I'm a Lebron fan but the guy is an idiot

Calm your tits.

He spoke out of turn, but doesn't have a track record of race-baiting.

ETA: Also not a lebron fan (nor hater....unless he's playing against San Antonio).

He's a physical monster, but a mental teddy bear.

Nobody cares that you do..

My mom cares. She went to Miami and caught a game and brought me back a shirt. All because she cares. Then the other day I had a girl over and she slept in it and then wore the shite home and she was so annoying that I'm just gonna let her keep it. Pretty fitting if you ask me.

And that's the story of my Miami shirt.

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Over the years Lebron's shown he clearly has several screws loose. And he's a huge race baiter.

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I don't agree with what he said, but those are his friends. Of course he's going to take offense if someone talking about them in public. He could've chosen his words more carefully but I don't think he's trying to incite any race wars.

Phil Jackson started all of that by the way. Nothing good was ever going to come out of him speaking out on Lebron's entourage. Should've just kept it to himself and worry about his own players.

Why are you so sensitive

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I don't agree with what he said, but those are his friends. Of course he's going to take offense if someone talking about them in public.

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Yeah, I don't think it was racist but it does seem odd to single out LeBron for having a group, especially when he was a teenager who jumped right onto a unique (and probably intimidating) adult world.

I mean maybe he has a point teenagers are too immature for the setting, but having a group of friends is quite normal at that age, even for well-adjusted indivduals.

I think there is resentment from the old NBA guard that LeBron's buddies from childhood who are probably perceived as hangers-on have a lot of control over the league. There was a lot of coach reaction to the Blatt firing, but nobody can say shite now that it resulted in a title. Woj has covered this type of thing in detail.

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Before David Blatt ever conducted his first training camp practice in September 2014, Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James and his agent, Rich Paul, had the coach's succession plan in place: Mark Jackson.

To become the preferred candidate of the most powerful player in the NBA – and de facto Cavaliers general manager – Jackson understood what he needed to do: Bring on James' and Paul's Klutch Sports agency as his representation, and prepare to deliver those commission fees into the King's coffers. Blatt never had a chance. He never knew what hit him.

From the beginning, the Klutch Sports campaign to puncture Blatt's standing as head coach had been as relentless as it was ruthless. James is one of the great leaders in pro sports, and he directed the Cavaliers how he wanted them: in complete defiance of Blatt.
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For all the agent competitors complaining over Klutch Sports' control in Cleveland, it is the kind of leverage no agent would ever reject over an NBA franchise. Outside of his own maximum contract, James and Klutch Sports could turn the Cavaliers into one of the loose slot machines across the street in Gilbert's casinos. It worked with client Tristan Thompson, whom they leveraged into a five-year, $82 million contract. Rival agents find themselves spending more time with clients who end up with the Cavaliers, if only because Rich Paul and his associates work to pilfer players for Klutch Sports, promising the power of James' influence in contract talks with the team.

So here's what's coming now: the trickle of stories on Blatt's incompetence, the fact that no one respected him, and maybe most of all, that James had nothing to do with his firing. For all the fairytales sold on James' return to Cleveland, this was forever about business – the kind of business they couldn't do within Riley's organization, nor Erik Spoelstra's locker room.

LeBron James runs the Cleveland organization, a choice Dan Gilbert made upon the superstar's return to Northeast Ohio. There's no shame there. Nothing that needs an apology out of him. He's constructed a way to maximize his basketball and business interests on Gilbert's dime, and it is possible that James will get all that and win a championship, too.

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I don't care for Bush but he once said if he could dunk on anyone it would be him.. he went political way back and left a sour feeling towards him.

And I was a fan up until that.