re: LeBron to his haters: You'll still have your same personal problems tomorrow

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What about some douche getting a tattoo of the trophy in the off season?

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Oh, well then he's trash. Especially if he lives with his girlfriend before they get married.

Stevenson is a much bigger bitch than everyone else in this series combined.

Not sure how anyone can like him

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The poster said, "reviled". And yes, if the majority of the country "reviles" someone whom they have never met and has caused absolutely no harm to anyone outside of Cleveland, then there are some serious problems.

I mean, Kobe got away with raping a chick. The majority of the country doesn't hate him for it, nor did they revile him after the fact.

So yeah, if "the majority of the country" can't think for themselves and "revile" a guy for reasons that aren't really justifiable, then we are in bad shape.

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First of all, Americans have a long history of reviling certain sports figures. From the Raiders of old to the Broadstreet Bullies of the 1970's to the Detroit Badboys of the 80's to the Hurricanes of the 80's/90's to the most recent incarnation of the Heat, there are certain personalities and teams that have aroused the righteous rage of the American sporting public. LeBron is included in that set. He is indeed a strutting, narcissistic buffoon who has yet to actually win any championship. Only someone with a skewed sense of sports history or an emotional attachment to LeBron would would seriously argue that the public's contempt for him is symptomatic of the collapse of American society. Good lord. It's absurd.

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LeBron, Wade, and Bosh didn't organize the celebration and charge admission to it.

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It's been well chronicled that he was completely played the television program and interview.

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I see a similarity in those two quotes from you. In both of them, LeBron is just an innocent naive soul who is just tricked into doing things that would inflate any ego he might have.

Or, we can use logic and think that after being told he's the next big thing since he was a teenager, he started to feel that he deserves the attention and credit that comes with being the "Chosen 1."

I remember reading right after The Decision that people were faulting his "camp" for lack of a better word for doing that enormous waste of time and LeBron's good image. And you know what, LeBron was 25-26 and I'm sure he could have put the kibosh on it easily by saying "No."

It's not like he's a child getting tricked into doing these things that promote his image. He's a grown man and every LeBron fan is doing him a disservice by coddling him and giving him excuses for anything people dislike.

No post game? He's still working on it after 8 years because he DECIDED to not go to college. The NBA isn't for development.

The Decision? He got played. They tricked him into sitting there for hours to do something people wouldn't like. I learned to not rub people faces' in unpopular decisions by the time I was 14 years old. Poor LeBron must not have gotten that chance since he was so busy.

All of these poor decisions should be ridiculed so that maybe LeBron realizes that he needs to do better. That just saying, "oh well I'll still be fine doing what I want to do" isn't enough if he wants to be the best he can be.

He could be the greatest of all time but that involves a good image and a great work ethic. Not that he works hard but you can't stand still and just rely on your athletic skills without working on your technical skills. But he doesn't seem to care; why? I can only assume he's been told he's so good for so long that he finally started to believe it and people just keep reinforcing it.

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A lot of political pundits and governors think Obama is a great president. Doesn't make it true.

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speaking of...

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He could be the greatest of all time but that involves a good image and a great work ethic.

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Not really a big deal

His not seeming to care is the biggest part

Guys like MJ and Kobe were a lot more well respected than there were well liked.

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he's currently not better than Dirk, Kobe, Durant, Wade

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Your hate is turning into ignorance.

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You are aware that words have actual meanings, right?

Osama bin Laden was reviled.

LeBron, for most Americans, is a "meh". He's not reviled, nor is he loved.

Even for most sports fans, you'll get something lukewarm such as, "He's a great player but I don't like The Decision". Again, not revulsion.

At best, poor choice of words on your part.

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First of all, do you know what "revile" means? You seem to think it is a synonym of "loathe." It actually isn't. It means to disparage, to speak of contemptuously. And the public definitely does that with respect to LeBron. If you are going to make snide, hypertechnical posts about diction and word choice, you may want to look up the word first. See, words DO have actual meanings.

Second of all, unless you have recently conducted a statistically significant survey of American sports fans, I'm going to have to discount your assessment of what "most sports fans" would say in response to a hypothetical question about LeBron.

Finally- silly hypertechinical, pedantic, semantic distinctions aside - it is pretty clear that the public's disdain for LeBron does not signal the imminent collapse of our nation.

Your ignorance is continuing the be ignorance.