THE BIG SELLOUT

[manbearpig]

haha here you go. http://freshbrewedtees.bigcartel.com/produ...ns-in-cleveland You can get your Quitness t-shirts now.. and one dollar goes to benefit Cleveland. This isn't spam, the guys that have been supporting "The King" (of traitors) all year long make these things lean and green. I for one wont buy one but that's because I never have or will buy anything Lebron. My favorite Cav always has been and always will be BIG Z! (Love you too Andy!!)

[hoorta]

@cambridgeho said:

Is that sign still there?

Damn security was there to ensure it's proper removal.

I would hope that it doesn't see the sun come up. As I said elsewhere, may it be used a primer for the cathartic burn the Traitors stuff party on Public Square.

[hoorta]

Rorbotron said:

You're totally off base. He'll be a villain in Cleveland. He took less money and less of a role to win championships. How is it everything that is wrong about sports and not everything that is right about sports? Winning championships. He went to Miami to WIN and you have to understand that was a tough decision for him. Do you think he likes seeing his jersey burned? He almost broke down on national television when he first talked to Mike Wilbon. You can be bitter but don't be a dumb f.uck.

LeBron is certainly a Dumb F**k if he thinks the fans are going to respect him here when he returns.

I'm sure not a Dumb F**K, but I know one thing for sure- LeGone James is a shallow self aggrandizing LeFraud. I'll put the shoe on the other foot (and you really can't) if Crosby pulled this same shit in a few years, you gonna think he's A-1? Oh, he's not even from Pittsburgh-and Syd the Kid at least won you a Championship- it ain't even in the same universe of betrayal.

[BigBrownsFan]

People jumping all over his crap amazes me..... what exactly has Gilbert done to help LeBron? Antwan Jamison? Delonte West? Varejo and his floppy hair? Please... Michael Jordan didnt start winning titles until he had legit help in the form of Pippen and Rodman. Hell Paul Pierce couldnt do it himself until the Celtics went out and got Garnett and Allen, and by drafting Rondo. Gilbert has nobody to blame but himself..... who did he lure via free agency to entice LeBron to stay? Answer - NOBODY.

Gilbert to me seems more of a self-centered crybaby jerk of a person than LeBron ever will.......

Time to move on...... and I guarantee you the Cavs will NOT win an NBA title before LeBron quits playing...... plain and simple. And this coming from a Cavs fan..... it is what it is.

[CLEVELandMILIDH]

By Zac Jackson

Fox Sports Ohio

July 9, 2010

AKRON -- Dear LeBron:

First things first. Why couldn't you have killed the Celtics the way you killed Northeast Ohioans Thursday night?

We've turned on our televisions and seen you do magical things on the basketball floor. We've seen your gifts, your smile, your thunderous dunks and your ability to handle most things with the poise and maturity of someone well beyond your 25 years -- especially someone who endured the things you endured growing up. We all know your story; we all felt that would make the eventual Hollywood ending here even more special.

We really, foolishly believed that the team concept in which you were raised -- families taking you in, AAU coaches glad to have you around because you appreciated people and the game, your mom working to keep you and keep you happy and healthy, Keith Dambrot challenging you while providing a platform -- would mean something more as you made the toughest decision of your life, the one that ended with you choosing to leave your business unfinished and goals unreached here, instead going to Miami to play with your buddies in an attempt to prove you're bigger than the cities who raised, nurtured and worshiped you.

Oh, you've got a "team" now. You referenced them four or five times in your press conference when the 2010 season ended. Right now they're in the cabana next to you, ordering tall drinks and talking on their cell phones. You're getting the bill for both.

You can afford it. You have the money, and the fame, and all the limelight. All the headlines. Millions and millions watched you talk about you Thursday night, watched you announce that you were doing "what was best for LeBron James" and "what would make LeBron James happy."

Those are actual quotes. One of the most gifted passers in the history of the game is one of the most selfish people in the history of the game. You're a walking triple-double but also a walking contradiction, have been since you started getting so big for your own britches that your friends started fitting in there, too. Maybe one of them did that "loyalty" tattoo himself.

I was there before it was LeBronMania, a guy either buying a ticket or flashing a press pass to see you play. It's not your fault that the Sonny Vaccaro-types were quickly following your every move and that they came not only bearing gifts but promises. If anything you handled it well, continually adding to and refining your game and taking every challenge that came your way. But before long the innocence of you and your young St. Vincent-St. Mary High School teammates trying to slay Oak Hill Academy was lost. The games became more like events; everywhere you went, a circus followed. People snuck into practice and asked for autographs. The media that inquired about you soon knew almost every detail about your story; by the time you made the cover of Sports Illustrated, your school trumped you as not only a great player but an honor roll student.

