A Letter From Cavaliers Owner Dan Gilbert


number1 said:
I do agree, it was clear that Lebron quit. I think he fired Brown because he thought that would keep Lebron in Cleveland. What probably makes him more mad is the fact Lebron basically wasted 2 weeks of time while Cleveland missed out on chances to get Joe Johnson, Rudy Gay, and other superstars to replace him. Now Cleveland has to find a SG/SF that can at least half-way fill the void left by James.

If Lebron really wanted to win, Chicago was set up to be "THE" team. They unlike Miami would have a full roster complete with a good supporting cast.

Wade and his two friends have no idea what their team is going to look like. That supporting cast is important, because you never know when an injury will rear its ugly head.
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Heat just signed Mike Miller to a five-year deal.
 



msp1911 said:
2010 draft picks Dexter Pittman and Jarvis Varnado make the team if for no other reason but salary cap concerns. They'll provide cheap depth at C and F.

Three down. Four more to go.
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I think Scottie Reynolds is out floating around somewhere undrafted, they might can pick him up.
 
kendrick said:
Gilbert also told the AP that it's "accountability time" for James.

"He has gotten a free pass," Gilbert said in the interview "People have covered up for [James] for way too long. Tonight we saw who he really is."

Gilbert also told the AP that James quit on the Cavaliers during each o the last two postseasons, most recently during the second round series against the Boston Celtics.

"He quit," Gilbert said. "Not just in Game 5, but in Games 2, 4 and 6. Watch the tape. The Boston series was unlike anything in the history of sports for a superstar."
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He's just confirming what folk have been telling yall on this board for the past 2 seasons.
, even though he's very unprofessional.
 
jag4life said:
He's just confirming what folk have been telling yall on this board for the past 2 seasons.
, even though he's very unprofessional.
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Yea and at the end of the day if Lebron stayed he would be the happiest owner in the nba. Sour grapes
 
jag4life said:
He's just confirming what folk have been telling yall on this board for the past 2 seasons.
, even though he's very unprofessional.
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But WHO made him like that?
Who put his high school games on tv?
Who built this guy like Jesus?
Who made that team of Queen James and a pack of stiffs?
And who knows what else they have done for that guy prior to coming to the NBA.

They made him bigger than the game. This is what happens when you market the player over the team.

And how insulted do the rest of the team feel? Like they don't have some talent? Sorry Telfair and West you guy do stink!

Fans quitting on them and you know ESPN/ABC has dumped them from the broadcast schedule.

Those fans are worst than Lebron. LOL if that team is halfway decent next season or at least better than that mess in Minn.
 
jag4life said:
He's just confirming what folk have been telling yall on this board for the past 2 seasons.
, even though he's very unprofessional.
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The same thing would have been said had Kobe forced the trade in L.A. before Pau came along. It was getting ugly over there as well. All these owners care about is their franchises and pockets. Let one of the players upstage them or force their hand then they get pissed because no one is supposed to do that to these billionaire's. They will use you and then spit on you on the way out when you can't play anymore. Ask Jordan how Abe Pollin played him in Washington. Got him to get fannies in the stands and dismissed him as soon as he could, once he didn't need him anymore.LOL.

If I am Lebron I would try to bust the Cavs arse by 60 points every time the Heat played them. The only thing Lebron did wrong was have that press conference. That was dumb. But Gilbert is being a hypocrite. Because if Lebron had said he is staying in Cleveland then he wouldn't have said isht. LOL. Oh well. The inmates ran the asylum on this one. Good. Sometimes the players have to show these owners who really makes them. Score one for the players on this one. Albeit it will hurt LBJ's image for awhile. Gilbert just made folks feel somewhat sorry for Lebron now. Stupid mofo. The fans don't care that he is mad. They aint going to show up unless the Cavs put a decent product on the floor. He is just buying time. It is half his fault the Cavs were in this mess. Lebron is responsible for some of it. But not all.
 



jag4life said:
He's just confirming what folk have been telling yall on this board for the past 2 seasons.
, even though he's very unprofessional.
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What I am not understanding though...

If Lebron is such a "quitter", and if all these claims that Gilbert is making against James are such a big deal, why did he try so hard to bring James back to the organization?

Talk about your hypocrite.

"THE CAVS WILL WIN A CHAMPIONSHIP BEFORE LEBRON (NOT THE HEAT...BUT LEBRON) DOES". Gilbert may have just killed any hope of them winning...especially if he put it on Lebron's shoulders, ALONE, to stop them...
 
This is a good read.

Yahoo’s Wojo on Lebron James and Dan Gilbert

They ended up with that split-screen of the King’s jersey burned live on his infomercial, as this sad, lost robot sat in a leafy suburban gymnasium with children as props and the world watching, those empty eyes masking a lost, dazed LeBron James(notes). This was the champagne shower for the Championship of Me, an exercise in self-aggrandizement and self-loathing that will have far-reaching implications for the NBA and James. What a spectacle, what a train wreck.

As the worst idea in the history of marketing unfolded, James looked trapped somewhere between despondence and defiance. His bumbling buddy Maverick Carter had walked him into the public execution of his legacy, his image, and there was a part of James that clearly wished he could turn back through the doors and hide. Only, it was too late. No going back now. James goes to the Miami Heat, Cleveland goes into a basketball Hades and LeBron’s legacy becomes that of a callous carpetbagger.

“His brand is [bleep] now,†one high-level NBA official said late Thursday. “He’s destroyed everything.â€

The Championship of Me became the Championship of Flee, because LeBron James doesn’t believe he can be the centerpiece of a title team. He needed Dwayne Wade, a closer, far more than Wade needed him.

