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While I’m not what most people would call a sports fan. I know how most of the games are played and the major rules of the games but would be hard pressed to name more than a handful of people who play professional sport. That said I do like things within the sporting world and one of the things which gives me joy is that Lebron James lost again in bid for a championship win. As I’ve said I’m not a fan so I should give a hill of beans about any of it and I really don’t. I did not watch a single minute of basketball this year to include the championship games. However when I read the headlines that San Antonio had won defeating Miami I took joy in the knowledge that Lebron had lost. I don’t really know that much about him other than he is good at the game not necessarily great but better than most, but for some reason though I can not stand this man. I really should be indifferent about his success or failure in it all but I don’t like him. I do however like Dennis Rodman, more for his ability on the court back when he played and also for his understanding of the politics of basketball in the modern day. Back to Labron, he may be a genuinely nice man which does make it hard to justify this dislike. However I don’t care and I’m not alone in this. Lots of people don’t like him and by a lot I mean easily a million people if not more. People say he is arrogant, cocky, out of touch, disrespectful, didn’t pay his dues, disloyal and on and on. To say a professional athlete is arrogant is to say the sky is blue but I think many people misconstrue confidence as arrogant. To get to the top level of a game where thousands fail takes real skill not made up bravado you have to at some point cut it or you are out. Yes he may appear to be arrogant but you don’t hang your head with self doubt and make it to the NBA, so I can’t really fault him if he comes across as arrogant. I don’t watch enough nor care enough to listen to him speak to know if he is cocky or not but I’ll give him a pass and say that he may not be any more cocky than the next ten guys in the league. Not paying his dues. Kobe entered out of high school and while he did get some ribbing about it, it doesn’t seem to be the same level as Lebron. The corruption of the NCAA doesn’t make going to college a strongly valid point to argue about paying your dues especially if your college is as corrupt as the mafia if anything skipping college is just saying hey I’m going to make money for four years while you all hope you don’t suffer a career ending injury while in college. As to the other critiques of disloyalty and disrespect all of Cleveland can hate the man if they want for leaving but seems to me most ball players don’t stay in the same town anyway those days have gone away. Overall I can’t really put a finger on why I don’t like Lebron James, I just don’t. Perhaps he is the embodiment of everything I don’t like about professional sport in the modern day and just has the bad luck of being that for a lot of people. Because it doesn’t matter how well he does more people want to hate Lebron than seem to want to love him. ESPN is the propaganda machine for the church of sport, the announcers and field reporters at the missionaries and priest of this cult. Pontificating every morning, noon and night they way of the church of sport. The fervor and reverence made in the name of sport is so akin to religion it is scary. Masses are held in the cathedrals of sport every day of the week. High holy days are spread throughout the year and for some mass migrations / pilgrimages are made for the faithful to pay homage to the sport of their faith Is Lebron any guiltier than anyone else in the system? No he is not but for some reason he is the one at whom they cast stones and I’m guilty too. I have no reason not to like him but I don’t and as shallow as it sounds I probably won’t. Does Lebron give a shit about me or hell all the haters? Not even a little bit mainly because he can buy and sell any of a hundred haters ten times over. The thing to consider too is that Lebron is a symptom of a machine we made or at least allowed to be made and he is the Frankenstein come to life. So to say you hate Lebron in part you are saying you don’t like yourself and in the spirit of full disclosure that is true in my case but I don’t hate myself as much as I don’t like him but it does bother me a little that I take joy in his failure to succeed. Well, that’s all for now, other stuff to follow most likely Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday Thank you for reading, please subscribe, Have a great day and play nice in the neighborhood. Ciao, PS 3 Gamer Tag: invisible don PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015