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By: Turner Sports Desk

Jim Turner

Turnersportsdesk.com

July 9, 2010

LeBron James What happens when you give a me oriented, attention whore 60 minutes on the nation’s premiere sports network? Absolutely nothing that helps the game of basketball or sports in general. What bothers me more than anything is how ESPN decided to go along with this garbage disguised as news. Where is the news judgment? Who stood up to ask what has this guy done to deserve a primetime infomercial for a decision that only affects five cities? Even more importantly who stood up to ask how this individualism helps a team sport? Where was NBA Commissioner Stern? How about protecting the integrity of a team sport by making sure you don’t turn hardworking fans off with a 60 minute infomercial.

By comparison another equally talented NBA superstar, Kevin Durant simply tweeted his contract extension. If LeBron wanted to make this low-key all he had to do was keep it low key. James attempted to disguise his infomercial with charity work by donating the proceeds to the Boys and Girls Clubs. While that is a nice gesture he could have just stroked a check like most Americans that quietly donate to charities.

So what did we learn? LeBron will go to Miami but he will have to carry the burden of even larger expectations with him. Now if LeBron fails to win the excuse of having no quality teammates is gone. Dwayne Wade is the real deal and Chris Bosh is a very good player in his prime. If the Self proclaimed King cannot get it done how can ESPN criticize James with any credibility since they helped create this monster? ESPN could have said no. Let us hope they learned from this and will not allow it to happen again.

Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:19 AM
Categories: Idiot athlete of the day, Media shenanigans, NBA, NBA Rumors, Rants, Signing
Tags: LeBron James, NBA, David Stern, ESPN, Cleveland Cavaliers, New York Knicks, Miami Heat, Chris Bosh, Dwayne Wade

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It's not just the ESPN brain trust but the NBA commissioner should have stepped in and nixed this. A team sport can be damaged by this level of individualism. I hope youth coaches use this as an example of what not to do.

Jim Turner Posted At 7/10/2010 04:30 AM

This whole news conference was completely ridiculous. He should have gone about his decision like Joe Mauer did, just quietly announced his decision and went on about his business. This world needs more pro athletes like Joe Mauer..

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