LeBron James Was Right: Karma Came Back on the Cleveland Cavaliers

With birds falling out of the sky and fish dying in masses, some may take those events as signs of the end of the world. I can add another small tidbit of evidence to the doomsday believers. I agree with LeBron James.

LeBron's Twitter Page on Tuesday Night led with the following:

"Crazy. Karma is a b****.. Gets you every time. Its not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!"

This was obviously written during the horrendous showing by the Cavs in LA against the Lakers, where they lost by a score the University of Connecticut women's team usually posts. 112-57 was the premise of Lebron's taunting, and he has good reason to do so. The Heat are getting stronger, the Cavs are playing like D League washouts, and once again, a fact about sports is proven. God Hates Lake Erie.

LeBron's twitter post is mostly accurate, but not 100 percent right. For awhile this season, Cleveland actually had sports karma on their side.

Going into December, the Cavaliers were 7-10. 7-10 isn't very impressive unless you are in the NFC West or in the Eastern Conference, where a .412 winning percentage would be eighth in the conference and a playoff spot. Miami going into December was 10-8, easily in the playoffs, but well below expectations for LeBron's new team. December 2nd was the return of LeBron to Cleveland and the night karma took over.

I believe fans can have some effect on the teams they root for. Seattle fans helped will the Seahawks past the Saints last weekend, and according to some reports, caused a seismic event. I also believe they can bring some negativity to those team. Being a lifelong Buffalo fan, I can tell you that when a fluke event happens for the Bills, the energy of the crowd deflates, and the players can feel it. On December 2nd, the Cleveland Cavaliers fans had one of those deflating moments, which eventually led the Lake Erie Karma to blow in like another unexpected Lake Effect Storm.

The Cavaliers actually had the lead for a good part of the first quarter of that game on December 2nd. A moment that stood out for me was when LeBron James posted up and threw an elbow to clear space. None of the Cleveland players did anything about it. No elbows, no punches, nothing. When a blood thirsty crowd quickly realizes there will be no blood, they quickly deflate, especially a Cleveland crowd beaten down for decades.

Karma called for one action that night, and that was for LeBron to get knocked on his behind, and hard, to where a trainer had to visit him on the court for a moment. Easy enough to say considering that knocking down a 6'8" bulldozer is easier said than done, but a player on Cleveland had to do that as the first foul on him. The Sports Gods demanded it. When that didn't happen, karma became that b***h.

LeBron went to the foul line for the first time with the Heat down 17-15. He hit both foul shots. Both teams have went in vastly different directions ever since that Jamario Moon foul. Miami never trailed in that game again and have went 19-1 during that time frame. Cleveland has went 1-20 since that moment. The fact that LeBron was able to be fouled and shoot those free throws was the sign to the Sports Gods that Lake Erie torture should continue.

LeBron isn't exactly right, though, since wishing bad isn't what caused the changes in fortune. Nothing bad happened to LeBron James that night. The only thing bad that happened that night was that Cleveland fans had hope, hope that the Sports Gods would look down on them and bring some level of justice to their jilted lover.

Instead, the Sports Gods brought what they always bring to fans of Buffalo and Cleveland teams. Pain. Agony. Defeat.

Stevie Johnson of the Bills learned this lesson during a game against the Steelers.

Cavs fans learned against Miami on December 2nd that the players on their Cavs don't care about them and that wishing bad on anybody ends up being a hurtful self-fulfilling prophecy.

LeBron's a bit delusional in believing that he should have been cheered like a King that night and that the Cavs fortunes would be vastly different had he been welcomed back with open arms and flowers and thank you chants. The players basically did that anyway, with their softness and lack of retaliation after that elbow flew.

My best example of understanding the Sports Gods was when Claude Lemieux cheaply hit Kris Draper in the 1996 playoffs. Red Wings fans must have been fuming as the Avalanche won the Cup that year.

The next time the two teams played in Detroit, the fans wanted blood from Lemieux, and that's what they got. The Red Wings won the Stanley Cup that year and the year after that. I'm not saying the Cavs could have won the title this year had they pummeled LeBron that night, but they would have been better than 1-20.

LeBron must have had a laugh when he tweeted that on Tuesday night, yet I don't think he will want to be reminded of this tweet in the future. For you see, sports karma is a b***h, and strikes those that deserve it most when it is least expected. The Sports Gods do see everything, and they certainly saw the Decision.

Karma gets you every time, LeBron. It surely does.