By staging high school basketball games in 11 different states and on regional pay-per-view television, St. V-M was making big-time money off of you before you were (officially) making money off of you. It wasn't bad enough that your mom was running on to the floor at games or taunting opposing fans with a cardboard cutout of your face; it's that of all the agents and runners and "somebodies" that came around and got her attention, none of them ever presented a thought or a plan that included consequences. At one game, former Cavaliers forward Darius Miles showed up in the front row...wearing a Darius Miles jersey. He was a total clown.

Who knew nine years later you'd be out-clowning him, on a much bigger stage, with an ESPN special known as "The Decision." It was a show and concept that looked like it was put together by a guy who took a semester's worth of marketing classes at the University of Akron before he was hired away by Nike, given the job of telling you how great you are so you'd eventually sign with Nike.

Oh, that's exactly what it was. Anyway...

This monster that's become you, it's far from all your fault. See? It can be traced back years, and the blame can certainly be shared. By lots of people. I know guys with much less money and ability than you that sometimes have God Complexes; it happens when money and power are involved. It's just a shame that for all your accomplishments, you're still making silly, youthful mistakes. Ones that are going to haunt you for years and years.

I remember way back -- before you got really big -- you were answering newspaper guys' questions about fulfilling your dreams, about moving your mom out of Spring Hill Apartments and into the NBA high life. You said something to the effect of "Ain't no good houses in Akron anyway," meaning you were thinking bigger than your hometown. You were taken task for it in the newspaper, and you apologized. You learned from it. Hey, if I had a dollar for every stupid thing I said in high school I'd have a personal motorcade, too.

But now, a decade later, we come to find there really ain't no good enough for you here, not even with the way the Cavaliers constantly rolled and re-rolled the red carpet for you. Not with a fan base that supported you, sweated with you, bought into (figuratively and with their hard-earned money) whatever you were selling.

I've always thought you could do a little better in the role model department, too, since there are about 40 million kids who love watching you play basketball. For all your on-court greatness, you should have never left that court in Orlando without shaking hands. Now, except for the fact that impressionable kids are always watching, I never minded your dancing during blowout victories. But what about your responsibility to the kids who wear the shoes, the gear, fight over the #23 on jersey handout day, warm up for their AAU games by shooting underhand one-handers from halfcourt and throw powder in their kitchen? You paid people to handle your other responsibilities, but that one went pretty neglected.

Sure, your free-agent status was earned. And it meant you were free to explore, to further market yourself, to taste every bit of being free. No one can begrudge you for doing that and thinking you've found a place that will make you happier than you were when you had anything you'd ever want or need here. But to have your buddies call the Cavaliers, for you not to return any of Dan Gilbert's calls after Gilbert gave carte blanche to every member of Team LeBron and repeatedly paid NBA fines for your team wearing unapproved uniforms because you wanted to wear them or model a new shoe? I'm not saying Gilbert's letter was the most well thought-out gesture, but I understand.

Here's your best quote from last night, LeBron: "I know how loyal I am." You made the honor roll despite being absent on Accountability Day and Reality Day. Impressive.

Your little TV spectacle already one-upped your new superstar teammates, too, a day after they'd announced their plans to play with the Heat. We'll see how that act plays over the long term in Miami-Wade County, not to mention how your posse handles places with no last-calls and no people from the neighborhood except themselves.

I don't know the exact roots of the King James stuff and the Christ-like poses, but if I remember correctly you were introducing yourself to people as "King" before you were out of high school. Considering you were living in Spring Hill but driving a $50,000-plus Hummer, rolling with diamond earrings and three cell phones and had lawyers run to rescue your high school eligibility after you took two throwback jerseys from an adoring store manager, I understand. You were the one above the rules. You were the Chosen 1 -- at least that's what your back tattoo says.

Here in Northeast Ohio we absolutely hate that you quit -- sorry, there's no better way to say it -- on your coach, your teammates and the Cavaliers' organization at the end of this year's Boston series. We saw you again two weeks later begging for attention on stage at the Drake concert and then heard you chat with Larry King, but you were otherwise silent. No comment at camp in Akron. No comment at the Cleveland free-agency meetings, not even a wave to the hundreds of gathered fans in your gear outside the IMG Building. Who needs them, anyway? They're just people.

You previously told those plebeians that you appreciated them, that you wanted them along for the ride as you chased championships here. Matter of fact, at the MVP ceremony just two months ago you said chasing those championships here was your ONLY goal. Then you quit. And you left. Your permanent file surely includes moments of greatness, basketball moves that most couldn't dream of pulling off, but it also includes empty promises -- "I won't go ring-chasing" is what you said in 2006 -- and your last home game ever as a Cavalier, Game Five vs. Boston.

That's an incomplete at best, LeBron. A rough teacher would give you an F.

And here we thought you were on the honor roll.

