Mo Williams Devastated By LeBron’s Departure

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• DDB Posted: Jul.9 at 9:34 am
  Did Lebron die or just sign somewhere else? I can’t tell.

• MooButter Posted: Jul.9 at 9:36 am
  Cleveland died.

• george w. buckets Posted: Jul.9 at 9:37 am
  #DelonteWestTweet LeBron, you mother$!@F*S

• John Posted: Jul.9 at 9:37 am
  What’s with these NBA players and terrible grammar?

• Kevin Posted: Jul.9 at 9:38 am
  LeBron is equally devastated by Mo Williams’ incompetence

• mj23 Posted: Jul.9 at 9:42 am
  Lebron wasn’t loyal to the Cleveland organization. Even if he planned on leaving, he didn’t have to make such a spectacle. He could have gone quietly and people would’ve understand.

• JACO Posted: Jul.9 at 9:45 am
  I remember a lyric in a The Game song called My life and the lyric went “Biggie was Brooklyn’s Jesus shot for no reason”. “Lebron was Cleveland’s Jesus left for one reason”

• jay Posted: Jul.9 at 9:46 am
  damn that is some heartfelt ishh…he left you cold Mo…and you are right, 1 or 2 more pieces and we are talking history and goat status…now we are talking mich richmond….

• Eboy Posted: Jul.9 at 9:48 am
  Uhm Mo….you little illiterate dips*it, maybe if you would have backed up all your half-hearted proclamations as being a killer, with the Godfather music playing in the background each time you made a shot, but couldn’t do it when it mattered most, you wouldn’t have had to gone through this.

• ONE50 Posted: Jul.9 at 9:50 am
  The owner talks about getting serious about a championship. Month tlking about stepping it up and taking things for granted w/ LBJ. Makes me wonder if the whole ortganization thought they would lolligag their way to a chapionship

• wayno Posted: Jul.9 at 9:50 am
  Kevin beat me to it…lol

• LDR4 Posted: Jul.9 at 9:51 am
  Read these this morning. It’s disheartening. Mo was brought in to help keep LeBron in Cleveland. He knows that. Now what for him? Hopefully this means Mo can go back to playing like he did on the Bucks. If he plays at that level and with Jamison, this is still a good playoff team. I wish Dan Gilbert and Mo Williams would have a television rebuttal like the minority parties do after the State of the Union.

• peter Posted: Jul.9 at 9:53 am
  He is right that it would have been sweeter to win with Cleveland. But they needed someone else for sure. Which you have to believe would have been easier to get if Lebron had committed to staying.

• tron Posted: Jul.9 at 10:01 am
  The cavs could’ve gotten amare but instead they got antawn lame ison..maybe they could’ve kept boozer so it dey own dam fault

• vtrobot Posted: Jul.9 at 10:03 am
  we might not understand the magnitude of it (if he ends up winning multiple rings). if not, this might have been more asinine than it already seemed. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

• Groves Posted: Jul.9 at 10:10 am
  what happened to 140 character limit?

• Ali Posted: Jul.9 at 10:21 am
  Man up Moe and take some notes from the kid in
  Milwaukee, Brandon Jennings. Shut your mouth, get in the gym, train, practice, study, and ball out come game time! Anything is possible….

• Craig "2 Black" Hodges Posted: Jul.9 at 10:25 am
  someon on tha interwebs or espn said or wrote that Lebron spit on cleveland, with his yankees hats and such, still cavs fans bowed down and called him king, and they got what they deserved…..all is fair in love and b-ball.

• Craig "2 Black" Hodges Posted: Jul.9 at 10:28 am
  just in case i didnt go thru, some say Lebron stepped all over cleveland , and yet people bowed down and called him king, and in the end they got what they deserved….lebron james bounced out of cleveland like one of jj hicksons checks.

• Kap Posted: Jul.9 at 10:30 am
  I’m so ashamed we went to the same high school…That was the gayest tweet ever.

• Breeze Posted: Jul.9 at 10:30 am
  Well williams has one point..it shouldn’t been broadcast to leave…but its funny how u guys blame jamison and williams for him leaving like he had a great playoff season just like the previous year u thought he was going to the final..no one thought the celtics would revitalize and rondo will go crazy on the cavs …so now the same team that smack the cavs beat the magic and the heat which dwayne wade did more for his team in that series then lebron…the problem is he has no passion no killer instinct …that’s what the cavs needed not a 40 point loser …a triple double diaster that doesn’t change anything about the game …rondo triple double hurts team …lebrons he may lose….so now I knows he needs wade….cause he won’t get it done

• Craig "2 Black" Hodges Posted: Jul.9 at 10:31 am
  am i up in this piece or what ?

