LeBron claimed recently that some criticism he has received regarding his move to Miami is motivated by race. Marketing data appears to confirm that there has been a substantial decline in his popularity among whites since the move.
Now I am not a pro basketball guy, haven't much cared for it since Dan left the Colonels. Or maybe it was when Wes left the Bullets. (Wes Unseld, now that was a ball player.) However, LeBron playing for Cleveland was a great story, home town boy and all of that. Cleveland winning the NBA would sort of makeup, but not quite, for the Pass, the Drive, the Fumble, and the Yankees/BoSox. Now that he is in Miami, I could not care less.
If I cheer on a pro team, it will be the local guys (as soon as they lose a few hundred tattoos) or the Rockets (Chuck and Patrick) or maybe wherever DeMarcus is playing.
As far as the Decision itself, from what I read it seemed to me in poor taste. I didn't watch since I was out killing fish, but the articles did not paint a pretty picture. Lastly, there is the issue of the players colluding to play together. Free country so they get to do it. Yet, there is an anti competitive smell about it, to me at least.
So for these reasons if asked today, I suppose, my answer would be yes, I like him less today than when he played in Cleveland. And race has nothing to do with it.
Condi Rice supposedly once said, As a child in Birmingham, race was everything, so it was nothing. In Denver, race was nothing, so it was everything.
Maybe that is relevant to LeBron.
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