OT: Cleveland Championship

[Leesburg Chankenstank III]

I was never a fan of Lebron until he came back to Cleveland. Never thought I'd be rooting for Lebron James as hard as I was last night.

Just an amazingly entertaining game that will go down as one of the best games in NBA history.

Thoughts?

 

[Washingtonian]

Golden State is a bunch of choke jobs. You don't blow a 3-1 series lead in the finals.

Once again, the playoffs show the regular season doesn't mean squat.

 

[GreenLantern]

Here and in hockey

 

[GMUgemini]

Here and in hockey

Every sport. The playoffs are a different season.


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[gmutom]

I was never a fan of Lebron until he came back to Cleveland. Never thought I'd be rooting for Lebron James as hard as I was last night.

Just an amazingly entertaining game that will go down as one of the best games in NBA history.

Thoughts?

Definitely up there as one of the best NBA games I can ever recall watching. I was more rooting for the city of Cleveland than LeBron, but it's hard to discount the storyline of his return home and the impact he made. Some people like to claim he's selfish, but you don't put up triple-doubles like he did in this series without being a team player.

He might have a Messiah Complex off the court, but what he did in this series was remarkable — especially when you consider he was arguable surrounded by the weakest supporting cast for any NBA Championship team ever. Other than Irving, Love, Thompson and Smith, LeBron got no help at all. In fact, only eight players saw the court last night and the bench combined for a measly 10 points.

LeBron put this team and an entire city on his back. And for that, he certainly deserves credit.

 

[Cool Disco Dan]

Glad to see Cleveland win and it was interesting in that it was Game 7 and tight throughout, but I have trouble calling it a great game when the two teams were a combined 4-22 from the field over the last 6 mins. GS was awful in the 4th.

 

[Herndon]

I genuinely don't get the LeBron hate. The guy plays a beautiful, unselfish, hardworking style of ball. He trusts his teammates, he plays his tail off on D. He's everything you say you want a superstar to be.

Like, he cared so much about winning that he left a crappy team to go to a good one. He sacrificed being THE MAN to win. Then, when he had done that, he won as THE MAN.

Are people REALLY that upset that he announced his free agency decision on a TV show? Is THAT what people don't like? Because if so, it says way more about them than it does him.

 

[Bricker]

I genuinely don't get the LeBron hate. The guy plays a beautiful, unselfish, hardworking style of ball. He trusts his teammates, he plays his tail off on D. He's everything you say you want a superstar to be.

Like, he cared so much about winning that he left a crappy team to go to a good one. He sacrificed being THE MAN to win. Then, when he had done that, he won as THE MAN.

Are people REALLY that upset that he announced his free agency decision on a TV show? Is THAT what people don't like? Because if so, it says way more about them than it does him.

I love watching BronBron. Fantastically exciting player.

But I get why people who follow sports figures in a celebrity sense don't "like" him.

Off the court, he tries too hard. And it shows. He's transparently meticulous when it comes to what he says and how he reacts-- and it comes off as disengenuous. For instance, instead of taking the high road and not responding to the Klay Thompson trash talk, he responds in the presser that he's "taking the high road and not responding". No kidding.

He can't help but pat himself on the back. If he had refused to answer the question or said no comment, we would have all inferred that he wasn't gonna engage in a verbal battle. But he had to awkwardly put it out there and ruin the moment, like he was helping the sports writers craft their little headlines. That's kind of his thing-- awkwardly forcing his own narrative and holding a reality tour when it comes to what LeBron is all about. But it feels like a shoe commercial.

The miraculous thing is when we compare LeBron to Jordan or pre Elin-9-iron-to-the-face Tiger. These two guys weren't hagning out for hours signing autographs for kids (or even being remotely nice people in or out of competition mode). Yet they probably earned more worship and generally positive views from fans than King James despite their obvious personality shortcomings.

James wants us to love him so bad it hurts. And we're like high school girls-- if he'd just pretend like he wasn't interested, we might flirt back.

 

[GMUSig03]

I genuinely don't get the LeBron hate. The guy plays a beautiful, unselfish, hardworking style of ball. He trusts his teammates, he plays his tail off on D. He's everything you say you want a superstar to be.

Like, he cared so much about winning that he left a crappy team to go to a good one. He sacrificed being THE MAN to win. Then, when he had done that, he won as THE MAN.

Are people REALLY that upset that he announced his free agency decision on a TV show? Is THAT what people don't like? Because if so, it says way more about them than it does him.

I agree, I've never heard any real reason for the hate other than "The Decision", which raised $6,000,000 FOR CHARITY!!!! Which no one ever mentions. I could completely get on board with the hate from Cleveland fans, but that is probably all gone now.

By all accounts Lebron is a good father, husband, teammate and person (after being the most heralded and scrutinized high school player in the history of the... world?!) AND clearly one of the NBA all time greats. I personally like him more than I otherwise would in order to counteract some of the unjustified hate (cough*jealousy*cough), just like I hated Dave Matthews more than I should have in the 90's to counteract all of the unjustified love