• PapaBearATL Posted: Jul.9 at 10:34 am
  Maybe now CLE can afford some more talent with LBJ out of the picture. Prove to the world that they weren’t as bad as they seem. Make it to the playoffs without LBJ and prove the world was wrong about their roster.

• Craig Hodges Posted: Jul.9 at 10:34 am
  it just wasnt ment2be

• Aaron Posted: Jul.9 at 10:34 am
  This guy is an enigma.

• Young C Posted: Jul.9 at 10:51 am
  Everyone shouldnt have been suprised at this decision. I look at it this way; LeBron has given Cleveland his best for 7 years. He has gotten them to the playoffs every damn year just about and to the Finals with a crappy ass team. The organization hasn’t surrounded him with enough talent. And now he leaves and everyone hates him?! Bullshit!!! He’s not doing this for the money people he wants to win a championship, everyone does. Why did Allen Iverson leave Philly? I can come up with more people thats a prime example. LeBron is moving on and I think Cleveland should as well.

• LA Huey Posted: Jul.9 at 11:09 am
  Don’t worry, Dan Gilbert guaranteed Cleveland a ring before, the Heat get one.

• Kid Dynamite Posted: Jul.9 at 11:25 am
  LOL @ Mo Williams, maybe if in between the chest thumping you had made a few shots and um-i don’t know….played defense? he’d have thought twice about leaving. Please learn some proper grammar too in between tweeting and not playing agressive basketball.

• Robb Posted: Jul.9 at 11:41 am
  No more all star games for you Mo!

• Donovan Posted: Jul.9 at 11:49 am
  It’s amazing how one of the players responsible for the Cavs choking us upset about LeBron’s decision. Mo Williams is trash!

• Donovan Posted: Jul.9 at 11:49 am
  *is

• chingy Posted: Jul.9 at 11:51 am
  John Legend!

• c_cantrell Posted: Jul.9 at 12:18 pm
  @eboy.. y u trash talkin mo lol.. think u could have done anything close to what he has done? think u can be anything close to what he is? hes makin millions doin something he loves.. your jus some old loser glued to the internet cause your life obviously sucks.. get a life dude

• bill breedley Posted: Jul.9 at 12:37 pm
  lebron is officially the biggest douche in the NBA!!!!

• ConeyIslander Posted: Jul.9 at 12:50 pm
  Cleveland is a loser town, it’s what they do best. They can’t be mad because at the end of the day LeBron James has all of us doing something we would never ever imagine doing 7 years ago…TALKING ABOUT CLEVELAND!

• LD Posted: Jul.9 at 12:53 pm
  Give Eboy a break. Only one person can understand the pain he has had to endure since 2006 when they won their last championship, and that is me. I had to suffer from 2003-2009 for the Lakers to win the championship again. 6 years can seem like forever, but now the Heat are back baby. I’m hoping for the The King & The Black Mamba to meet int he 2011 Finals.

• RickyRude Posted: Jul.9 at 12:54 pm
  Damn, makes you wonder if these motherfuc*ers can pick up a phone and call LeBron to tell him how they felt in person instead of making a fool out of themselves on Twitter like this? I mean since they were “close” friends and all. This is just as big of an attention-whore move as the announcement on ESPN last night.

• Eboy Posted: Jul.9 at 1:23 pm
  ccantrel secretly had my love child. But don’t tell anyone.

• Overtime Posted: Jul.9 at 2:00 pm
  how awesome would it be if the Cavs bounced the Heat in the playoffs?

• AL Posted: Jul.9 at 2:16 pm
  @eboy ..mum is the word,
  but might later broadcast it on live tv on an hour long special

• c_cantrell Posted: Jul.9 at 2:25 pm
  @eboy.. dude your a very very immature idiot

• rav Posted: Jul.9 at 2:29 pm
  on the plus side delonte west gets more spare time with gloria!* (according to hiphop weekly)

• Clay Posted: Jul.9 at 2:34 pm
  The Cavs should now proceed to dump their entire roster for whatever they can get.

• Clay Posted: Jul.9 at 2:36 pm
  Williams: “I think we all took it for granted and thought it was a nobrainer and he was resigning.” I really hope he didn’t think that, so the blow wasn’t as bad.

