LeBron Gets Embarrased
Posted by Media Outrage on July 8, 2009
LeBron is only human. With that being said it was inevitably bound to happen where he would get showed up by another ball player. Peep game
Via Yahoo:
It was assumed he was called “King James” because he reigns on the basketball court. But maybe LeBron James earned that nickname due to his tyrannical ways (in dealing with embarrassment).
On Monday, Jordan Crawford, a sophomore at Xavier (by way of Indiana), reportedly dunked on LeBron during a pick-up game at the LeBron James Skills Academy. Garry Parrish of CBSSports.com wrote that one high school player said, “it was bad”. (We can only assume he meant “bad” in the Michael Jackson sort of way.)
LeBron must have agreed, because he had Nike officials confiscate the two videos that were taken of the dunk. (Parrish blames Nike, but reading between the lines it seems like the censorship was orchestrated by LeBron himself.)
Ryan Miller, a freelance photographer who was working at the camp that day, told CBSSports.com:
“LeBron called [Nike Basketball Senior Director Lynn Merritt] over and told him something,” Miller said. “That’s how I knew his name was Lynn. LeBron said, ‘Hey, Lynn. Come here.’”
A few minutes later, Miller’s tape was confiscated.
Connecting the dots, it seems clear that LeBron didn’t want video leaking out of him getting dunked on by a college sophomore, so he told a Nike official to get the tape. It was an understandable reflex move (gotta protect the image), but it also unnecessarily makes a mountain out of a molehill.
The Crawford dunk would have been a temporary embarrassment for LeBron. Let’s say the video was put on YouTube. It blows up for a bit, dominates blogs for 36 hours, everyone has a good chuckle and then it’s forgotten about.
But by censoring the tape, LeBron turns the dunk into a legend. On video, it’s just a dunk. Without video, the jam can reach mythic proportions. Because nobody can see it, the story of the dunk will grow in stature with each telling. Today, it was a simple two-handed slam. In a few days, it will be a 360-degree windmill. By the time Crawford makes his Xavier debut in October, he will have jumped off LeBron’s shoulders, flipped in the air, slammed the ball home with his left pinkie and then handed LeBron $3.99 for his dry cleaning.
July 8, 2009 at 7:49 pm
What is a dunk anyway?..ok so you get embarrassed like when Kevin Garnett dunk on Pao Gasaol so much I thought he was giving Garnett head….Hell, i didnt even know what that dude looked like until he won it in 2009!
Or when John Starks dunked on Jordan and Grant in the 1993-1994 era and 20 million kids had that up on their walls….who cares really?!?!?
July 8, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Lol @ the Jordan comment.
You know Starks didn’t dunk on Jordan. Mike was behind of Grant. He dunked on Grant LOL.
July 8, 2009 at 8:36 pm
“But by censoring the tape, LeBron turns the dunk into a legend. On video, it’s just a dunk. Without video, the jam can reach mythic proportions. Because nobody can see it, the story of the dunk will grow in stature with each telling. Today, it was a simple two-handed slam. In a few days, it will be a 360-degree windmill. By the time Crawford makes his Xavier debut in October, he will have jumped off LeBron’s shoulders, flipped in the air, slammed the ball home with his left pinkie and then handed LeBron $3.99 for his dry cleaning.”
I’m feeling that MO!
LMAO!! That’s what his punk ass get.
And if I had been there videoing it, I guarantee you they wouldn’t have just walked over and confiscated a damn thing from me UNLESS they had six or seven figures on them!
July 8, 2009 at 8:49 pm
PUNK ASS, and I can’t believe YISI and MISSTX85 are down with this dude….SMH
July 8, 2009 at 9:00 pm
@ Lio, the fuck you talking bout?!
First, check my comment right above yours. It’s #3 in case you’re still lost.
Secondly, you should research my comments on this dude. I’ve never said I liked him or was down with him as you put it. The closest I’ve come to giving him props is stating that I would have liked to see him whoop Kobe’s bitch ass in the Finals. That’s it!
Don’t get it twisted boo, don’t like him or Kobe or the Cavaliers or the Lakers!
July 8, 2009 at 10:58 pm
LOL @ MissTX85 I’m just teasing you. I’m sorry
July 9, 2009 at 12:17 am
LeBron was lame for that one.
July 9, 2009 at 12:29 am
@ Lio, I know. We’re good!
The Lakers still suck though! LOL!
July 9, 2009 at 3:26 am
Yeah Jordan did get dunked on. He jumped and tried to block the dunk but it was too little too late. MO, stop bull$h:tt:n Mike is human too.
July 9, 2009 at 3:28 am
see, Terrance knows what Im talking about. He did get dunk on by Starks…lol
July 9, 2009 at 3:34 am
@ Lio it is a conspiracy against my boy KING JAMES.
So this young dude had a good day,dunks are as dunks come….. You my dear Lios,had it right about me I am so down with King James and company,that i might pay for his car out of my 401k……hahaha
MO y’all some haters on my boy King James for sho!!!
July 9, 2009 at 4:01 am
Lol @ Terrance & DT
July 9, 2009 at 5:42 am
This dude B.A.N (Bitch ass nigga)
Ninja Turtle lookin ass nigga lool
Lakers 09!
July 9, 2009 at 8:07 am
Most pro athletes are sensative, they are not “men” so to speak. I mean look at some of the premadonna shit they do. WHEN STARKS DUNKED ON JORDAN!!!! All Jordan said was “man I didnt even know who John Starks was, but I know now” All I have to say is this, show me one dude who has never been dunked on in his life and I will show you a dud who has never played with people who have real skills. Cause 2020 dun piped on many a Jorndan wanna be.
I wonder if porn stars are filming and fuck around and bust to quick, do they send the manager over to confiscate the footage???
July 9, 2009 at 1:23 pm
LeBron is such a cry baby…damn…suck that shit up
!!!!
July 10, 2009 at 12:37 am
Fuck Lebrick. I hope that nigga never wins a ring. Yeah, I said it, and what????? With his 45 year-old looking ass.
July 11, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Oh well…he’s human, he’s not God!
He doesn’t walk on water.