Why do y'all hate LeBron so much?

I feel for you. You’ve lived your whole life with the best players in the game being Lebron, Kobe, Mello. All of them are grade A egomaniacal jerks. You don’t know what a statesman-like player is like. Someone like Stockton, Magic, Bird, Robinson, Olajuwon…

Spend a little time watching Duncan, Kidd, Garnett while you can. Compare them to a guy like Lebron. Watch him during a game. Watch his attitude. Watch what he does. Watch him walk away after a loss and not talk to other players. Watch him showboat when he’s ahead and sulk when he’s behind. Watch him get all the calls in the world but whine anyway.

He’s got no class, no humility, and no awareness of his own all consuming ego.

He absolutely destroyed us three years in a row. That first series where he traveled on two game winners. Then he came back the next year, psyched Gilbert out at the free-throw line, and hit damon jones for the open 3.

I’ve been on the wrong end of too many of his plays for me to ever want to see him in a Wizards uniform.

That’s where it started. These days, it’s things like little dance routines preparing for a game. And continually complaining about not getting calls, even as he fouls others. Complaining about travel calls, which should be much more frequent. He’s a good player, but he’s not great in the style of Jordan, Bryant, KG, Magic, Bird, etc. He’s a baby.

Did you see have lebron acted after D.Howard stood in his and denied him at the end of that game. It was all over SportsCenter? Just one of the many reasons why I do not like him.

It all really started with him getting away with the travels against us in that series and both of those play were the game winners.

And i have said this before, How he thinks he is entitled to be called already one of the greatest to ever play. And excuse me french but he is not entitled to S*** because he has not won a championship and he has only gotten there once. He couldnt even beat Hedo and Dwight Howard.

I pray to God that he will never win a champioship.

And a little of topic I hope Durant would have as many championships possible. I love the whole thunder or excuse me sonics team.

But I’ll say it again.

The sense of entitlement has produced a whining crybaby, who expects every foul call in his favor, dabs his lip and stares at his finger even if there was no contact to his face, and says the referees, the NBA, and the rulebook are all wrong when he clearly travels. Not to mention he constantly pouts when things don’t go his way, and showboats when things do. He’s a freakish athlete, but the “chosen one” really buys into his own hype, and there’s nothing that gives me more peace than to see him fail. Well, that or seeing the Wizards win. And when the Wizards cause him to fail? Utter ecstasy.

I have already lost love for Jamison after I saw laughing with the King.
I wonder how he feels playing for the team that broke his heart 2 years in a row.

why do you NOT hate L. Bron Hubbard?

I guess I’m late to the party. Everytime I started to type something, I found someone else already said it.

OK, how about this. He got a $50,000 car loan based on FUTURE EARNINGS. Was there ever any doubt he would live as far outside of reality as possible?

But Lebron is clearly extremely self conscious and insecure if he has to hide a a video of him getting dunked on.

The one time he gets called for a travel in the Verizon Center, during a meaningless game with both teams on two ends of the standings, he cries as if he hadn’t gotten away with plenty of travels on that floor that had much more of an impact. He not only cries about it, he gives it a nickname “THE CRAB DRIBBLE” Which then gives us more ammo to make up nicknames like the one in my subject line. Like Mr. Butler said(I think) a “crab dribble is when you travel.”

That moment was the one time that I was truly shocked watching a basketball game. It felt like getting a 10,000 lb gorilla off of our backs. Lebron called for a travel at the end of the game, pure ectasy!

Bottom line: We just don’t want to cheer for a douche.

In order to be totally dominant in a professional sport, you absolutely have to have an extremely inflated ego. Micheal Jordan’s hyper competitiveness is legendary. MJ was always a tool, but when you’re that transcendent like he was, isn’t it expected? Its not as if this selfishness and arrogance is new… Oscar Robertson would often yell at his teammates for minor mistakes, and Wilt Chamberlain didn’t give a shit about his team. The guy was obsessed with never fouling out in his entire career, and as a result didn’t play defense late in games. Certainly, many of LeBron’s actions are inexcusable, but a certain level of douchebagness is necessary to perform with such high expectations.

