Hail to basketball’s King James

Manhattan: To Voicer Ray McEddy: Your opinion that anyone who cheers for LeBron James and Miami has no honor is a load of crap. When Kevin Garnett finally realized there was no championship forthcoming in Minnesota and joined Paul Pierce and Ray Allen in Boston — and was successful — he wasn’t criticized. Carmelo Anthony forced his way out of Denver to come to New York, and plotted to get Mike D’Antoni fired, and he did no wrong.

James is one of the few players today who play for a championship. He realized it wasn’t going to happen in Cleveland, so why stay? Any player in his right mind would have done the same. As we can all see, it paid off. He now has the crown to go with the name King James.

I happen to be a 76ers fan, but I give credit to all great players and teams. If anyone denies LeBron’s greatness, they know nothing about the game of basketball, period. Martin Shuford

Down with the King

Manhattan: To Voicers Rodney Russell, Brad Schwartz, Denise Serbay and Desmond Maxwell: Cleveland was LeBron James’ home. The people of that area watched him grow and thought of him as one of their own. When he was drafted by their team, all of Ohio jumped for joy. For a ring, he left the people who loved him for a city he hardly knew. That’s shameful. Ray McEddy

Double standard

Naugatuck, Conn.: What would have happened if Stephan Hudson were a white teacher (“Dean of mean,” June 27)? Answer: He would have been fired on the spot, arrested, charged with assault and crucified by the press.

Jerry Andolena

Doing right by victims Manhattan: Re “Modern-day slaves, hostage to abortion” (Op-Ed, June 24): Victims of human trafficking need a host of services to rebuild their lives, including access to abortion and contraception. Steve Wagner and Kim Daniels argue that the Catholic bishops should be allowed to take millions of federal dollars and obstruct vital care in the name of religion. A federal court recently disagreed, ruling that organizations receiving government funding cannot use their religion to withhold crucial services. Brigitte Amiri ACLU Reproductive

Freedom Project

A lesson in fairness

Manhattan: Re “They just don’t get it” (editorial, June 22): The measures used to assess teacher effectiveness are unreliable. This is especially true of standardized test scores, which are incomplete and inaccurate and do not capture the essence of what makes a good teacher. In evaluating other civil servants, such as police, the public is called upon to consider context and culture. The same should be done for teachers.

Deborah J. Glick Member of Assembly

Rewarding lawbreakers

Staten Island: We are all the products of immigration. However, my grandparents came to this country legally. They came through Ellis Island, were subjected to health checks, had their names changed and lived in tenements. President Obama’s new policy is a slap in the face to immigrants who did it legally.

Carol Sarlo

Unkind cuts

Corona: A court in Cologne, Germany, has rightly ruled that religious circumcision “amounts to grievous bodily harm” and that “the religious freedom of the parents . . . would not be unacceptably compromised if they were obliged to wait until the child could himself decide to be circumcised.” Let’s see if the courts in the United States stand up for chil- dren who have no voice of their own. Lothar Bosch

Beastly behavior

Woodhaven: The article about pitbull fighting in the Bronx should be a wakeup call (“Beast!” June 22). If you have a conscience, contact your local politicians and protest. If you don’t care about animals, think about what these people will do to other humans. Debra Greca-Rauh

Lacking coverage

Landing, N.J.: Seriously — a picture of Jessica Biel’s almost completely exposed rear end? There are magazines for people who want to look at that stuff. Some people would prefer to read their newspaper without having to hide it from children.

Georgiana Farnsworth

Stomach-turning news

Freeport, L.I.: I am dismayed by your articles about face-eating zombies, cooked testicles, fecesladen yards and penis-biting women, just to name a few. I often eat while reading the paper and, needless to say, I have had many lunches spoiled.

Val Winfrey-Stackhouse

Why we fight

Brooklyn: New Yorkers should be aware that the contract for Con Edison’s unionized workers expires Saturday. Management wants to strip us of essential benefits. Many people don’t realize that they get weekends off, holidays, overtime and paid vacations because of unions. You might think our contract dispute doesn’t affect you, but it does.

Tom Falanga

Asked and answered

Copake, N.Y.: Mitt Romney asks, “At what point do we stop blaming George Bush?” When the $10 trillion his tax cuts and unfunded wars added to the nation’s debt is paid down. When the financial instability that grips markets is settled. When the nearly 50,000 factories and 6 million manufacturing jobs that left our shores during the Bush years return to the U.S. Finally, when the net worth of average Americans — most of which is equity in their homes — is restored.

Joseph Cannisi

Lumber liquidators

Bronx: Thanks to the Parks Department for pruning the trees on City Island. I hope the signs it stapled onto the trees don’t kill them. Marc Hohenstein

Sugary slope

Bronx: The mayor’s soda ban, if approved, will be a Pandora’s box. Once opened, everything with sugar or lots of calories will be fair game for the administration to deem unhealthy. Our freedom of choice is being taken away. Robert Neglia

Hell in a handbasket

Central Islip, L.I.: People dumping garbage on hallowed ground is wrong (“No respect!” June 24). Look at the streets and highways

Getty Images of this great country — garbage everywhere. People are lazy, rude and inconsiderate. Baseball players aren’t correcting umpires for making wrong calls. That is why this country is going downhill. J. Ness

Hollywood ending

New City, N.Y.: What is happening to Americans? More people are poor, homeless and hungry. Democrats and Republicans can’t even speak to each other anymore. And we bicker about every freaking thing. I’m scared that we’re heading toward “Mad Max.” Christine Ierardi

Stand our ground

Manhattan: It’s time for New Yorkers to stand up to the young punks who have made life miserable for all of us. We must not live in fear while walking the streets, riding buses or subways or sending our children to school. If this madness had happened to the World War II generation, cemeteries would be doing brisk business. Steve Passaro

Asking for trouble

Manhattan: What kind of a nanny has Little Caesar Bloombucks become? He has banned smoking, salt, trans fats and 32-ounce sodas. But he’s allowing his transportation czarina Janette Sadik-Khan to put 10,000 bikes on our streets without helmets. Controller John Liu had better get insurance to cover the predictable onslaught of lawsuits.

Karene Copeland