• c_cantrell Posted: Jul.9 at 2:43 pm
  @clay.. na man he didnt really mean it.. he jus said it for no reason jus cause.. moron..

• ClydeSays Posted: Jul.9 at 2:51 pm
  Pretty sure Mo won’t be able to b1tch his way onto the All Star team again… That’s why he’s pissed…

• c_cantrell Posted: Jul.9 at 2:57 pm
  @ClydeSays.. actually im pretty sure hes mad cause the best player on the planet just left his team.. but thats ok the cavs are now mo’s team.. dont know if thats good or bad tho lol

• kevin ARMENTA Posted: Jul.9 at 3:39 pm
  Yo LeBron,Your legacey is done buddy! RING CHASER!!!

• Clay Posted: Jul.9 at 4:59 pm
  Cantrell are you Mo Williams’ wife? Chill out. Find a LeBron jersey to burn or something.

• cp3fan Posted: Jul.9 at 5:13 pm
  Mo should have shown up in the playoffs and maybe LeBron wouldn’t be leaving.

• min.g Posted: Jul.9 at 5:20 pm
  It aint gonna work out as everyone think it will. Bosh will cry that his stats are down, also if anyone get’s hurt it’s done. Orlando is still the team in florida!!!

• ClutchPerformer Posted: Jul.9 at 5:25 pm
  I think the problem I have and anyone who watched it was, did he really have to do this on TV? im from toronto and Bosh just did his thing no dragging it out, we all knew lebron wasnt staying if he did it on tv, like really would he really take an hour to say im staying?
  but that said hes a ring chaser no more kobe vs. lebron, its Wades team you came to him its like when KG and ray went to the Cs, it was still pauls team. Lebron is a sidekick now, and he admit he rather win a title than be the Greatest,

• vtrobot Posted: Jul.9 at 5:26 pm
  @ c_cantrell: so we can’t speak ill of any NBAer who we legitimately can’t take 1 on 1? i didn’t know that. my posts are going to be much less negative from here on out. give eboy a break. who doesn’t talk sh*t on these boards. it’s a big day for all the peoples of miami.

• Dacre Posted: Jul.9 at 6:12 pm
  The Heat won’t get anything done without Nash.

• c_cantrell Posted: Jul.9 at 6:40 pm
  @vtrobot.. give him a break? he needs to give this site a break

• c_cantrell Posted: Jul.9 at 6:41 pm
  @clay.. shut your mouth bro

• c_holds Posted: Jul.9 at 6:55 pm
  Lebron made his own decision, and damn, Mo Williams has to suck at grammar too?
  Sure Lebron shouldn’t have televised it, and maybe the Cavs shouldnt had sucked so bad for the past 40 or so years.
  Also, Cavs winning a championship? Does Dan Gilbert have brain damage? You gotta remember when Lebron took a break at the end of the ‘09-’10 season and the Cavs lost every single one of those games.

• LetsGetIt Posted: Jul.9 at 7:45 pm
  why everyone getting on Mo? dude can ball he’s not a franchise player but he can still ball. Too many haters on these blogs… Bron deserves it though he f-ed up BIG time. I’ll be suprised if MIA wins multiple chips. I’ll even be suprised if they come out the east this year. LETS GO BULLS

• Sergio Rodriguez Posted: Jul.9 at 8:32 pm
  I wounder who would win cavs or nets

• Clay Posted: Jul.9 at 9:47 pm
  Cantrell I don’t think EBoy needs a break from the site. You’re the person having problems with everyone on here.

• Luigi Posted: Jul.10 at 8:53 am
  LeBron signed up to be Dwyane Wade’s sidekick.

• VASquires Posted: Jul.10 at 9:34 am
  No matter whether the Heat make out of the east or not, I know we are gonna see some really good playoff basketball in the east. Not to mention all the highlights in the regular season. The power is slowly shifting to the east. Anthony to the Knicks next summer, take it to the bank.

• truthteller Posted: Jul.10 at 11:09 am
  @Eboy: my balls itch really bad. Could you scratch ‘em for me!

• Nick Gibson Posted: Jul.10 at 1:00 pm
  Sucks for Antawn that the the Wiz might run train on the Cavs this year. Not really what he signed up for.

