Yahoo!: LeBron's unbearable attitude with Team USA and Nike's warning...

great, profound read. Says it all. Lebron is as selfish and egoitstical as riley and wade, they should do well together.

Sex, money, who*res and beaches, drugs and dunks.

First Kobe, now Lebron. The media will make you or break you. Lebron better start winning some championships while scoring 40 ppg or he is gonna have alot of more articles like this.

Guy rising popularity like Kevin Durant and Derrick Rose should be very afraid.

[QUOTE=Carbine]It's just sad that people care about what LeBron was like 4-6 years ago. Why should anyone be surprised a 19 year old and 21 year old doesn't have great leadership skills?

I guess if you're a dumbass or hater, you would make a big deal of it and create a thread.[/QUOTE]

that was 2 years ago.

[QUOTE=bleedinpurpleTwo]that was 2 years ago.[/QUOTE]

The original article posted in this thread is basically ripping on LeBron for being a terrible, immature, full of himself 19 and 21 year old.....

Since then, at 23, which was the 2008 Olympics, and two years later at 25... he has become a great leader. Is he still full of himself and an attention whore? Yeah, but that's not a surprise to anyone. So basically, this is just another hate LeBron thread which should be deleted by the mods.

I can't wait for LeBron to sh!t on everyone. He's the type of guy to make an opposing team crumble if you chalenge him verbally, like most fans will do via chant.

[QUOTE=Mr Clutch Melo]Honestly I think this is BS. Coach K has always loved Lebron + Adrian Wojnarowski is a garbage writer[/QUOTE]


And just how the f*ck do you of all people know that?

You're pathetic.

[QUOTE=Carbine]The original article posted in this thread is basically ripping on LeBron for being a terrible, immature, full of himself 19 and 21 year old.....

Since then, at 23, which was the 2008 Olympics, and two years later at 25... he has become a great leader. Is he still full of himself and an attention whore? Yeah, but that's not a surprise to anyone. So basically, this is just another hate LeBron thread which should be deleted by the mods.

I can't wait for LeBron to sh!t on everyone. He's the type of guy to make an opposing team crumble if you chalenge him verbally, like most fans will do via chant.[/QUOTE]

I think the point of the article was that 2 years ago, Lebron was an asshole and they considered throwing him off the team...and had Kidd babysit him.
So has he changed in 2 years? If so, not very much, imo.

[QUOTE=crisoner]And just how the f*ck do you of all people know that?

You're pathetic.[/QUOTE]

You dumb f*ck . The writer is just like you, a Kobe dickrider and he HATES Lebron. He is trying to take advantage of the situation and raise Kobes status.

STFU now

[QUOTE=Carbine]The original article posted in this thread is basically ripping on LeBron for being a terrible, immature, full of himself 19 and 21 year old.....

Since then, at 23, which was the 2008 Olympics, and two years later at 25... he has become a great leader. Is he still full of himself and an attention whore? Yeah, but that's not a surprise to anyone. So basically, this is just another hate LeBron thread which should be deleted by the mods.

I can't wait for LeBron to sh!t on everyone. He's the type of guy to make an opposing team crumble if you chalenge him verbally, like most fans will do via chant.[/QUOTE]
I've been one of James' biggest critics over the last few months, but the idea that him winning in Miami will surprise me or devastate me... On the contrary, I will be shocked if the Heat don't win titles almost immediately.

For all of his faults, James is still far-and-away the best basketball player on the planet in my eyes and his talent on the court can not be overstated.

As for deleting the thread... I'm trying my best to stay on top of redundant threads, but there is an active discussion going on, here... You would probably be surprised at how many LeBron and/or Heat related threads I delete each day.

Just to keep the forum as cleaned up as it is now, it is almost a full-time job. :oldlol:

did anyone actually read the article or are there just a ton of people talking about something they didn't even read?

There is some really interesting stuff in there.

[QUOTE]Within an hour of the Cavaliers’ season ending in Boston, James’ inner circle, including power broker William Wesley, agent Leon Rose and business manager Maverick Carter, stood outside the visiting locker room grumbling about coach Mike Brown.

[B]James had wanted Brown gone a year earlier after the Cavs lost in the Eastern Conference finals to the Orlando Magic [/B]– despite Brown guiding Cleveland to 66 victories while winning the league’s Coach of the Year award. Ferry debated Gilbert to keep Brown. He won out, but Ferry knew it would be tough to make that case again in 2010. Every decision the Cavaliers made had to be run past James. He didn’t always get to decide, but he had to be consulted.

This time, [B]Gilbert believed he had to fire Brown to have a chance of re-signing James. When he was fired, Brown purposely left his star’s name out of a public statement of thanks.[/B] He knew James had led the movement for his dismissal for more than two years and Brown no longer needed to pretend that he liked, or respected James.[/QUOTE]

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Before the Cavaliers ever reached out to him, Izzo turned down a less lucrative offer to coach the Chicago Bulls. James wasn’t returning Gilbert’s calls and messages – never mind willing to talk with Izzo. [B]Before Izzo finally turned down Gilbert, he was delivered a direct line to two of James’ close NBA friends, who told him he should only take the job with an expectation he’ll never coach James in Cleveland.[/B] Gilbert tried to sell Izzo, but the coach feared there wasn’t a single influential official in the Cavs organization who truly had a relationship with James.[/QUOTE]


[QUOTE]For everything the Bulls tried to sell – from owner Jerry Reinsdorf to GM Gar Forman to coach Tom Thibodeau – there had been [B]one thing that troubled James’ about the Bulls pitch: Derrick Rose(notes) never called and tried to recruit him.[/B]

Chicago officials never directly requested Rose to reach out with a call, and the young point guard felt James could’ve always reached out to him had he wanted to discuss the possibility of playing together. [B]James needed to be courted, needed to be wooed and apparently it surprised him there was a star who wasn’t falling over himself to do that.[/B][/QUOTE]


[QUOTE][B]Wade wasn’t allowed to recruit for the Heat before the end of the NBA Finals, because he was still a Heat employee. Yet before the end of the Finals, there were two June meetings that involved Wade and members of James’ inner circle –[/B] one in Ohio and another in Chicago. The NBA doesn’t seem interested in pursuing a tampering probe, but a senior NBA official wants the league to investigate whether Riley promised James employment and benefits to members of his camp.

