The “King” of the NBA is close to losing his throne.
LeBron James is apparently rubbing a lot of the younger NBA players the wrong way.
Which is shocking, right? He has such a charming personality…
It’s actually gotten pretty bad – and it’s not just the young players – everyone is sick of LeBron, apparently.
“I heard he was speaking out of pocket and in a fashion that really turned some of these young cats off,” Smith said. “This is a new day. It’s a new generation. As we have said on previous shows, when the younger generation was protesting in the streets, they’re not having it anymore. Well guess what? The younger generation of players were not having what they were hearing from LeBron James because of the fashion in which he spoke to them.”
Smith later said that LeBron “turned everybody off” when he spoke for about 15 minutes at the end of a meeting after everybody — players, owners, and union head Michele Roberts — agreed to next steps. “He was talking about ‘the guys beneath me’ to the point where you have people asking [privately] what do you mean beneath him? … He came across as if he was the king with some crown.”
Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports has a tick-tock of the frenetic Wednesday and Thursday in the NBA that is worth reading; it does cite some of the tensions that LeBron was involved in, but the story does not completely match Stephen A. Smith’s account.
Nonetheless, this does feel like a little bit of a changing of the guard moment in the NBA — the Bucks did not feel compelled to consult LeBron James or Chris Paul before their decision not to take the court Wednesday.
You can watch the video below:
https://twitter.com/TheNBACentral/status/1299404732897939456
It’s not surprising that an egomaniac like LeBron rubs people the wrong way.
He seems so full of himself and comes off as a know-it-all.
Hopefully, if they do get a new “NBA leader,” it will be someone a bit less “woke.”
This piece was written by Missy Crane on August 28, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com and is used by permission.
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