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LeBron Heads to Miami
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JoeMitchell
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Posted 1 year ago # -
scottlitch
Southwest Hilltop, Columbus
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BCNation wrote >>
Daz wrote >>
KSquared wrote >>
BCNation wrote >>
Miami is a city that can (i.e. the '72 Dolphins, the '97 Marlins, and the 2002 Hurricanes)No.
I think he's referring to the 2001 Hurricanes.
and the 2002 team that was robbed by the Buckeyes.
Anywhos, Thursday is the day....D-Day, ex-King James' return to Cleveland. Anyone watching?I'll be watching...
Posted 1 year ago # -
StowCbusCleveland
Jackson Township, Canton, OH
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I'm still doing anything I can to find a reasonably priced ticket where I can actually see the game. If I can do that, I'll be making the trip. Otherwise it'll be popcorn and my flatscreen. Must see TV for this Cavs fan.
Posted 1 year ago # -
artbomb112
The Heights
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I read a blog post earlier suggesting that Cavs fans not boo LBJ when he enters... but to turn their backs and be silent, to have the loudspeaker silent, to have the stadium utterly silent as if no one acknowledges him.
Though I don't think this will happen... I love to image that paints. A totally silent Cleveland rejecting the attention the deposed "King" desires most. Thousands of people saying at one time that they are better than a selfish diva.
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Core_Models
Columbus
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Brant
Gahanna
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This is a great article from ESPN:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=101201/Cleveland
Posted 1 year ago # -
JoeMitchell
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beatdowns tend to sting a bit more when asked for
Posted 1 year ago # -
honavery
Arizona
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I didn't really expect the Cavs to win (and to be fair I thought that was the best the Heat has looked all season). I mean, everyone knows Lebron is a great basketball player, that's not really the point.
The 2 things that really stand out for me that Lebron doesn't really seem to understand or hasn't ever commented on:
a) How he left. The drawing out of the whole process(when it was obvious him and Wade had been planning it for years), the TV special, "taking my talents to South Beach", the ridiculous "press conference" in Miami.
b) The Boston Series. Rarely do you see a pro athlete as competitive as Lebron just completely quit like that in a playoff situation, but he did. It was depressing to watch. I heard the Plain Dealer beat writer Bill Livingstone say in 24 years of covering the NBA he had never seen anything like it.
To see last night, him give WAY more effort to defeating and embarrassing the Cavs on their home floor than he did in the Celtics series last year was just sort depressing and hurtful to me as a Cavs fan. Maybe the worst thing yet. I'm just going to try to move on now, but the sight of him making "wow, I'm on fire tonight!" faces was pretty classless IMO.
One more thing....Miami is an awful sports city. They are taking ads out in the paper to get people to show up for games? Not to mention the historical problems with attendance of the Marlins, Hurricanes, etc.
Posted 1 year ago # -
mellotron
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honavery wrote >>
The 2 things that really stand out for me that Lebron doesn't really seem to understand or hasn't ever commented on:
b) The Boston Series. Rarely do you see a pro athlete as competitive as Lebron just completely quit like that in a playoff situation, but he did. It was depressing to watch. I heard the Plain Dealer beat writer Bill Livingstone say in 24 years of covering the NBA he had never seen anything like it.THANK YOU!
Not only Lebron himself not owning up to what was going on in his head in Game 5, but no Sports Media personality seems to have any recollection as to just how bizarre, careless, and out-of-body Lebron appeared during that game/series.
I have listened to too many interviews in the last several days with people supposedly in the know, who's job it is to get to "the story". It's over and over again painful how no one is addressing that aspect of it. Did they just forget? Are they avoiding it for some reason?
I'm not bitter that he left. I will eventually get over "the decision". But it kills me that it looks like he's gonna get a pass on his listless effort in Game 5 (last home game in a Cavs uni), and will historically be looked back upon as just a "bad game"...
Posted 1 year ago # -
enigmaco
weinland park
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This is a great commercial Jordan did in response to the decision ad lebron did. He makes many valid points in it.
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zp945
Clintonville/Short North
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It's an old Nike ad from 2008 spliced together with the LeBron ad. It's well done. While I think it's funny, I don't think Jordon would put himself out there like that. I'm sure he's happy that his legacy of Greatest of All Time is intact.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=woOu_4l3lio
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Core_Models
Columbus
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Jordan said his peace though, and it was right on:
"There's no way, with hindsight, I would've ever called up Larry [Bird], called up Magic [Johnson] and said, 'Hey, look, let's get together and play on one team,' " Jordan said after playing in a celebrity golf tournament in Nevada. "But that's ... things are different. I can't say that's a bad thing. It's an opportunity these kids have today. In all honesty, I was trying to beat those guys."
Posted 1 year ago # -
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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Reverse Brain Drain: When Southerners find their way North
12 DECEMBER 2010When Lebron James played his first game as an ex-Cav in Cleveland earlier this month, he was booed by 20,000 aspiring brain-drain border guards still upset about his decision to take his talents to South Beach… and out of Ohio. Ironically, the native Clevelanders I heard complain about this most were actually ex-pats who had taken their talents to Chicago years before. In doing so, they’d followed a well-worn path out of northeast Ohio – one so commonly understood that it could be invoked last year without any real explanation in those viral “Cleveland Tourism†videos.
READ MORE: http://rustwire.com/2010/12/12/reverse-brain-drain-when-southerners-find-their-way-north/
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