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Kevin Greene

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Kevin Greene

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Has there ever been a city or team so completely defeated by one player leaving town?

Lakers 112

Cavaliers 57

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/boxscore?gid=2011011113

I believe they've lost 21 of their last 22 games. The mental toll of Lebron's press conference along with the talent loss have rendered the Cavs unworthy of a March Madness invitation. :hand:

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To make matters worse, LeBron tweeted with delight at his former teams' suffering, basically saying that karma was coming back to bite the Cavs for booing him.

I feel bad for Cleveland, but there is absolutely no reason this game should have the type of score you would find in a mis-matched high school game. There are probably those out there who feel that the Lakers were classless in running up the score, but the real shame is that, in the NBA, the highest level of professional basketball, there are teams in the league that simply cannot compete with others.

Apparently, the Lakers announcers said that this game reflected badly on the NBA, and I agree.

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LeBron's tweet was immature and ridiculous but consistent with all his other actions.

Also the NBA has problems and Cleveland still has a lingering fan base from LeBron's time there, soon they too will have near empty arenas on weekdays like prob more than half the league has now.

I personally only watch Bobcats games, could care less for other NBA teams and the NBA as a whole. If I want to watch basketball for the sake of basketball I'll watch the ACC.

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Maybe he's grasped the "bad guy" role though and is just running with it haha.

He has. The King is like Bonds now, he's accepted his role as villain and he's reveling in it. He likes it, its his escape. :D Thats his "happy place" now. Look at how the Heat play on the road vs. at home!!! The boos, the taunts, the hate motivates them more vs when they're at home in front of their own supporting fans. They've won what? 16 straight on the road? They get up to play in front of hostile environments on some "us against the world" type stuff.

As for the Cavs, the King is right, karma is real and sadly Dan Gilbert cast a spell on his franchise that night he opened his big mouth. He set them back big time. KG, no I've never seen a team fall apart the way the Cavs have over one player before.

93-94 Chicago Bulls 55-27 (year after Jordan retirement)

92-93 Boston Celtics 48-24 (year after Bird retirement)

91-92 Los Angeles Lakers 43-39 (year after Magic HIV announcement & retirement)

Kinda interesting these 3 Golden Era greats teams all managed winning records and playoff births the year following their departure. Yet Cleveland has fell flat on their face. I think this just shows the differences in franchises between a Cleveland and a Boston, LA, & Chi in the 90's. Cleveland's management and ownership is not of the same caliber or pedigree as those guys. It didnt take a rocket scientist to see that without King, the Cavs would've been the worst team in the league all these years.

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watched part of this game last night and had to turn it off it was so boring. It looked like LA could have scored 200 points! Lebron is a huge loss obviously, and I know the Cavs have some injury issues too, but damn, that is a city with some sporting issues!

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