I Hate Lebron James!

I know, I know. Right now you're checking the url because you could have sworn you were looking for a fantasy football site. Well, you're in the right place. WARNING: this is a bit of a rant, so don't expect my usual liquid prose.

Look, I know we're a couple of weeks away from the "Decision," but this just has to be said. I have, unfortunately, lost quite a bit of the fire that initially led to me to want to post this, but after the fire, the logic remains:

1) Lepunk has every economic right to play wherever they'll pay him to play. Having said that, the facts that have been uncovered about who knew what when paint a very damning picture of Queen James. The Cavaliers did everything they could and everything he asked (including getting Antoine from the Wizards) in order to maximize their chances to win a championship. Her highness never acknowledged any of this, and in fact, wouldn't even communicate with the ownership.

2) The manner in which the announcement was made displayed an absence of class and tact of historic if not epic proportions. The Queen reinforced (that's right, it wasn't a reveal since we've seen signs of her illness before) our impression of a narcissistic, immature, self-centered, coddled ego coupled with massive insecurities.

"I'm taking my talent to South Beach...."

Are you &*#$@! serious???! Just read that again.

No class, all boasting.

3) Mark my words, in the annals of future sports history it will be Wade, not Lepunk, who will remembered as "the man." Make no mistake: no one, not the 8 year-olds, and definitely not the 25 and 60 year-olds, will confuse what just happened as anything other than Queen James running for shelter under the protection of Wade Manor. Dwayne Wade is unmistakably Batman, Bosh is, and always (in this scenario) has been Robin (not having ever been mistaken for anything other than an extremely well-paid and happy sidekick), and James at this point is Batgirl. Her inability to at the very least craft a deal in Chicago or New York, which would have been viewed as neutral venues at least, speaks volumes about her lack of leadership and backbone. Her unwillingness to go to Chicago speaks volumes about her fears and demons of not measuring up to His Airness.

4) Any way you slice it, Queen James punked out of the Celtic series. There are only two possibilities, both of them damning for the self-professed tiara-wearer.

• First, as I believe, Queen James gave up during the Celtic series under the pressure of having to deal with her (by then) known upcoming announcement of the royal departure from, or abandonment of, Cleveland. Let's face it, she could not deal with a scenario where the Cavaliers win the title and she announces for Miami because....what would be the excuse then???????
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• Second, and these are by no means mutually exclusive, Lepunk was out-thought, outplayed, and out-battled, by a Celtic team that had far more heart in its 12th player, than Lepunk has in her whole 6'9" body. She succumbed under the pressure and even openly, if you track her subsequent comments, whined about not having 2 or 3 other superstars to carry the load! Hey I'm not exactly old, but when I was growing up any guy who behaved that way would have been called out and ridiculed as a sissy. And to me this is one of the most telling facts about the Queen: that she is so clearly a whiner and shockingly weak personality despite her freakish athletic ability and the promise everyone wants to see in her:

She's just a big crybaby.

And crybabies are NEVER considered in the discussions of the best in the game once their freakish athletic ability declines.

The future: I see this Miami team imploding from fragile-ego syndrome, or in Lepunk's case, fatal aggrandizement genesis. Both Boston and LA are mentally tougher, and both teams would be overwhelmingly favored by fans who will quickly tire (those of us who haven't already) of the self-congratulatory mugging of these hormone cases with gold-plated diapers.

I hate Lebron. I would even root for the Celtic or Lakers (the 2 teams I hate the most) rather than see Lebron win anything. I won't be watching games or buying gear or in any way supporting that creep. Even if they manage to win next year it will work in our favor: because I don't see Lepunk stepping up. So either way, we win: Door #1. they manage to win one, but D Wade is MVP: IMPLOSION. Door #2, they don't manage to win one, and Queen James' character is revealed: IMPLOSION.