Back to Main MenuCelebrationsFraud PreventionManage Your AdPlace an AdScott Shaw / The Plain DealerWhen Jim Brown left the Browns for a movie career, there could be no doubt that he had delivered brilliantly with his career in the NFL with a championship in Cleveland. LeBron James has not matched that standard and that would be a black mark on James’ record if he leaves in free agency, says Bill Livingston.CLEVELAND, Ohio air jordan spizike black cactus violet There are good ways to leave a team and city. But none of them pertain to LeBron James, a free agent as of one minute past midnight Thursday.Take Jim Brown, who retired early and stayed retired. He traded Cleveland for Hollywood, but air jordan 11 12 countdown package he had proven he was the best there ever was by the time of his leave taking. He won his aOlernKienOP air jordan 17 low white university blue 2010 Holidays In Benidorm third Most Valuable Player award the season before he retired to make movies. Moreover, the Browns had been champions aOlernKienOP air jordan xx3 motorsport black royal Online discount shopping for women’s in 1964 and had lost the championship game in 1965. The worlds he still had to conquer were not in the NFL.”What’s up, legend?” James said to Brown before a game at The Q last season.James has been making his own legend with two straight regular season MVP awards. But he began unmaking it in the recent playoffs.No Cleveland team has won a championship since the Browns in 1964, although the Cavaliers were supposed to last season. But James quit in the fifth game of a six game loss to the Celtics. His teammates followed his air jordan 7 filbert natural obsidian white lead. Until that game, no one had ever seen “LeBron Shames,” which became a bitter nickname applied to him.When the Indians in 2000 missed the playoffs by a single game, Manny Ramirez hit a mammoth home run on a rising line in his last at bat at Jacobs Field as a member of the team. He left for more money as air jordan 12 xii original og taxi a free agent in the off season and became air jordan 9 cool grey white 2012 the World Series MVP when he helped Boston break its aOlernKienOP air jordan v grape white new emerald grape ice blue The Real Estate Investo championship famine. He hit that last home run as a forget me not, a present to the fans.But because he took the aOlernKienOP air jordan 7 vii original og hare jordan History And Significance money and ran, the fans here never forgot nor forgave him.James can make as much as $30 million more by signing with the Cavs than with his suitors. The entire dynamic of retention is different than with Ramirez. So is the dynamic for defection. 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Now, because they did not aOlernKienOP air jordan 4 iv retro ls lifestyle white tour yellow dark blue grey black R win it all, a failure for which he takes big part of the blame, he decides things are simply not up to snuff here?How air jordan 1 retro ko high sport blue about the fans who expected at the very least his full effort in a season he himself super sized by leaving all options open after its end?How were they spoiled by his wretched Game 5?The team’s hands are tied by the nice big bow James put on air jordan 1 retro 2001 white white midnight navy them by not speaking to Tom Izzo and not recruiting potential free agents. If there were Air Jordan CDP not still the reasonable chance he might stay, the circumstances of the would be defection and the resentment of the possible defector’s conduct would have triggered a much more seismic backlash.To leave money on the table, to spurn the hometown franchise that did everything possible to win while others razed their rosters to get the salary cap room to woo him, to exempt himself from responsibility for the mess that aOlernKienOP air jordan 9 retro white french blue grey Hall Storage Ideas Solutions would be left behind, to hit a city suffering from the economy when it is down this would be to mock everything he has said about family and loyalty.Even if he does stay, it is far from clear, after Game 5, that he wants to win as much as the Lakers and Celtics did in The Finals. But that is what it should be about winning, aOlernKienOP Air Jordan 2s How to Start Running for Beginners and winning when it counts. 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