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Jason Whitlock Rips the LeBron James HBO Show ‘The Shop’ As Fake News

Jason Whitlock probably won’t be appearing on LeBron James’ new “unscripted” TV show The Shop which premiered Tuesday night on HBO.

Set in an apparently mythical barbershop, Whitlock claimed that the NBA superstar who joined the Los Angeles Lakers as a free agent made a fool of himself  in something akin to a minstrel show and fake news.

He described the “inauthentic” presentation as a “profane, primitive, and privileged” look inside the fantasy world of black millionaires sipping goblets of wine in an environment which is far removed from reality.

The host of Speak for Yourself, Whitlock is one of the very few commentators in sports journalism, at least on television, who articulates a different view from the groupthink of the politically correct blue-check Twitter cohort.

Watch the FS1 video clips below and draw your own conclusions.

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LeBron James May Run for President, Jason Whitlock Claims

NBA superstar LeBron James bolted Cleveland to sign a free-agent contract with the Los Angeles Lakers to extend his reach as an entertainment mogul and to lay the groundwork for a potential future presidential run.

That is the contention of FS1 Speak for Yourself co-host Jason Whitlock, who described it on the broadcast as a purely political move unrelated to basketball and more for the “media and the money,” suggesting that he has pivoted away from trying to equal or surpass Michael Jordan’s championship legacy.

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As it stands now, and barring injuries, there is no chance that the Lakers can compete with the defending champion Golden State Warriors for the NBA title.

Since Tinseltown is “ground zero for the social justice and race warriors,” left-wing Hollywood executives will become LBJ’s puppet masters as they try to position him as a liberal superhero, Whitlock added.

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