“Crazy. Karma is a b****. Gets you every time. It’s not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!” LeBron must subscribe to the school of thought that God is on his side and is a vengeful God with intent to humiliate James’ former franchise and its owner, Dan Gilbert, for being so mad at him for leaving Cleveland. He might be the only one. Clearly, James hasn’t emotionally recovered yet from the pure venom directed his way by his former team and his former teams fans. His mind might be on the Miami Heat and winning the NBA championship this season, but his heart is heavy and dark. He’s still holding onto the words Gilbert wrote in anger after LeBron took his “talents to South Beach.” If you recall, Gilbert wrote a scathing letter questioning James’ character and that karma would come back and get LeBron James. In a series of interviews since, Gilbert has implied that James quit during the playoffs in each of the past two seasons. He said that LeBron didn’t care about Cleveland. LeBron has said that Gilbert never cared about him. Suppose the question becomes, does he have to? He’s your boss. He pays you to do a job. We so often blur the line of entertainment and business in sports that now there’s larger obligations, unwritten rules that we apparently have to follow. Maybe the larger question is why Gilbert was mad to begin with. James’ was his contracted employee for seven years. James’ fulfilled the obligations of his contract. There were no contract stipulations demanding undying devotion to the Cavs, delivering an NBA championship or even handling himself in an appropriate manner if he chose to leave the team. It’s already been discussed and widely accepted, by James himself, that he mishandled the situation with the train wreck that was “The Decision.” But Gilbert also mishandled his emotion filled rants since that time. Dude, he’s gone. Get over it. Start paying attention to the fact your team stinks something fierce. These emotional attachments just aren’t good for anyone. But bringing God and how He works into it doesn’t help either. That’s the second time this week God has been brought in reference to something that happened in the realm of play. On Monday, following Auburn’s 22-19 victory over Oregon in the BCS National Championship, Auburn head coach Gene Chizik proclaimed, “First of all, I can’t be more blessed to be part of a whole team like this. Man, God was with us.” Tim Keown of ESPN.com wrote about this instance as well and I’d basically say the same thing: so does that mean God hates Chip Kelly and Oregon? Was He sickened by the Oregon DayGlo uniforms? Something against Ducks? It’s not the implication that God plays favorites in regards to sporting events, but that God even cares about Auburn football, Oregon football or the war of words between LeBron James and Dan Gilbert. It’s one thing to praise whatever deity you believe in for blessing you with talents that have allowed you to be in the moment or to excel in something, or for the opportunity. No one begrudges guys like Tim Tebow for that. However, a line is crossed when you insinuate, perhaps through your own stupidity and understanding of the situation and others, that God cares about the outcome of the game or a situation for you more than someone else. For Chizik, we don’t even know the final outcome. Meaning, will Auburn even get to keep the national championship it just one? You know, that whole Cecil Newton “pay for play” thing?  And if Chizik is so convinced God cared more about Auburn and his players than Oregon, Chip Kelley and his players, as Keown suggested in his column, is Chizik donating his performance bonus for winning the title – $600,000 – to a charitable organization? If not, if Chizik keeps that check (likely), then I’d love to say the following: But you said yourself that God blessed you and your players and led you to victory, so that money is not rightfully yours, it’s God’s. Give it back. Otherwise, you’re stealing, essentially, from the very man who blessed you, right? I’d venture a guess that Chizik’s head would explode trying to process that line of thinking. I’m sure God wants you to have the money, coach. As for James, he’s partially correct. It’s not good to wish bad on anybody. But isn’t it also not good to revel in the pain and defeat of others? Won’t that jeopardize the karma as well? A massive ego is rarely considered a good thing either, but all of this is coming from the same man who once declared that he spoiled everyone with his play. In fact, let’s inspect, for fun, another LeBron quote, shall we? Following a game several years ago, James told the media, “That’s not fair. I was fouled.” But being a man of faith and apparently a believer in karma, there’s a good reason that foul wasn’t called, right? It had to have been punishment for some past indiscretion or wrongdoing, however small. Or, God was with the other team and the other players and coaches that night. It’s a vicious little cycle, isn’t it? See, we open our mouths, but a lot of the time, all that comes out is trash, jibberish or nonsense. Maybe it’s because fans and the media beg athletes, coaches and entertainment figures of all kind to talk, but then we don’t like what we hear. Or perhaps it has nothing to do with that.  Maybe God has bigger things to worry about. Maybe karma exists, but not on the miniscule level of the professional sports realm. Maybe there’s a tad too much personal emotion and investment put into the lives of multimillionaires who play games for a living. Or, just maybe, we should all just do what we were told to do a long time ago. If you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say anything at all. After all, it could come back to bite you. Just ask LeBron James.  On Wednesday night, the Heat were beaten by the Los Angeles Clippers and James was hurt. Now that’s karma.