LeBron James
LeBron James Wants His “Damn Respect” After Leading Lakers To 17th NBA Championship
Source: Mike Ehrmann / Getty Job finished. The Los Angeles Lakers won their record-tieing 17th NBA championship. After completing the task, LeBron James had something to say. Love him or hate him, LeBron James is the world’s greatest basketball player right now in his 17th season, which is a testament to his greatness. The man has lived in the playoffs and NBA Finals consistently, yet we still take what he does yearly for granted. The fact that people consistently hate on him (looking at you, Skip Bayless) doesn’t elude him at all due to him rarely addressing his naysayers. He usually just waits for the perfect moment to give them the attention they beg for. Following securing his fourth NBA championship and NBA Finals MVP, Bron didn’t hold no punches during his speech and demand respect f...
L.A. Lakers Win 17th NBA Title: Snoop Dogg, Flea and More React
This was a particularly memorable win in an unusual year. NBA titles are typically won in June. This is no typical year. After a long break due to the pandemic, the competition restarted in a special “bubble” built in Florida to keep teams and their staff healthy. James and Co. gave the Lakers their first championship since the late superstar Kobe Bryant won his fifth and final title a decade ago. After the game, The King and fellow star Anthony Davis dedicated the trophy to Bryant, who died January in a helicopter crash. The Lakers’ 17th title tie the Boston Celtics franchise for the all-time record. Lakers fans partied well into the night as fans from the music community and across the entertainment worlds shared their thoughts on this historic season. Check out reaction from Snoop Dogg,...
NBA Finals Regular LeBron James Help Locals Register To Vote in Cleveland
Source: MEGAN JELINGER / Getty LeBron James continues to doing the good Lord’s work for communities in Ohio, this time to get Clevland locals registered to vote ahead of the November presidential election. Raw Story reports James’ voting rights group, More Than a Vote, in partnership with the NBA, the government, and civic groups, held a non-partisan voter registration drive that helped registered more than 700 people via in-person or online at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. The sports facility will also serve as a polling location on November 3. More Than a Vote is heavy on the mission to register as many citizens in underserved areas as possible to fight voter suppression efforts by converting sports venues into spacious voting locations and addressing staffing s...
LeBron James Vows To Continue The Fight For Black Women Following Breonna Taylor Injustice
Source: AAron Ontiveroz/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images / Getty LeBron James is just like the rest of us, fed the f*ck up and frustrated following Wednesday’s (Sept.24) horrendous decision in the Breonna Taylor case. James was one of the many athletes extremely unsurprisingly disappointed and upset with the decision not to charge any officers in the unjustified shooting death of Breonna Taylor. Immediately following the decision, James took to Twitter to voice his anger and revisited the powerful message the late Malcolm X shared regarding the treatment of Black women around the world. “The most DISRESPECTED person on Earth is THE BLACK WOMAN! I promise you I’ll do my best to change this as much as I can and even more!!! Love to you Queens all over this country and beyond....
Nigerian doctor named one of TIME’s Most Influential People in the world
TIME named Nigerian physician Tunji Funsho to the 2020 TIME100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The full list and related tributes are available now at time.com/time100, and Mr Funsho’s TIME100 profile is available here. The list, now in its seventeenth year, recognizes the activism, innovation and achievement of the world’s most influential individuals. Mr Funsho, a cardiologist based in Lagos, Nigeria, is the first Rotary member to receive this honour for the organisation’s work to eradicate polio, having played an essential role in ensuring Africa’s certification as wild polio-free in August of 2020. “I’m honored to be recognized by TIME for my part in ensuring that no child in Africa will ever again be paralyzed by wild polio, a disease that once disabl...
Looking At You Skip Bayless: LeBron James Claps Back At Critics Following Lakers Game 2 Win
Source: Kevin C. Cox / Getty LeBron James had time for armchair experts critiquing his performance on the court. Fresh off a stunning Los Angeles Lakers victory over the Denver Nuggets in game two of the Western Conference Finals that saw Anthony Davis nail a buzzer-beating three, James took some time to address his haters. Before the game came down to the defining moment, the Lakers were cruising, for the most part, led by a torrid start by James before he cooled off in the second half, and Davis took over. Critics like professional LeBron James hater, Skip Bayless, didn’t waste time twisting himself into a pretzel to find a way to fault King James for the Lakers almost losing the game. They believe that Bron was trying to get himself out of the pivotal moment and relieving himself of the...
