Outsiders perspective.

[Sleepy51]

IMO, late March is not the best time for Lebron to muse about the players he'd rather play with than his current mates. It is a poor expression of leadership and demoralizing to Cleveland. Whose back does King James have? Unbridled arrogance.

According to Bomani Jones, the interview Beck quotes in his recently released article is not a recent interview. The interview lebron gave to Beck for this story, largely about the disparate paths lebron and melo's careers have taken since they became close friends in high school was apparently conducted around all star weekend, NOT in March. The article was just published now because it was a lengthy think piece that Beck has been putting together and crafting for some time, but the interview where lebron rattles off the friends he would love to play with before his career ends was given in the context of currently hanging out with and playing with those friends at the all star game.

Late March, all star weekend... semantics. Unfollowing CLE is another example of petulant attention seeking. Let's see if The King can deliver for Ohio. It looks like he's paving the road for his departure. I wonder if he'll take Tristin Thompson and his $84 million contract with him?

Can't argue with you about the unfollowing cleveland thing. He's millenial as heck. I don't pretend to defend his social media behavior. But the interview and the social media issues are entirely different. Context is not semantics. He was actually hanging out with and playing in a game with a bunch of his long time friends at the time the question was asked. Even without the clear and distinct context of the timing of the interview, the tone of the actual story has ass all to do with his feelings or thoughts about the current situation in Cleveland (1st in the conference still and presumptive NBA finalist, right?) It was a story about All the friendships that this group of all star players have shared for their entire careers and will likely carry beyond their playing days. Love or hate Lebron, it was a good human interest story about a group of NBA dudes being about other things than the money.

I have to ask, did you actually read the entire piece by Beck or just snippets/hear about it via the talking heads trying to stir up clicks ?

[Agnostifarian]

According to Bomani Jones, the interview Beck quotes in his recently released article is not a recent interview. The interview lebron gave to Beck for this story, largely about the disparate paths lebron and melo's careers have taken since they became close friends in high school was apparently conducted around all star weekend, NOT in March. The article was just published now because it was a lengthy think piece that Beck has been putting together and crafting for some time, but the interview where lebron rattles off the friends he would love to play with before his career ends was given in the context of currently hanging out with and playing with those friends at the all star game.

Late March, all star weekend... semantics. Unfollowing CLE is another example of petulant attention seeking. Let's see if The King can deliver for Ohio. It looks like he's paving the road for his departure. I wonder if he'll take Tristin Thompson and his $84 million contract with him?

Can't argue with you about the unfollowing cleveland thing. He's millenial as heck. I don't pretend to defend his social media behavior. But the interview and the social media issues are entirely different. Context is not semantics. He was actually hanging out with and playing in a game with a bunch of his long time friends at the time the question was asked. Even without the clear and distinct context of the timing of the interview, the tone of the actual story has ass all to do with his feelings or thoughts about the current situation in Cleveland (1st in the conference still and presumptive NBA finalist, right?) It was a story about All the friendships that this group of all star players have shared for their entire careers and will likely carry beyond their playing days. Love or hate Lebron, it was a good human interest story about a group of NBA dudes being about other things than the money.

I have to ask, did you actually read the entire piece by Beck or just snippets/hear about it via the talking heads trying to stir up clicks ?

Talking heads, mostly.

[Leprechaun18]

Good Luck Cavs! Lue has done well.