LeBatard: LeBroid and company misled the cHeat: if true, anybody surprised?

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There is so much said and presumed about people in this world, especially famous people, that you can probably find a way to draw just about any conclusion you'd want.  Sometimes the evidence is overwhelmingly against the righteousness of a human being (eg, OJ, Hernandez...). But a lot of the time I think we like to make minor villains out of people who are just being human.  I am very glad that my personal decisions have not been public because I've probably made mistakes, been selfish, been thoughtless and been embarrassingly wrong at times. 

Lebron appears to be a pretty decent guy overall who, like most of us, makes some good decisions and some bad ones.  Hopefully, he is nice to his wife, children, mother, neighbors, waitresses and barbers. That would matter more to me than what others speculate about how he treats Pat Riley, Dwayne Wade. or the fans of Miami.

Besides already being the top 5 greatest player of all time, this point tip him over as exactly why I want him to be better than Jordan (the conversation is already in the air).  The guy is clearly a better human being than Jordan and Kobe.  He's the ultimate role model in my estimation.  He came to the league very immature (something we all go through) and has made mistakes in the past (again, we all do) but he has vastly improved and matured.  I just love the way he carries himself.  Unlike his two rivalries, he became a better person.

Magic.  Bird.  Russell.  Wilt.  Kareem.  Shaq.  Kobe.  Duncan.  Jordan.  You cannot, right now, put LeBron any better than #10.

Mike

If I was building a team I would rather have LeBron than Kobe, Duncan or Wilt.

clearly competitiveness and winning wouldnt be important then....those 3 guys have more chips than Lebron and are much better competitors.

I doubt you would see any of them sitting on the bench crying with 8 minutes left in a 4th quarter while you are down 17pts. And thats the difference from lebron and guys like Jordan, kobe etc.

even Pierce, look at his last game as a celtic. C's were down to the knicks big and pierce/garnett kept fighting until the end. then look at Lebron this year crying on the bench refusing to go back out there...cowardly

Lebron is probably more competitive than Wilt.  There are Wilt stories in which his team is getting beat badly so he tells his coach that he is hurt and can't play (in a big playoff game).  When his team comes back Wilt suddenly is telling the coach that he wants to play.