nba musings: rick astley has gone fishing

Posted on | June 1, 2009 | Comments

Playoffs Game 6
Magic v. Cavs 103-90

lebron-yankees By now, I don’t know what there is left to say about LeBron James and his lack of sportsmanship. He’s been picked clean really and is now just a pile of bones laying by the roadside. I feel like talking about it though, so lets just pretend we haven’t already heard everything there is to say on the matter. What did LeBron do that was so bad exactly? Let’s start a list…

Walked off the court without shaking hands with any of the opposing team’s players, including his team USA teammate, Dwight Howard.
Left the building without attending the mandatory post-game press conference to talk to the media.
Broke his silence the next day by making excuses for his poor sportsmanship by calling himself a winner and denying that his actions make him a poor sport.
Wore a Yankees hat to next day non-mea culpa.

I don’t get it. He had to know he was going to get ripped by ESPN, Internet blogs, Twitter, smoke signals and just about any and all modes of communication. Why open yourself up to that? I actually can almost understand #1 and #2. When you’re inconsolable, sometimes you just don’t care about the reprecussions of your actions. So if he was devastated and just couldn’t bring himself to talk about it while it was still an open wound, so be it. What I can’t understand though, is showing up the next day in a Yankees hat refusing to take responsibility for anything. I don’t care how big a Yankees fan he is, that hat was a message and the message was, ”F–k you, Cleveland… and the horse you rode in on too.”