[miktoxic]

@bigbrownsfan said:

People jumping all over his crap amazes me..... what exactly has Gilbert done to help LeBron? Antwan Jamison? Delonte West? Varejo and his floppy hair? Please... Michael Jordan didnt start winning titles until he had legit help in the form of Pippen and Rodman. Hell Paul Pierce couldnt do it himself until the Celtics went out and got Garnett and Allen, and by drafting Rondo. Gilbert has nobody to blame but himself..... who did he lure via free agency to entice LeBron to stay? Answer - NOBODY.

Gilbert to me seems more of a self-centered crybaby jerk of a person than LeBron ever will.......

Time to move on...... and I guarantee you the Cavs will NOT win an NBA title before LeBron quits playing...... plain and simple. And this coming from a Cavs fan..... it is what it is.

why don't you and michael smith and chris broussard of espn go off in a corner and have a circle jerk? jerk. this guy who went on every fxxking sports show before leaving saying "i grew up here, i know what it means to the city of cleveland blah blah blah". how about the lebron playing for the browns tv commercial? if anyone doesn't understand the serious betrayal true fxxking fans of CLEVELAND feel right now then you don't fxxking belong there. i don't even live there but breathe and bleed anything cleveland and ohio. cleveland state, ohio state, kent state, browns/indians/cavs.......let alone hs football.

bigbrownsfan? really? how about big blow hard. dick!

[The Gipper]

Rorbotron said:

You're totally off base. He'll be a villain in Cleveland. He took less money and less of a role to win championships. How is it everything that is wrong about sports and not everything that is right about sports? Winning championships. He went to Miami to WIN and you have to understand that was a tough decision for him. Do you think he likes seeing his jersey burned? He almost broke down on national television when he first talked to Mike Wilbon. You can be bitter but don't be a dumb f.uck.

Actually, from all the stuff I have seen and read, he is pretty much being blasted everywhere, and not just Cleveland, NY, Chicago and NJ, teams that he rebuffed to go to Miami. I have heard it from places like Minnesota, Oklahoma, Seattle, LA, Boston etc. etc. Most of it has to do with him rejecting his home town after paying so much lip service to it for so long. A little has to do with not choosing their city to come play. The rest of it has to do with how he orchestrated this whole thing and what a prima donna he appeared to be by having to have an hour special on ESPN.

[The Gipper]

@bigbrownsfan said:

People jumping all over his crap amazes me..... what exactly has Gilbert done to help LeBron? Antwan Jamison? Delonte West? Varejo and his floppy hair? Please... Michael Jordan didnt start winning titles until he had legit help in the form of Pippen and Rodman. Hell Paul Pierce couldnt do it himself until the Celtics went out and got Garnett and Allen, and by drafting Rondo. Gilbert has nobody to blame but himself..... who did he lure via free agency to entice LeBron to stay? Answer - NOBODY.

Gilbert to me seems more of a self-centered crybaby jerk of a person than LeBron ever will.......

Time to move on...... and I guarantee you the Cavs will NOT win an NBA title before LeBron quits playing...... plain and simple. And this coming from a Cavs fan..... it is what it is.

Scottie Pippin was like a middle round draft pick of the Seattle Supersonics out of Central Arkansas State that was traded his second year to the Bulls. Nobody thought that he was all that and a bag of chips, so don't tell us how the Bulls went and got this other "superstar" to play with Jordan. It was just fluke luck for the Bulls and Jordan that Pippen got to be such a good player. It would have been as if Shannon Brown had become some kind of super support star to LeBron. (the same for Rondo)

As for who the Cavs lured here in Free Agency...have you ever heard of a guy named Shaquille O'Neal? He was only like 3 time MVP of the league? 4 time NBA champion? Considered possibly one of the 10 best players to ever play? Ever hear of him?

[The Gipper]

@bigbrownsfan said:

People jumping all over his crap amazes me..... what exactly has Gilbert done to help LeBron? Antwan Jamison? Delonte West? Varejo and his floppy hair? Please... Michael Jordan didnt start winning titles until he had legit help in the form of Pippen and Rodman. Hell Paul Pierce couldnt do it himself until the Celtics went out and got Garnett and Allen, and by drafting Rondo. Gilbert has nobody to blame but himself..... who did he lure via free agency to entice LeBron to stay? Answer - NOBODY.

Gilbert to me seems more of a self-centered crybaby jerk of a person than LeBron ever will.......

Time to move on...... and I guarantee you the Cavs will NOT win an NBA title before LeBron quits playing...... plain and simple. And this coming from a Cavs fan..... it is what it is.

OH, and Jordan and the Bulls had won three titles before Rodman ever showed up in Chicago. In fact, on several occasions they took out Rodman and the Pistons to win those titles.

So, essentially, as I see it, it is Duane Wade who compares to Jordan, Bosh compares to Pippin, and LeBron is their third wheel, johnny come lately. He is their Dennis Rodman.

