So Tell Me, Why Can't I Dislike Him?
Hate is a strong word, and I don't believe that I am a hater of anybody I do not know. There are people who I dislike, but until I meet them in person and they prove their dislikefulness, or dislikeability I will not truly hate any celebrity, in and outside of sports. I just don't understand that, since these NBA Finals started, it seems that more and more people want people to stop "hating" on LeBron. Why? Why do you care? Does my opinion really matter that much in the grand scheme of things? Heck, does your buddy not liking LeBron really matter this much to you? People dislike Aaron Rodgers persona, but we don't call them out. Or the JJ Watt haters. Or the Steph Curry haters. There are hundreds of athletes that have hate parties for, and yet you don't hear anybody except ravid Packers fans like myself saying "stop hating Aaron Rodgers". So please stop it with this LeBron hate nonsense, all it does is prove that I'm more right by the second.
I know he's a great basketball player, and I like how he plays like Oscar Robertson. I don't like him as a person. It has nothing to do with basketball, but it has everything to do with why I don't like the Kardashians and Kanye West. LeBron, willingly or unwillingly, has brought unnecessary drama into the NBA. Such as the whole tour of six teams (I think it was Miami, LA Clippers, the Knicks, Houston, Cleveland and maybe Dallas, I don't remember completely) prior to deciding to take his talents to South Beach. Then, he did it again two years ago with his letter. It was all about creating drama, and I remember watching something on ESPN and then next thing you know, the whole world, not just ESPN, was focused on LeBron going to Cleveland. Many players have followed suit with things like this, such as Carmelo Anthony, and Kevin Durant will do this, this summer. He brings so much drama outside of the court into the game, and I'm not a big soap opera guy or "reality" tv guy, and I don't want to watch the NBA become James' Shore or Keeping Up with LeBrondashians. It's already started with "game of zones" on Bleacher Report.
Then you have the he-said, she-said stuff these last two years on the Cavs, especially between him, Kevin Love and David Blatt. You have the fact that he feels the need to act as the general manger of the Cleveland Cavaliers, and hand pick his teams wherever he chooses to be (don't think, why wouldn't he have Curry, Durant, Carmelo, DeAndre Jordan, Chris Paul, etc. because that retort is absurd since that is an impossible scenario). There's the constant whining and flopping on the court, and I know that if there were stats for those, he'd be in the top 5 in both of those categories along with everything else he's that he's in the top 5 for. There's on court acts such as the step-over of Draymond Green, the smug look he made when he dunked on Jason Terry when he was on Boston https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkxcY45bP2U , you could've helped the guy up man, if you were this great guy you pretend to be.
I'm not a hater, because I don't hate anybody that I don't know. But, I've given you a long list of reasons why I do not like him, and there's countless other things I could have put on here. But why do all of you sports talk people, and people I see out and about have to act like it's wrong to dislike him. (yes, using the word hate to describe something is easy, but it's truly hating something is what counts) Yeah, maybe I'm overreacting a little, maybe I need to focus on other things. If this stuff keeps happening, I won't have a problem with that. So tell me, why can't I dislike him?