LA Sheriff Asks LeBron James To Double Reward For Man Who Shot Deputies
Source: Michael Reaves / Getty Last week a gunman critically injured two lawmen in Los Angeles. Now LeBron James is being asked to contribute what he can to secure a capture. As spotted on CBS Local LA a Los Angeles County Sheriff is putting King James to task on putting his money where his mouth is. Last Saturday (Sept. 12), two deputies were shot by an unknown individual in Compton. According to the report, the male and female badges sat in their patrol by the Metro Blue Line station at Willowbrook Avenue and Elm Street. The suspect walked past the passenger door and unloaded several shots. On Monday (Sept. 13), Sheriff Alex Villanueva asked the NBA champion to contribute to the reward during a radio interview. “I want to make a challenge to LeBron James. I want you to match that an...
NBA to resume games after player protest, turn stadiums into voting sites
NBA players who boycotted games as part of a protest against racial injustice have agreed to resume the playoffs on Saturday in a deal that includes increased access to voting in the United States presidential election. The league and players association (NBPA) said on Friday. As part of the agreement, the NBA and its players will establish a coalition that will focus on access to voting for the Nov. 3 general election, promoting civic engagement, and advocating for meaningful police and criminal justice reform. “These commitments follow months of close collaboration around designing a safe and healthy environment to restart the NBA season, providing a platform to promote social justice, as well as creating an NBA Foundation focused on economic empowerment in the Black community,” NBA Comm...
NBA Players Vote To Resume Play, But Games Are Still Postponed
Source: Kevin C. Cox / Getty After a few days of boycotting the playoffs to demand justice for the unjustified shooting of Jacob Blake, it looks like the players of the NBA are ready to get back on the court and resume play. According to Raw Story, the players have decided to finish out the remainder of the playoffs and crown an NBA champion, but no dates have been set yet as the NBA has still postponed the games as originally scheduled. Yesterday the players held a meeting before noon and though LeBron James’s Lakers and Kawhi Leonard’s Clippers were initially adamant about completely canceling the season (can you blame them?), they eventually came around to finishing out the remainder of the playoffs. Though the playoffs were expected to resume as early as today (August 28), no games hav...
LeBron James Launching New Initiative To Get Poll Workers For November Election
Source: Kevin C. Cox / Getty One of the biggest problems facing November’s Presidential elections (aside from voter suppression, missing mailboxes, and Russian interference) is the impending lack of poll workers that are going to want to work voting locations out of fear of contracting the coronavirus. Luckily, LeBron James has become the kind of athelete-activist we need in today’s day and age and after launching the More Than A Vote organization to help educate people on how to vote and it’s importance, the King is now focused on making sure enough people are available to count the millions of votes that will surely be cast come November 3rd. ABC News is reporting that King James noticed the shortage of volunteers of poll workers in Black communities during the primaries in Atlanta and M...
The NBA Postpones Playoff Games In Protest Of Jacob Blake Shooting
Source: Pool / Getty The NBA is down with us. In solidarity with the family of Jacob Blake, the Black shot in the back multiple times by Wisconsin police, the NBA has postponed its playoffs games. It started with the Milwaukee Bucks, who announced today (August 26) they would be boycotting their Game 5 playoff match which was supposed to go down this evening against the Orland Magic. Soon after, the NBA and the NBA Players Associated announced that the rest of tonight’s playoffs games—the Houston Rockets vs the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Los Angeles Lakers vs the Portland Trailblazers were also getting put on the shelf. Since Blake’s egregious shooting, NBA players and coaches including LeBron James and Doc Rivers, respectively, have been expressing their exasperation at the treatment o...
King Drip: LeBron James Reveals ‘Space Jam 2’ Basketball Uniforms
Source: Mike Ehrmann / Getty One of the most heralded animated movies in history is about to get revisited in a major way. LeBron James has just given the world a sneak peak of the vibes for Space Jam 2. As spotted on Deadline the NBA champion made the news for some of his off the court efforts. On Tuesday, August 18 he unveiled the official basketball uniforms for the upcoming sequel to the 1996 classic. “Tune Squad coming soon!! 👀🔥🐰 Glad all my @ljfamfoundation and @ipromiseschool families got to see it first. 🙏🏾 Thanks for holdin it down my brother @mavcarter 🤜🏾🤛🏾 #JustkidsfromAKRON👑” he wrote. The creative features his business partner Maverick Carter doing the f...
