Ok, that was admittedly phrased very poorly. My point was that Cleveland (for the most part, maybe not quite to the extent they have) was going to lash out at LeBron for leaving regardless of how he did it. I live with 2 guys from Cleveland and am friends with many others..it was already clear that many were going to attack LeBron if he left no matter what the circumstances. I wholeheartedly agree "The Decision" and all that crap was stupid and the hate stemming from that is justified. At the same time, there's no denying (and even reading back in this thread before all those shenanigans went down, you can see it) that many were going to despise LeBron solely for leaving. That, I think, it somewhat uncalled for. While he may have said he wanted to bring a championship to Cleveland, etc the reality is he was a free agent and as a neutral observer who cares very little about the NBA, I think it's unfair to demonize someone who has lived in the Cleveland area their whole life for wanting to experience something else. The people I referred to earlier -- those who were going to make him out to be the worst person ever even before he turned this whole thing into a [censored] show -- would certainly jump on the Z signing as another opportunity to bash him. Hell, one girl I know already has something about it in her facebook status. I agree with the people directing vitriol his way for how he handled the announcement that he was leaving, but anyone claiming there aren't a ton of people that were going to bash him regardless of how it went down is full of it.