I don’t know of any other athlete (or professional wrestler, for that matter) who ever had an ad campaign comparing him to a religious figure. The dumb “King James” references; the huge banners outside the Cavs’ arena showing LeBron with his arms outstretched in his best Jesus-on-the-cross pose, looking upward at a heavenly light; the “Witness” t-shirts. But why stop there? Why not incorporate biblical references in the pregame videos? “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no opponent; and I will slash to the hoop for the and-one”; “The ball is my shepherd, I shall take it to the rack.”; blah blah blah.

I’ll go with his most recent annoying habit: this constant cry for help. Don’t get me wrong, even the best players can’t do it alone, but with James it’s like a built-in excuse.

If I recall correctly, Duncan won his first ring with a bunch of old guys, then a mixture of old and young guys. Robinson was a fading star for the first one and Tony Parker wasn’t even a household name until the later ones (and weren’t they trying to trade Parker for Kidd at one point?)

MJ had Pippen and a bunch of role players and specialists; after that squad broke up you’d be hard-pressed to see any of those guys win elsewhere (except for Kerr, who went to Duncan’s Spurs!)

The 2004 Detriot Pistons had a squad where each player covered for the other player’s faults. A thing of beauty, but a rarity.

The Lakers, Heat and Celtics of recent won with at least two All-Stars, at least one guy who was the main scorer on another team, a few “He’s still playing?” guys and a bunch of players that, if they formed their own 10-man team wouldn’t beat the Wizards of last year. When these teams were making their push, you heard a lot of the “help talk?” Why? Because they weren’t really teams, just a fanboy collection brought to life. for these teams, it wasn’t about having roles as much as creating matchup problems (“With Kobe, Shaq, Payton and Malone, no one will ever double-team us! MUAH-HA-HA-HA!”) with no regard to chemistry.

That’s a big problem I see with this Cleveland squad (besides a shaky coach and a nervous fanbase). The GM is panicking because LeBron is nowhere near as loyal as Duncan (or even Kobe) and he brought every “name” he could find to coax his star to stick around. But what’s to say that James would stay even if he wins in Cleveland this year?

Meanwhile, the media is letting every past playoff letdown slide because “James didn’t have any help.” I can understand how early on the GM didn’t know how to build around the guy, and that’s because (1) James is a unique player and (2) the GM is a panicky nimrod. But James’ ego isn’t helping; he shouldn’t be this involved in the team evaluation process.

But it doesn’t matter because everything is planned out: The Cavs win, James is truly the “Chosen One” (and then the real haters will come out of the woodwork); the Cavs lose, and it’s because the GM didn’t get the right people, or he got them to0 late to mesh correctly with the “King.”

except for hating LeBron: it’s easy and very right.

What’s up with the Cavs throwback jersey matching the Knicks’ colors? I know it’s probably historically accurate, but it seems like it’s just giving LeBron enough time to design the perfect matching sneakers for next year in Manhattan.

Also, how come such an “intense” defensive players has 7 games this season where he didn’t commit a single foul?
http://www.emptythebench.com/2010/01/26/lebron-james-fouls/

The only positive thing I can say about LeBron and the Cavs is that the whole sword-of-Damocles-hanging-over-your-head with the “will he/won’t he” in 2010 is interesting from an anthropology-of-sports-fandom perspective. Do you embrace whole-heartedly now knowing he might break your heart in a few months, or do you hold back just a little bit until you know he’s yours? Except I don’t sense any ambivalence from Cavs fans – just slavish devotion. Hope selling your soul as an honest and boozy sports town filled with good people was worth it!

You can’t say that most fans here aren’t on the same page (at least in regards to James).

L-BJ, is changing from 23 to 6 but if he knew anything about respecting the best he would not switch to 6…. Dr.J, Bill Russell anyone?