“The bigger issue is salary-cap circumvention,” one top NBA front-office executive told Yahoo!. “You can’t promise jobs or preferential services outside of a contract or a job for a friend. If that’s part of the deal, it’s a violation.”[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE][B]Wade and Bosh made public their choices on July 7[/B] and waited for word that would soon quietly come to them: LeBron was on his way to Miami , the greatest coup in free-agent history complete. [B]Later that day, Carter was on the phone with free agent Mike Miller(notes) telling him that James was going to Miami [/B]and that he needed to join them as a sharpshooter playing off the three stars.

Back in Akron, [B]James still wanted to go through his live hourlong television show on July 8 to announce his decision.[/B] This had been Maverick Carter’s big idea, his production, and still people around him worried about the fallout in Cleveland. Several friends told James this was a bad idea to do to his hometown, that leaving the Cavaliers live on national television would make this a public-relations disaster for him.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]The TV event had delivered hope to the Cavaliers that they would keep James because they never believed he would go on air and open himself to such a visceral reaction.

Better than anyone, they knew LeBron James could sometimes be so unaware of the world outside his own needs, his own yes men. Nearly two years later, the whispers in the back of the bus rolling through Beijing had become the loudest statement in free-agency history.[B] The telephone call to the Cleveland Cavaliers came minutes before the 9 p.m. show[/B], and somehow the news still shocked them. LeBron James was leaving, and the truth finally washed over owner Dan Gilbert and his front office: James had been gone a long time. They just never wanted to believe it.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bleedinpurpleTwo]I think the point of the article was that 2 years ago, Lebron was an asshole and they considered throwing him off the team...and had Kidd babysit him.
So has he changed in 2 years? If so, not very much, imo.[/QUOTE]

Please show me where it says anything about LeBron in 2008.

All I see are comments about him when he was 19 and 21 years old.

"No one could stand James as a 19-year-old in the 2004 Athens Olympics, nor the 2006 World Championships. Officials feared James could become the instigator of everything they wanted to rid themselves for the

My perspective on the situations people talk about...

Derek Rose is not a guy who wants to take 20-25 shots, hes a guy who will do whats best for the team in that his defensive potential shows in a close game, and his Must win attitude. Lead a final four Memphis team as a freshmen. I do think hes a combo guard with good PG skills.

I dont know about the lebron thing, but I do know the bulls do not tolerate diva's. Its been well known by people within that organization that James already was 75percent Miami Bound and Chicago would not accomadate his entourage of people like he wanted.

The articles about Team USA doesnt make me think less of him. Its sad how the media is, but they do cover things up like the mafia. James hasnt been in trouble with the law but I have heard hes just as much a partier as other nBA players. hes cheats, and he smokes weed. hes just a functional partier that knows when to get down to business.

People forget Michael Jordan was a big asshole. He didnt do charity for the city of chicago.Any type of charity(goodwill) Chicago had was by BJ Armstong,Pipp,Grant. Michael was a womanizer(True story he hit on my aunt at a CHicago Bar) And he was a gambler who I truely believe gambled on NBA games. He gave Chicago 6 championships and did his job.

Lets just forcus on Lebron James doing his job, because the HOF guys like MAgic,Jordan,Barkley, dealt with SERIOUS skeletons.

Lebron needs to seriously watch out for his "inner circle" because when shit hits the fan, loyalty is gone. Look at MC Hammer, Michael Vick....

[QUOTE=Carbine]Please show me where it says anything about LeBron in 2008.

All I see are comments about him when he was 19 and 21 years old.

"No one could stand James as a 19-year-old in the 2004 Athens Olympics, nor the 2006 World Championships. Officials feared James could become the instigator of everything they wanted to rid themselves for the ’08 Olympics."

That's basically the meat and potatoes of the article. It's all about what people thought of James at a 19, and 21 year old....nothing to do with 2008.[/QUOTE]
There are comments from sources about how Cleveland basically had to bend over backwards for him and about how he didn't have the concentration for normal film study, so Cleveland had to tailor those sessions around James... Make them brief.

Also, the thing about Mike Brown not included James when he went public after his dismissal.

Those aren't necessarily things that are indicative of a d!ckhead, but interesting nonetheless.

[QUOTE=Carbine]

That's basically the meat and potatoes of the article. It's all about what people thought of James at a 19, and 21 year old....nothing to do with 2008.[/QUOTE]

no it isn't. did you even read the whole thing?

the article is mainly about the Cavs never having a shot at keeping LeBron in the first place.

You guyyyz, LeBron has matured a lot since then.

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I'm sooo surprised Cavs have collapsed in the playoffs with the demanding and tough brand of leadership LeBron's been providing. And it's not like he was immature or acted like a diva throughout the free agency process. Not like teams who met with him reported that he and his team were unprofessional and acted like "kids". Not like he demanded a 1 hr TV special to attention whore. Not like he quit on his team in the middle of a series.

Not at all. He is mature now.

[QUOTE=kentatm]no it isn't. did you even read the whole thing?

[B]the article is mainly about the Cavs never having a shot at keeping LeBron in the first place[/B].[/QUOTE]

This.

And it makes Lebron look more and more like attention seeking asshole.