Why LeBron will stay in Cleveland

[Cleveland's Finest]

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Here's a few reasons:

 

1. Home: Only so many stars have the opportunity to play in their home state their whole career. It adds a special meaning to his impact on this city and it's sports world. Also, it doesn't get any easier family wise for him. He's got everything situated and it won't change if he stays here. No relocating his family. Home is the one thing Cavs fans can use to connect with LeBron.

 

2. The Cavaliers Organization: Dan Gilbert emptied his wallet for this team and gave LeBron a better supporting cast each year. Not only that, but they built a fantastic practice facility for the Cavs which is one of the finest. The names this franchise has brought in for LeBron are endless: Larry Hughes, Eric Snow, Donyell Marshall, Wally Szczerbiack, Delonte West, Shaq, Antawn Jamison, Ben Wallace, Mo Williams, Joe Smith, etc.... He wants to be on a team that is aware of the situation at hand and is willing to act on impulse if it feels it can be better for the team.

 

3. The Future: Does LeBron want to leave Cleveland knowing he never won a title for them? Leave unfinished business out there to never be fulfilled? He didn't waste 7 seasons in Cleveland to make such a somber exit.

 

4: The Most Important Reason: His final home game will not be a 32 point loss. What a terrible way to go out of a city that loved you even during the bad times. Is that really how he wants to remember his final home game in Cleveland? 7 years in the making leading up, not to a championship for Cleveland, but to this? A 32 point blowout at home?

 

There's no other way to put it. He's as big of a star as he is now. Just look at the mass media. How much bigger of a star can he really be if he goes to New York? And what do we do with that big poster of him across the street from the Q? And does he really want to go to Chicago and, rather than continue his own legacy, follow in the steps of MJ and always be second fiddle to him in that city? Also, Cav fans are very loyal to LeBron. A bad game and fans still believe. If he goes to New York, a playoff performance like this could ruin his reputation even more.

 

Maybe everyone's being reactionary because of the way the playoffs ended so soon and in such manner, but I still remain confident that since he has unfinished business, he will return.

Edited May 15, 2010 by Cleveland's Finest

[Warren2ThaG]

No way he retires a Cav, he's gone. He wants the fame.

[Check my Stats]

He cannot pass on the chance to play with a superstar like Rose as well as a potential 2nd star like Joe Johnson in Chicago. Yes it is bad if he leaves Cleveland but like KG says, loyalty will hurt him if he stays, yes the team emptied their wallet and got him what? A broken down Shaq? Mo WIlliams? Larry Hughes? Jamison? Management failed LeBron just as badly as LeBron failed in bringing a title, no player is bringing that core of players a title, sorry.

[Cleveland's Finest]

KG was what, 31 when he left?

 

LeBron is 25....

 

And LeBron requested that management got those players. LBJ thought Jamison was a better choice than Amare.

Edited May 15, 2010 by Cleveland's Finest

[Jenneral]

KG was what, 31 when he left?

 

LeBron is 25....

 

And LeBron requested that management got those players. LBJ thought Jamison was a better choice than Amare.

And KG has said many times that he now wishes he would have left sooner.

 

"Loyalty is something that hurts you at times because you can't get youth back. I can honestly say that if I can go back and do my situation over, knowing what I know now with this organization, I'd of done it a little sooner."

 

Read more: http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/66567/20100514/kg_to_lebron_loyalty_hurts_you_because_you_cant_get_youth_back/#ixzz0nyL52VFN

[Check my Stats]

He has given them 7 years of his career, probably over half of his dominant portion of his career, he doesn't owe them anything. Who cares who LBJ wanted? He isn't the GM, it is/was up to management to build a contender around LeBron and they have failed to do so, and in result they don't have a ring. If LBJ leaves to play for a superior team like the Bulls you cannot blame him, however him leaving for the Knicks, you can blame him.

[Real Deal]

The one reason why he would leave? Because he has unfinished business.

 

And that business will stay unfinished if he returns to Cleveland for another 5-6 years.

[Sky]

Where does Bron have the best chance of winning? Not Cleveland. Shaq and Z are in decline, Jamison is a matador, Mo is a one-way player. In Chicago he'd have Rose and Noah as a young foundation that is clearly superior to the Cavs.

 

As for born here, raised here, imo that's a reason he leaves. Time to sow the wild oats. Go to the big city. Leaving the home turf is a sign of maturity, next step in life.

 

Brion is into Bron first, foremost, always. What's best for Bron is leaving. Better chance at a ring. More opportunity for ancillary money. More fame. His priority isn't loyalty and home it's self, gloabl icon, billionaire. Those goals are best reached elsewhere. I'd be shocked if he stays.

[Guru]

Why Lebron won't stay in Cleveland:

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[Cleveland's Finest]

The one reason why he would leave? Because he has unfinished business.

 

And that business will stay unfinished if he returns to Cleveland for another 5-6 years.

 

I didn't know you knew the future.

[Real Deal]

I didn't know you knew the future.

Well, in that case, same to you. I'm not the one that created a topic as to why LeBron will stay in Cleveland.

[Poe]

At first I thought LeBron would stay, but only because I thought the Cavs would at least make it to the Finals. 7 years, all this money spent, and he still doesn't have room to have a single average game (and I use the term "average" lightly).

 

The facts are clear. Cleveland is not a highly regarded city, he has not won a championship there despite all the money spent for him, and they do not have a bright future at their current state, even if LeBron remains on the team.

 

This whole "it's his home-town" and "he has unfinished business" [expletive] is a load of garbage. He wants what is best for himself, and that is a high-market team that will help fulfill his dream as a billionaire athlete. The championship comes second, and the chances of that are greater with any team other than the Cavs.

[Art]

None of your reasons have any substantial weight.