Did he demand to be traded after his team had the best record in the league? Do you really think his goal when he 'demanded' to be traded was to go play Pippen for someone else?
I haven't seen Jeff Van Gundy's comments quoted, but I personally think they're great and everyone can agree on them: 1. One day, LeBron will regret not calling Dan Gilbert before making the decision public 2. It used to be about wanting to beat the other superstar to win a title, not joining forces to make the journey easier 3. The Heat will face only zone defense
Assume LeBron was going to play Pippen (let's just go with it), him putting his ego of "legacy" aside for a better chance to win is bad? Are you hinestly saying the Cavs roster (current and future) is a better situation than Miami?
"He quit," Gilbert told the AP. "Not just in Game 5, but in Games 2, 4 and 6. Watch the tape. The Boston series was unlike anything in the history of sports for a superstar." Gilbert also charged James quit in the Cavs Game 6 loss against Orlando in the 2009 playoffs. "Go back and look at the tape," he said. "How many shots did he take?" Gilbert also said James never returned a phone message or text since the end of the season, and added people had "covered up for (James) for way too long. Tonight we saw who he really is."
Like Mark Jackson said, dudes get traded all the time and don't receive calls first. Those other stars all played with other star players. LeBron never has. Additionally, the stars pre Shaq really couldn't leave.
The guy was organizing "Fan Tunnel" and spending money producing "insider lockerrom joke" cartoon to recruit Lebron and kiss his ass just days before. Dan Gilbert knew Lebron quit long before and he still did all that.
I don't blame LeBron for moving on during free agency. It's the NBA, it happens. The whole one hour special and such was a b**** move though. Dude's ego was out of control and probably he knew all along what he was going to do. All the 'I woke up this morning and decided blah blah' is a load. This whole thing was straight absurd. All bull****. Gilbert's little tantrum is also a b**** move. You are an NBA owner. Act like you have seen free agency before. And if the fact that James didn't communicate with you all offseason...well, you have to be quite the moron not to see the writing on the wall there. Really, Gilbert and Cavs brought that much on themselves with the **** they called a 'team' they put around James. Any of you who think that any team the Cavs put around James was actually championship material are only fooling yourselves. I mean, Antawn Jamison, senior citizen Shaq and coach Mike Brown?!? lol So, at the end of the day.... F it, I don't really care. It's not the Rockets.
I think he could care less if he's on top of the world, putting up 25, 9, and 7 and winning ring after ring as finals mvp. All this talk about him ending up on the level of a Scottie Quitten is extremely premature.
This is pretty much were I stand as well after witnessing all of this. Also another pretty good read which reflects this stance by ESPN's Gene Wojciechowski: LeBron's unsavory 'Decision' spectacle http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/colu...i_gene&page=wojciechowski/100708&sportCat=nba
After wade shout at him "Give me the damn ball"? No, Kobe figured it out by himself. LeBron couldn't.
Get your facts straight. Lebron was on a team that won 60+ games two years in a row, mediocre? Hell no. He quit on his team during the Celtics series, its on him, its his fault.
Yeah, Mo Williams, Anthony Parker, Antawn Jamison, and Big Z put some real fear into the opposition...supporting cast is definitely mediocre and we'll see how many games they win this yr w/o him.
