LeBron James Says Cleveland Cold Shoulder Is ‘Motivation’

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LeBron James Says Cleveland Cold Shoulder Is ‘Motivation’

LeBron James has made his decision to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers to sign with the Miami Heat as a free agent and while the teams involved have moved on, the mainstream sports media is still trying to milk the story for all its worth. The most recent salvo comes in a lengthy profile of James in GQ Magazine where the NBA’s most high profile free agent continued to rant about the city of Cleveland and Cavs’ owner Dan Gilbert. The result is an embarrassingly self absorbed pity party by a pampered athlete that gives reigning champion Brett Favre a credible challenge for its absurdity.

James announced his decision on national television in early July, after which Cavs owner Dan Gilbert reacted bitterly to the move. While Gilbert may have been out of line, James’ sense of outrage at the affront borders on comical. Consider this quote by LeBron, complete with the obligatory ‘third person’ reference to himself:

"I don't think he ever cared about LeBron. My mother always told me: 'You will see the light of people when they hit adversity. You'll get a good sense of their character.' Me and my family have seen the character of that man. It made me feel more comfortable that I made the right decision."

Curiously, LeBron had no questions about Gilbert’s ‘character’ when the Cavs’ owner was signing $15 million a year worth of paychecks during the past three seasons. James then went on to bloviate about how he’d never really liked Cleveland to begin with despite growing up in nearby Akron, Ohio:

"It's not far, but it is far. And Clevelanders, because they were the bigger-city kids when we were growing up, looked down on us. ... So we didn't actually like Cleveland. We hated Cleveland growing up. There's a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day."

"I'm going to spend a lot of the summer here. This is my home. Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school."

As if that wasn’t good enough, James saves the best for last. He explains that while he loves Cleveland’s fans he’s such a prodigious basketball talent and exemplary human being that he ‘spoiled them’—as well as his own family—by being so generally awesome:

"I love our fans. Cleveland fans are awesome. But I mean, even my family gets spoiled at times watching me doing things that I do, on and off the court."

Even though you’d think that the NBA would just call off the 2010-2011 season and award the championship to the Heat by virtue of LeBron’s mere presence, that’s not going to be the case. The Heat will begin the season on October 26 on the road against the Boston Celtics.

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