16 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

Eh...hitting LeBron and John Cena is lazy and pointless. Does anyone think John Cena decided to release that apology? Of course not -- Universal made him do it. 

Don't crap on the easy targets -- blame Nike and Comcast, not LeBron and John Cena. 

I was thinking about that. I don't know what Lebron is like in his personal life too much, but Cena was on a realty tv show for several years. Dude seems obsessed with money. I guess its easy for me to say, but at some point I would rather take a moral stance then buy a couple more yachts to water ski behind. 

2 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

Again, I find it lazy. What's John Cena supposed to do? Tell Universal to screw off and never work again? Sounds great in principle, but pretty sure Hollywood will keep chugging along without the acting talents of John Cena. LeBron clearly has more power at Nike, but not nearly as much as someone else who can never be criticized. 

The only way it can work with athletes or actors is if they all band together to pressure the parent companies. I just get annoyed by someone trying to dunk on easy targets that can't create actual change. 

I agree on Cena (though, if you're going to publicly grovel in Mandarin, you're going to get made fun of, it's unavoidable), but I think you're selling LeBron short on how much power he has over Nike.  If they lost LeBron in a very public way, Nike would be put in a very difficult position.  They need athletes and Lebron is a rare athlete with enough power to move the needle.

25 minutes ago, VanHammersly said:

I agree on Cena (though, if you're going to publicly grovel in Mandarin, you're going to get made fun of, it's unavoidable), but I think you're selling LeBron short on how much power he has over Nike.  If they lost LeBron in a very public way, Nike would be put in a very difficult position.  They need athletes and Lebron is a rare athlete with enough power to move the needle.

He's not the most important one. 

That's the man we can never criticize, no matter what.