This is my knee jerk, off the cuff, forgive me for the typo version of a blog I can't not write.
What the hell just happened?
I just spent really valuable time in my life caring about LeBron James, a guy who used to be a kid I liked. An athlete I used to admire for his talent. Another selfish idiot.
Who in the world deserves that type of adoration? NOBODY. I watched the entire "show".
I am the problem. I am the reason advertisers signed on and paid him to tell us he was selling out. I'm the fringe NBA fan that spent reserve time away from family to put up with that shit.
I cannot absorb the depth of selfishness I just witnessed.
Sorry Cleveland. As a KC resident I can sort of feel your pain. You guys loved that kid. You adored him. You invested 101% of your sports 401k in that kid (and maybe some of you put a couple bucks in Brady Quinn stock). You bought his jersey, watched his shoott arounds and listened to his talk show. You kicked Drew Carey to the curb for this kid and he just peed on your lawn.
I'm so pissed.
He had a chance to do something really cool with that TV show. Show some highlights. Talk about his choices. Wax poetic about life in Ohio. Introduce his newest teammate, Chris Paul and start down the road to Cleveland fame and lore. Even make sense of the setting. Instead, he uses this purchased time with ESPN to pimp out twenty kids from the Boys an Girls club ("Sorry kids...it's not the Knicks!") and ressurects Jim Grey to say nothing, do nothing, and make me feel like a complete idiot for caring about the NBA.
The NBA is the most selfish league in the world. I am an idiot for not realizing it until now.
This is all my fault.
Thank you Ubaldo Jimenez, Soccer, quiet signings like Paul "The most loyal guy in the world" Pierce, Paul Goydos for shooting a 59, women's beach volleyball and anything except the NBA for being around today.
Lebron, you could win 15 championships and you would still be the biggest sell-out, whore, misguided bandwagon guy I ever saw on TV. Of course, I lined your pockets tonight and watched the show, and I wrote this backlash blog...so you got what you wanted, what the "Stars" of the NBA all want...the spotlight.
Well, it's one bulb dimmer after that garbage.
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