Maybe because I'm a Cavs fan, I appreciate your response. I couldn't have said it better myself. He did so want this championship and I think his team mates let him down a bit. Look at his stats and tell me he didn't try. Management will have to get him help that can stand up to the big boys. Dwight Howard is definetely a big boy. We thought Mo was the answer and Andy would come through. No excuses, Cleveland got beat....See you next year and don't be so sure Lebron's going anywhere! More articles like this will tick him off enough to stay right where he is with maybe one of this years free agents. They all like money more than loyalty and the Chinese have lots!!!!!!!!

wawawwawawawa-"king" james is a grown man-he should have been mature about the loss and congratulated the magic for a hard fought series. Then he could have ran to the locker room and cried or shouted or whatever. He needs to get over himself and figure out a way to create a TEAM around him. He can't win everything on his own.

I completely agree and could not have said it better. I get tired of people criticizing those who actually play the game. Like they say, those who are capable, do and those who can't, criticize.

Dear BS From Whinerville,

He is a professional athlete. He is paid WELL. The fans ante up weekly an ungodly amount to watch,,buy his shirts, shoes, etc. And then when the last game is played and lost,,,he walks. Nothing for those who pay his salary. Nothing for the millions of fans watching. Just a pampered baby off to the showers. But if you represent Cleveland and its fans then his failure to man-up is clearly understandable.

Hello people - let's not forget who Mr. Cry Baby Lebron works for – we the little people known as the fans thank you very much. We pay the over-inflated ticket prices so that this over-inflated baby Hughie can live large. We have every right to criticize him when he doesn’t play well and a duty and obligation to do so when he behaves poorly and disgraces his team, the fans and the game. The measure of a REAL man is not in how he handles success but in how he behaves in defeat. He may have earned the privilegeto play in the NBA under the big lights by being a superb player but hey, step up and be the man you want us to think you are Lebron - take it like a man - you lost because Orlando was better - it's like they say - "Win or Go Home". Your rude behavior has nothing to do with being a competitor and every thing to do with being a spoiled brat. Mr. Sterns - will there be a fine assessed here and if not WHY?

This mere peasant thinks the wanna-be-Kinglet needs a blankie and a real time out - like for the rest of the post season - Bye bye bubbie.

I'm sorry Mark, but you may have missed the point of the article: "Let the guy be upset in private ,he has earned that right," is absolutely his right as an athlete, BUT for every player that has shaken his hand or one-arm hugged him after he beat them, LeBron owes that same courtesy. As a professional athlete there is a decorum that involves being humble enough to cringe through congratulating those that have bettered you.

No one is suggesting that his competitive spirit is lacking or misguided, but this is a case of simple manners. I would be embarassed if my children ran off the court without showing the respect that the other team deserves. Shame on you LeBron.

The sitdown interviews after the games by both teams is sickening. Lebron will come forward in his own time. His fans wont dump on him like the media does. Go find another doper in baseball or something to write about. Kobe will take care of Howard and company.

haha That mans a crybaby!

I take it you have NEVER been to a little league game or any other game with kids the age of 8 knowing that they shake hands at the end of the game despite losing or winning?!! How old is Lebron, it's called PROFESSIONAL sports and the media is who gets you the contracts for Nike etc.! You Cleveland fans clearly have no idea what it is like to have winners play for you because he isn't even going to stay there and take the big money in NY! There are two players in Pro sports, those rich with money(that will run out) and those rich with wins( that is always there), ask any player and he'd rather be rich with wins. Respect is earned and he just threw it all out the door! The NBA should fine him if they didn't depend on him so much to make them money!

He is a winner, but not shaking hands because he lost to them? He wants to shake hands when he beats them. I understand being upset, but he needs to show a little class, that makes him look like a whiner. Hopefully, he'll learn.

