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By Joël Pütz | Sports journalist
As he approaches retirement, LeBron James culminates in summits of influence rarely affected in the history of sport. Patrick Beverley even considers that he is untouchable among the African-American community, a person apart.
The past few weeks have proven to be: despite a career as legendary as it is EXEMPLAR, 22 seasons to dominate on the NBA prosecution and the status of one of the greatest players in history, LeBron James must always face adversity. His Beef with the sulfurous Stephen A. Smith, renowned by the way to be a fervent support of Michael Jordan in the goat's debate, is the proof par excellence.
Smith did not hesitate to attack his status as a father vis-à-vis Bronny, before paying outright in the lie by spreading rumors on the absence of King during the Kobe Bryant funeral in 2020. Enough to make a number of winger scream through the basketball planet. His former teammate Patrick Beverley clearly expressed his disagreement with the polemicist ofESPNin his podcast:
LeBron James at the same level as Barack Obama?
It ended in kid and denunciations. In general, players say nothing. You can have a journalist who annoys you for four or five years, and then you say one thing and it explodes. After the incident, everyone seemed to want to attack him. It was a LeBron denigration campaign. I watched everyone talk about LeBron James.
He (Stephen A. Smith) said bullshit that had no need to be. Yet no one talks about it, they let it go. He is the Captain America Noir, my brother. He is literally the Captain America Noir. He is probably the most powerful African-American, apart from Barack Obama. He is one of the most powerful men in the world.
Billionaire, the face of the NBA for more than two decades, very committed to socio-political causes and even having connections in Hollywood, LBJ has a lot of influence. We note, moreover, that it is often the same journalists who fall on him, whether SAS or Skip Bayless for example. Co-host of the Beverley Podcast, Adam Ferrone also pointed out that:
I think that one of the most bizarre and cheesy things that stems from the modern culture of sports journalists is the fact that people are on one side, that they have their favorite players and those they hate, and that they always attack them. I think you have to treat people on a case -by -case basis, depending on what they do, because everyone has good and bad actions.
Difficult to be more important than Barack Obama who was the first African-American president in history, but LeBron James does not have to be ashamed of his achievements. Between his sports career and his financial empire, the King has really succeeded.
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