LeBron Leaves Arena Without Talking to Media....

[Chardon]

I just saw him on ESPN talking to the media.

Well fill us in?

 

[castor777]

I fail to see how Ben retiring before we would trade him helps us out? What expiring contract do we have to offer in trade if he retires?

because he's not going to retire until he at least talks over a buyout. he's not just packing his bags and calling it quits yet when there's still 15 million on the table for him. he has 3 options.

1. seek a buyout, which ferry can either agree to or find a team that will buy ben out - thus trading him to a team as a $15 million dollar expiring and the team may only need to pay him a quarter of that money to buy him out before the season even starts. this is our ideal option.

2. retire and walk away without getting any money at all and his cap goes off our books a year early. depending on how ferry plays this, he could go well under the cap now and look for free agents this offseason. like i said though, if you had 15 million dollars sitting there, would you really just walk away from it and not get a dime? highly unlikely he actually goes through with this, especially since he believes he deserves a buyout, which he does.

3. say screw it and either play next season or sit on the bench in a suit and tie to screw over the organization. he'd do this if he didn't like the buyout offered or was bluffing about retiring. the good news is we can still trade him as the massive expiring contract that he is, but obviously it's not very appealing to other teams unless he's actually playing.

 

[Damage]

Well fill us in?

What i would report wouldn't really do it justice. You have to look at the mans eyes and see how he's saying what he's saying. He said all the right things, just in very depressed manor.

 

[Damien O'Connel]

Hey ben or someone, can you get us some footage of this?

 

[castor777]

What i would report wouldn't really do it justice. You have to look at the mans eyes and see how he's saying what he's saying. He said all the right things, just in very depressed manor.

well considering a lot of us are still depressed, you can't blame him. the only thing though is, and we all hate to say it, but since the loss he's probably started rethinking his options about his future. that and, more importantly, he can't act all happy and laid back not worrying about losing, because it puts a lot of pressure on ferry to realize he can't go another offseason of saying we've got great chemistry and don't need anymore pieces.

 

[Cavs4sho]

What i would report wouldn't really do it justice. You have to look at the mans eyes and see how he's saying what he's saying. He said all the right things, just in very depressed manor.

"It's hard for me to congratulate somebody after you just lose to them," he said. "I'm a winner. It's not being a poor sport or anything like that. If somebody beats you up, you're not going to congratulate them. That doesn't make sense to me. I'm a competitor. That's what I do. It doesn't make sense for me to go over and shake somebody's hand.

^ This is what Lebron said. Horrible sportsmanship by Lebron. Incredibly classless.

 

[The Oi]

^ This is what Lebron said. Horrible sportsmanship by Lebron. Incredibly classless.

Oh you're back again?

 

[Salem]

LeBron James-style storm off? Not in golf, Tiger Woods says

DUBLIN, Ohio -- Tiger Woods isn't likely to storm off the 18th green on Sunday if he doesn't win the Memorial Tournament.

Woods was asked earlier this week whether athletes should shake hands after a competition. Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James was criticized when he did not shake hands with Orlando Magic players after losing in Game 6 of the NBA's Eastern Conference Finals.

Woods, who attended some of the games in his hometown of Orlando, is a huge sports fan. He tried to put the controversy in historical perspective.

"Well, if you look at it, not everyone shakes hands after every game," he said. "Football, a lot of guys just walk off the field. A lot of sports, they walk off the court or field. Hockey, they line up. It's tradition. And it's part of our sport, the tradition of taking the hat off and shaking hands.

"The history of our game is about sportsmanship. We call penalties on ourselves. I don't see anybody in the NFL saying, 'I'm sorry. I held the guy. Give me 10 yards.' That doesn't happen.

"But I think that what separates our sport from other sports is just the traditions of the sportsmanship, when you doff your cap and shake someone's hand and look them in the eyes and say, 'Well done.'"

Woods said he was rooting for the favorite team of his youth (the Los Angeles Lakers) over the Magic in the NBA Finals.

"I live in Orlando and root for the Magic, but I'm from L.A.," he said. "I grew up watching Magic [Johnson], Kareem [Abdul-Jabbar] and [James] Worthy and Byron [Scott] and all those teams. Before that, [Bob] McAdoo and [Norm] Nixon, you name it. It's hard, but I'm from L.A."

Whatever Tiger

 

[Mr. Glass]

Wow, thank you so much for bringing this back up.

 

[bucksprime99]

Tiger Woods, who utters a string of F_Bombs every time he misses a fairway or has a bad chip shot that would make a sailor blush, who is FAMOUS for being a complete JACKASS to anybody he doesn't like, has the gall to chime in on this.

Amazing.