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Why is Lebron’s missed call everywhere on the headlines?

ROYBus10® · 2023-01-30T17:52:31.737Z

He gets one call missed and everything is mayhem?? Missed calls happen all the time, it’s just one, stop crying about it it’s one game.

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Jan 30, 2023, 11:16 PM

Physically I think LeBron is not only the GOAT, but the greatest male athlete of the last century.

The guy really could have been a tremendous asset to any or all sports if sports were still used to find commonality in our society. But they aren’t. Today sports are used as a wedge by which the “underprivileged” millionaires of all races, genders and tweeners further divide us by pretending their chosen identity groups are more disadvantaged than their fans’ groups—so not only are the wealthy patrons expected to pay the lofty salaries, but also buy the licensed apparel, support the sponsors, and provide scholarships to the next generation of disadvantaged kids who don’t want to read and write.

The USWNT said it best: after their first ESPY they proclaimed themselves to be “more than just women” because they were professionals, too. After their second, they proclaimed themselves to be “more than just athletes”, because they were women, too. In short, whatever you think they are, you’re wrong, because your prejudice is holding them back.

LeBron doesn’t need my support nor my fandom, but in spite of being the greatest male athlete of the television era, to me he will always be the biggest missed opportunity for our society. Considering how divisive he has been politically, how cowardly he has been to currently oppressed people internationally, how arrogant he has been toward his own teammates, and how petulant he has been among his own peers, I don’t even consider him to have been a net improvement to his own sport. That’s utterly shameful. You can’t be considered the GOAT if you leave your sport culturally worse than you found it, after making hundreds of million$ off of it.

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Entirely subjective.

His workout regimen is unworldly.

He is so gifted physically—size, speed, coordination, motivation—that I think he could have been a successful professional in any number of alternatives to basketball.

You won’t find a 6’9” man alive who is faster in a dead sprint. But the sport of basketball is more about first-step quickness than sheer speed, and he’s a little lacking in that. But what he lacks in quickness he makes up for with his bulk and bully-ball mentality. In his early 30’s he had to re-invent his 3-point shot after his game had begun to flatten out, and Steph had replaced him as the greatest current player. So at age 38 or 39 or whatever, LeBron can still beat you in any of a dozen ways.

I also think Lrbron worked to prevent the evolution of the NBA game away from the American inner-city style (which rewards size and athleticism) to the Warriors’ ball-movement style that rewards smaller and quicker but overall less athletic performers. I think it was an entirely racist effort to protect the league from going Asian and keep it ‘entirely’ a conduit out of the hood for American black kids. He wants Chinese money from television rights but doesn’t want the game to adapt to an Asian style of play.

That’s why I think his net benefit to the game could actually be negative. Because of the Warriors’s success and their cross-cultural fan base, the NBA could have made serious diplomatic and cultural effects in the Pacific Rim countries but they chickened out in order to keep their previously poor but emerging multimillionaires happy, even though they will never be “happy”.

Why is Lebron’s missed call everywhere on the headlines?

Re: Why is Lebron’s missed call everywhere on the headlines?

Who ?

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Just some Oppressed gazillionaire

Re: Why is Lebron’s missed call everywhere on the headlines?

Re: Why is Lebron’s missed call everywhere on the headlines?

Would never see MJ, Kobe or any other great react that way***