That’s the difference between being one of the greats and one of the greatest ever.
Choppybitz
James: I’m bringing my family on the plane.
Jordan: What’s a family?
WhiteBakerMayfield
I mean if the GOAT is on your team, you do everything you can to make them happy
PaleontologistFew662
I think the lasting blemish in LeBron’s legacy, and the reason he didn’t win more championships, has to do with the influence he carried within the organization. Those Cavs teams before he left for Miami were built in a win-now mode. They weren’t building a team, they were trying to appease a player so he’d stay. He was 25 when he left Cleveland. They didn’t need to win-now.
ModsOverLord
People loved complaining about the front office but all those guys, especially at the end of the 1st tenure and all of the 2nd were on the team because Lebron wanted them there
masterCWG
It’s been interesting watching how people have felt about Lebron over the years. From hating him when he left, to semi forgiving him when he came back, to mostly forgiving him when he won us the championship.
My feelings towards him are bittersweet, I still have the shirt from “the shot” when Kyrie got the winning championship shot, and I’m greatfull that he said “I did this for Cleveland” after the win
But I’ll never forget the riots that happened when he left all those years ago. People burning couches in the streets, the tear down of the famous LeBron sign, I still remember it all.
Wonder if any of y’all feel the same?
KingDave46
This was our biggest negative as a team.
I remember it at that time but while watching film the coaches would call guys out for bad plays or lack of effort on D, then skim past LeBron’s mistakes in silence.
Shaq called them out on it in the room, I remember the reports on it.
We were so desperate to keep LeBron by trying to treat him like a prince, that we shot ourselves in the foot by putting a poor team around him
elbjoint2016
Why we didn’t win in LeBron’s tenure: we didn’t have a draft pick higher than #10.
Even a slightly higher pick (Iggy or Deng) and it’s a spicy core. I guess we could theoretically have not blown the pick and gotten Josh or JR smith out of HS
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That’s the difference between being one of the greats and one of the greatest ever.
James: I’m bringing my family on the plane.
Jordan: What’s a family?
I mean if the GOAT is on your team, you do everything you can to make them happy
I think the lasting blemish in LeBron’s legacy, and the reason he didn’t win more championships, has to do with the influence he carried within the organization. Those Cavs teams before he left for Miami were built in a win-now mode. They weren’t building a team, they were trying to appease a player so he’d stay. He was 25 when he left Cleveland. They didn’t need to win-now.
People loved complaining about the front office but all those guys, especially at the end of the 1st tenure and all of the 2nd were on the team because Lebron wanted them there
It’s been interesting watching how people have felt about Lebron over the years. From hating him when he left, to semi forgiving him when he came back, to mostly forgiving him when he won us the championship.
My feelings towards him are bittersweet, I still have the shirt from “the shot” when Kyrie got the winning championship shot, and I’m greatfull that he said “I did this for Cleveland” after the win
But I’ll never forget the riots that happened when he left all those years ago. People burning couches in the streets, the tear down of the famous LeBron sign, I still remember it all.
Wonder if any of y’all feel the same?
This was our biggest negative as a team.
I remember it at that time but while watching film the coaches would call guys out for bad plays or lack of effort on D, then skim past LeBron’s mistakes in silence.
Shaq called them out on it in the room, I remember the reports on it.
We were so desperate to keep LeBron by trying to treat him like a prince, that we shot ourselves in the foot by putting a poor team around him
Why we didn’t win in LeBron’s tenure: we didn’t have a draft pick higher than #10.
Even a slightly higher pick (Iggy or Deng) and it’s a spicy core. I guess we could theoretically have not blown the pick and gotten Josh or JR smith out of HS