LeBron appreciation thread

[Maroko]

We should remember him. By turning off the AC in the arena every time we play the Cavs.

You can retire now with that quote, HAT OFF

[radikalBaller]

Thank you Lebron for those 4 wonderfull years !!!

It is sad to see how we live in a corporative era with no values like loyalty and brotherhood bu I can understand Lebron's thinking with this move.

To his credit Lebron want to win above all and carve his name in history. He likes to play high level basketball with athletes as is it a lot of fun. He just saw the crazy potential in Cleveland and an opportunity to go back home.

This Cleveland team look very promising a little bit like OKC when they still had Harden and Jeff Green. Lebron is now seasoned with chamiponships and can lead the Cavaliers to the promised Land, they don't even have to deal for Love. Indiana could give them fits in the east if they keep Stephenson but Lebron believes that what Miami was missing to beat the spurs was speed and athletism. With this young athlelic cleveland team he wants to overwelm the Spurs.

Wade is our hero but his decline forced Lebron to play a lot of minute and because of Spobot, Bosh was never able to weather the load. Add to that Arison worrying about the tax by amnestying Miller and you could see Lebron legit worries start to show.

For him, Miami had to find a way to get a big name like Melo to fill in for the declining Wade which was very hard to do without the King commitment to the team.

He might have thought that Arison would relax had he resign with us from the get go which is understandable. He felt he brought Miami too much exposure and money for Arison to start getting cheap.

He respects Riley as a GM but Ideally he would have prefer a Prokorov style of owner : a chance to win at all cost. Unfortunately, Arison is more of a efficiency oriented businessman than a gambler going all broke for the win.

Lebron valueing each year of his carreer want to leave no chance and no regret on each championship run. After losing to the Spurs he might have asked himself, what if we had kept Miller Miller...

He could have make his choice earlyer allowing us to sign a goog player, and he did let Wade, UD and Bosh down though, as they have nothing to do with Arison. But if brotherhood and loyalty are not his main values, it is ok and nothing personnal, we live in a different era today, just choose your friends very well and hang to them when they show those values because they are becoming rarer by the the day.

Wade, UD and Bosh get my utmost R-E-S-P-E-C-T

It would be cool if we could get Melo to compete against the Cavs fot the East. I have to admit their squad looks very exciting :

Irving - Waiters - Dellenova
Wiggins - Allen
Lebron - Miller - Gee
Bennet -Thompson
Varejao - Birdman

I hope they don't steal Ray Ray and Birdman from us because that would make them scary good !!!

[radikalBaller]

What Lebron underestimated though is Cleveland bad management :

1) With their first round picks, they came out with Waiters, Thompson, Bennet, Karasev when they could have easily got Carter-Williams, Plumlee, Lillard, Leonard, Faried.. Valenciunas now think about it again :

Irving - Carter Williams
Lillard - Wiggins
Lebron - Leonard
Faried - Plumlee
Valenciunas - Birdman

2) They constantly change coaches

3) Their owner was very hatfull toward Lebron and is not a good person

4) Lebron and his friends might think they know what they are doing but really are unproven

5) With all the circus going on in this franchise chemistry among these young guys might be iffy at best

6) They have a lot of good young players that all demands the ball to be effective as they are not great defenders (Irving, Waiters, Bennett, Wiggins...)

7) Young immature players pout when they don't get the ball or don't get minutes

8) He will greatly miss the miami lifstyle/weather once you go tropical south you never go back

9) The more rigid structure and the lesser crazy adoration in miami was actualy a better and more stable environment to raise his kids. He might be from Cleveland but his kids grew up miami. Whose wellbeing is more important ?

[EscapoTHB]

I think organizations are important, and the Cavs are a bad one. There's a reason they never won any titles with Lebron the first time around. And I think that will play out again.

Lebron really underestimated just how important guys like Pat Riley are to making a champion.

And what's Lebron's legacy going to look like if he never wins another title? He could only win a title with Wade, who will always have more titles than him.

I came to the Heat as a Lebron fan, and so I enjoyed the ride, but I had my fill of supporting Lebron the Cavs the last go around. I really like how the Heat do things, and I like Bosh more than Lebron now. And I respect Wade as a man more. So I suppose the thing I appreciate most from Lebron is introducing me to the Heat.

Also the Lebatard show is better than anything.

[YounG_A]

thanks for the 4 amazing years

[Wade3]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ll9zXXzhjs

I know he's gone and its time to move on but I stumbled onto this video tonight & I still don't understand how he can leave all this- the respect, brotherhood, close spirit for an organisation that has its issues. Anyways, like I said time to move on. Hopefully he doesn't bring Allen & Birdman with him.

[MFlash321]

Will never forget how nervous I was before 2012 G6. Never saw an individual performance like the one LeBron put up.

Even if he 'never really wanted to be in Miami' or whatnot, he played his ass out these past 4 years. Whether it was for his legacy or not, he gave us 4 amazing years. Will never forget it.

[Bourne85]

For four years I got to see the best player in the world (all time in my opinion). You always played your heart out, I've never seen someone have so little "bad games". I remember nights lebron scoring 23 on like 8-18 and we were like "lebron wasn't very good tonight" lmao.

Your the man bro, and don't think we aren't all secretly and openly hoping you come back in 2 years. You can bring love and miller back with you, Allen too as a shooting coach lol.

[cb1]

For four years I got to see the best player in the world (all time in my opinion). You always played your heart out, I've never seen someone have so little "bad games". I remember nights lebron scoring 23 on like 8-18 and we were like "lebron wasn't very good tonight" lmao.

Your the man bro, and don't think we aren't all secretly and openly hoping you come back in 2 years. You can bring love and miller back with you, Allen too as a shooting coach lol.

This. I don't think it will settle in how much we will miss him untill the RS starts and he's not in the starting lineup

[Tony Fiorentino]

Didn't reply to this thread yet, still think I was coping with the loss

Thanks for the prime years bron

I enjoyed the hype, magnifying glass, and heat ESPN coverage, even though some of that stuff was negative.

Not to mention some of the best plays to go down in a heat uni (including the ones he wasn't in)

[Maroko]

Didn't reply to this thread yet, still think I was coping with the loss

Thanks for the prime years bron

I enjoyed the hype, magnifying glass, and heat ESPN coverage, even though some of that stuff was negative.

Not to mention some of the best plays to go down in a heat uni (including the ones he wasn't in)

The best play to me

[number1joker]

**** u lebum