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After his meltdown in the Finals, Lebron thoughtfully said this:

"All the people that were rooting on me to fail, at the end of the day they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today. They have the same personal problems they had today. I'm going to continue to live the way I want to live and continue to do the things that I want to do with me and my family and be happy with that. So they can get a few days or a few months or whatever the case may be on being happy about not only myself, but the Miami Heat not accomplishing their goal. But they got to get back to the real world at some point."

Interestingly, he's actually right.  There's plenty of people who would love to have Lebron's problems instead of their own. Also interesting is that after spending a year of people hating him for leaving Cleveland, it's hard to even imagine a group of sentences he could've possibly strung together that were more tone-deaf.

But when Lebron does his whole "let 'em hate, I don't care" routine, he isn't even remotely believable.  Allen Iverson never gave a shit when people called him a "thug," and Jordan would've walked into the stands and punched an old lady if he thought it'd help him win.  Bird was always slightly perturbed there were people lucky enough to be watching him play, much less gave two shits what they thought.  Lebron has none of these things.  He's a seemingly nice guy who is a bit of a head case and hothouse flower that crumbles when things go off the rails a bit.  So it's hard to believe his "I don't care, eff you" pose to begin with. Also, the Heat spent the entire season whining and cry that everybody was picking on them whenever somebody would say something that wasn't incredibly glowing about them.  They are the Sarah Palin of the NBA, always trying to cash in on their own sense of victimhood, and any "attack" is of course from irrational fear and envy.

Over the span of six years Magic Johnson won a high school state championship, an NCAA championship, TWO NBA championships (one as Finals MVP), and in 1984 was so appalled by his performance in the 1984 Finals that he sank himself into some rabbit hole for six months before re-appearing and promptly winning another title.  Meanwhile Lebron wants us to think he's a tough-minded winner who doesn't care what anybody thinks, all without actually winning anything.  He needs to go away and shut the fuck up.