Links To The Present: January 11th, 2010
2010-01-11
-I had the odds of DeShawn Stevenson doing something like this somewhere around 100%.
-Ben Golliver of Blazers Edge paints a less than flattering picture of LeBron during media availability and tells an interesting anecdote about LeBron reacting very badly to getting slapped on the butt during pre-game warmups. There are really no winners in that anecdote.
-Hollinger on the Daily Dime, talking about the Jawad lineup.
-LeBron James is your player of the week. Again.
-Alright guys, that’s all for now. See you for tonight’s game, which I hope goes smoothly; on a day where McGwire has admitted to steroid use AND Sarah Palin has signed with Fox News, I don’t think I can handle any more surprises.
My impression of that Blazers Edge article is that the writer is grasping for a reason to rip Lebron. I know I don’t compare all that well to Lebron James, but as an athlete myself I would do pretty much everything that Lebron just got ripped for. Maybe he was just tired of the routine of the press conference and wanted to leave. Maybe he didn’t feel like wearing pants. Who cares? Not everybody is an Obama-like public speaker, it’s perfectly reasonable for Lebron to stutter and cliche his way through an interview to cover his nervousness, or boredom with… Read more »
I was surprised that Harry Reid got a pass for a racial remark. Just think, if Rush Limbaugh was liberal he’d own a football team.
Surprises surprises
So Ben is mad that LeBron doesn’t like playing grab ass? And commenting on what the guy is wearing in the locker room? WTF is this guy talking about, other being pissy?
He mentions Kobe speaking to the media in a suit. He did not mention that it took Kobe 40 minutes to make his appearance in that suit, after emerging from the private dressing room he uses separate from the team at the Rose Garden. I got this info from the Blazers blog on the True Hoop affiliate list. LeBron speaks to the media immediately.
Please take this in the constructive manner it is intended but your over-whelming desire to be liked hurts yr blog. The posters are right about the blazer writer and yr letting yr friendship, respect, whatever get in the way of REAL journalism and analysis. You are trying to hard to be respected by fellow bloggers and ESPN types. Be yourself more. The respect will follow…btw, like the links posts and think you should do it more often.
As you guys have probably surmised, I have oodles of respect for Golliver and Blazers Edge, so I’m hesitant to jump on him here. And also, I’ve only worked two LeBron games as a media member, but I didn’t have a strong disagreement with anything he said. LeBron is not a great post-game quote, and it would be very nice if he would wear pants. The question is whether you make a value judgement on those things. When people say Kobe could pass more, some of his fans take that as them calling him a selfish person. But really, they… Read more »
The piece on LeBron sounded very bitter and it really felt like the writer almost had some sort of vendetta against LBJ. “He made an off-color comment to a team attendant” Uh, ok? He’s 25, he’s an athlete, and he’s a guy. If he’s not allowed to make an off the record, off-color comment to someone, I would think, he knows (unless that person was provided by the Portland organization), then when else is he supposed to do it? “stuttered through basic questions searching for words that he apparently doesn’t have in his arsenal” I don’t understand this comment. My… Read more »
Yeah frankly I thought that the whole ass-grabber story was overblown Lebron hate. I don’t want to disparage Blazer’s Edge as they seem to be a good blog but when you nitpick how the guy gives interviews, etc. you look like you are finding an excuse to rip on him. What was he supposed to do, not swear I suppose? If you grab most people’s ass in public it is going to make them surprised and in many cases upset. Just because you are Lebron James, I don’t see why you should tolerate ass grabbing. I have a hard time… Read more »
And Simon Cowell is quitting American Idol, you forgot that! Or maybe that’s not such a big surprise. Then again, neither are the other two stories … That LeBron story is interesting … on the one hand, he could’ve handled it better, on the other, if a teenage boy slapped my butt while I was going about my work, I probably wouldn’t take that in stride either. You might own his jersey, but that doesn’t mean you “own” LeBron. If he keeps this up, how long until Jawad replaces JJ in the starting lineup? Only half kidding there. Much is… Read more »