Columnist Gregg Doyel has a message for Cleveland fans when it comes to LeBron James on Thursday --- Please don't act in an irrational or deranged way because everyone expects it.
A fan films LeBron James' jerseys burning in a short-lived fire outside Harry Buffalo in Lakewood. Gregg Doyel of CBSSports.com has a message for Cleveland fans when it comes to LeBron James on Thursday --- Please don't act in an irrational or deranged way because everyone expects it.
They think you might hurt LeBron James when he returns to town on Thursday, whether physically or emotionally or both. They think you're creepy. Dangerous.
Don't give them what they expect to see. Not any of them. Not the abnormally large police presence that will be on hand, guarding the hallway outside the Miami Heat locker room and protecting The Chosen One's path to and from the court. Not the NBA, which advised the Cavaliers to multiply its security for this one game. Not the Cavaliers, who have taken all sorts of proactive measures to make sure you, yes you, don't turn Cleveland into an international punch line.
Doyel goes on to write that sure LeBron stabbed this city in the back, but don't use that as an excuse to embarrass Cleveland with inappropriate behavior.
Don't do it. Not to James, not to yourself, not to us.