For the Lebron haters...
- Thread starter Peter
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Why do people hate Lebron? What has he really done? Lebron has always been great off the court. He behaves better than most star players (Kobe, Jordan, magic, wilt), other players seem to like him and show their respect to him when he beats them (celtics,thunder). He chose to leave Cleveland for a better situation. Teams trade players all the time, so I don't see why people rip on him for it. Kobe has even demanded a trade in the past when the lakers were losing.
I'm not a Kobe fan but I think the distance between MJ and Kobe is closer than most think. I def. see alot of MJ in Kobe's game.
Meh, not really. Kobe missed the playoffs and has huge flameout games. 6-24 anyone? Their games my be similar but that's where it stops. It doesn't help that he ran off Shaq. Had he not done that maybe we could put them closer but as it stands he just has this way of rubbing teammates the wrong way. I think Jordan could do that too, but somehow he never lost his teams.
Still not a LeBron fan even after this. When he wins 3 in a row we'll start mentioning him amongst the greats but 1 championship does not put him in the same conversations of some of the all time greats like Jordan and Magic. Not only that but he won this one in a lockout shortened season.
So the playoffs were shortened? By that same logic Magic and Jordan aren't in the same conversation as Russel and Robert Horry? By the time Lebron retires he will be top 5 at least, which means he is in the conversation for best ever.
I basically think he's a good guy, but can't ever cheer for him as long as he's on the Heat team. When he was in Cleveland I did cheer for him.
The season wasn't shortened. This just goes to show people will go to any length to take away whatever LeBron does.
The season was shortened and compressed. But that is completely irrelevant to the playoffs and the Heat winning.
Um yea it was. The season started on Dec. 25th and they played about 20 less games i think. Still nothing can be taken away form what Lebron and the Heat did. Still impressive.
not that it matters but they played 66 rather than 82 regular season games,..... how is that not shortened.
Holy **** was I wrong. My bad. For some reason I had it in my head that they played all 82.
I'm pretty sure the Lakers had to have Deng in the trade so the Bulls offered Thomas, Deng and Wallace as well as a pick for Kobe and he vetoed it because he felt the Bulls would have been gutted.
The season being shortened was a huge factor. Look at all the injuries. Howard, Rose out. The stars were aligned for Lebron to get his ring. Won't be nearly as easy in the future, especially if Howard gets traded to a team that's already a contender.
LeBron gets no respect from me until he wins a championship in a full length season. This years championship gets an asterisk next to it. Congrats LeBrick.
