Six Reasons To Hate LeBron James

LeBron James is one of the most looked-up-to and appreciated players in the NBA. He really should not be. There are so many reasons to hate LeBron, but I only chose six to discuss today—one for every year he's been in the association.

LeBron James is a terrible figure in the world of sports, and I simply cannot fathom the amount of love, respect, and appreciation he receives constantly.

LeBron should be severely looked down upon from the sports world. He is unbelievably undeserving of the amount of praise he gets.

He Doesn't Understand the Word "Overrated"

I'm sure everyone remembers DeShawn Stevenson calling LeBron overrated just before a playoff series between the Cavs and Wizards. The media had a field day, with "who does DeShawn Stevenson think he is??" and comments of the sort.

o⋅ver⋅rate
–verb (used with object), -rat⋅ed, -rat⋅ing.
to rate or appraise too highly; overestimate: I think you overrate their political influence.

Nowhere does it say that the overrated party cannot still be good. LeBron James is a good basketball player. All DeShawn was trying to say is that he is not as good as he is advertised to be, and simply put, he's not.

But still LeBron had to reference every basket he hit in the series as "overrated points."

He even had a pretty good dunk. The media thought it to be one of the greatest in history it seemed at the time. It was pretty overrated. Still good, but overrated, just like the man himself.

Fundamentals

It scares me how much it seems kids look up to LeBron James as a basketball player. He is one of the most fundamentally unsound stars I've ever seen play in the NBA.

He relies 100 percent on his speed and athletic ability to get to the rim. And that's fine, because it's the strength of his game; he's good at it. He rarely uses much technique on his way there but whatever works for him I guess.

But then you see LeBron's true colors. You see how LeBron thinks of himself, he thinks he is the greatest basketball player to ever lace them up. He feels as if he can do anything. And frankly, he can't.

He's actually very limited in what he can do, aside from driving to the rim and relying on his huge frame to grab rebounds. He insists on popping up threes after continuously bricking them off the rim.

He has a mediocre jump shot at best and seems as if he will never learn that he can't shoot as much as he does and be the best player he can be.

It's actually even scarier to me just looking at how much referees apparently love Mr. James. The calls he gets absolutely amaze me.

If LeBron would just care to try to hone his game and work on fundamental concepts of basketball, maybe he could do a little more than rely on his pure athleticism to get by.

It's just really discouraging to watch a guy with such talent so highly regarded in his game just getting by. I would really like to challenge LeBron to a jump shooting contest, because I think I could definitely give him a run for his money, and I haven't played competitive basketball since eighth grade.

If you come across this LeBron, just let me know...

Oh yeah, almost forgot the crab dribble; his signature move.

He Loves His Mom

What a role model.

It was the day after Mother's Day and "Bron Bron" was in the middle of a big game with the revamped Celtics last season.

After a good flopping by LeBron his loving mother came to his side to also try and sell the "hard foul."

Rather than giving here a kiss before she returned to her seat or anything like that, LeBron ordered his mom to "Sit Your Ass Down!"

Happy Mother's Day Ms. James.

He's Unoriginal

It goes back to Michael Jordan and Reggie Miller. KG was known for it. But then along comes LeBron, thinks its cool, and of course he is the one who winds up with an entire commercial of him smacking talcum powder between his hands for 30 seconds.

Just last week I saw Cleveland turn it in to an arena-wide thing during pre-game. It's ridiculous the amount of credit that he can get for something so clearly not related to him.

It actually makes me really worried for the dunk contest next year. If he can't think of his own pregame ritual I can't even imagine the dunks he'll try in already one of the most creatively challenging events in sports.

But I bet he'll win. He'll probably get a perfect score with 99.9 percent of the text message voting.

He couldn't even think of a good number to wear; he had to steal that, too.

Refs Sure Do Love Him

Everyone should hate LeBron just on principle to counteract the amount of love he gets from NBA referees on a nightly basis.

The calls he consistently gets absolutely amazes me. In the NBA the stars typically get a couple more calls in their favor. I'm not saying it's ok, I'm just saying it's how it is.

But the calls that LeBron gets far exceed the typical star treatment.

If LeBron decides to drive (which he doesn't do nearly enough), and he doesn't get a good shot off, then he must've been fouled. It simply doesn't matter what you see, that is just a rule of nature.

He is a Terrible Sports Fan

This one really gets me.

LeBron James is not just a terrible professional athlete to look up to, he is a terrible sports figure in every aspect. All the way down to fandom.

LeBron James is an Ohio native so I can only imagine the struggles he had growing up rooting for the...Yankees and Cowboys?

Wait a second. He didn't struggle through anything. He chose the two most successful sports teams of his childhood. I don't know about you, but to me, as a fan, that is one of the worst things you can do.

It corrupts the entire population of sports fans in my opinion. If you're a fan for the wrong reasons, then you are not a fan.

That wasn't enough for LeBron, he couldn't quietly root for his bandwagon teams and allow his city of Cleveland to love him.

Instead, he just had to go out and piss HIS city off by attending games at the Indians supporting the Yankees in the playoffs and was on the Cowboys' sideline at their week one game @ Cleveland this year.

He's not even a fan of his own team, the one he's on. He can't wait to bolt to a big city when his contract is up. Not that I blame him. I've been to Cleveland; it sucks.