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" February 17, 2012 CLEVELAND \u2014 &amp;quot;You can&amp;#039;t predict the future,&amp;quot; LeBron James said here on Thursday afternoon, after being asked if he might someday return to play for the Cavs. &amp;quot;I think it would be great. It would be fun to play in front of these fans again.&amp;quot; The Heat are in Cleveland for a game this weekend, so maybe LeBron was trying to deflect some of the scorn he&amp;#039;ll face. He and ESPN have been working hard for months to recast him as something other than a lying, choking sack of human waste \u2014 his little speech at practice was quickly followed by a column from a Heat Index lickspittle calling James &amp;quot;one of the nicest yet misunderstood guys I&amp;#039;ve ever seen in sports,&amp;quot; which may be the most ludicrous line ever seen in sportswriting.  The Whore of Akron is neither nice nor misunderstood. No other athlete is so often an object of public ridicule among other athletes, who generally regard James as a blowhard and a crunch-time coward. The disrespect started early last season with a Paul Pierce tweet after the Celtics ripped the Heat \u2014 &amp;quot;been a pleasure to bring my talents to south beach&amp;quot; \u2014 and it never stopped. &amp;quot;Fun Fact: I have more rings than LeBron&amp;quot; is what Giants linebacker Spencer Paysinger tweeted after the Super Bowl. The Dallas Mavericks&amp;#039;s Jason Terry called out the Whore during last year&amp;#039;s Finals, questioning James&amp;#039;s ability to defend him. This sort of stuff doesn&amp;#039;t mean LeBron&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;nice&amp;quot;; it means that even his peers think he&amp;#039;s soft.  As for &amp;quot;misunderstood,&amp;quot; I can think of no more condescending way for a pseudo-journalist to tell millions of fans with no attachment to Cleveland or the Cavs to ignore the evidence of their eyes and ears because a typist on the payroll of one of James&amp;#039;s business partners pretends insight into the jerk who sat across from Jim Gray on July 8, 2010, and revealed his truest self. &amp;quot;The Decision&amp;quot; didn&amp;#039;t destroy a city or the toughest fans in America; it destroyed the public image of LeBron James as a good guy, along with any shred of credibility ESPN had left as anything but a bunch of shills. King Shite flaps his yap and Bristol&amp;#039;s minions drool, but here in Cleveland, nothing is forgotten, nor forgiven.  LeBron may not be able to predict the future, but I can: Dwyane Wade will continue to age and suffer injury. LeBron will continue to be forced to do what he did as a Cavalier \u2014 carry an offense without a quality point guard, while burdened by a head coach devoid of creativity. He&amp;#039;ll continue yearning for home and for fans who actually give a damn about more than mojitos and muff. And Pat Riley, president of the Heat, will continue to hope that sometime before 2014, LeBron&amp;#039;s testicles will finally and fully descend. I&amp;#039;ll be at the game on Friday, not because I hate LeBron James, but because I want to watch Kyrie Irving, Cleveland&amp;#039;s great rookie point guard, and to hear the roar of a Cleveland crowd for the first time since last March. James amounts to no more than every other unhappy ending for Cleveland and its fans \u2014 and as ever, everyone knows it but LeBron. -- (Order The Whore of Akron: One Man&amp;#039;s Search for the Soul of LeBron James) "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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