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Outkick journalist Jason Whitlock, formerly of FS1 and ESPN, claims that National Basketball Association superstar LeBron James and President Donald Trump are similar in the way they go about their business. Click here to read the full text of the article.
On FNC’s The Ingraham Angle, Laura Ingraham, along with Fox Sports’ Clay Travis, double-teamed the super-woke and sanctimonious National Basketball Association and the sneaker giant Nike for caving to the dictatorship in China while at the same time lecturing America about its shortcomings.
Earlier this week, National Basketball Association superstar LeBron James announced that he would have no further comment on the NBA-China controversy, which was prompted by a now-deleted, pro-Hong Kong democracy tweet from Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey. This was a probably a good idea, because James’ initial response clanged off the backboard, or whatever roundball cliche applies.
National Basketball Association players and coaches have hardly been shy about cataloging America’s sins or condemning U.S. President Donald Trump for his failings. When it comes China’s rampant human rights abuses, however, the woke NBA has suffered a collective case of laryngitis.
Lots of National Basketball Association players head to China in the off season. It’s not just for the extra appearance cash; the sneaker companies tell them to just do it, as it were. NBA players sign enormous contracts with the athletic shoe companies, and brand marketing is part of the deal. The NBA, the shoe companies, and China’s state-controlled economy are closely linked.
If you’re a regular Shark Tank viewer, you’ve probably seen the Sharks pressure entrepreneurs to move their made-in-the-USA products to China to improve margins. That’s kind of the Wall Street hedge fund, crony capitalist mentality. American industry and the American worker be damned.
NBA superstar LeBron James, the self-proclaimed greatest player of all time, made headlines recently by accusing NFL owners of harboring a slave mentality and also sharing anti-Semitic rap lyrics on his Instagram page. FS1 panelist and Fox Sports Radio host Clay Travis says that LBJ benefits from athlete privilege enabled, in large part, by the fawning liberal sports media. Plus, the Lakers luminary himself could be a something of a modern-day slave master for his Nike sneaker deal, Travis argued.
Undrafted out of Harvard, journeyman point guard Jeremy Lin had an headline-making ascendancy, that led to his Linsanity moniker, with the New York Knicks in February 2012. He leveraged that performance to a lucrative three-year, free-agent contract with the Houston Rockets. The oft-injured Lin was subsequently traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, and later landed with the Charlotte Hornets before signing a three-year deal with the Brooklyn Nets in July 2016. He missed most of the 2017 season because of a knee injury, and in July 2018, the Nets traded him to Atlanta.
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.
Whitlock: Profanity-laced 'The Shop' diminishes LeBron's brand & reputation. pic.twitter.com/kDXLn5Jc7b
— Speak For Yourself (@SFY) August 29, 2018
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Dahntay: LeBron's new show "The Shop" was indicative of black barbershops in today's culture. @dahntay1 pic.twitter.com/V74VkCl1PC
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.
LeBron for President? pic.twitter.com/A4yw2rVqNQ
— Speak For Yourself (@SFY) July 5, 2018
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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.
.@WhitlockJason believes LeBron is no longer chasing Michael Jordan, he's now chasing Muhammad Ali. pic.twitter.com/ceGYXCp2V1
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