This could very well have been one those situations where I over-rule the nomination process and give the TOTW nod to someone I felt was more deserving, but it turns out that we all are on the same page. This was too easy, in fact I could have written this prior to Jim Gray using the script in his hand and watching the extremely poor acting job by James. What a farce this whole thing was. LeBron James is a lot of things, a money hungry scumbag and a quitter easily come to mind, but now he’s a proven liar too. For him to sit in the Boy’s and Girl’s Club where sportsmanship and life lessons are taught, he used it as backdrop to utter what was the biggest lie of lies…that he woke up that morning and it was at that time he decided it was best he go to Miami. Is this guy full of himself or what? He’s so caught up in his own hype he overlooked one thing, the nonstop coverage his own media machine had put out on the airwaves. Or the fact that the summit held in Miami a few weeks back included the very guys he’s going to play with, or the fact there was no way in hell he was going back to Cleveland, regardless what fans there thought. Yeah Lebron, I was completely shocked by your decision to go to Miami, I really felt for weeks’ now you were staying in Cleveland. The only people thinking he was going back to Cleveland were the season ticket holders who now are holding tickets to 41 games they have no desire to use now nor could they give them away.

As I said to Beeze last night, the icing on the cake wasn’t the live decision that he wasn’t going back to the Cavs, if he was staying there he would’ve done his press conference at half court of the Quicken Loans Arena, not a neutral site where they don’t even have pro basketball, or a pro team of any nature to begin with. However, it is a stone’s throw away from Bristol, HQ of ESPiN who has been a non-stop, 24 hour ad agency that most companies have to pay through the ass to get. What does a Super Bowl 30 second spot run for now? Think about how much time they spent on James and it’ll tell you how much he saved, or rather duped out of that organization. And what’s with an hour special prior to the announcement? Is there that little going on in the world of sports that it warranted giving James virtually an entire evening of coverage on their flagship station? All this network did was feed this beast’s ego more, if that was even possible. Just when we thought we’ve seen it all with the likes of Brett Favre and his never ending waffling and holding team’s hostage, James has taken it to a whole new level and now the possibilities are endless when the next egomaniac has to reach some sort of decision on his or her future.

As this soap opera, “As the Stomach Turns” progressed, the Cavaliers weren’t going to sit idly by and let James keep the spotlight without getting in their parting shot. I’ll give Dan Gilbert an A for effort and another for having the berries to say what most have danced around. Although I think he’s overly optimistic guaranteeing Cleveland fans they’ll win a championship there before James does in Miami. What does he know that we don’t? But that letter buried James in every sense of the word, even more so since it wasn’t written by someone in the media but his former boss. I’ve read it about 5 times because of the ire you can feel by Gilbert while penning it, and rest assured, no staffer typed that up, that was spoken from the heart of a man who gave a teen everything only to have it thrown back in his face. The hometown boy has gone bad, become more than greedy,  now he’s also put himself in a situation where he has no room for error. He may be basking in the glow of the spotlight now, but if Miami  doesn’t win a championship next year all the critics, including his ass-kisser’s at ESPiN will have no choice but to ask what went wrong, this was supposed to be a lock, then again it was supposed to be a lock this season too. Will it be a locker room tiff, will one ego get in the way of another? Will Dwayne Wade get sick of playing second fiddle to the newcomer’s? There’s potential for disaster when you put this many ego’s together in one place, especially on a basketball team. Until James wins a championship he’s going to be dogged by this move. Unlike Dan Marino and Jim Kelly, both who never won championships and still hear about it to this day, both remain class acts who went down with their ships from the start of their career’s to the day they retired. James won’t have that if he wins it in Miami, he’ll be dogged for going to where his chances improved, something Kobe didn’t have to do nor Michael Jordan. That’s why I believe it’s not the championship, it’s the money for James that’s enticing. What will happen to his relationship with the Heat if he wins in the next year or two, what will be left, he’ll have nothing left to ask for but even more money, and of course more TV time!

Without further ado I give you the YGS Tool of the Week - LeBron James!