This article nicely sums up my feelings surrounding the irrational vile and hatred towards Lebron. I'm disturbed and disheartened.
I also created a poll to get a sense of why he receives this non stop, below the belt, charged mockery. I've NEVER seen an athlete mocked for being injured like Lebron has. Heck, DROSE hasn't played in 2 years and nobody would dare mock him the same way Lebron was mocked for sitting out 7 minutes.
Some article highlights:
And what you heard after Game 1 was uncomfortable, all right. Twitter was abuzz name-calling and character-smearing James. Female dog. Female body part. No balls. Little girl. Menstrual cramps. Made you wonder who those angry Twitter users hated more — LeBron or women. The whole thing was ugly and foul and odd, given that we usually give a pass to the champion who has disproved us even once, never mind twice, and then we move on to the Tony Romos and Dwight Howards and Carmelo Anthonys because the angry math is always in the bitter critic’s favor with so many more losers than winners in sports every year.
For four years now, James has been building these relationships in Miami, through failure and success, through unholy noise and through blessed quiet. He looks to his left, and he looks to his right in that locker room, and those are the only people who have endured and shared and understood the weight of this with him as the noise outside that room has lapped against their locker-room cocoon like ocean waves coming to shore. Us-against-the-world can be an athletic cliche, but it is a very real thing in the Heat’s locker room, and his teammates have been the closest to him in more ways than one. When this is over this season, however it ends, the world’s best basketball player will have a choice.
He can go out into the noise and find new men with whom to fight it.
Or he can stay with the ones with whom he has already conquered it.