Dear LeBron, We just wanted to send a quick note of thanks for the refreshing, honest assessment of your relationship with the city of Cleveland in your upcoming GQ magazine profile. In that spirit, we’d like to offer some honest assessments of our own. Fair enough? First off, you are incredible. We have seen you do some absolutely astounding things through the years in your NBA career. Nothing, however, tests the boundaries of the word “impossible” quite like what you’ve done in the last month: You’ve painted yourself ... as a victim. Only in your delusional world, LeBron, can you actually look in a mirror and see yourself as the party who has been wronged in your embarrassing divorce from the Cleveland Cavaliers. You say you’re going to use Dan Gilbert’s spot-on characterization of you in his passionate letter to Cavs’ fans as “a lot of motivation” when you play the Cavs this winter? Motivation to do what? Is there anything worse you can do to Gilbert’s franchise than what you’ve already done? What could you possibly do that’s worse than quitting on your teammates after colluding with other players to leave as free agents while you were all still under contract with your current employers? Sure, you could go out and take 40 shots in an effort to put up 70 or 80 points on the Cavs in a mean-spirited attempt to embarrass them. But just remember: You’ll only get those shots with Dwayne Wade’s permission. It’s his team, LeBron. You are his sidekick. He didn’t have to come to you — you came to him. Anything you do from this point on will come with that asterisk. Quoting you in GQ, again referring to Dan Gilbert: “I don’t think he ever cared about LeBron. My mother always told me: ‘You will see the light of people when they hit adversity. You’ll get a good sense of their character.’ Me and my family have seen the character of that man.” Read more: http://morningjournal.com/articles/2010/08/19/sports/doc4c6ca6411bbed369827298.txt
