I remember collecting cards as a kid. Mostly ABA and NFL players as I recall. Not much into the baseball thing growing up in West Texas. But still some things should just be sacred. So I’m a bit saddened by the whole Race Card that’s been pulled out in the LeBron taking his talents to South Beach aftermath. I don’t remember Shaq or Kareem Jabbar having issues as they moved on to other things.

It’s not that LeBron left Cleveland, but the WAY he left Cleveland. The hour long special. the dragging it out all summer to make it a soap opera. The whole “Win LeBron Sweepstakes”. It smacks of self importance, which is what I think most people are bothered by. But a Racial issue? I don’t see it that way. I think it’s more about the majority of Americans struggling to get by on the little they make, or in many cases, don’t make, seeing some guy make a big spectacle out of getting more money and, in this instance, building a team with his friends, like we did in grade school.

It’s bad for the NBA. It’s bad for basketball. And it’s bad for kids who just want to collect their favorite players bubble gum card (sans the bubble gum) so that years from now they can remember over beers after work that their Mom threw them all away.