• tim Posted: Jul.11 at 2:18 am
  Its embarassing that in 2010 some would refer to another personas their owner.F@$% Dan Gilbert!For real! “My owner sez he gonna get us a ring tank u masser!”

• Purple and Gold Posted: Jul.11 at 2:28 am
  Mo I think you need to check your grammar a little bit buddy!

• nyc's real king = # 30 Posted: Jul.12 at 4:27 pm
  oh, i c all the hate is coming from the teams that didn’t land lebron. cav’s fan’s, y’all had 6 yrs. to get him help & finally u have the strongest team he’s been on (09-10) w/mo williams shaq hickson jameson ilguaskas some guys didn’t show up others didn’t even take off their warmups against the celts. allen and rondo did whatever they pleased w/mo “tweety bird” williams & candace parker (sorry dogs this ain’t the euroleague anymore). lebron’s teammates were all witnesses to him playing by his lonesome. mo gotti? you ain’t no real gangsta tweeting n begging 2 stay on ur hands and knees in cleveland? ur a really wack dude who plays ok ball. y’all were like family taking mock photos b4 games goofing off. well what about now, if he was ur boy, wish him well & man the f*&k up. i bet if williams was an unrestricted agent right now he would leave cleveland and try to go 2 a better team. the owner is a biyatch. lbj ain’t promise u nuthin’. i thought thats what free agency is supposed to b about. nobody said anything when boston got their big 3. and yeah that show might have been unecessary but 10 million of us watched it tho. he’s was a king in ny and got cheered here @ the garden in games, was on the front & back of every paper and magazine and now he’s lecon? ok.right. charles barkely spat on a little girl, had barfights, on the court fights, was a dirty player but we loved him and he’s still on tv? which leads to my next point where are all the nba players and commentators that “keep it real’ ? where is the players union and david stern to make a comment about the owners behavior? fans r gonna b fans so that get’s a pass but i don’t think real ballers r gonna wanna come to cleveland now with that behavior from ownership/management u already lost out on childress obviously no one’s gonna replace lbj but josh woulda been a nice fit. 4 all he’s done for ur organization, economy, community now with all the statements and jersey burnings, cleveland is proving he made the right choice..

