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Riots in the streets as 'King of basketball' LeBron James abandons his team on national TV to sign with Miami Heat
Basketball superstar LeBron James sparked riots after announcing he was leaving hometown team Cleveland to join the Miami Heat.

Fans burned replicas of his Cavaliers No. 23 jersey, while others hurled rocks at a 10-storey-tall billboard featuring the NBA star.

In downtown Cleveland, police were forced to carry out extra patrols to deal with crowds of disappointed supporters after the announcement live on ESPN and several fans were arrested.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne … -Heat.html
Basketball fans riot after a star leaves their city. Basketball fans riot in LA and other cities after their team wins a championship.

I don't remember rioting the last time a baseball team won the world series or when a football team won a super bowl. From the actions of the fans and the players. It seems that basketball is the favorite sport of America's trash.

I blame this on the prevalence of basketball courts around public housing buildings.
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you dont remember rioting over american football? ok then.

edit, blatant troll thread. you know at some point someone is gonna mention the racial profile of BB players and fans, and it'll start a flamewar.

Last edited by FatherTed (2010-07-09 14:43:55)

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FatherTed wrote:

you dont remember rioting over american football? ok then.

edit, blatant troll thread. you know at some point someone is gonna mention the racial profile of BB players and fans, and it'll start a flamewar.
I don't remember a single one off the top of my head.

If this was a troll thread aimed at black people I would have mentioned black people and said whatever I think about them. I have said enough about black people over the last year+ and blaming basketballs failure on them would have been one of the nice things I have said. It's not about black people tbh.
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1) Rioting has occurred in association with other sports, afaik. I know die-hard basketball fans who are about as inoffensive as they come.
2) Belongs in the sports section.
3) Bad title is bad.

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