Where does Lebron end up?

[mvblair]

Cavs legend Austin Carr dumps on LeBron:

Cavs Unveil New Uniforms in Post-LeBron Era - By TOM WITHERS, AP Sports Writer, August 18, 2010

Austin Carr fondly remembers his glory days playing guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 1970s....

“We were 12 men deep,” Carr said as he helped the Cavs unveil new uniforms for 2010-11. “You knew every night we were going to play 100 percent. Nobody was going to quit.”

Realizing he had taken a shot at former Cavaliers’ star LeBron James, Carr raised his eyebrows and shrugged his shoulders.

At this point, what else can be said?

....The Cavs insist they are trying to move on, but James was again in the news being quoted in an upcoming GQ interview that he feels Gilbert never cared about him and his hatred for Cleveland dates back to his days as a kid growing up in Akron.

Carr, who was the league’s No. 1 overall draft pick in 1971 and Cleveland’s first bona fide hoops star, remains disappointed in James’ departure. The two-time MVP announced his decision in a prime-time TV special, breaking the hearts of his biggest fans.

“As an ex-player, I might have left myself,” said Carr, a color analyst for the team. “So I don’t begrudge him for that. But the way he did it was unprofessional and uncalled for.”

...Although it seems the Cavs are trying to move on, James’ magazine interview has reopened the issue. He’s the one who can’t seem to let things go.

“That’s his problem,” said Carr, who cried unashamedly the night the Cavs won the NBA draft lottery and the rights to draft James. “Not ours.”

[rikhardur]

New Nike ad with Lebron:

[Dtown]

okay, Lebron isn't my favorite person at the moment, but that was a cool commercial

Nice take that at Barkley.

[dxjayrock2008]

New Nike ad with Lebron:

Cool Nike TV Ad! What should LeBron do? Lol.

[Fedfan]

ppffttt ...

That is much better ad:

[sinobball]

Cool Nike TV Ad! What should LeBron do? Lol.

How about this version:

[giljr]

We never know where would lebron be in the future. maybe he'll stick with wade and bosh or go to another team. I really love lebron plays and surely he'll have a championship ring someday.

[sinobball]

This is not fake

http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2011/06/13/kasich-takes-swipe-lebron-james

[BBallfanJ]

I have to say that I have lost all respect for Lebron now. He could've been a man and congratulated Dirk and the Mavs. Instead he decided to belittle fans who decided to root against him, basically saying he's better than them. LeBron needs to take a long look in the mirror and ask himself what kind of legacy he wants to leave years from now. Does he want to be remembered as a player loved by the fans and who is appreciative of the fans - or does he want to go out a hated, reviled and spoiled basketball star?

[dxjayrock2008]

http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/20...e-lebron-james

Thank you Ohio! Lol.

[Raze Lupin]

I have to say that I have lost all respect for Lebron now. He could've been a man and congratulated Dirk and the Mavs. Instead he decided to belittle fans who decided to root against him, basically saying he's better than them. LeBron needs to take a long look in the mirror and ask himself what kind of legacy he wants to leave years from now. Does he want to be remembered as a player loved by the fans and who is appreciative of the fans - or does he want to go out a hated, reviled and spoiled basketball star?

It's becoming obvious that people will not like him no matter what he does. After the game Dirk ran off court to compose himself. He wasn't immediately availible for the "handshake". Lebron congratulated MAVS players after the game. He also congratulated MAVS team during the post game interviews. His legacy depends more on peoples perception rather than reality. Lebrons legacy is done he's become OJ Simpson without even killing anyone.....

[mvblair]

http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/20...e-lebron-james

Thank you Governor Kasich for running cops, firefighters, teachers, and nurses off the road and then moving onto more important business like making sports players honorary Ohioans. [QUOTE= BBallfanJInstead he decided to belittle fans who decided to root against him, basically saying he's better than them.[/QUOTE] That is exactly what he said. Paraphrasing, LeBron said "I'm better than you guys and your miserable little lives."

LeBron needs to take a long look in the mirror and ask himself what kind of legacy he wants to leave years from now. Does he want to be remembered as a player loved by the fans and who is appreciative of the fans - or does he want to go out a hated, reviled and spoiled basketball star?

Raze Lupin is right that LeBron's legacy depends on perception, but LeBron has done absolutely nothing to counter those perceptions or to give people a reason to think he is actually a good guy.

Compare him with players like Dirk or Duncan or even Derrick Rose, and you can really see why he is disliked.

