We all make mistakes.

It’s ok to know you’ve made a mistake. Cause we all do at times. Just be ready to live with whatever that comes with it and be with…..

— LeBron James (@KingJames) March 1, 2016

LeBron James is bored. He’s so bored instead of winding  down his social media around now, he’s turning up with a constant flow of lines and hashtags no one understands. James has everybody’s decoder rings out trying to figure who he’s talking about. Is it Kyrie Irving? Kevin Love? Himself? At the surface it looks like passive aggressive digs at his teammates.  Everybody knows he likes to avoid conflict and this could be his way of deflecting it. Not a slight just a different style than a Kobe Bryant. In my opinion I think LeBron is talking about himself and misses Miami (Heat) so much he goes for a visit once a season, during the season. I’m not going to say that LeBron won’t win a championship in Cleveland but it’s looking very likely that he won’t. He knows it too. Staying in Miami gave him the best chance for more championships but the power was so enticing he left. I have few things with the revisionist glasses on I think LeBron didn’t consider the last two years.

1. LeBron Left The Heat’s Rings 

How many championship have been one in Cleveland? Zero. How many times have the Cavs been in the lottery? Put it like this. Every year since 1996, if LeBron wasn’t on the team, the Cavaliers were in the lottery. Face it Cleveland is the OG tanker because they did it by shear accident. It wasn’t plan. Almost like the guy who invented  Viagra. We know what the Miami Heat brings to the table. Ringsssss. Let’s take a look at the higher-ups when it comes to both organizations. Pat Riley ,as Jalen Rose likes to call one of the puppeteers of NBA championship. They also have an owner who stays out of the way.  Since 1996 the Heat have only missed the playoffs four times. Meanwhile Dan Gilbert has a sponsorship for his own company on the building. Just a thought about goals. LeBron chose a franchise that doesn’t know what they’re doing. Have you ever been to a McDonald’s that was just not as nice as some of the other ones you’ve been to? Same things at the core but bathroom wasn’t as clean, food took a little longer, and things always out of place. That’s because their franchises. Not all of them the same. So I guess LeBron like Dan Gilbert and his cold fries.

2. Experience Level Of Teammates

While he was in Miami LeBron play with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. Two players who were drafted with LeBron, both All-Stars, and both made the playoffs before joining up. Something you notice there? When these players came together they have a similar mindset. Only Dwyane Wade had the championship.The levels of individual success cultivated the relationship and drive on what it took to make it work in Miami. In contrast the guys that he joined forces with in Cleveland, Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving are All-Stars and nothing more. These two as individuals have put up great stats Kyrie has one All Star MVP but neither of them were able to get their teams in the playoffs before playing with LeBron. I’m in the boat that Kevin Love won’t work. Say what you want, he’s still a white boy who doesn’t fit it in with the crew but is a major piece. He doesn’t relate. The team is too small for those types. Not the white boy but somebody who doesn’t fit in. I get the feeling like he might get treated like a lame in so instances.

3. Dwyane Wade’s Leadership

This a bit of a double down but it’s worthy of it’s own space. Before LeBron landed in Miami, it Wade County around the Heat. D-Wade conceded control to LeBron as the #1. People tried to play

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up the Batman and Robin dynamic but Wade’s self awareness allowed him to acknowledge he wasn’t the best player on the team anymore. This also puts a light on D-Wade’s recruitment skills (see 2016 Joe Johnson). And don’t forget about the press conferences. Remember those? Every press conference was a tag team of LeBron James and Dwyane Wade. Is there anyone on Cleveland who do a press conference with King James of Cleveland? Wade has a lot qualities that the guys LeBron play with just don’t have. It could be a result of growing up in the NBA under Pat Riley or it could be D-Wade is just built like that. Either way that Heat team has some intangible LeBron sorely misses.

4. LeBron’s GM skills Have No Patience

So LeBron is in this position of power now where things are getting move and they’re constantly making transactions in order to create a championship roster for today. I think the problem is just like any artist who does something that work fast. Do it again. This especially true back
when music was more formulaic. It happened in the first year in Miami and he thought could it again in Cleveland. Taking another lens, look at the move it’s like the guys who left Ford to start Dodge. Problem is this project needed a couple years and patience that James did not have. Here’s my interpretation of LeBron thought process. Bring some stars together. Get some guys that can shoot. Punt Dion Waiters out of town. Use 1st rd picks on on a rim protector.

Now I ‘m no basketball GM. I never worked in the league. All I have is history that tells me a few things and shows me some key differences to why things work. LeBron did not take the fact that Boston got their Championship with three guys who had all been to the playoffs and lost. He did the same thing in Miami. It kind of happened in LA with Shaq. You can go way back and it happened with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson. You bring together guys who had a taste and need to get to the next level.

GM LeBron looking disgusted

LeBron is trying to elevate guys who haven’t been on that level competing in long series and trying to elevate them to championship-caliber almost overnight. Here’s another thing that I think LeBron also overlooked and was impatient about. Besides the fact he decided to come after they pick an “NBA” rookie head coach (No disrespect Blatt), he didn’t take a chance on Andrew Wiggins. He was cheap labor who was NBA ready. Kevin Love not fitting is one thing but giving up on your potential OKC James Harden is another. LeBron is very conscious of the cap moving up because he made sure his contract can end every time it goes up. If he could have been patient with those picks and waited until this year they could have absorbed so much more salary and gotten the perfect guy in free agency or in a more desperate trade. Now you have the Warriors clouding judgment. Mozgov who is useless against them. Kevin Love still not contributing on a star level. Tristan Thompson has been forced to get the max. JR Smith and Iman Shumpert were probably the best pieces acquired in the 80+ transactions and Channing Frye might take that this year.

With no assets and no cap room once again the Cavaliers are stuck in the same place they were in the previous LeBron stint. Treading water in a weak East. The worst kept secret is the fact that Kevin Love might not be there and I wouldn’t be surprised if Kyrie is gone too. The best trade is Chris Paul for Kyrie but the push back is the future of the Cavs wouldn’t be great. Have they shown us anything that looks like they care about the future? And if history proves anything they won’t win after LeBron leaves anyway.