable when everybody wants to see you. I'm sure the asset of the Cavaliers franchise drastically appreciated in value as LeBron continued to play there. Of course, now that they've fucked that up...
