UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio (AP) _ Maybe fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers can hope for cheap gas if an oil company insults All-Star LeBron James.



Lines were so long Thursday at some of the 86 Papa John's stores offering a large, one-topping pizza for 23 cents that police stood nearby to make sure people didn't get unruly.



The Louisville, Ky.-based company agreed to the offer after a franchisee in Washington, D.C., made T-shirts calling star LeBron James a "crybaby." The shirts referred to James' complaints about hard fouls during a playoff series that the Washington Wizards lost to the Cavaliers. The company also will donate $10,000 to the Cavaliers Youth Fund.



The 23-cent price of a pizza is a homage to James' jersey number.



"It's a recession busting offer, and we certainly hope we have made it up to Cleveland," Tim North, vice president of the company's northeast division, told WEWS-TV.



There were a few headaches, mostly complaints about long waits and line-cutting.



In University Heights, an auxiliary police officer tried to settle a line-cutting complaint without riling either side. In Springfield Township outside Akron, police said their was an argument between two people in line, but no one was hurt and there were no arrests.



Locations were making 300 pizzas an hour to satisfy lines in which customers waited 90 minutes, North said.