LEBRON JAMES PULLS A SUCKER MOVE … CONFISCATES VIDEOS OF HIM GETTING DUNKED ON BY A Xavier player
July 8, 2009 by Don Of Dons.
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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.)
Ryan Miller, a freelance photographer who was working at the camp that day, told CBSSports.com:
“LeBron called [Nike Basketball Senior Director Lynn Merritt] over and told him something,” Miller said. “That’s how I knew his name was Lynn. LeBron said, ‘Hey, Lynn. Come here.’”
A few minutes later, Miller’s tape was confiscated.
Connecting the dots, it seems clear that LeBron didn’t want video leaking out of him getting dunked on by a college sophomore, so he told a Nike official to get the tape. It was an understandable reflex move (gotta protect the image), but it also unnecessarily makes a mountain out of a molehill.
The Crawford dunk would have been a temporary embarrassment for LeBron. Let’s say the video was put on YouTube. It blows up for a bit, dominates blogs for 36 hours, everyone has a good chuckle and then it’s forgotten about.
But by censoring the tape, LeBron turns the dunk into a legend. On video, it’s just a dunk. Without video, the jam can reach mythic proportions. Because nobody can see it, the story of the dunk will grow in stature with each telling. Today, it was a simple two-handed slam. In a few days, it will be a 360-degree windmill. By the time Crawford makes his Xavier debut in October, he will have jumped off LeBron’s shoulders, flipped in the air, slammed the ball home with his left pinkie and then handed LeBron $3.99 for his dry cleaning.
Without the video, we’ll never know. Although, given his past history, I think it’s safe to say that LeBron probably walked off the court without shaking Crawford’s hand.
– rivals
Come on Lebron I wouldve expected that sucker shit from “_ _ _ _” but not from you
westcoastdon on Wed, 8th Jul 2009 7:11 pm
Hatin on the under, we know who ____ is
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DA Man on Wed, 8th Jul 2009 9:35 pm
dis is pathetic havin the tape confiscated dis nigga such a huge ego dis why i perfer kobe and evey other nba player over him, hes a diva
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Jiz on Thu, 9th Jul 2009 9:07 am
everyone gets caught sleeping- no one is immune to getting dunked on- Rondo dunked on Dwight Howard in the playoffs and people already forgot about it- Starks dunked on Jordan- no ones gonna care
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tato on Thu, 9th Jul 2009 1:30 pm
YEA BUT THEY DIDNT CONFISCATE TAPES AFTERWARDS…
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SUPERTONE on Thu, 9th Jul 2009 2:55 pm
damn lebron did his tip touch ya head while he was dunking on ya?….WTF…you brought more attention than the shits worth…sometimes people get dunked on… that’s part of the game…confiscating that tape was a punk move fa sho…
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ROOSTER on Thu, 9th Jul 2009 4:44 pm
LETS GET REAL …LEBRON COULDNT WOULDNT AND SHOULDNT BE DUMB ENOUGH TO GO OVERDRIVE ON ANYONE OUTSIDE OF THE COMFORTS OF THE LEAGUE… I CAN SMELL THE LAWSUIT NOW….”HE SLAMMED MY ASS TO THE GROUND AND RUINED MY POSSIBLE NBA CAREER!!! SHOW ME THE MONEY”
THATS WHY LEBRON IS LEBRON AND WE SITTIN AT HOME WATCHING HIM… FOR ALL THE DUMB ASSES THAT WOULD HAVE TAKEN THAT CHANCE …WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE? HA POCKET DUST LENT
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supawyks on Thu, 9th Jul 2009 8:20 pm
Now Nike is gonna flip this into a fucking commercial…you just watch
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