• Phillip Morris Posted: Jul.12 at 6:44 pm
  LeBron James, King His Own World LeBron James is a grown man who made a grownup decision to take his massive basketball-playing ability from Cleveland to Miami in a desire to get the one thing every true baller desires: the opportunity to call yourself a champion. Forget all the nonsense about him “owing” his hometown and how his legacy could have been cemented had he stayed in the Midwest and continued to try to win a title in Cleveland. LeBron had the absolute right to pick up his things and go where he thought it was best to win, and he did it. Enough with all of this ridiculous chatter that he’s a selfish, spoiled basketball prodigy. LeBron was an employee of the Cleveland Cavaliers. He had no ownership stake and no control. Everyone talks about what his presence meant to the Cleveland economy. Did he own any of those businesses? No. But he made them, and the Cavaliers, richer by his play. There is undoubtedly a tradeoff, because being a star athlete is a two-way street. You become richer by virtue of folks coming to see you play, and the league, team, marketers and surrounding businesses get to piggyback off of your success. LeBron gave them a solid seven seasons, and everyone enjoyed the ride. Say thank you for the LeBron gravy train, and now, like any smart business owner, you need to figure out your next revenue stream. Now, let’s deal with the fans. I read with fascination about how LeBron “owed” the fans. Really? What exactly did he owe them? We need to stop with this belief that fans in a city “own” a particular player. We get to sit back and enjoy the skills of these modern-day gladiators in our gleaming new Coliseums, while they bust their butts, play injured and have to take all of the criticism when things go bad. As fans, we justify it all by saying, “Well, he’s getting millions to play, so he should shut up.” We need to grow up and realize that once his playing days are over, we will say, “Thanks, LeBron, now move over so we can worship the next stud.” In fact, when a particular athlete has overstayed their welcome, the fans are the loudest in telling him to leave the court. To me, there is a huge difference between a player like LeBron James and Albert Haynesworth of the Washington Redskins. Albert has pocketed nearly $40 million and has refused to show up at training sessions with Washington because he doesn’t like the defensive scheme. That is dumb. LeBron showed up and did his part, and when his contract was up, he exercised his free will to do as he pleased and shop his talents. He did what every single American wants: to go to a new job where the desires you always wanted can be fulfilled. So how is that wrong? No one — athlete, stockbroker, Wal-Mart greeter, grocery store clerk, secretary, journalist — wants to be treated like they are a piece of property. We all desire the freedom that comes with making our own choice as to where we want to work and achieve the goals in life that we all set. I can identify with that. In 1993, I decided to leave the Austin American-Statesman, where I was the county government reporter. The then-city editor sat across from me and said, “I felt like it was a punch in the gut when told you were leaving.” He had an indignant, paternalistic tone that I found offensive. See, I was making $24,000. When the Houston Chronicle pursued me for a job a few months earlier that would be around $27,000, I was told I was talking myself out of a job in Austin. So when the Fort Worth Star-Telegram offered me a gig at $32,000, I didn’t even bother seeing whether Austin wanted to counter. The new job allowed me to go to a bigger market and have the upward mobility I desired, so I took the job. So I told the city editor, “Look, you didn’t take some kid off the street, teach him how to talk, write and dress. You paid me for a service, and I delivered. Now I’m choosing to take my skills elsewhere.” I then got up and left the meeting. It was offensive to me that my bosses at the paper felt like I was being an ungrateful employee. I wanted to do more with my talents, and I refused to allow someone to make me feel bad about my decision. It’s my life, my career, my choice. So how is that bad? Now I get folks who didn’t like LeBron having a one-hour special to announce his decision. But we are all used to the hype in sports. Do we really need a six-hour pregame show for the Super Bowl? Can’t we play the NBA All-Star Game without all of the side attractions? Would boxing be boxing without the wild and crazy news conferences? Hype and sports go hand-in-hand. That’s why I found the letter written by Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert so pathetic. Here is a man who was enriched by the play of LeBron James; according to Forbes, the value of the franchise increased by $100 million with his on-court performance. Yet instead of being a gracious owner and simply reaffirming his commitment to the fans to put a winning team on the court, Gilbert ripped LeBron to shreds, calling him “narcissistic” and his decision to leave a “cowardly betrayal” and “a shameful display of selfishness.” Gilbert even went on to trash all athletes by saying, “It’s time for people to hold these athletes accountable for their actions. Is this the way you raise your children?” In an interview, Gilbert later said LeBron quit on the team in the playoffs the past two years. Really? So if he was all of that, Dan, why did you want to re-sign him? Who wants a quitter on his team? If LeBron had chosen to stay in Cleveland, rich boy Dan would have been all smiles, slapping his back, getting ready to count the money he could make off of the back of LeBron. So who would have been the real selfish, narcissistic individual, Dan? Gilbert now says it’s time to speak out against LeBron, yet as long as James made him richer, he would have kept quiet. Sorry, Dan, you’ve pimped LeBron long enough. LeBron showed Dan Gilbert that only LeBron owes LeBron an explanation. No owner, CEO or boss has the right to demand that someone stay as an employee. The employee has a right to live their life as they see fit. As the CEO of LeBron James Inc., he did what’s in the best of interest of him. And as the most important shareholder, isn’t that what he’s supposed to do? I’m sorry, folks, but the loyalty that used to exist from teams and companies is gone. Some still believe in it, but for many of us, we’re simply a dot on the spreadsheet. Business is cutthroat, and we have to accept that reality. So, King James, go to Miami and do your thing. Grow your corporation to be as big as you want it to be. And never look back at the haters who are mad you chose not to act like a highly paid indentured servant or 21st-century slave, held in place by the invisible shackles dressed up as loyalty to a city, owing the fans and satisfying someone who is clearly an ungrateful owner.

• Goldie Lox Posted: Jul.13 at 1:54 pm
  I feel bad for Mo and the rest of his former teammates. Lebron was supposed to be Mo’s friend and he should have let him know about his plans like any good friend would have done. I’ve read a lot of criticism of Mo’s performance in the playoffs, but I didn’t see Mr. MVP do much of anything in the playoffs either!!! I don’t care about his elbow hurting. Jordan played super well in the playoffs and he had the flu! I think the CAVS actually played better when LBJ was on the bench.

• c_cantrell Posted: Jul.14 at 6:44 pm
  ^clay..
  i dont need to hear your ignorance dude so jus do yourself a favor and keep being the loser you are n keep getting on this site every hour of everyday cause your life sucks and obviously has nothing else to offer you.. your prolly just some old, fat loser with no social skills whatsoever and you turn to freakin nba websites to fill a void in your life because nothing else will.. give me a break dude get off this site and go get a freakin hobby