December 2nd, 2010 was Lebron James' first return back to Cleveland before he decided to leave for Miami and join Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade to make an All-Star team. Thursday night, Lebron James faced his former fans at Quicken Loans Arena. Everyone knew what Lebron was to expect from this. Cleveland fans showed no love to him as he made his entrance to his old home. Rather than the old tradition of boo-ing at Lebron, fans have decided to start a new form of down-grading him and thats by laughing at him. From now own whenever Lebron has the ball in the first quarter, fans will chant, "No Ring-King" and in the 3rd quarter they will chant, "Traiii-tor, Traiii-tor". There are also webites of former fans that have decided to try and keep him [Lebron] out of the All-Star game in February. The website is called Keeplebronout.com. The website encourages people to vote for other players that play the same position as Lebron. These fans have gone a long way to make sure Lebron knows where he is not wanted. Lebron made a decision to no longer continue his career in Cleveland and those fans need to deal with it. The NBA is not only a game but it is also a business and players make decisions for themselves and what will help them with their future not the future of the fans.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/thelife/news/story?id=5872888
Lenore Moreno
KIN: 3321 Section 3017
1 comment:
I too watched that Heat Cavs game in Cleveland and found it very interesting. I was actually extremely excited for this match up because I knew the harsh hostility LeBron was going to receive would be relentless. However, I am a big LeBron fan and that's what made this game so intriguing for me. I had a strong feeling he would translate the boos and chants into motivation and clearly dominate the game. And I was right. Like usual he looked quite calm throughout the game, easily finding teammates and hitting shots of his own. The boos and jeers continued for the whole game, and even after the game (blowout) was over. Now I understand how low and unforgivable the special on ESPN was, merely stabbing Cleveland in the back on national TV. But this is a guy who put the city of Cleveland and Cavs basketball back on the map in 2003 when he was drafted. Without LeBron the Cavs are a struggling franchise, as proved by this year's game. It just puzzles me how you can love and support a player for so long, but after a business decision you hate him. I don't agree AT ALL with the way LeBron went about breaking the news of his destination, but booing him is just embarrassing. By not showing class in a one-sided match up I believe Cleveland just made themselves look foolish.
M. Howard
Kin 332I, S3200
Post a Comment