The LeBron James GQ Profile
2010-08-18Is here, in all its glory. Let me know what you think of it. Also, help me out with this question: is LeBron news still worth blogging about here? I don’t want to make “Cleveland hates LeBron” a through-line of this blog, but the LeBron situation and its fallout has, admittedly, been more interesting than the stuff the Cavs have been doing this off-season. I don’t mean to overshadow the franchise, I’m just telling you what’s going on. Let me know what I should or shouldn’t be doing w/r/t LeBron in the comments.
Wade is the 2nd best player in the NBA? So what does that make LeBron? 3 or 4? Because we all know the best player in the NBA is Kobe Bryant.
And Miami fans wouldn’t overreact because most of them could care less. Hell, LeBatard was right even when he was joking the day after, “Did you see our half empty sports bar!?!?”
I’m sure there are a few die hard Heat fans… I’m also sure they aren’t wasting time commenting on this blog because they’ve been fans for years and don’t feel the need to waste their time.
If you look at the series as a whole you can see where he gave up trying to make it inside and kept going for 3’s – even when his elbows supposedly hurt and was bone-bruised. http://espn.go.com/nba/recap/_/id/300513002/cleveland-cavaliers-vs-boston-celtics 2 of 17 on the four losses to Boston. Those were 15 times where he held the ball for way too long, ran down the clock and took a shot that wasn’t needed. He could had attacked the paint and easily gotten a foul call – what he did all season long, so why not do so now? Also his comments after the… Read more »
riq80 — I believe I speak for a lot of cavs fans when I say it wasn’t about him leaving, but everything that surrounded his decision. If you take a look at the Boston series, you can tell he gave up. Fro the “elbow injury” to his lack of aggresiveness, you can clearly see he wasn’t there. The one question I have for you is, would you’ve been happy if Wade had done that a couple of years back when he was on the way to the finals, and then jumped ships to the Lakers? Dude is not the fact… Read more »
Hey troll,
If that’s what you call leaving “it all on the court”, then I hope to God #6 leaves it all on the court for those passionate 12 fans in Miami.
ben tej says: August 19, 2010 at 2:33 pm And to all future trolls, please just leave us the F alone until we come out of our collective Jason Segel phase. ============================================================================ Not trolling, just being real about how dumb this hate for LBJ really is. Be honest had LBj come in to the Cav’s and become the next Kwame Brown no one on here would be pulling for the kid to stay on the Cav’s roster. As a matter of fact 99.99% of you would be pushing for a trade. How do you think players feel when this happens… Read more »
And to all future trolls, please just leave us the F alone until we come out of our collective Jason Segel phase.
I vote as little LBJ as possible (only the LBJ stuff that is directly relevant to Cavs, Ie., “LBJ drops 52-10-12 his first game back in Cleveland” (ugh), if for no reason other than to avoid d-bag trolls that google/ESPN their way in here to every LBJ thread and then decide to hang around on the other non-relevant ones saying lame, immature things and distracting from the generally high level of discourse.
One more thing Cleveland, you all need not worry about calling him King…. He will always be the KING of Miami even if he decides to go play for you traitors in the future as he stated in GQ.
Scooter says: August 19, 2010 at 6:48 am When “adversity hit in Cleveland, what did Lebron James do? Oh yeah, he ran away. How deliciously ironic he comes out in GQ mag. Quoting: “My mother always told me: ‘You will see the light of people when they hit adversity. You’ll get a good sense of their character.’” Indeed, Lebron, we got a good sense of your character. Never should anyone refer to him as the “King” again. ======================================================================== LOL @ you spoiled Cav’s fans… You all sit here and run your traps about LBJ leaving you. You have the nerve… Read more »
When “adversity hit in Cleveland, what did Lebron James do? Oh yeah, he ran away. How deliciously ironic he comes out in GQ mag. Quoting: “My mother always told me: ‘You will see the light of people when they hit adversity. You’ll get a good sense of their character.'” Indeed, Lebron, we got a good sense of your character.
Never should anyone refer to him as the “King” again.
John, I love the blog! I used to go to ESPN’s Cavs page and get to your blog from there. During the Lebacle and really the whole off season, I realized that this was a great (and entertaining) place for real team related news and game breakdown. So now I skip ESPN’s house of overblown stories and hype and just go straight here. That being said, I think it’s time to let the LeBron watch die. It’s over, we are all excited to see what the team does this season and I couldn’t care less about every comment he or… Read more »
I also really like the job your doing. I will be commenting more in the future. Less Lebron sounds good though. Pippen highlight videos, crystal castles, stuff of that sort is great, but Lebron dominates espn’s site other than insider info.
btw, do people really buy Insider? is that worth it?
