Dear New York, LeBron Doesn’t Want You
April 10th, 2010 by John P. Wise Leave a reply »Condescending New Yorkers can laugh all they want about how bad a city Cleveland is. I'm a proud Clevelander who's been living in the Big Apple for four years now, and it's been pretty entertaining watching the arrogance.
Sure, the "Mistake On The Lake" even sets rivers afire, but equally embarrassing are New York and its assumptions rooted in an ugly habit of self-absorption.
If this was the 1980s, certainly LeBron James would want out of Cleveland in favor of New York, probably even in favor of New Mexico.
But it hasn't been the 1980s for a long time. Tired of being the butt of late-night jokes, Cleveland turned itself around and enjoyed a prosperous decade in the 1990s. That mini-renaissance, however, began so long ago that the city has returned to being miserable again. That much I can admit.
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