Unlike Others, King James Can't Handle Being Hated

Filed under: Cavaliers, Heat, Magic, NBA Media Watch, Sports Business and MediaPerhaps you've heard. According to the folks at The Q Score Company, the only athletes disliked more by the public than LeBron James are -- in order of the most likely to be dangled off the edge of a stadium or arena by a roster of Joe Six Packs -- Michael Vick, Tiger Woods, Terrell Owens, Chad Ochocinco and Kobe Bryant.

This justifiable King James bashing continues Pat Riley's biggest dream, but it adds to LeBron's worst nightmare.

Riley loves it, all right. He has something else for the narrative he is trying to slam-dunk into the psyche of his Miami Heat players, and that is the following: They hate us. Not only will we have to overcome the rest of the NBA this season, but we'll have to conquer that ever-growing mass dribbling toward us that is 5.98 sextillion tons.

That's the weight of the earth, by the way. Thus we have Riley unleashing the old us-against-world thing.

Hey, it worked for the Bad Boys.

As for King James, he's never been here before, which is despised by more than a few folks -- especially around Lake Erie, where he once was hugged the most. So can he function as a universal villain? Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

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