You know when the last time I watched a complete game of pro basketball was? Seriously, if you find out, please let me know because I can’t remember ever having watched one. I’ll do the occasional college game – like Carolina v. Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium. That’s just pure fun, but even the Bulls in their heyday didn’t keep me glued to the set.
Unless Will Purdue was playing, of course. He wasn’t so incredibly good as much as he was so incredibly tall. Seriously, I saw him in the West End Cooker one time and he looked like he was standing on an orange crate except there was no orange crate. Not even a trace. That I did not know that guys could get so tall should be an indication that I don’t really know that much about the b-ball.
So I have no basis for saying that I think LeBron James might be a jerk. Startling, I know. See, the thing with the TV show and all that was ridiculous, but that seemed to me to be LeBron riding the tide of the media craziness and siezing control of the narrative. Good for him and piss on all the media guys who did not like it.
But apparently he was making fun of his opponent the other night. His opponent has played the previous game with a 101 fever and a sinus infection. Been there bro. Not the NBA finals of course, the sinus infection. So the media bust LeBron making fun of the guy – the guy who beat him despite being sick – and LeBron tries another “media hype” switcheroo. I don’t think so, King James. I think you may just be a jerk.