Footage of LeBron James being dunked on gets confiscated
Yahoo Rivals: Cavaliers showoff LeBron James allegedly has at least a hand in video of him being dunked on being destroyed.
Oh dear. How.....pathetic.
But there's one thing Nike officials can never take away from us; video of LeBron being dunked on by undrafted journeyman starlet, Britton Johnsen.
You see, LeBron? You see how totally not-a-big-deal that is? Everyone gets dunked on at some point. They just do. Even Tim Duncan. Even Shaq. Even Britton Johnsen. Even you.
So, if you did have anything to do with this....that would be sad. Actually, even if it's just the actions of a renegade Nike official, it's still sad. Even sadder than being dunked on by Britton Johnsen.
It was assumed he was called "King James" because he reigns on the basketball court. But maybe LeBron James earned that nickname due to his tyrannical ways (in dealing with embarrassment).
On Monday, Jordan Crawford, a sophomore at Xavier (by way of Indiana), reportedly dunked on LeBron during a pick-up game at the LeBron James Skills Academy. Garry Parrish of CBSSports.com wrote that one high school player said, "it was bad". (We can only assume he meant "bad" in the Michael Jackson sort of way.)
LeBron must have agreed, because he had Nike officials confiscate the two videos that were taken of the dunk. (Parrish blames Nike, but reading between the lines it seems like the censorship was orchestrated by LeBron himself.)
Oh dear. How.....pathetic.
But there's one thing Nike officials can never take away from us; video of LeBron being dunked on by undrafted journeyman starlet, Britton Johnsen.
You see, LeBron? You see how totally not-a-big-deal that is? Everyone gets dunked on at some point. They just do. Even Tim Duncan. Even Shaq. Even Britton Johnsen. Even you.
So, if you did have anything to do with this....that would be sad. Actually, even if it's just the actions of a renegade Nike official, it's still sad. Even sadder than being dunked on by Britton Johnsen.
Labels: Britton Johnsen, Jordan Crawford, LeBron James, Rampant Narcissism, Shaquille O'Neal, Tim Duncan, Youtubeage
posted by Sham at
5:44 PM
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By the way, "Keith Bogans is going to be the real deal" is a damn fine quote.
After he left the court in the playoffs I began looking at LBJ in a different light, but this is just absurd. How can someone who has the whole world in his hands be so insecure? If this video had made youtube, it would have contributed to the popularity and intrigue surrounding "king" James, but this story just makes me lose a lot of respect for him as a person. Accepting failure and ridicule is what defines many people. Running from it just makes you look like a sally.
They could even use it as part of a campaign, something about how any nobody (sorry to call you a nobody, Jordan Crawford) can achieve greatness at any given moment. Or something like that.
But not this. This is just a dick move.
Nike did pretty good PR work with Crawford though. Kid sticks to what the lawyers tell him to say on ESPN.
Nike couldn't use Jordan Crawford in an ad campaign because Crawford is still an amateur athlete.
Has Allen Iverson ever been dunked on? I notice that he tends to run like hell to get out of the camera shot whenever a dunk is about to occur.
That's probably for the best. He has no chance of blocking the shot, after all.
TMZ announce they have a copy of the clip and make a big deal about it, but ebaumsworld then one up them on the same day:
http://ebaumnation.com/2009/07/22/jordan-crawford-dunks-on-lebron-james
Kind of loses something from the angle and the distance, but it's a legit poster. Nice work, son.
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