Revisiting The Great LeBron James Cocksucker Debate

here's a decent chance that at some point in the past 24 hours — perhaps when he did a little shimmy on the floor after drawing a late offensive foul, or when he began yapping demonstratively at the Less Than Zero extras in the stands, or when he passive-aggressively referred to Derrick Rose as "MVP," or when it emerged that he is pals with Drake — some of the old, cold feeling came rushing back. You remembered just what it was you hated about LeBron James. Now, with LeBron on the cusp of the NBA finals, let's revisit his summer of reckoning and the debate that raged through these pages: Is LeBron a cocksucker or not?

Drew Magary: "But there's a normal way of doing things, and there's the dick way of doing things, and making your own free agency a two-year drama capped off with an infomercial directed by Senor Spielbergo falls squarely in the purview of FLAMING FUCKING DICK MOVES." READ »

Tommy Craggs: "But the national freakout is upon us anyway, and the only reason for that, so far as I can tell, is that LeBron put on a bad show last night. He fumbled the script. He is the most hated man in basketball right now because he went on live television and blew his lines." READ »

Drew Magarykov: "Mozgov is past point of not come back. He is cocksucker. He is guy who care more about making famous than making basketball." READ »

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