LEBRON JAMES: U CAN HATE ME NOW!!!!!

YOU CAN HATE ME NOW
It's been a long time, been a long time comin
Looks like the death of me now
But you know, there's no turning back now
This is what makes me - this is what I am
You can hate me now.. but I won't stop now..

Ok I think I've been quiet long enuf! What’s with all the LeBron James hating! I said I wasn't gonna say nuthin, but after watching jersey burning fans on the news, reading all the comments on twitter, Facebook and everywhere else people can possibly have an opinion, I just couldn't keep it to myself any longer!!!!!! I have read and heard everyone else, now here goes my 3 ½ cents on the matter, welcome to another long over due AJ ROK Rant!!!!!

First off, most of the comments have no validity! At least know what you are talking about before you run ya mouth all over the world wide web! And to all you bandwagon fans looking for the next superstar to pledge ya undying love and support to as long as he wins this year, Lebron on Miami Heat with Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh even with Pat Riley pulling the strings and backseat coaching does not guarantee the Heat will win 3 out of the next 5 championships and be the newest dynasty! With that said I am rooting for them but just know they gonna have to go out and get that, aint no one laying down for them!

THE IDIOT OF THE WEEK AWARD

Oh yeah and before I forget the Idiot of The Week Award goes to majority owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Daniel "Dan" Gilbert for his open letter to the fans regarding Lebron going to Miami! Now like I said his mere presence on the Heat don’t make them champions but if history has shown us how LeBron responds to ignorance like your ‘open letter’ Mr. Gilbert, you have inspired LeBron James to do whatever to win one in South Beach in year one! Lets be straight you mad he left you for a better situation before you could trade him for a better situation. I hope you make better business decisions at ya day job as the Chairman and Founder of Quicken Loans Inc. and Rock Financial. Cause that was the bonehead move of the month!!!!!! Can you say Sore-Loser!!!!!! Gilbert is also the owner of Fathead company that makes life-size vinyl wall graphics of professional athletes and cartoon characters that retail for $50-$100. Well Dan has cut the cost of LeBron's Fatheat to $17.41, the year most notorious traitors in American history, Benedict Arnold was born! Great marketing strategy of how you can milk LBJ's image for a few extra dollars now that he is gone!!!!

THE UNPRECEDENTED ESPN SPECIALHate on me, I blew but I'm the same ol G
People warn me, when you're on top there's envy

The Decision got everyone talking, I have heard and read so much about this program. Even NBC Sports wrote a piece of their site titled, Was LeBron special ESPN's deal with devil? Could that be some str8 hate because of the staggering Nielsen ratings, sounds like jealousy to me. I wonder if it would have been all good if it aired on NBC, things that make you go hmmmmmmmmm!
Ok so King James held a one hour press conference to announce his choice and sold exclusive rights to air it on ESPN! What amazed me most is damn near everyone who had something to say didn't miss a minute of The Decision! Now if you command that much attention, what’s wrong with what he did? And I can’t get mad that he had the business sense enough to make a deal with ESPN for exclusivity, and get them to give up all proceeds from the commercials to the Boy’s & Girl’s Clubs of America. They complaining about how he only thinking about himself and don’t care about nobody else, but he turned your curiosity to millions of dollars to organizations that save madd youths lives each year! He did more than the communities of the six cities he was considering than their own people! Don’t get madd people that even your beloved Kobe aint pull off nuthin like that!!! Frankly I would have waited for the you tube clips of the Kobe press conf, ya heard!!!!!!

THE CITY OF CLEVELAND GETS THE GAS FACE!!!

I feel the pain and emotions of the city of Cleveland, I mean you aint had a champion since Jim Brown and damn that was what like 50 years ago. But come on, I mean is it that serious? We are talking about a professional basketball player not a congressman, or mayor or state representative, but an athlete! Yes one of your own, will be one of the greatest and probably his mere presence put a certain amount of dollar bills in the economy. It’s alright to be hurt, but is that how you treat one of your own, who wants to do better for himself and his family! He may have literally had the entire city on his shoulders but seriously he is a basketball player, a damn good one, but just a basketball player, who an NBA team and entire city looked to for leadership at the age of 18! It’s been seven years, how many players have held it down for seven years in one city! Burning the jerseys and almost rioting are ridiculous. Like Bone Thugs N Harmony he will always be singing ‘Cleveland is the city that we come from, Cleveland is the city- City that we come from’ but for real now there’s a remix, Miami is the city where we won, where we won!

This is where this man is from, Cleveland, where his family lives, it had to be a hard decision, but sometime to get what we want we gotta leave home, ya heard, So don’t hate the player for moving and wanting to win. For all his real fans, friends and family in Cleveland he is ‘gonna miss everybody [He’s] gonna miss everybody, And to Dan Gilbert, ‘(So you won't be lonely)
[He’ll] See you at the crossroads!

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – BIG CITY OF DREAMS

Aight everyone who knows me knows I’m a die-hard New York Knicks fan, yes I said it out loud! Even when your team gives you nuthin to cheer about real fans don’t bail on their team. Now that said lets be real what did the Knicks have to offer LeBron for comin to New York. Madison Avenue, cool, a mega media city cool, but what about the possibility to, as he put it, win now and later, hmmmmm. Think if we are real, NY we fell a little short there! And to boo this brother at Carmelo Anthony’s wedding, what’s that all about? You only made him wanna torch the Knicks every time he steps foot in the worlds most famous arena!!!!! It would have been nice but lets be real Jordan and others thru New York’s name up as well to get their teams to come out their pocket or make others dig deeper, so don’t hate Lebron for playing the game, hate the game!!!! And let’s be real New Yorkers are the hardest on our professional athletes, ya love and ya
hate em in the same breath! Who wanna come to all that especially since the Knicks didn't have all their pieces and are 40 years removed from their last ring!

HOW WILL LEBRON JAMES BE REMEMBERED?

Will he go down in history as one of the greatest to play the game? Will he get multiple rings in South Beach? Will this turn out to be the single greatest move or biggest mistake in his career? Hmmmm, only time will tell. But one thing I do know if he stayed in Cleveland, Lebron James goes down in history as a King with no Ring!!!!! Everyone may not agree with me, but like that title said you can hate me know, but I’m telling the truth!!!!!!! All I’m saying is let Lebron live. In am era where you don’t have franchises anymore cause of free agency, lets not forget teams who dump roll players a month after winning a championship (remember Robert Horry and Sam Casell in Houston, just to name one example). You can’t get mad at a brother who got in front of the game and made a move he thought was best for him and his family! This has been A FEW WORDS FROM DA ROK, holla at ya boy, I wanna hear what you gotta say!!!!!!