LeBron: "We hated Clevelanders growing up"

[Goldin Brown]

This dude's such a sad clown. Its now crystal clear he never had any appreciation for the city of Cleveland, it actually appears he has always had a good amount of disdain for Cleveland. Now he's trying to antagonize Cleveland fans so he can use their venom as his motivation. So essentially, he doesn't appreciate the love Cavs fans showed him and he would rather you hate him...this guy's a sick fuck.

Maybe Cleveland fans should just ignore this loser, because it seems to me that booing him would only feed his ego.

 

[Prime 1978]

Why are you guys so shocked by this??? Akron guys never have liked Cleveland. I mentioned this in a post about a week or so ago but even in jails Akron and Cleveland guys beef. If LeBron didn't feel the same way, do you think he would've made such a point to seperate between the two cities. This is not shocking at all, I knew this for a looong time now.

http://realcavsfans.com/showthread.php?p=991900#post991900

 

[bsebbio]

My only problem with this is that it's going to get picked up nationally, and then again when the actual GQ article comes out.

People are going to see LeBron saying "Akron vs. Cleveland" type stuff and it's going to be taken as fact.

That really bothers me.

 

[daytripper]

Honestly it may have more of an impact if nobody showed up to the Q on Dec 2nd.

Whatever, I'm so over this douche.

 

[Brizzle]

I can see what he's saying seing as how I'm not from Akron and don't claim that city or associate myself with it. I guess its kind of like someone from Brooklyn claiming Brooklyn and not Queens even though its all New York you're not going to "rep" a neighborhood that you didn't grow up in.

I remember playing in the Heights vs Hood basketball classics every year. Fights everywhere, even people being shot after games. Why? Because the kids who lived in/went to school in Cleveland hated the kids who lived and went to school in the 'burbs. Absolutely stupid but that's the thinking.

I remember LeBron and his boys rolling through a few times "repping" Akron of course and people gave them the business because they didn't belong. I remember the heights and hood kids coming together for the greater good to show the Akron kids that they didn't belong and shouldn't have been there :chuckles:.

Anyways, you can tell by the things he does and says that he still has a lot of immaturity in him and he's still thinking like a kid who grew up broke in the inner city than the multi millionaire mogul he's becoming which is understandable since old habits die hard. He needs to either grow up or shut his pie hole about certain things, definitely not picking his battles wisely.

 

[bsebbio]

Dude, if you're in jail, you clearly have some issues, no matter where you're from. And, you probably aren't too happy about being there, maybe a little edgy?! Come on man.

Why are you guys so shocked by this??? Akron guys never have liked Cleveland. I mentioned this in a post about a week or so ago but even in jails Akron and Cleveland guys beef. If LeBron didn't feel the same way, do you think he would've made such a point to seperate between the two cities. This is not shocking at all, I knew this for a looong time now.

http://realcavsfans.com/showthread.php?p=991900#post991900

 

[dacoop2]

"It is better to remain silent and be thought of as a fool, than to speak up and erase all doubt."

If ever a quote was made for LeBron that's right up at the top of the list. Except replace "fool" with "narcissistic asshole."

 

[Jon]

I (probably like Dan Gilbert) thought our undying loyalty would prevent this exact scenario from ever occurring. But really, we just kept feeding the world's largest ego until it believed Ohio could no longer contain it.

I really don't think that's here nor there. The attraction of joining Wade and Bosh in Miami was just stronger than any ties he may have had to the Cavs, and as we've discussed some of those ties may have already been shredded before the debacle.

I'd really like to see what we've got before blowing it up. If we can replace much of what LeBron gave us through some additions and installing new systems, why shouldn't we still be a top team? And if we're not, what was our case for keeping him?

Loyalty & comfort do count, but to many players & fans winning counts more, and money counts the most. That's the monster. The monster that in spite of all the talk of fair play, sportsmanship, and respect - that sports breeds.

 

[Noonan]

So basically LeBron is saying:

"Forget all that shit I said about Cleveland being my hometown. I was just trying to sell merchandise and help my brand. And hopefully now that people know I never liked Cleveland they'll understand why I left and get back to buying my merchandise and jocking my brand."

"Also. Too. Lebron James sometimes spoils LeBron James with his humbleness."

 

[MYoung23]

I never knew anyone growing up including myself who cared about Akron one way or another. Hell, I didn't even go there until I was in my 20s. I started liking Akron because that is where my father moved and lived with his 2nd wife and my sister.

Seriously, who hates on Akron? It's like hating on Canton or Warren.

 

[CardiacCavs]

So basically LeBron is saying:

"Forget all that shit I said about Cleveland being my hometown. I was just trying to sell merchandise and help my brand. And hopefully now that people know I never liked Cleveland they'll understand why I left and get back to buying my merchandise and jocking my brand."

"Also. Too. Lebron James sometimes spoils LeBron James with his humbleness."

:chuckles:

This guy is just digging his hole deeper and deeper

 

[OhioSlayer]

OhioSlayer thinks Lebron James is a gangster. OhioSlayer thinks Lebrons really regretted moving to Miami and now has to keep convincing himself he made the right choice. OhioSlayer knows Lebron is a bitch.

 

[Prime 1978]

Dude, if you're in jail, you clearly have some issues, no matter where you're from. And, you probably aren't too happy about being there, maybe a little edgy?! Come on man.

First off I'm a licensed insurance Broker who can't have felonies. A background check is done on me every year. Never have been in jail. So just because you have no idea of the inner city or the workings there of doesn't mean that I don't.

I happen to have family members who've been incarcerated, where I get my haircut is in the inner-city, and a lot of my family lives there. So I say that to say there have been people who have been in my ear a long time saying that LeBron will leave. Actually, the common quotes is: "That's an Akron cat, he ain't staying in Cleveland".

I posted last week that some of the understanding of this may have a race undertone. (I'm not saying this as an absolute, I'm saying this is part of it). People claim their hoods, that's more of hood black thing (again I'm not saying this as an absolute) so to hear him differentiate between the too is not shocking at all because of that factor. You hear more of the peopl who aren't "in the hood" look at Akron and Cleveland as one in the same as part of Northeastern Ohio.

I made this point last week and didn't elaborate.

http://realcavsfans.com/showthread.php?p=991911#post991911

Hell 13 yrs ago I worked at a factory in Twinsburg where guys from Akron also worked and there was tension...


So spare me with the jail thing...I was using that as a point of reference of what I've heard from Akron and Cleveleand beefs. So your attempt to be funny failed.

 

[Prime 1978]

I never knew anyone growing up including myself who cared about Akron one way or another. Hell, I didn't even go there until I was in my 20s. I started liking Akron because that is where my father moved and lived with his 2nd wife and my sister.

Seriously, who hates on Akron? It's like hating on Canton or Warren.

That's the thing, I think the bad blood is a one way street.

 

[Jon]

"Forget all that shit I said about Cleveland being my hometown. I was just trying to sell merchandise and help my brand. And hopefully now that people know I never liked Cleveland they'll understand why I left and get back to buying my merchandise and jocking my brand."

What are you referring to? Even when he slipped up and promised he'd never leave Cleveland he went back and corrected himself and said he meant he'd never leave Akron - that Akron would always be his home. He could have said it another way and emphasized that Cleveland & Akron were his home and that he'd always be part of the North East Ohio community, but couldn't promise he'd always be a Cavalier. It wouldn't have cost him a thing to have been more tactful, but he didn't. He constantly went out of his way to separate the two. Of course Clevelanders still would have bought his stuff even if he called Anchorage, Alaska his home town.