Yes, he’s ruined everything. What a wonderful idea: Divorce your childhood sweetheart on national television and tell her, hey, I’ll let you keep the “We are all Witnesses†billboards lording over downtown Cleveland.

“I’m taking my talents to South Beach,†James said, and it was like time stopped because – even for him – this was a moment so devoid of reality and free of concern of consequences. South Beach? He wasn’t picking a basketball team as much as a party. He’s 25 years old, and yet somehow this felt like a cloistered teenager picking a party school for college.

Yes, James will take his talent to South Beach and leave his soul in Cleveland. His hometown won’t hate him as much for leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers as for the way he left them. Leaving never would’ve been easy, but he went out of his way to humiliate them. LeBron James can never go home now. He’s the Browns leaving town, The Fumble, The Shot, all rolled into one colossal disappointment.

Now, Clevelanders truly see it for themselves: He was a fan of the Cowboys, the Yankees – never the Browns and Indians. He was a frontrunner, and he just made the most frontrunner move in the history of the NBA. Off to Miami with Riles, D-Wade and Chris Bosh(notes).

New York would’ve been hard, and maybe Cleveland would’ve been the hardest. With those state tax laws in Florida, he isn’t taking less money with the Heat. He’s just taking less risk and less burden in his championship chase.

“This whole idea that he makes his own decisions, that [bleep] went out the window with this,†one NBA executive said. “Someday, he’s going to look back at this and not believe that he let those kids at LRMR talk him into doing this. This idea that he’s his own man … Come on, he’s a follower. And he’s following all the way to Miami now.â€

This was the train rolling down the tracks from miles and miles away, and James never saw it coming. He should lose his obsession to become the richest athlete ever, because the people surrounding LeBron James are much more likely to leave him broke than a billionaire. Someday, he will fire his business manager Maverick Carter for turning the two-time MVP’s free-agent moment into Geraldo and Al Capone’s vault. Carter used the cover of charity for a historically horrible event and completely destroyed the credibility of his client.

So now people are cheering Dan Gilbert’s manifesto tearing apart James, but no one contributed more to what the world witnessed on Thursday night than the owner’s enabling of James and his inner circle for seven years. Gilbert is the biggest con going, a man who makes his fortune peddling mortgages, and he’ll make his next on casinos in downtown Cleveland. He sells illusions for a living, and now he’s selling the biggest of all: that he’s a victim here, that James betrayed everyone. That’s a lie, and no one ought to dare buy it.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-lebrondecision070910
 
kendrick said:


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Dear Cleveland, All Of Northeast Ohio and Cleveland Cavaliers Supporters Wherever You May Be Tonight;

As you now know, our former hero, who grew up in the very region that he deserted this evening, is no longer a Cleveland Cavalier.

This was announced with a several day, narcissistic, self-promotional build-up culminating with a national TV special of his "decision" unlike anything ever "witnessed" in the history of sports and probably the history of entertainment.

Clearly, this is bitterly disappointing to all of us.

The good news is that the ownership team and the rest of the hard-working, loyal, and driven staff over here at your hometown Cavaliers have not betrayed you nor NEVER will betray you.

There is so much more to tell you about the events of the recent past and our more than exciting future. Over the next several days and weeks, we will be communicating much of that to you.

You simply don't deserve this kind of cowardly betrayal.

You have given so much and deserve so much more.

In the meantime, I want to make one statement to you tonight:

"I PERSONALLY GUARANTEE THAT THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS WILL WIN AN NBA CHAMPIONSHIP BEFORE THE SELF-TITLED FORMER ‘KING’ WINS ONE"

You can take it to the bank.

If you thought we were motivated before tonight to bring the hardware to Cleveland, I can tell you that this shameful display of selfishness and betrayal by one of our very own has shifted our "motivation" to previously unknown and previously never experienced levels.

Some people think they should go to heaven but NOT have to die to get there.

Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.

This shocking act of disloyalty from our home grown "chosen one" sends the exact opposite lesson of what we would want our children to learn. And "who" we would want them to grow-up to become.

But the good news is that this heartless and callous action can only serve as the antidote to the so-called "curse" on Cleveland, Ohio.

The self-declared former "King" will be taking the "curse" with him down south. And until he does "right" by Cleveland and Ohio, James (and the town where he plays) will unfortunately own this dreaded spell and bad karma.

Just watch.

http://www.nba.com/cavaliers/news/gilbert_letter_100708.html
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He must was doing this when he wrote that:

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From the Declaration of Independence

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—
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It's Lebron's right to play for whoever he wants to, just like it was the owner's right to work for whoever he wanted to when he was coming up, and still is. It's no different than any one of us leaving a company to go to a better opportunity, regardless of how we define opportunity.

The owner is showing he's classless in my opinion. Furthermore, he could be closing doors on any future mega-free agents coming to Cleveland with his response.

Regards.
 
I think it was the fact that Lebron had the whole 1-hour long "Decision" announcement show that he approached ESPN about. That $500,000 that the University of Phoenix donated was something that Lebron could have easily done without the TV cameras present. I think had the owner written without the character assault on James, he would have came out of the deal looking clean as a whistle instead of bitter.
 
Wow, it just doesn't get much more disrespectful, UNPROFESSIONAL and BYTCHIFIED than this....and folks talk about Women. :shame:

:tdown: :smh: :tdown:
 
Dude told the Fathead company to change LBJ's poster from 99 dollars to 17.41 and thats the same yearr Benedict Arnold was born...SMH yeah he bitter:shame::lol::lol:
 
SWAC31 said:
Dude told the Fathead company to change LBJ's poster from 99 dollars to 17.41 and thats the same yearr Benedict Arnold was born...SMH yeah he bitter:shame::lol::lol:
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I'm loving it!!! There's nothing like a white Blllionaire scorn!!!! :lol::lol:
 
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