I was going to write about why I no longer patronize Major League Baseball (more specifically, the Cleveland Indians, my once-favorite MLB team), the NBA (Cleveland Cavaliers), the NHL, and how the NFL (Cleveland Browns) is on thin ice with me, but thanks to LeBron James, I have something else to rant about.
LeBron James is a POS. I have thought that for years, really since he left the Cleveland Cavaliers the first time. He went to a team, Miami, that he thought had a better chance of winning a championship, but they didn’t win one, so he came back to Cleveland and did. Then he left again, this time for Los Angeles. Unlike Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, and other true greats who in addition to talent also possess spines, LeBron James, who without question has talent, has no spine.
James’s physical gifts are considerable. He’s one of the greatest NBA players ever. One gift he does not possess, though, is a high IQ. If he had not been famous during his formative years, he would not have made it through high school. But since he’s famous, he spouts inane opinions unsupported by facts.
His latest flub was tweeting about an altercation in Columbus, Ohio, where a white police officer was forced to shoot to death a very large young black woman, Ma’Khia Bryant, a teenager, who was attempting to stab another with a knife. If the officer hadn’t intervened, the victim of the knife attack likely would have become a murder victim. So genius James, according to cbsnews.com, posted a “tweet showing a photo of Nicholas Reardon, who officials identified Wednesday as the officer who shot Bryant. The tweet included the caption, "YOU'RE NEXT" with an hourglass emoji. He later scrubbed it off his Twitter feed.”
How brave! Now you might have put this police officer’s life in peril. What a great social justice warrior you are! Maybe you should think before you tweet, but that would be asking too much. Your problem is, like the NFL’s “Reverend” Ray Lewis, you confuse wealth with IQ, believe it gives you license to pontificate and discuss issues with people whose intellects dwarf yours. Your money doesn’t make you smart. If anything, it seems to have made you a little more stupid than you already were; it seems to have made you a cop-hating racist. Maybe you should just shut the fuck up. You’re an embarrassment to your former home town, which is also my home town.
And by the way, what kind of person refers to himself as “King James”? Oh, I know—an asshole does.