[Yahoo Sports] LeBron is reportedly “irritated” with Adam Silver pushing him for a decision. James’ camp was “ready to make an announcement” last week but decided to hold off
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/ex-laker-lebron-james-reportedly-155416955.html
“Well now I don’t want to…” - 41 year old LeBron James
Dude probably is sick of playing Christmas games, going to sign with whichever team isn’t playing on Xmas lol
The King is coming to Orlando
Sacramento*
how has no-one realised The King should play for the KINGS
I’ve been saying this for a while…1st game was in Sacramento, last one should be too
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But, like, actually.
If he took this Kings team to the playoffs that would make him the undisputed GOAT to me. Not even another championship, just a playoff berth.
Would you count play-in
OFFS
So 2022 De’Aaron Fox is the GOAT?
Many people are saying it
Full circle
He hasn’t come out trashing Sacramento hotels yet, has he?
Signing with Toronto would really piss off Silver … just sayin’, Bron.
That’s an angle I didn’t even think about Sure he’s a billionaire and all so it could be worse, but 20 straight years without getting to have Christmas off is wild.
I’ll take the money any day.
True, but if I were Bron and I get paid regardless, I’d like to have a few Christmases off
Yeah I used to work Christmas for time and a half 😂
Dude loves the attention, of course he wants his Christmas games lol. What do you think this whole charade is for? Attention of course.
Nonsense. Dude LOVES attention.
He’s coming to the Raptors?!
League’s counter: Schedule 15 games for Christmas Day
If there’s anything we’ve learned about LeBron in this FA, it’s that he needs to be in the spotlight. Being talked about on Xmas is exactly what he wants.
Can’t believe some people blame Rich Paul only, like where do you think he got the greenlight from to do what he’s doing? Imo LeBron is worse since he’s the enabler of all this.
Why are people even “blaming” anyone lmao. He’s a free agent, why does he need to hurry himself up lmao.
Because it’s MY NBA and I demand to know what one of the greatest players of all time is going to do for his final season(s) NOW 😤
It’s so funny. Like why do yall want him to rush? There won’t be anything for them to obsess over once the decision is made and they’ll have to go back to being bored.
Everyone wants to know so they can already post their thoughts on why LeBron joining the Cavs/Heat/Wolves/Nuggets/etc. is ring-chasing and will destroy his legacy and that’s why he’s not the GOAT and also that he eats children burns your crops all while sipping on his wine with his pinky finger out
Yeah I’m confused. Dude isn’t isn’t holding anyone to ransom here, he’s taking his time on what will likely be his final year/years in the league.
This subs hate for anything Lebron will never cease to amaze me.
People always blame the agent
That’s part of what you pay them for.
It’s one reason Roger Goodell is so rich. He’s a human shield for a bunch of awful NFL owners
that’s adam silver’s job too lmfao.
He eats that shit up like he fucking loves it too.
He is also clearly a problem. Can be both.
Rich Paul was a problem!
I don’t know of any other agent tho
That’s because most agents aren’t public morons constantly looking for attention. I don’t know of any other agents with a podcast ether
Drew Rosenhaus comes to mind, not the podcast thing but the attention thing
How many agents have podcasts?
Adam silver should have just made the schedule and said “f bron”
Enabler of what? Who cares fr
Bricks and minifigs strategy interesting
Bron should put out a release that hes waiting for the league to make a decision on the Apsiration thing before he makes his choice. Put it back on the league
That would be incredible
Btw – am I the only one who thought Adam Silver’s comments were mostly tongue-in-cheek? Yes, a bit serious bc Lebron’s decision genuinely does affect the schedule – but mostly tongue-in-cheek. In which case, why is Lebron throwing a fit about it haha.
I wouldn’t go so far as to call it tongue in cheek because things like the chirstmas games are totally decided by LeBron’s location, but it wasn’t super serious or anything because they can always flex games and all that.
The internet just doesn’t handle nuance well. It felt like a half joke to me.
Much like LeBron waiting to make his decision isn’t world changing at this point but every whisper of a possible opinion hits the top of the sub because hes still the biggest name in the sport.
How are tongue in cheek and a half joke not the same thing here…
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I’m 42 and you should have just heard the pedantic argument me and my missus just had… I empathise with Bron totally
He’s just like me fr fr - 32 year old Redditor
He’s not a brat. He’s held the league on his back for 23 years. If he wants a Christmas off he doesn’t owe nosferatu a damn thing
…u know kwasimodo predicted all of this b…
Then just don’t play that game? That would stick it to Silver as much as anything; run all the advertisements for LeBron vs. xyz, then he doesn’t play. I would at least respect that, unlike this “well, I was going to decide, but now I’m not going to because of you. But I really was going to, trust me bro”
I’m so tired man
When someone asks you to do something you were already going to do
Adam “my wife” Silver
Adam about to call the father in-law
Delonte West?
