LeBron: "We hated Clevelanders growing up"

[SportsWorld]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5470162

And Clevelanders, because they were the bigger-city kids when we were growing up, looked down on us. ... So we didn't actually like Cleveland. We hated Cleveland growing up. There's a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day.

and

LeBron James won't rule out returning to play for Cleveland some day, but admitted in an interview with GQ Magazine that owner Dan Gilbert's letter to fans on the night James left the Cavaliers gives him "a lot of motivation" for when he and his new Miami Heat teammates play his former club.

In an interview to be published in the September issue of GQ, James told writer J.R. Moehringer that "if there was an opportunity for me to return [to Cleveland] ... and those fans welcome me back, that'd be a great story."

 

[demondeacs13]

What a douchenozzle.

 

[Chris]

lmfao.

Nothing else can even be said.

 

[Aussie]

 

[bubba52782]

In an interview to be published in the September issue of GQ, James told writer J.R. Moehringer that "if there was an opportunity for me to return [to Cleveland] ... and those fans welcome me back, that'd be a great story."


Looks like it's going to be a horror story then Bron Bron...

 

[Richfield Kid]

There's a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day.

That's mature. No surprise, there.

 

[CavsFinals2016]

Honestly, what Clevelander makes a conscience effort to denounce Akron? I've lived in Cleveland for 18 out of my 22 years and I have never heard anyone make fun of Akron. He probably just heard one or two insecure idiots make fun of LeBron and his gang when they were getting beaten on the basketball court. Grow up you idiot.

 

[Apathy]

Watching this guy try to warm himself up to the city/state he fucked over is like watching Steven Hawking try to swim.

 

[catfish]

I dont think clevelanders really think too much about akron.

 

[caf]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5470162

But James, who announced on July 8 that he would leave the Cavaliers as a free agent to sign with the Heat, said of Gilbert's late-night letter: "I don't think he ever cared about LeBron. My mother always told me: 'You will see the light of people when they hit adversity. You'll get a good sense of their character.' Me and my family have seen the character of that man."


James added: "It made me feel more comfortable that I made the right decision."

cafemerald just facepalmed because of this. (bwahaha, third person egotistical douche)

 

[mystery79]

What an ass. I grew up in Cleveland (west side) and I never hated Akron. To be honest I never thought about it either until I looked @ the U of Akron when I was in high school. Maybe that is the "attitude" he is talking about?

He just doesn't get that some kids in the city of Cleveland had it as bad or worse than he did growing up. Imagine some little kid in the city in a poor neighborhood hearing this. Looking up to an idol who "gets what it's like" only to find out that no, he really doesn't care about you unless you grew up in the Akron area.

 

[Jon]

Fact is as much as we wanted him to, LeBron never fully embraced playing the role of home town hero. He's finally put in to words what he's made clear by his actions ever since the day the Cavs won the draft lottery - when rather than excitement, his initial reaction seemed more like disappointment.

One of these decades, perhaps he'll grow up.

 

[James]

He really needs to have someone to tell him to shut up, or else that game in December is going to be a total donkey show.

 

[Xeal]

Lebron is.....a strange person.

Honestly, I've very rarely met or knew of someone whose thought process and paradigms seem (I emphasize SEEMS, because I don't really know him) so completely foreign and strange.

 

[Jon]

He just doesn't get that some kids in the city of Cleveland had it as bad or worse than he did growing up.

Even poor kids have their pecking orders, and if they want to pick on someone will do so for any reason they care to dream up; but the point here is that LeBron should have been able to put anything negative from his childhood behind. The problem is he's still a kid.