A Must Read For all LEBRON FANS and HATERS !!;) Let LeBron James go away on vacation, confer with his wife and the rest of his family and friends. Then remember just how far he’s come. Not just from the prodigy of Akron to king of the basketball world in Miami. But from July 2010 to now. From those first days after the ill-fated, ill-thought “Decision,” to his current place where the respect has come, albeit grudgingly. As long as he laces up his sneakers and snaps on that headband, there will always be that part of the public that will never give him his due. They are the segment of fandom that will never get over a Sports Illustrated cover that made him “The Chosen One.” Hyped up and pre-packaged is always a difficult bar to clearn. They are the ones who’ll always claim they lost respect for him when he bailed out on the Cavaliers and took his talents to South Beach to chase rings, even though Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Kevin Garnett and others had followed similar paths. They are the ones who resented the fact that the Heat roster was filled with All-Star talent, despite the fact that it was different than those Lakers and Celtics teams that ushered in the so-called Golden Age of the 1980s in the NBA. Those are the ones James will never win over, no matter how many he adds to the four MVP awards already in his collection and the two championships he won in Miami. Even in defeat to the Spurs, there was no disputing who was the best individual player on the court in the 2014 Finals. The same as 2013, 2012, 2011. Riley is right when he says too many are too quick to dismiss the Heat achievement of getting to The Finals four years in a row. We always overreact to the last thing we saw and so it is easy to say the Miami glory days are through. Dwyane Wade is definitely far from his peak and some of those sharp edges have been worn from Chris Bosh’s game. -Pat Riley
Posted on: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 05:25:54 +0000
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