OT-Lebron James returns to Cleveland
I just heard a report on TV that Lebron is returning to Cleveland. He made a statement to Sports Illustrated.
http://www.si.com/nba/2014/07/11/lebron-james-cleveland-cavaliers
He most certainly is.
WOO WOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
never has a t-shirt made my eyes roll so hard.
i like lebron, i'm glad he has a couple of championships to his name, and i hope he never wins another one.
I know. Isn't is AWESOME? I'll be happy to pick one up for you and Shembo - what size do you need?
Look. The last time this area won ANYTHING I was exactly five years old (1964) and living in Pontiac. If my memory serves in that time span the good folks of my home state have won two World Series and appeared in four, won four Stanley Cups and appeared in six, won three NBA titles and appeared in five. That's not bad. in those 50 years a team from Detroit has either won or appeared in a final of one of the big four sports every 3.3 years and won it all about 5 years.
Cleveland has appeared in two World Series and lost both and one NBA final and got swept. That really sucks.
The Pistons will win the division this year.
Only cost you your sanity.
Did the Pistons get relegated to the DLeague?
You don't even have a hockey team (the Barons don't count), so using the Wings is a bit unfair. And hey, we've got the Lions. When it comes to the biggest sport in America, we have been boned since 1964 unlike any other, no question. That's worth a lot of negative points on any scale you wanna come up with, in my opinion.
That said, congrats. You're going to win some, no doubt. Especially if you get Love w/o giving up Irving or Wiggins. I mean, you've got arguably the best player in NBA history in his prime, plus three of the last four number one draft picks. Think of the agony if this team doesn't win, either!
Eh, it's Cleveland. They'll still screw it up.
You know what's going to happen. After 11 years in the league, LeBron's body is ready to break down. He'll have season-ending surgery by Thanksgiving, and then get crappy advice from the team doctors and trainers during rehab that will turn it into a Grant Hill situation. Cleveland can always find a way to mess up.
"home state" ( in other words, Michigan), then why aren't you including Cincinnati along with Cleveland in your tally of World Championship appearances and championships and only then adding things up for the state of Ohio?
Being that Cleveland is part of Ohio, I shed no tears for the inhabitants of that sad s***hole of a state. May Cleveland, Cinci, and Columbus (especially OSU) never win any title in anything ever again!
Please don't buy one of those.
I never thought he would go back. He is a bigger man than most people give him credit for; not many would return after "the letter" and all that happened.
Wishing him the best of luck and I'm on to find a new favorite team (can't pull for cLEAVEland)
Anyone know good players in Sac Town or Utah?
this is huge for his PR/ endorsement machine. Hometwon hero returning home. His only other option would have been to stay with the Heat, but then they would have had to dump Wade.
It's LeBron's best PR and best chance of winning again (Irving and Wiggins).
Its really hard to believe he's coming back for the love of Cleveland, when his return coincides with Cleveland being absolutely stacked with commodities.
If they didn't luck into the first pick, the talk about trading for Love isn't happening, and Lebron probably isn't going back.
Cleveland is a better opportunity to win 6+ titles than Houston. Wiggins is a freak, and has a chance to be better than Harden for sure. Howard is already in decline. Meanwhile, the Cavs might add Love while keeping Wiggins. And frankly, I'd already take Irving for the rest of his career than Harden. This team is more set up for the next 5+ years easy, moreso than any other team with cap-space in the NBA.
The fact that he gets to play the "back home" angle, and show that he's a bigger person than Dan Gilbert, is all just icing on the cake, and will be great for marketing. But this is the decision that gives him the best chance of all to win 6 or more titles, which you know is really his goal.
Errr isn't that every sports players goal? You know.. Win it all?
Luck into it .... LMFAO. You contradict yourself, my friend.
Cleveland only had a 1.7% chance of winning the lottery this year. So yes, they did luck into that pick.
performing poorly to being lucky. Chance really didn't have anything to do w/ their having been the worst team in the league since James departure.
There were 8 teams that were worse than the Cavs. There were 8 teams that had better odds to win the lottery. Winning the lottery from the 9 spot is due to either luck or a conspiracy. Take your pick for which one you think it was. Most people who don't wear tin foil on their heads would call it luck.
now go get Kevin Love
mGrowOld: *Googles how to unburn a jersey*
I still don't think he will win a title with the Cavs
Great. Good for you Cleveland. Wow, the GOP convention and The Return all in the same week.
Now, can we PLEASE stop talking about this? I'm sure ESPN was hoping this would go on all summer. There must be people jumping off the roof of their building.
Amen.
You do realize this doesn't help Michigan right? Lebron is a Buckeye fan and returning to Ohio means it's more likely the close proximity may facilitate his impact on their MBB and even football recruiting... Not cool.
Yes, because if I'm looking for advice on a college, I'm totally asking a guy who never attended.
You're woefully unaware if you don't think Lebron visiting isn't great publicity for recruiting.
LeBron loved them when he was a Miami player too. It's not going to matter. Beilein's going to do his thing.
Wait, who dragged Beilein into this? I'm saying Lebron's visits are a useful recruiting tool, because they are.
http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2013/09/lebron_james_pregame_spe…
Doesn't mean Hoke and Beilein will miss on players.
You didn't even read the post I responded to?
You have to be kidding yourself to think Lebron's occasional presence on the sidelines and in locker rooms with recruits won't have a big impact... The problem is Urbz is recruiting so well right now it'll be hard to discern the impact regardless.
Coming in as the Lions TE would have been as rewarding, Championship wise.
"Returns to the Mistake on the Lake" or "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" I am fond of as a headline
At least it's on a lake, that's more than Detroit has going for it.
Yeah, it's a brutal 20-foot walk from the Detroit city limits to Lake St. Clair.
Where did you hear that?
sub 10%?
I'm an overtipper pretty much regardless of quality of service, which probably isn't a great policy, but having waited tables back in the day, I understand that service staff get shafted a lot by knuckleheads.
Same applies Im sure for bell hops, cab drivers, whatever. Some people just don't tip, for whatever reason.
I remember hearing about Elway saying or writing something like "get a real job" to a server when they racked up a several thousand dollar tab at a restaurant. My opinion of him changed immediately. I liked Elway as a kid, but there's nothing like ignorant rich people talking down to poor/middle-class people to get you annoyed in the morning
Yikes, that's how you end up with spit in your food, Mr. Elway.
is pretty good in my book.
So, is Cleveland getting Kevin Love also? Because if not, Lebron isn't seeing the finals again anytime soon.
The East is like the BIG and the West is like the SEC. He may see them very soon.