With little enthusiasm to play games on Christmas Day by the majority of the sports world, the National Basketball Association quickly moved in to plant its flag with a jam-packed schedule topped off with a prime-time appearance by the league’s philosopher king LeBron James.
The contest between and Sports Illustrated’s “Sportsperson Of The Year” Golden State Warriors and LeBron’s latest team, the LA Lakers was the finale of a shit sandwich of on-court wizardry, dazzling dunks and more virtue signaling that can be packed into one day didn’t live up to its billing after the uneducated racist moron superstar left the game early with a groin injury.
LeBron saying that he felt a pop in his groin is a brutal sight to see 😢😢😢 pic.twitter.com/sy2dpqlHiq
— The Sports Quotient (@SportsQuotient) December 26, 2018
It was the capper on a rough pre-holiday run for James whose controversial post on Instagram citing anti-Semitic rap lyrics resulted in an apology from the NBA’s cash cow and a slap on the wrist from the league and Mark Zuckerberg whose fascist goons have banished conservatives for life for far less.
LeBron says white NFL owners are slavemasters & perpetuates a long running anti-Semitic stereotype insulting to Jews in same weekend & nothing happens to him. Just remember this the next time someone gets crucified for teenage tweets or quoting rap lyrics. Insane double standard. https://t.co/r6YcWzJ2c4
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) December 24, 2018
Preceding the groin injury and the questionable decision to post such disgusting crap on social media, James was in the news for claiming that white NFL owners have a “slave mentality” which he did on the latest episode of his HBO show “The Shop” on Friday.
Lebron James says Adam Silver gives players more freedom while NFL owners have a slave mentality. #TheShopHBO pic.twitter.com/8k04nPlit9
— Todaysloop (@Todaysloop1) December 22, 2018
This exploits of this foul-mouthed fool shows how there is a huge double standard when it comes to accountability with his privilege as a wealthy celeb athlete giving him a free pass to spew racist divisive commentary to his legions of adoring fans.
Unlike his anti-Semitic social media post, there was zero pushback from the media over his smearing of NFL owners as slave owners despite the fact that they pay their black players millions of dollars to play a game.
Hell, Sports Illustrated even made excuses for him.
Column on LeBron James and “getting that Jewish money”: https://t.co/0Ur8pLZ9wD
— Michael Rosenberg (@Rosenberg_Mike) December 24, 2018
What can be expected from a once respected rag that has now taken to pimping anti-Trumpism as it did when Christine Blasey Ford who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of a decades-old sexual assault was chosen to present an award two weeks ago.
In her first public statement since September, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford presents Sports Illustrated’s Inspiration of the Year Award to Rachael Denhollander https://t.co/2lBOB9nVDk pic.twitter.com/AjRYVYfOmS
— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) December 12, 2018
Like the rest of Big Media, SI is well versed in the principles established by Joseph Goebbels.
The only one who actually delivered the ass-whuppin’ that King James was richly deserving of was Clay Travis in has epic column at Outkick The Coverage:
If anyone in athletics is truly a slavemaster, it's @KingJames who allows his shoes to be made by Indonesian factory workers for .25 cents an hour & receives a billion dollars for it. Why not insist your shoes are made in America, LeBron? https://t.co/iB5lz9k6XZ
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) December 22, 2018
Travis let it rip:
But if LeBron truly believed the players control the league, guess what, they could all sit out on strike because they have a union to negotiate on their behalf. NFL players and NBA players all collectively bargain their working conditions and pay with the owners. Hell, if NBA or NFL players don’t like the deal they are getting they could truly become owners and start their own leagues. No one is requiring them to play in those leagues. But they haven’t done that, have they? Most players are content with playing in these leagues as employees because, newsflash, they make far more money as athletes than they could make doing anything else in the world.
Furthermore, did slaves have unions to negotiate with plantation owners on their behalf? Did I miss that part of history? Also, if LeBron, or any other player, doesn’t like an owner he can become a free agent and sell his talents to the highest bidder. Did slaves have free agency? Did I miss the part of Roots where Kunta Kinte traveled around on private jets to different plantations to see who would pay him the most to pick cotton? Did LeBron himself have to take the underground railroad when he left Miami via free agency for freedom in Cleveland?
AND
if anyone is a slave master in the modern day sports marketplace, it’s LeBron. His posse has recently boasted about his billion dollar lifetime contract with Nike. Do you know what that billion dollars going to LeBron is built upon? Virtual slave labor in Indonesia where his high-priced shoes are made.
Things have a way of working themselves out and James’ Christmas Day groin injury was karma calling upon one of the biggest dicks in America.