I never liked LeBron James. I just used to have no opinion in particular about him other than that he was a supremely gifted athlete. Now I don't like him. But not because “he doesn’t care about winning.”
Slow down; we don’t know that yet. Winning is probably second place to The Cult of Me for LeBron. BUT if he goes down to Miami and rips off three consecutive titles, then the people that said he didn’t care about winning are going to look really dumb. You don’t win titles by accident. You win them by being very talented and wanting it more than everyone else. See Bryant, Kobe & Jordan, Michael. Cf. Malone, Karl & Ewing, Patrick.
He's always had the first; that was clear before he joined the league. He's never shown the second, yet. But children are not born with an assassin's heart. That is created. Not by a life of being told he is the King.
But maybe by the only real boss he's ever had telling the whole world that he is a quitter. Dan Gilbert may have waited until the day after LeBron left town to do what he could never do for seven years: add the missing piece to make LBJ a winner.
I've never thought he didn't care about winning. The reason he says he's "taking his talents to South Beach" is because he cares about winning. My disappointment comes from the fact that he apparently doesn't believe he can win without the likes of D. Wade on his team (or is it him on D. Wade's team?). Lack of confidence is not a trait I would expect to see in a self professed "King."
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