Yea his image took a major hit the way he went about leaving Cleveland but it's sad to see people insulting him about his race and physical features, that is way over the line. Plus Charles Barkley says alot of things with thinking 90% of the time, I honestly feel people like to listen to him for humor. In this culture though, once you're winning and you're on tv all the time, people tend to gravitate towards that so we'll see he can make a come back.
It was funny though, in August I was giving a talk to some freshman college students and I asked them LeBron or Kobe??? I was amazed to see at least 3/4 of them said Kobe and this is the so-called Lebron generation, I really thought they would've leaned towards him.