Would we take him back?
The Lebron-to-Cleveland tumors rumors have started back up again. Here’s a link. I don’t have much to say about this, and I don’t feel like arguing with anyone. The idea of Lebron coming back leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I’m sure many people feel that a chance at getting the best basketball player in the world is something you don’t pass up. But I sincerely hope that the Cavs don’t handicap our next two years of basketball for a shot at the hometown hero who stabbed us in the back, then twisted the knife.
Tags: Lebron James
Anyone here who says “we don’t NEED LeBron”, you are on crack. Almost any team, let alone this one needs one of the top-10 best players on their team to win. Let’s face it, most are sticking where they are (Durant, etc), or getting too old (Kobe, etc.) LeBron would be a coup. LeBron and Kyrie have known each other pretty well for 5 years, I think they can share the ball. The other 3 players on the court are not very important in the 4th quarter when it matters, other than to hit a 3 once and a while.
I understand those who say “we don’t WANT LeBron”, I just wish you can let early 20′s bygones be bygones. He has matured a great deal and his “handlers” have as well. It’s not exactly the same posse mentality any longer with that group.
I am rooting for the comeback and the title. He could also turn it into a positive PR move, which would almost offset the negative one with The Decision. He has a lot to gain in Cleveland that he does not get anywhere else.
Alex’s theory was funny, albeit out in left field.
Dani I got your back. If LBJ is with the cars it will be some mixture of he yankees, the Heat and Nazi Germany to me. Cason makes a decent point though. If Miami ends up being a failure then maybe if the Bulls knock him off in the second round this year and next year they only win 50 games and don’t make the finals and LBJ comes back disgraced. If the cavs beat him in the playoffs I’ll be able to handle it. But if he wins another championship no way no how will I ever root for him again.
@ Vesus the team also lost its 2,3rd 4th and eventually 5th best player as well as their coach that summer and fall. Shaq and Z left that summer. The team was started 7-9 before being decimated by the Heat which threw Mo into a depression. Andy got hurt and Mo was traded.
@ Rodney Mac
I realize that it wasn’t just Lebron leaving. But the fact remains that Lebron went to the Finals (and choked) while the Cavs lost 25 games in a row. Hard to say that he made the wrong decision by leaving. He has a ring and the Cavs do not.
Personally, I stopped being mad at Lebron once Kyrie proved to be a future superstar. And yes, I believe he quit against Boston….just not mad about it anymore. I want the Cavs to win a title and signing the best player in the league (in his prime) would help.
L.A. radio Mason and Ireland suggest they have inside knowledge of the Cavs operations (I guess one of them worked for the Cavs at some point) and have said that Lebron and Gilbert had a private sitdown with LBJ saying he wants to make good on what he did to Cleveland.
Damn. All you need to do is drop the “L” word and bang-54 responses. I’m long over Lebron. My heart was healed by Scott Raab and his scathing book on the slut of Summit County. It helped me realize that this is nothing more than a subterfuge. It’s my escape from dealing with convoluted LA women, not using my degree, writing screenplays that will never be sold and bartending in a deli. It’s our outlet to escape this brutal bullshit world where skies are grayer than a chimney sweeps lungs and rivers catch on fire. My expectations have been lowered from the Lebron years and I actually get more enjoyment out of he team. I used to expect a title, now I just look forward to progress.
“The Whore of Akron” was my first angioplasty. Seeing the growth of Irving, Thompson, Waiters, and Zeller (mostly the first three) have been my quadruple bypass. I’m healed. I don’t expect Lebron to return. I don’t expect anything. This is a one way relationship much like a person praying to their deity. If he comes back, I’ll be excited. If he doesn’t, I’ll patiently wait.
LeBron is the only Superstar in the league that doesn’t need to be convinced to come to Cleveland. So if LeBron wants to come back and try and win multiple titles and retire as a Cavalier I’m 100% with him. There has to be a lot of people who feels like a lighting bolt just struck the tip of their penis when you start imagining a Kyrie, Waiters, LeBron backcourt, add Thompson/The plethora of picks we have and the Championship door swings wide open.
I want to see the Cavs on ESPN everyday i want to actually be recognized as a team again. I remember when Cavs beat Lakers and then barely showed a single clip of a Cavs player.
PG: Kyrie, Livingston (wont be mad if Shaun is still here is nice to have a long PG)
SG: Waiters, Boobie or I’d like to sign Tony Allen and have his defense off the bench
SF: LeBron, Gee
PF: Thompson, Andy
C: Nerlens Noel or Alex Len 2013 Draft, Zeller
Scott’s book is a thing of beauty. Catharsis at its best.
If LeBron comes back to Cleveland, I will no longer support that Cavaliers as an organization ever again. Sure, “we” as a collective city can (and should) forgive. But forgetting what he did to the city is immature and short sited. We will never forget, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t forgiven. Don’t bring him back!
Oh because letting your ego allow you to forego a likely championship, plausibly a string of them, joy as a fan for years, and, in the organizations case, millions and millions of dollars, is somehow not shortsighted and immature? Definitely don’t forget, and keep a weary eye on the situation, but if he wants to sign the dotted line to a long term commitment, the only thing holding the organization back would be one of the most expensive, franchise crippling grudges of all time against an immature 25 year old doing what he had every right to do but in an overly egotistical (hmm we were fine with calling him King James at 18 and are surprised he’s egotistical), immature way. Such a mistake would be as egotistical, and much more self damaging than the one James made.
If you want a championship so bad just root for Miami
@Summers
Holding a grudge is far more immature than “forgetting what he did to the city”. Of course, you’re willingly forgetting all those wins we enjoyed with Lebron here.
Seriously, how can people call themselves Cavs fans when they don’t want our team to sign the reigning MVP?
I don’t think you realize how contradicting your argument is. I don’t give a damn is he’s the five-time reigning MVP, that doesn’t erase the way he embarrassed the city and left the team in ruin. I’m not forgetting the wins he got us, and I’m not forgetting how much I enjoyed those years. But that has NOTHING to do with the way he left the team. Nothing. If Art Modell was still alive and had limitless amounts of money to buy the Browns back and guarantee signing big-time free agents to ludicrous contracts, almost guaranteeing playoffs in the next years, would you welcome that idea? HELL NO you wouldn’t (Okay so I’m assuming you wouldn’t, maybe you would?) I wouldn’t at least. So why don’t I want the Cavs to sign LeBron? The same reason why I would throw up if Art Modell bought the Browns again. It’s that simple. When LeBron walked out that door, it should have been the last time any of us Cavaliers fans (yes I am a Cavs fan…) would have wanted him in our jersey again. People who forget history are generally the same type of people who have the same bad situation happen to them over and over and over again.
Summers, you summed up every thought I had more eloquently than I ever could have. Beautiful, and precisely my point.