You have to feel for the city of Cleveland and the state of Ohio

[Mike-Dub]

I understand your comments, but man will I be glad to see that ego maniac go...

Good to hear that one Cleveland fan won't be killing himself.

Sorry to mislead you...while I respected the cavs back in the days of mark price, I have never been a cavs fan...I bleed green in basketball...

I guess I am not a good guage...
I am a Jets fan who hates the browns...
A celtics fan...
and a buckeye fan (we actually win)

Not really a home town guy...

But I live in Akron, and if I have to here more blind love for a player that I feel will never win anything significant with his current attitude towards bball; I may go insane...


Not to mention the fact that everyone here is "friends" with the Drama King...

I beg, only 30 more hours of the hell I have been living for 7 years!!!!

i grew up in a really small town just east of Alliance.  I know those people and that area well having lived in NE Ohio for 25 years before graduating and moving away.  It's a depressed area...steel factories have been dying for years (my dad is a press helper).  Though I don't love the Cav's, I do have ties to them as I listened to the radio (Joe Tait) as a kid in my room late at night (World. B. Free, Roy Hinson, Phill Hubbard, etc.).  I used to like that team, but Larry Bird stole my heart...

But I would admit, that should LeBron leave, I do have a small part of me that feels for those fans...  I still know many of them and we have Facebook "get togethers" for many games.  They are tired of the sideshow, but they really wanted him to stay.  This will be tough for them...

You were a Cavs fan and you switched over to the Celtics because of a player?

Yes...  All I ever wanted to be growing up was Larry Bird.  I won't bore you with the details, but my room (and my life) was a shrine.  He alone made me love the game.  I followed the Cavs, but I lived the Celtics.

Oh well at least it was a good player and person you decided to follow not like people who became Cavs fans because of LeBron and Laker fans because of Kobe.

[BuckeyeCelt]

 
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Yes...  All I ever wanted to be growing up was Larry Bird.  I won't bore you with the details, but my room (and my life) was a shrine.  He alone made me love the game.  I followed the Cavs, but I lived the Celtics.
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Heck, my office is still a shrine to Larry Bird!!

[Andy Jick]

Heck, my office is still a shrine to Larry Bird!!

LOL!!  Mine too, but as a 38 year old I wanted to spare myself the embarrassment.

[Mike-Dub]

Heck, my office is still a shrine to Larry Bird!!

LOL!!  Mine too, but as a 38 year old I wanted to spare myself the embarrassment.

How would that be embarrassing?

[BuckeyeCelt]

Heck, my office is still a shrine to Larry Bird!!

LOL!!  Mine too, but as a 38 year old I wanted to spare myself the embarrassment.

I'm 28...not much better!!

[Roy Hobbs]

I don't feel badly for them.  Lebron gave them seven years of good basketball, which is all he was obligated to do.  At the same time, the franchise basically sold itself out catering to a superstar.  Giving one player that much power can never be a good thing, and the Cavs are going to pay for it now.

[RebusRankin]

Who didn't want to be Bird? I wanted to be 6ft9 because Bird was 6ft9.

[BuckeyeCelt]

I don't feel badly for them.  Lebron gave them seven years of good basketball, which is all he was obligated to do.  At the same time, the franchise basically sold itself out catering to a superstar.  Giving one player that much power can never be a good thing, and the Cavs are going to pay for it now.

Agreed, I say it all the time...LeBron RUINED the cavs...
You can blame the Cavs for giving in to the power, but lebron could have backed off and didn't...

[BuckeyeCelt]

Who didn't want to be Bird? I wanted to be 6ft9 because Bird was 6ft9.

I was 6'9" growing up...at least in proportion to my 6ft hoop

[LarBrd33]

Nah I was just in Cleveland last month and I was surprised by how dead the city was.  It's a nice little quiet area... no cars driving around... no people walking around... just a clean little boring city.   I'm sure the outskirts of the city are a different story...   I felt like I was walking through a ghost city.   It was kinda weird, actually.  I wasn't expecting it to be that relaxed.    

Really though I get the strong vibe that this entire thing was just a hype-fest created by LeBron's marketing team to get everyone freaking out about him for a couple months.  The 1 hour special kinda sold it for me... it's all about selling sneakers.  I know I'm starting to hear rumors of him going to NY, but I'm going to be kinda shocked if he doesn't just sign with Cleveland.  This has all just been one big slob-fest to stroke the ego of King James.

[papa shuttlesworth]

I kind of feel bad for Cleveland (the city and the people, not the team) if Lebron leaves.  They really do have bad luck.

The following was my reaction to the Celtics/Cavs game 6:

1) "Wooooo!! I can't believe the Celtics won and because of this Lebron will leave the Cavs and I'm at the game to see all of this!!"
2) "Aw man, I feel bad that I am in some slight way responsible for destroying an entire city."
3) "Oh well.  Woooooooooo!!!"