Why We Need To Get OFF The LeBron James Bandwagon
When a man gets dunked on, he takes responsibility.
For getting beaten to the hole. For getting a supreme facial.
For getting owned.
He doesn’t allow his puppet strings to be pulled in a moment like that.
No, not then.
Not when a young kid that has no NBA career in his sights gets one second of glory.
Dunking on LeBron James. Now that’s a story.
Well, that is, if you actually have proof.
But now it’s almost a week after the fact, and little-known Jordan Crawford has nothing but his own memory, and the few people that had gathered, witnessing the parting of the red seas (the dunk).
It truly was a magical moment, that quite literally, will never be lived again.
Well, very unlikely, anyways.
But this isn’t about a dunk. It’s not even about LeBron and Nike’s cover-up.
It’s not even necessarily about the depths James and said company have sunk to.
It’s about repetition.
This has happened, it just happened, and it will happen again.
LeBron James is punk-slapping America, left and right, and we’re saying, “thank you”.
We will gladly take your mistakes, miffs, taunts, and disrespect.
James should have been more upset with Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, or any Boston Celtics player within a 10-foot radius of him.
Instead, he told his mother to “sit her ass back down”. Swell.
- The Handshake Snub
After Orlando proved once again they were the better team than Cleveland, LeBron James walked off the court, ignoring the Magic players, and passing on a post-game interview.
Later, he would say that he’s “a winner” to shake someone’s hand after a loss in such an important series.
Which was funny, because I thought it made him look like a coward.
- The Dunk Not Seen Round the World
We’ll never know. We just won’t. Jordan Crawford’s alleged two-handed romp over James was supposedly a fantastic jam. But says who?
The cameraman who’s more pissed about his stolen tape and the lost royalties, than he is about what’s right in this situation? Unlikely.
But the dunk is not the point.
Shaking hands or not shaking hands is not the point.
Mother’s Day, and the treatment of his own mother is, I feel I still need to say, not the point.
The point is, LeBron James is bigger than the Cleveland Cavaliers, Ohio, the NBA, and quite possibly the entire world.
With James, etiquette, respect, good sportsmanship, and honor go out the window.
It’s all about fame, money, and glory.
But my question is-even for a guy who has everything he could ever ask for-what’s the point?
Who cares about all of those things if you’re really not even a good person when you go to bed and wake up?
Because outside of a few potential championships, I don’t see much glory in that.