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I imagine a lot of people are tired of the Lebron James story…Not!

In my 23 years of life, this is the first time I see an athlete who used to be beloved by many and respected by all, be turned on in such a public way. From the ESPY’s to Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon, just the mention of his name produces boos as if he actually did something to those people personally. Does he deserve this treatment?

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I mean its not like he committed a  crime or anything. Are people out of line here? Well, in my humble opinion, NO they are not. Wait.. Wait. Wait.  Tranquilo bobi. Don’t stop reading now, just hear me out. (I speak spanglish deal with it, more is coming.)

Like I noted previously, I’m 23 years old, born in upstate New York, but left at 2 years old to be raised in South Florida. Yup. Yup. Raised in Miami- Wade (Dade) and Broward County. You really can’t be more South Florida than me. Attended 4 years at Florida International University located on Calle 8.

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The same street Chris Bosh will be buying his cafecito from. Being a South Florida boy, you would think by default I would be ecstatic about having Lebron James on the Miami Heat. And to some degree apart of me loves the idea of having him apart of the squad. Especially, the part of me that loves to party and stay up till that sun comes up.

With all do respect to all the major cities in this country. No city throws down like Miami dejame decirte, pero of course I am a bit bias. Nonetheless, I said just APART of me was happy he was here. The other part of me, the part of loves the game of basketball, not just the NBA, but the game itself. Yeah that part of me, which holds a greater part of my heart in this topic, hates the fact he became a Miami Heatian. Its pretty ironic if you think about it. He choose to  play for the only city that really didn’t care if they had him or not. I don’t want to sound like a broken record by saying the same things other sports journalists have mentioned like, “He will destroy his legacy by joining the Heat” or he is a “quitter,” because who am I to criticize his decision. So I’m going to keep the rest of my opinion to myself.
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But that’s no fun. I mean this is my first blog entry ever in life. Might as well, desquitarmelo. (Google it.)

Look the sports writers, journalists, bloggers, whoever the heck they are, are right, sort of. His “legacy” is obviously, tainted to the degree that he will never be “the man” who led the Heat to a NBA championship. Even if he does lead the Heat in every category possible, this will always be D. Wades’s team. Especially, for us the people of South Florida. There’s only one first time and D. Wade was the one who pop Miami’s NBA championship cherry.

Too much?

My point is “Flash” was  the one who led the Heat to their first championship and as long as he is on the team he will always be the darling, the main man, the “Jordan,” if you will, in our eyes and for that matter I think everyone else’s eyes, also.

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Lebron wants to win a championship and now that he is in Miami we all expect them to win, eventually. Hell for the first time it seems like Lebron and Chris Bosh expect to win. I say that in the intro it ki