Jay Mariotti and why LeBron is a poor sport.

This must have been a lot easier to create with the new Clipper feature!

i don’t know who charley rosen is, and i definitely will not read that article, but the summary of what he’s written makes my blood boil. what a ridiculously made up story.

i can’t understand the “cavs lost b/c of overconfidence” theory…even if they were overconfident (i haven’t seen any evidence of that), wouldn’t that have gone flying out the door after losing game 1 at home?

i typically like broussard, but i find his article linked here to be dramatically short-sighted. to say that the magic were just, pure and simple, a better basketball team lacks creativity or context. they were the better team over this 6-game span, of course, but i don’t think it is self-evident that they are a better basketball team as a result of a series in which, as we’ve mentioned, a mere 2 plays could have completely changed the outcome (west’s 3 in game 1, the un-corralled rebound in game 4).

i liked the true hoops breakdown much better…the magic executed amazingly for much of the series, and the cavs executed amazingly for a much shorter amount of time. these were two very evenly matched teams, and as you would expect it came down to execution…at which the magic were better.

Anyone else hate this guy’s garbage? His college football coverage is absolutely terrible! I can’t stand the arrogance in a lot of his writing. And he assumes he’s a so called expert in everything. The guy is a general douchebag, or at least he makes himself out be during college football season.

I’m a Suns fan, so believe me, I hate Kobe and the Lakers much more than every Cavalier fan combined might, so there is no bias in this comment. That being said, there is a ton of homerism on display here. You guys are trashing every writer that has something negative to say about the LBJ hand-shaking incident. Remind you of a certain West Coast, homerific fan base? No matter how you wish to dissect it, the fact that LBJ walked off the court without shaking his opponents’ hand is poor sportsmanship. Believe me, I was rooting for the Cavs in that series, as was much of the rest of the basketball world, but I completely agree with the unnamed Western Conference executive’s assertion (mentioned above) that the Cavs got what was coming to them. What right does Mo Williams, a relative unknown until his pairing with LBJ, have to arrogantly declare the outcome of a series after a loss? And what right does LBJ have, no matter how much of a “winner” he might be, to show blatant disregard for the unwritten rules of sportsmanship that have been adhered to by bigger “stars” and “winners” than him? With great power comes both great responsibility and scrutiny, a lesson that a young and somewhat-immature LBJ will come to learn as he gets older.

Anyways, best of luck next year, and beat the Lakers for us any chance you get – thanks!

It’s embarrassing how much “legs” this handshake story has. Especially in a league where (not to long ago) every other superstar was involved in a felony, on-court altercation or a myriad of other real-world problems.

Now, Lebron is the poster child for “bad role model”? Really, media? In the NBA?

I think this story shows you how irrelevant playing in a “big market” really is. It’s the type of non-story that the New York media runs with for one of their own. Maybe they think of Lebron as one of their own already or they have acquiesced to his star power.

They are looked at under a microscope. Believe me nothing gets more coverage than negative publicity. I have never seen anything negative printed about Lebron until now and everyone in Cleveland is getting sensitive. Can you all admit that on some level it was wrong? Sure, it doesn’t deserve the attention that it is getting but is anyone really surprised by the media’s reaction. They are out to make money and they know that controversy sells newspapers and creates ratings. I am more surprised by how bad Cleveland fans are taking it than by how much attention this story is getting. Give me a break it’s just one incident just accept that he was wrong and move on. He is only 24 and he is not perfect and he will make mistakes.

Even as a Cleveland fan, I don’t really blindly and automatically agree with everything LeBron does. With that said, I STILL completely understand where he is coming from in this situation, but I don’t like that he did it. It kind of reminded me of the Pats after Superbowl XLII.

Read the other comments.

And he still never cheated on his wife he’d been with for years and had a child with. Hate to bring that ol’ story up, but perhaps it’ll give you some perspective, maybe LeBron’s act isn’t as bad as some other top players issues.