[Khalid80]

As a psychology graduate I always enjoy reading such type of articles

Can LeBron Transform From Choker To Champ? A Sport Psychologist Has A Game Plan

by: Eric Adelson

The Decision has led to The Derision, and many are now calling LeBron James a choker.

Let's stay away from that label. But let's also ask: Why do great athletes sometimes fail to show up in important situations? Why did James, so dominant in fourth quarters leading up to the NBA Finals -- don't forget his incredible finish against the Pistons in the '07 playoffs -- start making high school mistakes when it counted most?

And is there a way he can confront this problem and overcome it?

There are answers, and they go all the way back to the 1989 Stanley Cup Final. One of the Calgary Flames, coming back to the dressing room right before the opening faceoff in Game 1, turned to the team's sport psychologist and made a confession:

"I'm scared."

The psychologist was named Hap Davis, and he has spent more than a generation examining why athletes succumb to pressure. He thinks he's found an answer, and it sheds light on both LeBron James' poor play in and Dirk Nowitzki's emotional response to winning in a whole new way.

In moments of fear, the human body produces cortisol, which helps its fight-or-flight mechanism. When you hear a story about a mother lifting a stalled car off her child to save his life, that's cortisol at work. But cortisol is not what a great athlete needs in a defining moment. In fact, cortisol may get in the way of an essential ingredient for athletic performance: Testosterone.

"That's what comes with ability to stay in the moment -- frontal cortex activation, motor cortex activation and elevation in testosterone," Davis says.

Translation: Athletes who "stay focused" (to use a cliché) keep producing testosterone, which stimulates the part of the brain wired for motor skills such as shooting or dribbling.

"What we've seen in winners is huge testosterone-to-cortisol balance," Davis says. "When they're on their game, we see evidence that there may be an elevation of testosterone. When people are losing, they are overwhelmed with emotion. That's cortisol."

Now here's the twist: Davis has found that when top athletes have a traumatic experience in a game or event, and then return to a similar moment (such as the fourth quarter of the NBA Finals), they often start producing cortisol. Davis has worked for years with the Canadian Olympic team, and he's seen swimmers do perfectly well for years, in every competition, and then fall apart when they get to a scenario reminiscent of one where they struggled four or eight years earlier. It's the exact same stroke or race, but it's a completely different moment. The athlete responds not to the event, but to the moment.

In fact, whenever athletes start thinking about the pride or pain of winning or losing, they can become overwhelmed with emotion and unable to perform the basic duties of playing in the present.

So you see the brilliance of what Dirk Nowitzki did in Game 6. He held his emotions back until the second the game ended and the title was won. Then he hustled to the locker room to cry. He was completely unemotional and then he was completely emotional. It was the opposite of what so-called "chokers" do.

So what's the best way to overcome this? How can LeBron James turn back into the fourth-quarter beast he used to be? Move on and forget the 2011 NBA Finals ever happened?

Nope. Davis says the best way to erase the past is to dwell on it. Watch the failure again and again and again on tape until it evokes zero emotional response. Watch the disaster until you're so numb to it that it feels like someone else is doing the failing.

"I've worked with too many athletes who say, 'Screw it, it's a bad game,' ” Davis says. "Some people will get away with 'Forget about it.' But most athletes will find that's a bad idea. They haven't got past the emotional experience."

Davis assisted on an experiment in which athletes were asked to watch a video of themselves in a game, and then perform squat jumps. Athletes who watched themselves doing well jumped significantly higher than those who watched themselves do poorly.

So according to this theory, LeBron should spend the summer watching the fourth quarter of every Finals game. At some point, he'll be able to break down that wretched film just like a coach would. Then, when he returns to the waning minutes of a Finals game, he'll be driven more by the desire to correct the mistakes than the fear of reliving them.

And what happens if an athlete finds himself coming undone in a game? Well, that's what happened to the unnamed Calgary Flames player in 1989. Davis pulled him off the bench and told him to get on the exercise bike and race like mad for a couple of minutes. That got the testosterone flowing and stimulated the motor cortex. The player took the ice and did fine. The Flames won the Cup.

LeBron James will probably get back to the Finals, maybe within a year. The sports world will be watching to see how he reacts at crunch time. But how he reacts this summer might make the difference between "choker" and "champion."

http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201106/can-lebron-transform-choker-champ-sport-psychologist-has-game-plan

[dxjayrock2008]

Another Hitler Parody:LeBron and Miami Heat choked in 2011 NBA Finals.

Follow the link please. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eES8...ature=youtu.be