Terry Bradshaw. Alex Rodriguez. Joy Taylor. Jeff Gordon. Kevin Wildes. Frank Thomas. Clint Bowyer. Michael Strahan. Shannon Spake. David Ortiz. Jimmy Johnson. Stu Holden. Adam Amin. Dontrelle Willis. Jamie Little. Tony Gonzalez. Kevin Burkhardt. John Smoltz. Pam Oliver. Bruce Feldman. Michael Waltrip. Howie Long. Jenny Taft. Curt Menefee. Mark Schlereth. Mike Joy. Tim Brando. Jenna Wolfe. Jim Jackson. Chris Myers. Regan Smith. Lindsay Czarniak. Steve Lavin.
Maurice Edu. Jennifer Hale. Tom Verducci. Larry McReynolds. Kaitlyn Vincie. Bill Raftery. Daryl Johnston. Kristina Pink. Johnny Strong. Alex Curry. Donny Marshall.
Dave Wannstedt. Cobi Jones. Laura Okmin. JP Dellacamera. Adam Alexander. Aly Wagner. Heather O'Reilly. Lennox Lewis. Brian Kenny. Shawn Porter. Keith Thurman. Lisa Byington. Danielle Slaton. Katie Witham. Danny Garcia. Kyndra de St. Joe Goossen. Vince Welch. Joe Machnik. Heidi Androl. Bobby Labonte. Spencer Tillman. Kenny Albert. Jonathan Vilma. Greg Jennings. Todd Bodine. Joe Davis. Brady Quinn. Arizona Cardinals. Atlanta Falcons.
Baltimore Ravens. Buffalo Bills. Carolina Panthers. Chicago Bears. Cincinnati Bengals. Cleveland Browns. Dallas Cowboys. Denver Broncos. Detroit Lions. Green Bay Packers. Houston Texans. Indianapolis Colts. Jacksonville Jaguars. Kansas City Chiefs. Las Vegas Raiders. Los Angeles Chargers. Los Angeles Rams. Miami Dolphins. Minnesota Vikings. New England Patriots. New Orleans Saints. New York Giants. New York Jets. Philadelphia Eagles.
Pittsburgh Steelers. San Francisco 49ers. Seattle Seahawks. Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Tennessee Titans. Washington Football Team.
Big Big Sky. Big South. Big Ten. SW Ath. Sun Belt. Arizona Diamondbacks. Atlanta Braves. Baltimore Orioles. Boston Red Sox. Chicago Cubs. Chicago White Sox. Cincinnati Reds. Cleveland Indians. Colorado Rockies. Detroit Tigers. Houston Astros. Kansas City Royals. Los Angeles Angels. Los Angeles Dodgers. At the end of the day, as LeBron is so fond of saying, he continues to handle his statements extremely poorly and has now decided to go after the fans.
And for Scottie Pippen and the rest of you who argue LeBron is a better defensive player than Jordan, riddle me this. Which of the two actually has a Defensive Player of the Year award?
He is dancing on the baseline as the game is going on! Not even in the timeout, as the game is in progress. Then he has the gall to approach Joakim Noah like he is doing something wrong? Are you kidding me? Noah is trying to stand up for his team who is being blatantly disrespecting by dancing players. I don't care if they're having fun, I've never seen Kobe or MJ dance around in circles as the game is going on.
It's also a funny thing how LeBron references a fine line regarding disrespect in the beginning of the video.
So what's more disrespectful? Sticking up for your team or constantly dancing during a blowout? It's really difficult to understand why LeBron made fun of Dirk after LeBron dropped a measly eight points in a loss. If you make that kind of promise to a miserable sports city that hasn't seen a championship since from the Browns, you have to stick by it. And did LeBron stick by it and fulfill this promise?
You guessed it, no. In perhaps his most disappointing playoff performance in his career, James completely mailed it in against the Boston Celtics. In the last three games of Eastern Conference Finals, James shot a miserable He looked as if he didn't want to play and it translated into his poor performance. James had finally decided to put away with all the pressure, played a weak series, and probably knew, at that exact moment where he was walking off the court, which team he was going to that summer.
Whoa, this is pretty tiring. And since this category has multiple points, I'll just bullet point the ideas. This allows the media and his critics to lighten any blame on him, since he isn't the guy.
So instead of allowing the tape to be released, James and Nike kept the video under wraps. He wasn't man enough to have the world see him in such an embarrassing and vulnerable moment. It seemed as if the pressure of carrying his team to victory was simply too overwhelming for him. So instead of lightening the scoring onus on Dwyane Wade , LeBron was about as useful as a poopy-flavored lollipop in crunch time.
Since his first game on the court to his very last, the people of Cleveland and the fans of the Cavaliers put everything into this man's hands. In fact, they put him on an undeserving pedestal for his entire career. Older players and fans will always bring up the difficulty of arguing eras, or reminisce over a bygone, more violent style of play. And while LeBron James is a lot of things — champion, father, benefactor, diplomat, activist, entrepreneur — an asshole he is not.
Consider Gus Lett, the security guard who became a surrogate father to Jordan during his playing career; when Lett battled cancer, Jordan quietly paid all of his medical bills. Notably, this mentality does not conjure images of LeBron. He likes to post videos of TacoTuesday from his kitchen, flanked by his high-school sweetheart and three children.
He sings in the car , terribly. He hosts an HBO talk show called The Shop where musicians, actors and fellow players talk about politics and mental-health awareness. He believes NCAA athletes should be allowed to pursue compensation. In fact, LeBron is so active on social media that when he turns it off for playoff runs, his months-long absence is reported on by the media. Of course, social media alone is not the differentiator here.
Tiger has an Instagram and Kobe was all over social media before he passed away earlier in the year; in neither case did that accessibility prevent fans from regarding them as obsessive, unassailable assassins.
How can he expect to be taken seriously when he maintains close friendships with so many of his rivals Carmelo, Chris Paul, D-Wade? Observers have done their best to make sense of success that does arrive with compromise, that hints at a life beyond the hardwood, but they tend to dwell on shortcomings whenever they arrive: the fourth-quarter breakdowns, the passive final possessions, the press-conference malaise, The Decision.
What is a ring worth, then? Is it worth more than a foundation, a school, a point of view? America seems to think so. In some ways, the Jordan-LeBron debate is broken at its foundation. Really, they should be comparing The King to a different 20th-century sportsman: Muhammad Ali. It stood for something. But no matter how well-compensated they may be, the players are the Labor.
Winning has fueled LeBron James, there is no doubt. His original sin was being this good; his cardinal sin is being this good and managing to care about things other than competition.
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