The guy….yikes. Not only can he not fully bring himself to just say the words “I didn’t like Cleveland nor did I like living in NE Ohio,” but he then throws out an open door for some possible return to CLE, even when he knows he will never be welcome back and we know he doesn’t want to come back. Douche.
Krolik’s insights are usually more tactful because he writes after the fact. ESPN’s writers, for instance, are constrained to reactionary timeliness, whereas Krolik always seems to come in after the main arguments have blanketed the sports world. This is not a knock on Krolik, by the way. We need people to assess situations with a more objective, thoughtful vantage.
as an avid reader, less avid commenter, i think you’re doing a good job, john. i feel like you have a pretty good sense of what is and is not appropriate to talk about in regards to lebron. i’d say just trust that.
and i actually prefer your commentary because it’s more insightful, well-thought and oddly encouraging than that of most other writers.
it’s impossible to ignore elephants in the room, especially when they keep destroying their fan base and are covered in ridley scott-themed tattoos.
I don’t think there have been too many LeBron post/comments here becaue they have generally been Cavs related. This GQ article is an example, LBJ was asked about Cleveland and the possibility of him playing for the Cavs again etc, that’s baketball related. If nothing about Cleveland or the Cavs was discussed, then I would not expect it to be talked about on this site. I’m sure in the natural progression of time there will be less post about him because he won’t be asked as many questions or comment as much about the Cavs. LBJ will continue to be… Read more »
Sam Amico: Andy Varejao injures ankle in international play after former Magic draft pick Fran Vazquez falls on it. Varejao taken to hospital. Twitter
UGH
I’m fine without Lebron updates. I can learn about non-Cavs elsewhere. But, you usually have interesting insights, so if you find something interesting I’d say go ahead and blog about it I probably will find it interesting too.
Love it or hate it, lebron will always be a presence in the cavs organization, it’s something we will have to deal with. I don’t come here to talk about lebron, but it wil happen from time to time and I completely understand it. I actually come here to see the progress the cavs are making and trying to decipher/understand their reasoning for some of the moves they have made. I wish they were a bit more opened about some of the bigger moves, i.e West’s trade, but on the other hand I can see why they have decided to… Read more »
LeBron is making it tough to not talk about him due to his insanely clueless comments. It’s like we are watching him become someone new and entirely different. Him constantly talking in the third person, hiring a spiritual advisor, doing the dumb dance moves in Vegas, calling his long-time girlfriend and mother of his kids, his “sidekick”. I think we may see a lot of dirt dug up on him this year, because he is out of his shell and exposed for the first time. He is like the college freshman let loose for the first time. So, he will… Read more »
Less LBJ in general. Sure he pulled a once in a lifetime classless @sshole move but thats been overdone. Stick a fork in that and lets focus on watching JJ finishing on the break – that is if he doesn’t fumble the pass away with his stone hands.
Agree with the “less” LeBron,
Also, you’ll need to update your banner to the new color scheme. Thoughts on the jerseys? They are growing on me – the authentics look ten times better than the replicas that were circulating yesterday.
I would say that as long as Lebron continues to run his trap and make disparaging remarks about Cleveland, it’s still acceptable to trash him.
I’d go with “less Lebron”, not “no Lebron”, but want MORE about the new look, the new faces, the new challenges – I find triumph in adversity fascinating, and though not a true blood Cavs fan, see a tremendous opportunity here.
I think that it is OK , but only in outstanding situations where he says something or does something off the wall or relevant Cleveland. And don’t t ry to completly ignore him, but make sure as my friends said above, this stays cavstheblog not lebrontheblog
It’s time for Cavs fans to move on from the LeBron situation. He used to play here, it was fun, they won a lot, now he’s gone.
There’s really no use and going over it again and again. Although I imagine the Plain Dealer won’t stop talking about it until the season begins, if they even stop then.
No, its cavstheblog not lebrontheblog.
Let espns mainsite fawn over him.
I come here for Cavs news not news about Lebrons wardrobe and his ego.
I think our biggest hurdle with him was his lack of a father to turn him into a Cavs fan as a kid (they played in like 15 minutes from his house in Richfield for at least a few years of his youth). Nobody ever taught him about sports loyalty. No surprise he turned to simply loving front-runners. He could care less about Cleveland. He always made sure everyone knew he was from Akron and not Cleveland. He was telling us this all along, we just didn’t want to read between the lines. Just because the media claimed he… Read more »
I think that, as long as James keeps making off the wall comments like the ones he made in the GQ interview, its more thank OK to blog about. Seeing how out of touch with reality he is… I find it fascinating.