freshfro775 wrote: Quite ironic to call them out for complaining about the same things (successful team, not recruiting, etc) that this subforum is currently having a meltdown over lol
I'm not saying it because they were complaining. They have a right to be worried about the future of their team, just as we do. I'm saying it because they, as a city, seem like hypocrites the way they've been talking and acting these past few weeks in lieu of the four years since The Decision. They can't make up their minds. Do they hate him or love him?
I can't speak for anyone else, but if he left, I have no personal problem with him. I'll root for anyone-- the Bulls, the Spurs, the Thunder, the **** Knicks if it came to it-- to kill the Cavs' title hopes every year just because I don't respect their fans or Dan Gilbert. But LeBron I'd still wish well. I wouldn't jump on the bandwagon of calling him a bitch or celebrating every time he personally falters. I wouldn't want to see Mickey Arison trash him publicly in a letter and then put Delonte West on the Miami Heat website homepage. I wouldn't burn anything with his name on it. I wouldn't make it a point to go to the first Heat vs. Cavs game to spend all night booing him every time he touches the ball.
And I'd want the Heat to just move on. If he were to announce for certain that he chose Cleveland, my main concern would shift to hoping the Heat would build a team that could punk his team in the playoffs ASAP. I wouldn't want some guy who turned his back on my team coming back, even if he was LeBron James. **** that. I root for the name on the front of the jersey, not on the back, so no one player is worth sacrificing the dignity of the franchise for.
But on the flip side, here's a metaphor for Cleveland's behavior: In public, they've spent the past four years telling all their friends how much better they are without him, what a piece of **** he is, etc. etc. But behind closed doors, they've still kept on backing cookies for the man who beat them in public four years prior, doing backflips for him in the hopes that one of these days he'll tell them that he loves them.
That's why I say they'd be a city of bitches. They've got no conviction. If LeBron chooses to stay in Miami, you don't think they'd go right back to trashing his name and hypocritically turning around and saying they never really wanted him to begin with? They're a city so desperate for a championship that they'd all probably give away their first born child for one if they could.
