This has always been shocking to me. LBJ is, by all accounts, a good dude. Big ego? Sure. But he's a family man who takes care of his boys from back home.
You've got a league full of rapists (Kobe), murderers (Jason Williams), thugs (Stephen Jackson, Zach Randolph, Lance Stevenson [assault charges]), and all around jerk offs (Jason Richardson, Rafer Alston (wife beating), Mario Chamlers, Michael Beasley (google these two), Birdman (unknown hard drug use), Delonte West (carrying a small arsenal while riding a three wheeled bicycle??), Metta World Peace (Wife beating), Jason Kidd (wife beating), Gilbert Arenas (cap in yo ass).
Not to mention other sports like the NFL with rapists and murderers...Ray Lewis killed that dude, for sure, and Aaron Hernandez probably did as well. Rothlisberger was seen dragging a 125 lb woman into the bathroom by her hair , and he subsequently had his bodyguard stop anyone from entering. And he beat that case, which, by the way, was the second rape accusation he's faced before he turned 30. Still, no one cares now.
And yet, people are okay with these guys and hate LBJ because he decided at 25 that he was tired of living in Ohio and wanted to play with his boys. What a dick right??