“Daddy what time are we goi–”
“YOUR CHILD IS TALKING TO YOU”
Lebron is 42 and Adam Silver still wants the entire leagues schedule to revolve around him.
Using. Of. The Rogaine.
I know it’s childish but I really can’t stand that. Like when I was a teenager putting my shoes on to go mow the grass and my dad reminds me that I need to go mow the grass.
You have kids yet? You just wait.
I was just going to do that….then why is this the 6th time I’m asking.
Because they were about to do it the last 5 times until you ruined their flow obviously. If parents would only say nothing the kids would be perfectly behaved.
Daughter comes out her room to use bathroom and I say “Hey make sure you clean your room if you want friends over”
Her : What do you think I was just about to do Dad?
I dunno, but I know it wasn’t going to be cleaning her room
As an adult I now recognize that the things I was “just about to do” were actually just things on my to-do list for a long time that were consistently getting pushed back.
Just today I had to call my 10 year old to the bathroom. To ask him why he didn’t turn the sink tap off all the way. Running water. The things kids can screw up are impressive. It’s not even the first time…
Lmao it was such a discovery as a young adult that I liked being helpful when my hard-ass dad wasn’t forcing me to do it
I wasn’t a pos, i was just proud and didn’t enjoy a gun to my head
oh what’s up big bro I assume we have the same father based on that description.
bonus points for the time that exact scenario happened to me and then a few days later he’s going on about how I “never help out around here” I’m like pops I just mowed the lawn and I swear to god he says “yeah, only cuz I had to nag you about it.”
Relatable af tbh. There’s something innate in me (all of us?) that hesitates when I get pressured to do something I was already doing/about to do lol
I’ve tried to reframe it, which has helped me from getting as irritated: it’s a sign that i‘m aligned with the thinking of the person nagging me.
it’s still slightly annoying so I usually just say “yep, great minds think alike“ or “way ahead of ya, tiger” (with a flat affect, of course)
Golden advice.
thanks. admittedly it took a few decades to figure out.
i should add that when it’s someone I’m close with (my wife, in my case) I’ll make it a little sweeter like “I was thinking the exact same thing! isn’t it crazy how we think alike?” and it flips the dynamic.
anyway, back to basketball, everyone.
This guy is well adjusted
It’s like when someone tells you to calm down when you were calm but now you’re about to lose your shit.
I calmly, in a quiet voice, said something to an onlooker after a guy crashed into me a few months ago in a parking lot. Said guy who crashed into me shouted “You need to chill, bro, calm down!”
I somehow kept it chill externally, but internally I blew a fucking gasket when he said that. I was furious, one of the angriest feelings I’ve ever had. Like swore to myself I would take this dude to the cleaners on the damages. I did, he paid for every tiny potentially related damage, no matter how petty. I had no idea this was a trigger for me, but it boiled my blood for sure. I’m mad just thinking about it.
Damn bro, calm down
lmao
Even if someone isn’t calm being told to calm down is universally just a hated thing for most people because it’s either invalidating their feeling/reaction or implying something that wasn’t true about them
Being told to calm down when the situation absolutely warrants not calming down is infuriating.
“You just slammed your car into my house!”
“Damn, calm down.”
“Absolutely not, this is is a legit situation that you caused by your ineptitude.”
I rarely feel like on the same page as Bron, but totally am here.
Take your time king
It’s just called “psychological reactance” and no, not all of us have it. It just means you feel like someone is stepping on your freedom to do it whenever you want.
Hell, I’ve been told to do things while I was doing them.
When I was about 16-17 I was mowing the lawn (of my own accord, not sure why I was motivated) and my step-mom came out to tell me I had missed a spot (I hadn’t, I was circling back to it). She did this about 3-4 times over the next 5 passes and I finally got fed up and told her to finish it if I was doing such a bad job.
Important life lesson: If you do stuff free, people will just get mad that you didn’t do more for them. To the point that they literally will dislike you. There will be no appreciation. One of the weird conundrums of existence.
That shit infuriates me. Bron truly is the king.
My wife asks me to take out the trash while I’m emptying the can
We are all Lebron today
He should sign the day the regular season starts
Yeah he should just secretly sign like that other post and then just walk out. Maximum suspense.
that would be insane lore to the NBA is WWE narrative 😭😭
“Who’s the fifth man?”