I think he's lying and is more frustrated with his teammates than anything else. I have no problem with him skipping a press conference and going straight to the bus, but at least have the professional courtesy to shake your opponents hand. We learn that at 5 years old. Also, he and Howard were close teammates at Beiijing last summer. Bottom line, he played great but he needs Scottie Pippen and Horace Grant. Cavs better have a major shakeup this offseason and get him a couple big names. Paul Pierce got Ray Allen and KG. I say give the Clippers Mo Williams, Delonte West, Wally, Joe Smith and Ben Wallace and get Blake Griffin. He'll be an impact player pretty quickly and LeBron can mold him into his big enforcer/scorer/rebounder sidekick.

Win, lose or draw, for anyone whose played any type of organized sport, you are taught if you lose, take defeat with class. From elementary all the way up to the college level we are taught and our kids are taught that you should never be a sore loser. And that's what Lebron is, a sore, classless loser. Him walking off the court without congratulating the Magic for not bending over like their first two opponents is, in my mind, right up there with Isiah Thomas and the Pistons when they wouldn't congratulate MJ and the Bulls for knocking them off in the 1991 Eastern Conference finals.

Too bad if he wants to "be upset in private." Just because we aren't professional athletes doesn't mean we don't know what it means to be professional. I like sports just as much as anybody, but I'll take 1,000 dignified high school players that know how to be good sports over LeBron's "I didn't win, so I don't get brag this time" attitude any day. I don't care how many points he scored, rebounds, or assists he made, it doesn't give him an excuse to show poor sportsmanship. I hope that parents explained to their little LeBron fans that his actions are not becoming of an athlete, whether it be t-ball or the NBA.

BJW - You hit the nail on the head. It reaminds me of when my daughter played softball and after the game all of the girls from both teams had to get into a big circle around the pitchers mound and in a sing song voice cry out "2 - 4 - 6 - 8, who do we appreciate... each other". I always hated that crap.

I mean, LeBron is ultra competitive and takes the game seriously. WHY PLAY IF WINNING ISN'T THE GOAL!! Of course he's disappointed. He'll make it up to those guys on the Magic. I'm sure he's already spoken to each of them. And THEY are the ONLY ones he owes an explanation to.

Lisa R -

Are you really as stupid as your comment? You must be a basketball groupie who has never paid a penny for a ticket. Get this right Ms. Thang - Lebron owes ME an explanation - I'm a season ticket holder and it's my hard earned unpampered bucks that allows him to live large, he works for me. So step off please - winning is the goal, and disappointment is quite understandable but his behavior is inexcusable and so is your attitude. God help us - you are raising children - wow.

LeBron doesn't owe you anything at all. It was YOUR choice to buy season tickets. That does not make him responsible for anything dealing with you. Is it his fault that you spend your "hard earned umpampered bucks" on season tickets? No it's not. I doubt that he would care if you cancelled your season ticket plan based on his actions on Saturday night. Leave the man alone, let him get over the loss and then address people when he's ready. So you need to step off with your pompous, unnecessary attitude and leave him alone.

I'm sure he wouldn't care if someone cancelled their season tickets. All these basketball players are thugs who thinks society "owes" them the life style they choose to live, so why would they care?

His attitude is somewhat refreshing?????

Mike 588190,.

I could not agree with you more....let the man deal with his disappointment in private!!!!

Lebron James is NOT the first basketball player to fall short of the ring and guess what, he won't be the last. He got his butt kicked by a better team. Of course he's disappointed but if he's the man he thinks he is he needs to suck it up, stick out his hand and shake his opponent's. An email?? Too little too late. What if the Magic teammates had ignored the Cavs who were MAN enough to stay and shake hands after the game because they were too busy celebrating? What would you all be saying about that? He needs to grow up - he's a poor sport and next season everyone will remember that. He should be ashamed of himself - big baby - how disgusting.

Um, yeah, sure...... he just didn't want to distract from the Magic, oh, that explains it all!!

Obviously you've never had to carry an entire team on your back.  He is the team and it is time for the team to man-up and play like professionals instead of amateurs waiting for someone else to do all the work.  The man posts 40 pts a game and the entire bench is like 10.  Cleveland picked him up to and he has delivered more than most.  It is Cleveland management who should be scolded.  They could have had a championship team long ago if management would get off their butts and hire individuals who can deliver.  Basketball is a team sport, not tennis.  Le Bron has asked for help but management can't get it together.  Personally, I hope he leaves Cleveland when he becomes a free agent.  He is a true talent and one that shouldn't be wasted on a worthless team like the cleveland's cavaliers.  It's time for this big man to move on.

