Not mad. Your previous comment seemed to imply that people were wrong for blaming him for the “chosen one” nickname. While he may have been given the nickname by others, he’s the one who chose to tattoo that shit across his back. Regardless of how much you love the guy, you have to admit that is ridiculous. Athletes I typically root for would have been humble about the praise being bestowed upon them, even at 18.

Hey man, I’m not here to knock you. People gain motivation from different sources. If your motivation of hate/disdain/anger at LeBron is a tattoo that says Chosen One, then more power to you. I just have difficulty understanding the intensity of those emotions based on a tattoo.

Hating on a man for a tatoo he got as a kid. Of all the tats in the world, why would you be mad at a tat an 18 year old kid with an innocuous nickname?

Not mad. Your previous comment seemed to imply that people were wrong for blaming him for the “chosen one” nickname. While he may have been given the nickname by others, he’s the one who chose to tattoo that shit across his back. Regardless of how much you love the guy, you have to admit that is ridiculous. Athletes I typically root for would have been humble about the praise being bestowed upon them, even at 18.

It’s kind of like Obama and his supporters. The supporters all said that he’s the answer and will turn things around. Now that they realize Obama is just a blowhard and incapable of anything, they have disappeared.

We haven’t disappeared, we’re just too busy hiding his real birth certificate from you freedom fighters.

SC hated alexander when he started calling himself alexander the great at 20 for the same reason.

I don’t know how Carl Hubbell made the Hall of Fame with his arrogance.

And everyone knows SI tattooed “CHOSEN 1″ across his back against his will too.

Hating on a man for a tatoo he got as a kid. Of all the tats in the world, why would you be mad at a tat an 18 year old kid with an innocuous nickname? Kenyon Martin can go through life with lipstick tatooed on the side of his head, but LeBron gets hated on for a tat that says Chosen One? The LeBron Hate Bandwagon is just like any other bandwagon; the riders don’t even know why they’re on board.

And everyone knows SI tattooed “CHOSEN 1″ across his back against his will too.

Because if you were 18, didn’t know your father, mom was in prison, and everyone you know is telling you you’re the best player ever, you’d be making just super responsible decisions all the time.

My parents were awesome, I had no one telling me I was great, and I did retarded shit all the time. 10 years later no one was holding me to.

He should be celebrated for what he’s overcome rather than vilified because he didn’t have anyone to teach him better.

He was on the cover of Sports Illustrated under the title Chosen One as a JUNIOR in HIGH SCHOOL. That name was bestowed upon him, just as Sports Illustrated did with Tiger before and Bryce Harper afterwards. He didn’t do “nothing” at that point in time to earn have people hit him with those monikers. Sports Illustrated didn’t put a high school Junior on its cover because he hadn’t done anything. ESPN didn’t televise his high school basketball games because he hadn’t accomplished anything. They didn’t play his games in arenas because he hadn’t done anything. The dude was a prodigy and everyone wanted to watch and/or have a piece of him and he came through. Thats why they called him King James and the Chosen One, and all things considered he has handled it and come through it exceptionally well.

And everyone knows SI tattooed “CHOSEN 1″ across his back against his will too.

I’m not sure how others feel, but this is where my dislike from LeBron stemmed from. The acceptance of monikers like the Chosen One before he’d done anything of note in the Association. Mistakes an 18 year old kid who didn’t know how to handle success was supposed to make. He’s now accomplished a lot of things as an individual and I’ll never doubt his athletic ability. He’s going to win a team award this year and it will be because he was the greatest and most valuable player on that team 95% of the nights they took the floor.

He was on the cover of Sports Illustrated under the title Chosen One as a JUNIOR in HIGH SCHOOL. That name was bestowed upon him, just as Sports Illustrated did with Tiger before and Bryce Harper afterwards. He didn’t do “nothing” at that point in time to earn have people hit him with those monikers. Sports Illustrated didn’t put a high school Junior on its cover because he hadn’t done anything. ESPN didn’t televise his high school basketball games because he hadn’t accomplished anything. They didn’t play his games in arenas because he hadn’t done anything. The dude was a prodigy and everyone wanted to watch and/or have a piece of him and he came through. Thats why they called him King James and the Chosen One, and all things considered he has handled it and come through it exceptionally well.

Old Kobe is still a douche.

You leave Kobe out of this!

/ breaks bottle on table

/answer to those who say The Decision was for charity.

It is really unlikely they will amnesty Boozer….Zach Lowe covered this very well

Not this summer. Next summer.

no, no superstar has ever had a TMZ produced narcissist show to announce the results of testing free agency.

boxing

(and that no superstar has ever done)

no superstar has ever tested free agency when their contract was up?

as for undermining mike brown…mike brown was another shovelful away from a cave in as it was. dude prolly would’ve been fired if lbj stayed simply for incompetence.

Young Lebron was quite a douche.

Old Kobe is still a douche.

see, i dont have to get over it at all. why should i? its something that i really hated (and that no superstar has ever done), along with his quitting and undermining his coach. i will give lebron credit as he deserves it, and he certainly deserves it here. He has played his ass off. but i in no way need to get over it.