Lebron - Lack of Sportsmanship

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HuskerNKingwood

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I'm sure you've all heard about him storming off the court after the Cavs were eliminated last night, which was startling for a lot of people. Then, there's this quote. Are you f'ing kidding me, LeBron?

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He was also the one who walked into the Spurs' locker room to personally congratulate them after destroying Cleveland a few years back. Lay off the guy, you'd be upset too, HNK, if you were the best athlete in the world and you lost embarrassingly to a mediocre team because you were playing with a bunch of college-level players who let you down every night. I feel sorry for the guy that he has such garbage teammates, though obviously I don't agree with his behavior in this instance.
 
The magic are mediocre? Seriously? And the Cavs had the best record in the league this year....

Lets face it. Lebron scored his points, but the Magic are just a better playoff team. Plain and simple.

I like Lebron, but his comments are whiney and lame.
 
He should have sucked it up. He didn't have to like it -- no one said he had to.

Maybe the NBA should start a Stanley Cup-style tradition of shaking hands after the series is over...
 
I'd say Lebron is far down the list of NBA whiners in general. This wasn't the classiest move ever, but for everyone else to blow it out of proportion just made it that much worse.
 
Next thing you know Lebron is going to start complaining about practice. "How in the hell can I make my teammates better by practicing?"

He should have stayed on the court to congratulate the Magic, but geez, let's give this guy a break.
 
He also did that last season when they were eliminated by the Celtics. It's not a bad thing, but it doesn't take any effort to shake hands and other niceties. FB coaches do this for every game. If LeBron is going to be the leader of that team, this is the kind of stuff he needs to do though. If he ends up a whiner, then so will his teammates.

He also sounds spoiled by saying "I'm a winner" and using that as an excuse. Well dude, you just lost, so maybe you need to learn how to be a loser as well.
 
How's that saying go? "It's not how we act in victory, but how we act in defeat"? Something like that.

I just hope he learns from it and doesn't do it again. I wasn't aware that he did it last year too though.

When you get paid millions, you do stuff you don't like to do, like shake hands with the team that beat you. Its part of the job of representing your team and the NBA.

There are times I have to go to company functions I don't necessarily want to go to, but I go and represent my firm bc its part of my job.
 
Actually, that is the problem. He doesn't want forgiveness because he doesn't think he did anything wrong. He seems like a good guy, but he is showing bad behavior.
 
poor sportsmanship would have been walking up and punching mo williams in the face for sucking *** all series, and then walking off the court without shaking hands. this was just letting his competitiveness get the best of him and a momentary lapse in judgment.

lebron has been pretty much everything right about a mega-popular athlete that you could want, from his on-court play, to his relationship with his teammates, to being very knowledgeable about league history and appreciative of all the comparisons he gets to that history, to his off-court behavior. only someone looking for a reason to not like him (or not watch the nba) is going to let this incident bother them much.

he shouldn't have done it, but in the grand scheme of things it is nothing.


***as for "taking credit" for their failures, what should he have done? apologize for the putting up the most outrageous playoff series stat line ever?
 
I personally feel like it's a tad bit of ******** to work your *** off, get whipped, and then say to someone who beat you : "Way to go!" The loser invariably really wishes he had won, doesn't really feel like his team is worse and, if he does, then he is essentially saying (like Leinart) "You deserve a lot of credit for beating a team that was really better than you".

It's like saying to the refs "Actually, I DID hold" or "I did trap the ball", etc. It shows integrity, but it just isn't done any more. Not even in tennis. Maybe a bit in golf, but that's about it.

If there really is an issue of sportsmanship, it's the winner's duty to make the effort to give the gracious loser props. It's not the loser's responsibility to "congratulate" the winner.

The press conference is a whole different deal. Your big fat ridiculous paycheck is paid by - Hell your sport exists - because of the fans. That's why you give 100% on your field, court, course, pool, etc. (I know there aren't many fans who go to pools, but I do because my kid does so it came to mind). The press conference is PROBABLY part of your duty as a pro player.

My two cents.
 
It's kind of hard to not go with the masses on this one. On one hand, it kind of sounds cool to say "I'm just different from almost every athlete there is and if the large majority of the population thinks I'm a poor sport for being this way, I don't care." until you realize that kids that idolize guys like Labron will pick up on this and start storming of the court after losing in a Little Dribblers game.

It's a character flaw, pure and simple.
 
Poor sportsmanship, and there is no excuse for it.
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