Yeah I did steal this from Barstool

MIAMI – After Spain had made a frantic comeback within two points of the United States, there came a telling moment in a fourth-quarter timeout. All hell breaking loose in the gold-medal game, Team USA was finally getting a fight in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. And from coaches to players, they could see LeBron James’(notes)eyes darting everywhere, his teeth grinding his finger nails. He wasn’t present, but lost in the magnitude of the moment. One source called him “completely disengaged,” and this wasn’t a minority sentiment. As it turned out,Dwyane Wade(notes) played an immense part in bailing out James in the game’s final eight minutes, securing a gold-medal victory and sparing Team USA a loss that would’ve resonated far beyond, far longer, than theseMiami Heat losing to the Dallas Mavericks.

Sometimes, James snaps out of it. Sometimes, he doesn’t. James doesn’t need more outside conflict, more distractions, and yet Wade dragged him into a beauty with the mocking video of them imitating Dirk Nowitzki coughing. Still, the biggest reason that they were so emboldened to mock Nowitzki is Dirk is an NBA star belonging to a growing minority within the league, and it has nothing to do with European roots, the way those players get openly mocked and ridiculed as soft, unworthy of franchise star status. Increasingly, there are two NBAs: the LeBron-CAA NBA, and everyone else. James has been a part of recruiting everyone else over to his side

The Washington’s Post Mike Wise reported on a James’ text message to an NBA player in free agency that said simply,“Yo, this is King James.” This is precisely how he has done it with the college players that he’s recruited for CAA and his marketing company, LRMR. Two years ago, an All-American college player told his coach that James called him and the young player didn’t recognize the number.

“This is the King,” the voice said.

The kid was like, “Huh?”

“This is the King.”

Uh, who?

“King James.”



There’s a thirty-something core of champions – Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, and so on – who don’t swoon in the King’s presence. Three years ago, Wade bailed out James in a title game in Beijing, but this is different. When LeBron James stares into space, bites his nails and disengages late in another championship game, Wade won’t have Kobe Bryant, Chris Paul and Dwight Howard to help. Feel free to mock Nowitzki, but when the fourth quarter comes on Sunday night, Dwyane Wade knows the superstars who can be counted upon, and knows the ones who’ve faked their way through this in the past.



This is gold. Gold. Sums up perfectly why I hate Lebron James and YOU should too.