Lebron Supporting the Yankees, How low is that?
Fri, Oct 5, 2007 By Tariq Ali
We all know Lebron James is longtime Yankees fan, but that has upset a lot of people here in Cleveland. On top of that, Lebron showed up yesterday at Jacobs Field wearing Yankees cap and raising it in front of a camera during an interview with TBS.
“It’s like Indians ace C.C. Sabathia walking out there with a Pistons hat,” said Kevin Lowrie, 48, of Mentor. “Yeah, it’s who he roots for, but does he have to brag about it like that? It’s wrong.”
“I think he should be traded for that,” said 30-year-old Joe Dickinson, with a laugh. “Cheer in secret.”
Even New York fans thought it was odd for the longtime Yankees fan to flaunt his team’s colors in the town that idolizes him.
“I can’t understand it,” said Rob Fath, 19, of Yonkers, N.Y. “It’s really pretty low of LeBron, to be honest. Why would he do that to his city?”
But there is another side of this story, some fans just don’t care.
“Who cares? I love LeBron. How can you not?” said 27-year-old Jason Maxey. “He can wear a Pittsburgh Steelers jersey for all I care. It has nothing to do with basketball.”
“He can do whatever he wants. When he was young, the Tribe was bad, so what are you going to do?” said Derek Yurtz, 33, of Medina. “Whatever makes him happy. If rooting for the Yankees helps him shoot threes, he could vote for Satan.”
So what do you think? Did this change your view of Lebron? You can comment on this here.
Lebron is a carpetbagger. A wannabe, the nouveaux rich always like the Yankees. They think it’s cool. It’s a complex thing.
It didn’t matter to me when he first said he’s a Yankees fan but don’t see why he would do that at the game. He is from this town and he knows how passionate Clevelanders about their teams.
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Lebron will look back one day and deeply regret HIS decision to publicly FLAUNT his love for the yankees. He, like anyone, has every right to cheer for any team he likes. But, being a Cleveland native basically (Akron only 30 miles away), he decided to take the EASY route. That being, of course, deciding to ONLY root for teams (aka Yankees & Cowboys) that, for instance, either consistently WIN or have been WORLD CHAMPIONS several times. VERY. VERY bad PR move on Lebron’s part.