The Decision Turning Into ‘The Joke’
This is getting ridiculous now. I wrote the other day how Lebron is going public with a show dedicated to his announcement. The rumors today are flying that he is going to go to Miami and I just don’t buy it. I can’t see Lebron going to Miami to share the spotlight with 2 other dream teamers unless he was going to announce with them where they were going. The whole ‘decision’ is turning into ‘the joke’.
It’s getting worse daily as the build up continues. Lebron’s camp is working a plug for the boys and girls club and that’s great but outside of that this is really starting to smell like what is wrong with professional sports today. I’ll be watching like a lot of people will but this is something that my favorite athletes growing up would have never done. Athletes like Walter Payton, Ryne Sandberg, Cal Ripken, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson…they would never have done this. No ‘great’ would ever try to put themselves above the sport, a team sport at that and that is exactly what is happening.
I know that Lebron wants to be a global icon but MJ got there without doing this. He wants to be bigger than Jordan you say…well tonight when the show goes down he proves to us all that is isn’t MJ, Walter Payton, Magic Johnson or Larry Bird. He’s another selfish athlete trying to put himself above a game that I love. As much as I understand the though process behind it and get the business side of it, I still lose more and more respect as it gets closer and closer to being announced.