BAH GAWD, IT’S KANE!
Kane in the post would work
As far as I remember from my childhood, “Diesel”/Kevin Nash used to play college ball and became pro (German Bundesliga, was of course not quite what it is today in the 1980s) until he tore a ligament in his knee. Not quite sure but at 6’10” I’d be surprised if he played anything else but center.
Could no longer play after that, but was still good enough to become a WWE super star.
For us kids it was quite wild that the dude had been playing basketball in a town nearby just a few years before we watched his matches on TV (WWE and WCE were kinda big in Germany back then, no idea how it is today).
Quite the weird trajectory for someone who (IIIRC, haven’t thought about the name in decades before I read this) studied something like psychology and philosophy.
A guy in a mask shows up to 30 arenas?
October 8, home vs Boston: Whole Cavaliers roster comes out for shoot-around in Dr. Doom masks.
Queue RDJ reveal gif
*Glass Shatters*
He should hire body doubles to go to every NBA game so no one knows for sure tip off.
It’s LeBron James. Where are you going to find a body double?
You don’t have a spare JeBron Lames in your neighborhood?
News comes out that LeBron is going to do an open gym scrimmage.
It’s just 10 LeBron doubles hooping
He should sign a series of ten days and play with a bunch of different teams until he finds the one he likes the best. He can film with Amazon and call it lebacholer
That would honestly be really fun to watch
Might be the funniest and most innovative thing I’ve read on this post
Team starts getting blown out and the camera pans to him on the bench packing up his stuff
With the Grizzlies to really fuck with Adam and his X Mas schedule.
Adam Silver just trying to fill out the Outlook calendars
Yeah Fuck Adam Silver. LeBron has played on Xmas damn near every year since he was 18 years old. (Has there been a year where he hasn’t?). It’s like damn. Make the MF schedule and let this man have Xmas off.
I don’t think he played on Christmas year 2. But I’m not 100%
Didn’t play year 2-4
Funny thing is that NFL has taken over Christmas. NBA lost its thing for Christmas.
I mean it’s always going to be hard to compete with the NFL for games that matter versus roughly mid-early season NBA games.
Pretty much all NFL games matter because there’s so few of them. They could put anything on Christmas and beat the NBA, even if the 2 teams playing were both already eliminated from the playoffs
Getting rid of the Xmas jerseys was one of the stupidest decisions of Silver’s tenure and that’s saying something
The NFL is always gonna have more viewers than the NBA. The NBA still has the better games on Christmas until further notice
This NFL season seems to have some exciting Christmas games. Basically rematches of last season playoff games Packers-Bears, Broncos-Bills, and Rams-Seahawks.
I dunno, primetime Christmas this year is Rams/Seahawks. Thats gonna be good.
This is such a corny take defending one billionaire that’s being a diva over nothing from another billionaire employer that said some dumb shit
The source of this article is some radio host in Cleveland. Take this with the greatest grain of salt.
On reddit whatever the headline says is 100% true for the vast majority of people
Edit: I should add, its true if its something they want to be true
It’s so fucking sad. It seems to be how most people on Reddit and most of social media function nowadays. There is no such thing as media literacy anymore. It’s genuinely a dead concept. Everybody is a reactionary, and social media is literally most people’s ONLY source of information about what’s going on outside their own life.
Things like nuance and ‘reading an article for information/verification’ are totally foreign concepts.
That’s just the internet in general man
Unfortunately not an issue exclusive to reddit. Facebook has tons of idiots who just believe every headline they read
Was wondering how far I had to scroll to see this. This feels like a melodramatic interpretation. I could see there being a kernel of truth here but I really struggle to think LeBron would deliberately push back his decision just as a middle finger to Silver. I imagine he or someone in his camp made a passing remark about how stupid it is and joked about delaying the decision and now it’s being reported seriously.
There’s been a lot of pro-lebron posts lately. This article is gonna feed the haters.
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lol his agent had to come out and tell everyone that “bron isn’t doing this for attention.” And people still believe this shit
After the Decision, I think LeYawn earned all the cynicism.
LeMotional
Soon, we’ll be free of LeBron headlines. Soon. Any day now…
This fuckery will end soon
Ah, well never the less
LeFuckery
It’ll be freeing when it happens, not exciting at this point
In the next few years on ESPN for an entire month:
Where will Bronny sign?! Adam Silver is desperately pleading with Bronny’s camp to make a decision between the Guangdong Southern Tigers or the Illawarra Hawks
If a headadline says “We are free of Lebron Headlines!” does that mean we are actually not free of bron headlines?