[Silverback]

@manbearpig said:

Would you leave a job that had a ten story tall banner that said "I love you" and had your picture on it? (not to mention the job paid you MILLIONS...)?? I wouldn't.

If you could have the same job for essentially the same money in a better city, a nicer work enviornment, and better benefits you sure would take it.

[manbearpig]

@silverback said:

If you could have the same job for essentially the same money in a better city, a nicer work enviornment, and better benefits you sure would take it.

No, nuckle dgragger, I wouldn't. Especially if it ment going from being the Biggest fish in the pond to being whatever he ends up being down there. How is that a better work environment?? He was worshiped like a god in Cleveland.... Ok after you finish having your sister read this to you, you can go back to screwing her.

[FearTheRoo]

This has kinda had me thinking about the whole Braylon Edwards vs Lebron situation. Lebron said something about how Edwards never liked him and maybe now we see why. I know BE isn't the best receiver but I'm glad he got in that fight now. At the time I thought it was jealousy, but since we have seen what kind of person James really is.

[kamac19]

I am mainly a Browns fan, who follows the Cavs as they are from Cleveland also, yes whilst lebron was part of the team we were in awe of his skills,but now we will just focus on whoever on the team produces week in week out.,and with lbj gone the scoring might be spread better and not seem as big a loss as first appears as the rest of the team at present ain't that bad.

I honestly think lbj, bosh and wade knew there decision weeks ago and holding back made other teams hurt themselves either waiting in hope or jumping in signing fa later than might have. Because if this was all about TEAM, miami would have organised a triple unveiling which would have had all of us more on awe of the deal than the major betrayal we feel now.

[manbearpig]

@kamac19 said:

I am mainly a Browns fan, who follows the Cavs as they are from Cleveland also, yes whilst lebron was part of the team we were in awe of his skills,but now we will just focus on whoever on the team produces week in week out.,and with lbj gone the scoring might be spread better and not seem as big a loss as first appears as the rest of the team at present ain't that bad.

I honestly think lbj, bosh and wade knew there decision weeks ago and holding back made other teams hurt themselves either waiting in hope or jumping in signing fa later than might have. Because if this was all about TEAM, miami would have organised a triple unveiling which would have had all of us more on awe of the deal than the major betrayal we feel now.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- During a rally for Miami Heat fans Friday night, Chris Bosh said he had been talking with new teammates LeBron James and Dwyane Wade about the moment for months. It was a slip, which some, including Bosh himself, caught. The premise that the trio had been talking about teaming up for months hinted there was a plan in place. That potentially would be against rules, and could raise concerns from the league since Bosh and James were playing for teams battling for the playoffs in Toronto and Cleveland.

http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/20...miamis_cou.html

[miktoxic]

well we've seen his (lebron) and their (wade and bosh) true colors since the big f.ucking 'decision'. see the video of them coming down some elevated platform with their backs towards the fans and media? they truly think of themselves like they ARE hollywood. i always thought that bosh was the least culpable of the three but seeing the true side of all of these snakes i find him the most. someone that will lie to your face and smile while doing it.

this is a testament of how our society holds these athletes and celebrities above the real people that affect us in so many good ways. i'd love to see our public work force (teachers, cops, firemen, doctors, soldiers etc.) get that kind of money distributed amongst them than these f.uckings stoops who couldn't even put together a term paper between the three of them. since their parents and coaches have seen them grow taller than their classmates these f.uckers (most athletes) have had everything handed to them.

before all of this i had no idea to the extent the cavs went to make this spoiled brat happy. his posse getting jobs with the team? pleeez. he came here to ny to attend carmello's wedding and got booed while doing it. he's got to be one of the most vilified people walking the streets nowadays. how about we burn his jersey with him in it?

[Kosar_For_President]

Rorbotron said:

He almost broke down on national television when he first talked to Mike Wilbon.

Boo hoo. Poor billionaire and his "tough" choices.

He's gone, who cares. Now Cleveland can move on and root for the Cavs and not LeBron. I have never loved my Cavs more then I do now. In Gilbert I trust.

What I want to know is of all those highlight films shown during the farce of a show, did it show the 8 shots he missed to lose the game?

[Kosar_For_President]

@silverback said:

If you could have the same job for essentially the same money in a better city, a nicer work enviornment, and better benefits you sure would take it.

Dude I don't think you have been to Miami. It's a hot shit hole, with 2 million stinky, barefoot Guatemalans running around on coke.

[miktoxic]

@kosar_for_president said:

Dude I don't think you have been to Miami. It's a hot shit hole, with 2 million stinky, barefoot Guatemalans running around on coke.

f.ing hilarious!!! and so true!

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You opinion counts, it just doesn't need a separate thread....board clutter IMO.

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Oh, he's a sports villain now, for damn sure. No possibility of being a hero. He's about to be known as Everything That's Wrong With Sports.

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