Originally posted on 05/28/2013:

Quote Originally Posted by dmiles1021 View Post
pretty sure lebron can say no to ESPN. he wasnt forced to do anything. Thats great he raised 5 million but he didnt have to do it that way. im sure there are 50 other ways LEBRON JAMES can raise 5 million for kids. If not he can just take it outta his stupid money bank account that will continue to build throughout his life. The blame can only be put on him, easy to point fingers at ESPN but cmon has any other athlete in this world pulled crap like that. its just redic.
really? its that easy to raise 5 millions dollars within a couple of hours? why aren't other big name athletes doing that on a night in and night out basis then?

And just because he's a multi-millionaire doesn't mean he's gonna randomly keep pulling 5mill out of his account to donate. The guy is a businessman just as much as he's an athlete and what he saw in 'The Decision' was an opportunity to make a large sum of money by investing very little time. I wouldn't even have a problem if he kept the money, and any entrepreneur or business person would recognize this, but some idiots don't get it. But the fact that he raised the $ for charity just makes it that much better and a great gesture on his part.

He had a choice, he could've just personally announced his decision and make 0$ out of the whole thing, or cut a deal with ESPN to air this thing and make an easy few mill for a good cause and be okay with the re-tards of the world criticizing him for it, glad he chose the latter. Its clearly a no-brainer and anyone who says shit about this whole thing or hates on it is clearly just a LeBron hater from the get-go or a Cavs fan.