OK let's be honest here.
First of all, I've read about 100 different reader comments on this topic on various sites. Rough estimate 80% disagree with LeBron's statements, that tells you something right there.
Secondly, LeBron thinks he is better than other NBA players. Now celebrities thinking they are better than average citizens is one thing, famous people and athletes thinking they are better than the public is another thing. LeBron James thinks he is better than his own colleagues on a personal level, not just about statistics and who averages what.
"There would be no LeBron James, no Kobe Bryant, no Dwyane Wade, you name all the best players in the league right now and the last 10 years, there would be none of us without Michael Jordan."---This comment right here is just flat out stupidity. So if Jordan never came along basketball would be completely non existent, all basketballs would have been destroyed and nobody would have ever taken a shot again. Total nonsense. What about Adam and Eve, is he going to thank them too?
Now LeBron is the superstar of the era, but I really wish he would get his game right. And I'm not talking about his basketball game. The game of life. It seems like he wants to go out of his way to make all these rebel statements about what should take place in the NBA, like its 1969-1971 with Bill Walton and Muhammad Ali and people in Vietnam and protesting and Woodstock. Sorry LeBron wrong time period. Without food on your table, a roof over your head, caring parents, teachers, coaches, hospitals, communitites, families, friends, good samaratians etc., there is no basketball. Basketball is secondary to the game of life. Just look at the great story coming out about Michael Oher who plays for the Baltimore Ravens. He was homeless until the age of 16, and if some nice family didn't take him in and take care of him he would have never made it to the NFL.
So LeBron if you want to make a statement, make it about life, not about basketball. You can retire every #23 in the world, put Jordan on the biggest golden pedastal by honoring him and praising him and worshiping him every day of the week. It isn't going to help our economy, it isn't going to create jobs, its not going to put food on people's tables, it isn't going to put kids through school. With all the rules and laws about stuff this guy wants to throw out and tell people what they should do, and after the huge billion dollar contract he's going to sign, if he doesn't give 23 million away to charity and the homeless and poor kids and families throughout the country, for every 25 million he makes, dude is a flat out phony.
Why? Because he seems to want to stand up for what is right and go out of his way to tell people how things are so why not follow through and put your money where your mouth is. If you are going to talk about how you are God, follow through and make the effort to be just that. Don't sit here and tell people how they should feel about Michael Jordan when you have 500 times the average salary of an average American. This guy has the ability to put thousands and thousands of kids through school.
Sign with New York, put the deal at $280 Million. Go to the bank, cash 80% of it out, and hand it out to all the fans going to stadiums around the NBA, and hand it out in the projects, trailer parks, to people with disabilities, and to charities around the country. Make your country and the people around you better by doing something that matters, not telling people how high on the wall they should paste their Michael Jordan poster.
And you may say it is his money he can do whatever he wants with it. That is true. However it seems like he wants to make a bold statement about all these things in the NBA, so if he really wants to make a bold statement, make it about life, because it preceeds basketball.
Then you may also say well these multi-millionaires like LeBron do enough for the community. Well if you have all these George Clooney's, Will Smith's, Jay-Z's, ****' etc making bilions and billions of dollars why is the country in a recession, and why does half the country struggle to get by paycheck to paycheck? Because these people don't do percentage wise enough for the amount they earn. Why are we in a recession anyway when you have all these Oprahs and Trumps and Bill Gates making billions and billions of dollars? Because percentage wise they don't give back the right amount for what they earn.
So if LeBron really wants to make a statement, don't make it about basketball, make it about life. And if your not going to make a statement about life, don't be making statements about basketball. Because without the Tuohys(Not the Michael Jordan's) of the world, there wouldn't be any LeBron James's.
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