LebronJames can take a page from Tim Duncan's play book on how to carry a team on your back and win with grace or lose with dignity. Mr. Duncan is not only a superb, intelligent player but a GREAT sportsman. Sadly Lebron's juvenile display says more about how low the NBA is sinking than how tough a competitor his is... bummer. If you can't run with the big dogs dude, stay on the porch.

Diane- I've read through almost all of these comments and you have to be the most lude and annoying individual on here. You are a season ticket holder and that is fantastic for you. You do not own stock in Cleveland and you are not employed by Cleveland therefore you own nothing of Cleveland. That is like saying that since you buy M&M's that you own them and that they owe you an explanation for a bad tasting M&M. They don't owe you anything. You bought it at your own risk. You are a season ticket holder at your own risk. If things good bad tough crap. When we hear about your name in big letters and when you can make fools like yourself spend big money to bring in hundreds of millions of dollars for a single organization then and only then will anyone owe you anything. Go look in the mirror and take some of that humility medicine you have been trying to dish out. Stupid hypocrite.

Class act? I thought we were commenting on Lebron? My bad.

I'm not saying he should or shouldn't have shaken hands, however, comparing LeBron and the NBA to little league players is also ridiculous. For those youngsters, playing a sport IS just a game. Playing in the NBA is a person's livelihood. And we all know there is a difference between individuals who treat their job as work and those who treat it as a career. Those for whom it is a career are more passionate, more dedicated, more driven. more invested and more intense. These are the individuals who rise to the top and become the successful leaders of their professions.

Why is it some people have a morbid need to tear successful people down. They seem to have a need to discredit and slander them all without even knowing them. I see this everyday in politics, entertainment, business and personal lives. Just because you don't agree with someone doesn't mean they are wrong. There's an old adage about walking a mile in someone else's shoes. I'd rather people be honest with their feelings than hide behind being "PC".

Robert, how does skipping a media interview make a person a whiner. Being a whiner is an active expression, like Stan the Man complaining to the media about the number of calls against the Magic and recommending the media take up his plight. If you don't speak at all, that is being passive (no action taken). It can't be both.

I know it seems the media runs everything these days, but they don't. And neither do we have the right to persecute others for their actions.

CavCrusader, you should have kept your stupid comment to yourself! Of course Lebron is a whiner. Had they won the series, not only would he have stayed to shake hands with the Magic players, but he would have been at the news conference basking in the glory. So that shows how much he think about you Cav fans by not showing up at the podium. And one quick note.........playing in the NBA is just a game also. The only difference, they get paid a ridiculous amount of money doing so.

I agree with your comment Joe 100%! I don't blame him for not wanting to speak to the medial. That he is entitled to do for he's under no obligation to speak to reporters after a game. But to walk off the court with out the courtesy of shaking hands with the winners, that's just poor sportsmanship. Of all the things he does on the court that is what I will remember. He's not a 'king' in my estimation, just a very sore loser and a very classless young man.

How can some of you call this young man classless? Here you have a guy who came into the league at 18; he's one of the highest paid athlete's in sports. The only time you hear his name in the news is when it comes to basketball (not DUIs, drugs, beating on his girlfriend, at some strip club etc. etc.) To my knowledge this is the first piece of bad press he has gotten, because he didn't shake someone's hand after a game (yes I too think he should have) and didn't talk to the media after the game (who cares)! That makes him a classless thug? Come on people!

So he's law abiding. There' s a difference between that and having the class that a great athelete, like LBJ , should show not only as a professional, but as a role model for all the children and fans who look up to him. He has gotten bad press before, just not in Cleveland (flopping on the court, "crab dribble" etc). Needs to live up to the hype the press created and he now believes.

I'm sorry what games were you watching? When someone has to score 40% of the teams points because the rest of the team is sucking big time, I don't call that helping them lose.