The main concern going into the Cleveland Cavaliers game with the Miami Heat on Thursday night was that the fans of Cleveland would do something to embarrass the city. Not once was it mentioned that it might actually be the team that did the embarrassing, but that is exactly what happened as the Cavaliers went down 118-90 without a fight.
LeBron James and Daniel Gibson Are Still BFFsNot once was it mentioned that it might actually be the team that did the embarrassing, but that is exactly what happened as the Cavaliers went down 118-90 without a fight.
While national writers and talk show hosts referred to Cleveland as a jilted lover upset that LeBron James left and took his talents to South Beach, Cavaliers guard Mo Williams summed it up perfectly by saying that Thursday’s game would be like an ex-girlfriend showing up at your wedding.
What Williams did not do, however, was check with his teammates to see how they feel about their ex-girlfriends. Apparently most of the players on the Cavaliers, especially Daniel Gibson, have great relationships with their exes, as was shown Thursday night in the treatment that the players gave James.
While Williams was referring to an ex-girlfriend showing up uninvited and to his credit treated it as such, James got a personalized invitation from his other former teammates and was even given a seat at the head table and his own bottle of champagne.
James walked onto the court and gave a few hugs and shared a few laughs and then like an ex-girlfriend showing up at your wedding in a white wedding gown, James walked over to the scorer’s table and did his normal talc powder toss with zero resistance from the Cavaliers players.
LeBron James With His New Beaus Chris Bosh And Dwyane WadeThe way the Cavaliers players acted was as if they and James left each other on good terms, a mutual breakup if you will, one that had a chance at working itself out.
Everyone knows that is not the case, though, as James left the city of Cleveland, the fans and especially his former teammates, in a way that should have been unforgivable by any definition. Unfortunately, the players did not seem to mind.
He had at least a two-year affair with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh going back to the 2008 Olympics, and even when he was with his team he cheated on them by staying an extra night in New Orleans to hang out with Chris Paul.
James then went on national television and broke up with the Cavaliers in a show that had less of a feel of sports and more of a feel of The Maury Povich Show.
All of this infidelity and the Cavaliers players still acted as if their former teammate had not done anything wrong by them. They acted as if James was just going through a rough time and that he would come back to them once he got everything sorted out, like an ex-girlfriend who leaves because she is not sure what she wants out of the relationship at this point.
Reality never even hit his former teammates when they saw James walking through the arena with his new beaus, Wade and Bosh, as the players continued to joke and laugh with James as he was busy dropping 38 points on them in his return.
Cavaliers’ players must have thought that Wade and Bosh were just a cover, a way to hide his insecurities, to mask his real feelings. He would come back to them once he figured this out and for now they needed to remain friends so that when James realized his mistakes, they could be there with open arms.
They played right into their former star’s hands and treated James like their best friend while he walked in and took control of them.
The jovial attitude James and his former teammates showed was akin to James speaking out and giving the Cavaliers players the hope they needed when the preacher asked if there were any objections to the wedding. Once they left their bride at the altar, James knew he had complete control of them like he did for the past seven years and he went to work.
When it comes to ex-girlfriends, James is as deceitful as it gets.