Posted on 06/13/2011 4:33:49 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
LeBron James reacts during Sunday night's NBA Finals game against the Dallas Mavericks. Dallas' Dirk Nowitzki is at rear.
When the Dallas Mavericks finished off the Miami Heat in Game 6 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night, the happiness in Dallas may have been eclipsed in only one place, Cleveland, the city that Heat star LeBron James left to take his talents to South Beach.
CNN affiliate WOIO-TV in Cleveland had a one-word headline on its sports page under a picture of James holding up his Heat jersey: "LOSER!"
"LeBron James still has no rings," the site's story began.
Cleveland.com quickly jumped on James' failure to bring a championship to Miami, something he promised would happen multiple times when he and former Toronto Raptor Chris Bosh joined Heat superstar Dwayne Wade in Miami.
The site posted a video of James, Wade and Bosh made as Miami celebrated their arrival last July.
"It looks even sillier after the Dallas Mavericks clinched the NBA title with their win at Miami tonight," the site says. "Hear James say, 'The way we're gonna challenge each other to get better in practice, once the game starts, I mean it's gonna be easy.'
"Best of all, hear James count up of how many championships Miami will win. No limit."
Cavs fans may be chuckling over that Monday morning, but Yahoo! Sports Dan Wetzel writes they were laughing at James as they watched from a Cleveland bar during Sunday night's game.
"A crowd of Clevelanders gathered here to watch their onetime hero turned all-time traitor, and with each disinterested LeBron offensive possession, each failed LeBron chase down of Jason Terry, each embarrassing LeBron crunch-time turnover, the prevailing emotion was simple.
"Laughter.
"They weren’t hating LeBron here. They were laughing at him," Wetzel writes.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.blogs.cnn.com ...
I just woke up. The Heat lost?
LeBron was stopped by a guy on the street who asked if he had change for a dollar.
“Sure,” said LaBron as he dug in his pocket.
“Hey,” said the guy asking for change. “This is only 75 cents.”
“Sorry,” replied LaBron. “I don’t have a fourth quarter.”
The Clippers will win an NBA championship before that happens.
Oops. Writing about LeBron and I could only get the spelling of his name right about 33% of the time. Even writing about guy rubs off on you.
LeBron is a DB, but Cleveland needs to get over their obsession with LeBron.
That’s nothing. When I woke up, my response was “The Heat played?”
Haven’t been interested in NBA Thug Ball in some time.
> The ultimate insult, ouch!
King Dirk....wit da ring. Bron wit da bling.
To the city of Cleveland- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kslHr7_9Zac
You’ve heard about LeBron’s cell phone, haven’t you? It only works on vibrate as it doesn’t have any rings.
Mavs loves the Cavs. Brons shortcut will turn out to be a long detour instead. Traitors don’t make good kings anyway.
Got another one for ya
Tomorrow is LeBron James work day..everyone gets off 12 minutes early..
basketball sucks anyway...but I think it’s funny...
Agree. Cleveland needs to get out of the hatorade.
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