Originally Posted By: JustinH
I know that everybody loves sports, but honestly these players are larger than life.
People are starving in Cleveland, and Lebron gets 20 million dollars per season, plus endorsements, and can live in his mansion in Ohio.
It's just nonsense, all to play a game.
This is really a short sighted view. You will see in 2 years. There are hundreds of jobs that will be created just because James plays basketball. James has already started paying Cleveland back to the tune of 12,000 season tickets sold in 8 hours.
Catering food, entertainment, lodging, and goods for additional 12,000 people for a min of 41 nights a year is some serious money. Really the whole social economics movement and mindset is old and quite frankly dumb. Lebron James is making 20 million a year playing basketball. Millions upon millions more in endorsements. That is the fault of people that are buying King James merchandise and paying to watch his basketball games.
Factor in the millions that James has donated to organizations such as the boys and girls clubs and the jobs he personally created for his friends and family the millions upon millions he is paid is just not sitting on in slush fund somewhere.
Lebron James is freak of nature that is physically blessed by the creator with gifts that only 2 or 3 people out 7 billion have. James makes a handsome living because of this. My answer is. So what! This is Lebron James's right and he is cashing in. Good for him! I know if I was that blessed I would try to squeeze every cent out of this situation that I could and I would not be a generous as he is about it.
Also you can add the fact I am not a Lebron James fan in anyway and I feel his basketball skill and intelligence is rudimentary at best and he has gathered his fame and aura on his unique physical gifts and not much else.
