Photo Cred-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HfO3ciY7d0
The NBA was about to start it's transition after the 2002-03 season. It looked obvious that an almost 40 year old Michael Jordan was set to retire for a third and final time. Kobe Bryant was the ultimate face of the league after winning 3 titles in a row from 2000-2002, but was about to rape someone, so he reign to most would be short lived. The league needed a fresh face with no baggage who was willing to accept the responsibility of such an honor.
Instead of looking within they looked to a small high school in Akron, Ohio and found LeBron James. The dude was freak athlete that could jump out the gym and owned a smile so bright that it dropped panties daily all over St. Vincent-St. Mary's High School hallways. ESPN would cover just about all of his games. He embarrassed everyone he played against, but he did it in a way that was somewhat charming.
We all know the story after that. Cleveland kid gets drafted by the hometown team, playing for a bad franchise, eventually brings a bad team to the NBA Finals in his 4th season. LBJ was the leader of a cast of characters that included Long Island's own Wally Szcerbiak. Love Wally and he's a legend in these parts but a dominate NBA player he was not. LBJ was on another planet and clearly the face of the NBA for the foreseeable future.
Then that faithful night the Cavs lost to the Celtics in the '09 playoffs. It's kind of like the NWO music hit when he did this:
This gave everyone in the New York area the biggest boner we've gotten since David Stern rigged the 1985 draft. There was no doubt in our minds that if the kid was going to leave his hometown he was going to come to the big city and save another disastrous franchise. Then "The Decision" came and went and LBJ just became another BJ to me. Dude sucked.
He goes to a hated rival to win a couple championships. At first he was hated, but then some people started to fall for the trap. He seemed to be transitioning again from the heel to the face. I didn't fall for this shit though.
Let me make this clear before I finish up, I love a heel. Love em. The problem with heels like LBJ is that they don't want to be hated. LeBron does everything to be loved, but just fucks it all up. It's the classic early 2000s ARod. Clearly the best at the sport but has zero success with the media.
So, LeBron runs back home to Cleveland after 2 titles in South Beach and proclaims a championship will follow him to the mistake by the lake. His first season ended in another Finals loss for the Cavs and this season seems to be taking the same route. No one likes each other over there. Love hate LeBron, LeBron hated David Blatt, Kyrie hates everyone he just wants $$$.
Now it's almost playoff time and you know what that means: No social media for LeBron! Because he can't take the criticism I guess. But it also has come out that he has unfollowed the Cleveland Cavs on Twitter. Now usually I would care, but because LeBron is so hateable this makes me so happy. So rather then just deleting Twitter from his phone he unfollows people. What??? Typical bitch ass LeBron. And now the media won't ask him about a game that he just played they're going to ask him about who he follows on Twitter. This makes the chosen one unhappy and has the PR department stop the questions.
LeBron being anointed the face of the league turned out to be a bigger mistake then that terrible city he comes from. He might have the thinnest skin any professional athlete has ever had, but keeping doing you LBJ and remember to always #StriveForGreatness
-Clayton
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