He’s a Heatle
In the same vein as the OP, how funny would it be if LeBron was gonna sign with the Heat, but because they accidentally ‘leaked’ the announcement he said “nah fuck that” and decided to sign somewhere else.
As a Giannis fan, Fuck me to tears.
Is this good or bad? I have no idea. Both could be thought of as a positive
depends on the aftercare
Looking forward to this meaning the Heat are hated again, irrationally. Boy did I miss all that hate from 2011-2014 /s
Watch out everyone, this means Heat fans might show up before halftime now
Might still leave early
Considering the arena is in the same place, not likely. Traffic to get there is abysmal
No disrespect but nobody will hate the Heat because that lineup even with LeBron is absolute ass. Prove me wrong but Bam, Giannis and Lebron getting cooked by any top east team
Excuse me you’re forgetting about our GOAT Wiggins
Bam Giannis Wiggs is one of the best defensive frontcourts in the league, theyre flawed but far from absolute ass
Wiggins and Mitchell both shot 40% from 3 last season too. Lebron will need to turn back the clock to 2024-2025 and be an efficient 3 pt shooter for it to work imo. But that lineup is a fucking nightmare to deal with from a defensive standpoint.
Honestly, I think people are kinda sleeping on the heat. Especially if they get Bron. But I think that might just be because the days of me doubting what he can and can’t do are long behind me.
Fully expect him to be whatever they need him to be if he lands in Miami. And I think the Heat are a tough out regardless even if they won’t be favorites and are flawed, I’ve certainly seen Spo do more with less and an ECF appearance isn’t unrealistic imo.
These Kalshi bots are everywhere
I’m not a bot but sometimes I wish I was
Yeah this pretty much confirms he just wants the attention.
The LeCision Part 1 & 2 didn’t confirm that?
LeDecision
Now its LeChoice … its completely different and this is not all about attention
How does this confirm that? Its not a matter of fact article
kinda weird for people to assume that a guy who had the spotlight on him for the entirety of his adult life is seeking additional attention over a decision like this. all of these articles are speculative and none are rooted in reality.
Additional attention…and PR, also more popularity&money
But rich paul released a whole podcast episode about how they don’t want attention
The fact that he does this every time he goes to a new team already confirmed that
It would be hilarious if he just announces he’s retiring.
That’d be the most baller move
TBH this is all pretty cringe. That’d be the only move that would actually surprise anyone. Otherwise it all comes off pretty Diva ish on “Bron’s Camp” (whatever that means).
He’s taking his talents going to South Beach
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Just make the schedule and if LeBron and whatever team he chooses doesn’t get a bunch of national holiday games so be it
Dont think sponsors will be willing to pay what NBA wants if Lebron doesnt play national holiday games
From a generic non-NBA point of view, it’s kind of messed up that an employer is getting mad at an employee for taking their time making a big personal decision, just because they want to hurry up and set the work schedule so that the employee is forced to work a Christmas shift
“Just have your business miss out on millions of dollars”
My guy is in his 40s and still acting like a prima donna
Lebron has had this league on his shoulders for two decades. If he wants to take his time making his last FA decision, he can take his time.
The commissioner hassling him is honestly fucking insane. I get it from fans, but the commissioner adding fuel to the flames is unacceptable to the millionth degree. Lebron is Silver’s MJ. The league is significantly worse off without him.
I didn’t think it was that bad when Silver just pointed out that he was waiting on LeBron, but telling him to hurry up was fucking ludicrous
Silver admitted that LeBron is so important that they plan the whole schedule around him. And also decided to chastise him in the process, such a dumb move
If anyone actuallywould actually read the article you’d see it was just some radio guy who claims to have a reliable source, not anyone that’s super credible
lmao yeah who gives a fuck what Andy Baskin (who???) some random dj on 92.3 said he heard. This dude Hunter Cookston wrote an article about this shit? you gotta be fucking kidding me with this trash journalism.
I wish I was an NBA reporter. Just cite anonymous sources and write trolling fanfiction and somehow most idiots will take it as gospel.
This is nonsense
It’s LeNonsense
He’s almost angry enough to sign with the Wolves.
He’s not going to sign with the wolves, but I really want him to sign with the wolves, because that squat would be legit
Fuck off bron
Stop taking so long and he probably wouldn’t rush you
He’s such a child
This god damn drama queen
Hahahahahahaha what happened to he wasn’t milking this for attention and was seriously considering options? Now he has apparently been ready to announce the whole time but wants to blame other people? And there are stupid fucks out there that will believe this lmfao
This is juat making LeBron look like a bitch
Please retire.
Flair checks out
Fucking diva
LeBron is a man child and will never be the goat.