Lebron James contract

[schro]

I was amazed by the unprofessionalism displayed by the Cavaliers owner (Dan Gilbert) with his comments.
LeBron is an employee (albeit a highly paid employee) not an owner. It wasn't like he pulled an Art Modell.

I can understand the anger, and I do feel for the fans of Cleveland, but let's be adults here.

Hey, at least my Warriors got an All Star PF (David Lee) for a back up small forward, a back up center, and a never-was PF.

[Gambrinus]

Hey did you guys hear that Lebron is going to play for the Heat    It's bad when my Mom knows that he went to the Heat.   Between his square dance get up, him referring to himself in the 3rd person, and the barrage of "at the end of the day" I'm glad it's over.  I've never seen a guy so full of himself..........except for the Cavs owner!  What an idiot.   

[ChallengeMe]

I was amazed by the unprofessionalism displayed by the Cavaliers owner (Dan Gilbert) with his comments.

I read that letter right after LeBron made the announcement. I thought as well that it was very unprofessional. Using comic sans font, and some of the comments.

But Dan Gilbert is too smart to make a mistake like that. He started his company from scratch and grew it to a billion dollar corporation. He was very smart the way he ran the Cavs. (He also got very lucky 7 years ago in the draft.) He had that letter written long before Thursday. He knew LeBron was gone. LeBron never returned a single message Gilbert left for him since the season ended. Yes, LeBron did quit in the playoffs; he knew then he was leaving. (talk about a lack of class, James has none). He knew he would receive a lot of national backlash. But he knew he needed to get the Cleveland community to rally around the Cav's, and if he had to humiliate himself, he would. It worked.

[SBG Math Guy]

Yeah teams can trade players whenever they want.  They can refuse to give a new contract whenever they want, but when a player who gave 7 years of his services to cleveland UNDER PAID by the way, let's cry about how it's unprofessional.

Grow up owners.  Players have full control now and go players!!!!  Look at the cavs owner, you know what Lebron could have gone somewhere else for those 7 years.  You got enough money from everything involving Lebron.  Now get over it.    So what if he wants to try a new team?  It's not like Cleveland would keep him forever.  No, if they felt that there was a win situation for them by trading him they would do it.

[schro]

Gilbert's rants seem to be all about loyalty. Why else would he be critical of a hometown hero leaving? But I find it interesting that Gilbert:

1) Fired the Coach of the Year (Brown)
2) Fired the GM that helped assemble that team (ferry)
3) Tried to lure Tom Izzo from Michigan State for bookoo bucks.

Gilbert is acting like a whiny little school girl that got dumped.

Sorry, just my take.

[b.driscoll]

How did the planet not tip on it's axis?. After all,  it does revolve around lebron.