HonusWagner66
Well-Known Member
It's just disrespectful and very unprofessional. Athletes these days are larger than life than ever before, I get that.... but this spectacle was truly one of a kind. I can't really ever remember a situation handled like this, before.
You can go back through numerous emotional press-conferences of the past, Gretz's presser after the trade to the Kings sticks out.... and there really is nothing to compare Bron-Bron's made-for-TV "The Decision", to.
Wouldn't it have been enough for James to gather up "his team" at location X, and deliver the news in a typical press conference??? Did we all really need to have a media dinosaur like Jim Gray preside over this??
Yea, it's a business. I'm not arguing over his decision to leave Cleveland for a greater shot at a title elsewhere. I'm just turned off by the method of delivering the news.
Didn't the money raised from the special go to charity? How is that worse than a typical press conference? That seems to me like a nice way to deliver news that a large majority of sports fans had at least some interest in.