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let me get to the bigger point about LeBron James LeBron James choosing to step off of social media and I was hesitant to bring this up because I didn’t want to uh because LeBron James is approaching age 40 he is on the Mount Rushmore of basketball one of the top two players in NBA history and he we will miss him when he is gone he’s a special special dude on all fronts but none of us are perfect and LeBron James electing to get off of social media is that Because of You LeBron James or is it because of your son bronny James and his struggles in the D-League in the NBA prior to that college basketball prior to that high school basketball when he was an All-American averaging 14 points a game and people said no allamerican averages 14 points a game it’s probably the latter you know Greg Anthony alluded to this earlier and that’s why I asked him the question when you think about LeBron James and what LeBron James had to say Greg Anthony made a very valid point the level of Victory all that LeBron James has experienced throughout his career he’s one of the most scrutinized superstars in history it’s not because he’s LeBron James it’s because when he came along is when social media shortly followed imagine what scrutiny Charles Barkley and MJ and Isaiah and others would have received had there been so the existence of social media had there been Instagram and X or formerly known as Twitter and Facebook and Tik Tock and all of this other stuff imagine what it would have been if they played during that time so we understand that LeBron James has received a heighten level of scrutiny but we also understand that he’s fully capable of taking and absorbing it and stomaching it so why step away now truthfully speaking it only makes sense that it’s Brony James not be redundant but it’s necessary to be that way bronny James doesn’t belong in the NBA not yet some people say never I don’t believe that I believe the kid has a chance and I think that he’s going to do um I believe in him I believe in his work ethic his faith etc etc but he’s not ready yet which brings this back to LeBron James we don’t have to scrw Iz bronnie James in terms of points per game average and all of this other stuff please he’s a kid he’ll come along he’ll work on his game hopefully he’ll earn his stripes respectfully this is all Lebron’s fault it was LeBron James that told the world sitting next to his wonderful wife Savannah for an interview asked the question what does he want for bronnie what do they want for bronnie she said I just want him to be happy LeBron James said I want want to play with him in the NBA I want him in the NBA and then because he’s LeBron James he greased the skids and facilitated it happening ensuring through rich Paul that nobody would draft bronny James before the Lakers grabbed him because they were teams tempted to do it just to keep him away from the Lakers in Lebron most importantly LeBron James was courau saying publicly that bronny James was better than some players in the NBA did you think people were going to forget that see I’m not getting into bronny James because none of this is bronnie James fault he’s just a kid out there working hard trying to be the best that he can be who is very blessed and fortunate to have a father like LeBron James who loves him and had no ill intent whatsoever but just because you didn’t have ill intent doesn’t mean that your intent didn’t end up being ill- fated because you put this kid behind an eightball and now he’s a target for everybody and whatever level of scrutinies he’s experiencing and whatever difficulty he’s having and stomaching and dealing with all of it is because his father couldn’t keep his mouth shut his father couldn’t just play and say I want my son happy no matter what he wants to do it would be a dream come true to play in the NBA with them but we can’t have everything we want hopefully someday it happened and let’s left it alone you didn’t do that and as a result in all likelihood bronny James is experiencing an elevated level of scrutiny that would be difficult for anybody his age with his experience and with his unfamiliarity in being associated with this kind of critique it’s been difficult for him that doesn’t make LeBron James the worst person in the world he’s a damn good father he’s a family man he’s an iconic figure that we all should Revere not just respect but in the same breath rather than say I’m stepping off of social media because of the negativity how about adding especially some of the negativity I unintentionally brought on my own son I need to take a step back I’m not saying you should have done it automatically but since you felt the need to do what you did in terms of retweeting Rich kleinman’s tweet and stepping away from social media and since you refrain from just stepping away quietly and basically piggybacked off a rich climbing to blame the national media could you blame yourself because in the end nobody is more guilty of making times hard for bronny James the basketball player than LeBron James that’s just a fact there’s no way around it still room for you bronnie keep working hard keep making things happen you got a chance no matter what the critics say to LeBron James respectfully I know you had the best of intentions but the national media ain’t the problem bro not in the case of bronny James that would happen to be you
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