LeBron wishes he could play one game where the D wasn't focused on him (seriously)

[Budkin]

Don't you feel so bad for him? It's not fair! :lol

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[capek]

:lol I really dislike this crybaby.

[Tp9gospursgo]

Aww Poor Bron. :depressed

[TheRemix]

Pfffffft hahaha stfu lebron.

[hater]

:lmao

wow

:lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao

[TE]

You want to be regarded as an all time great. Teams are gonna treat you like one.

[Spur|n|Austin]

:lol :lol uhh then stop being good ya baby :cry

[Indazone]

They will be keying on Parker next time. You don't hear hear him saying anything.

[TJastal]

I take those comments as more of a jab at his teammates, specifically Wade & Bosh.

[Frank Dux]

:lmao

[SA210]

:lmao what an insecure "superstar" little bitch, so much better than Jordan (not)

[bklynspursfan]

self proclaimed king doesn't want the focus on him. that makes sense

[tesseractive]

Don't you feel so bad for him? It's not fair! :lol

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Well, sometimes I wish I could play in just one basketball game where I was 6'8" 250 pounds with elite athleticism, shooting range, and enough quickness to stay with guards. :rollin

[Two10Whitey]

Queen James in diva mode. Good job Kawhi. Keep playing that D.

[Mal]

:lmao He didnt say that :lmao

[GaryJohnston]

I'm sure Parker wishes the same thing...and Duncan throughout his career. But at least they have the balls NOT to say such a ridiculous and bitchy thing.

:whine

[GaryJohnston]

On a side note...I'd sure enjoy a 1 on 1 with Rachel Nichols...

[texmich]

Damn this dude bitches more than those chics on bridezilla

[SouthernFried]

Sorta the definition of a "Manchild."

[hater]

Sometimes I wish 1 month I didn't have to pay my bills :cry :cry :cry

[Kool Bob Love]

Damn man. :lol

[in2deep]

I'm surprised he didn't go like "not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5, not 6...."

[SpurSpurSpurs]

Better than Jordan? Better than Kobe? Nooooooooooot by miles! Jordan and Kobe gets better when they are defended well. LeBron wishes for a walk in the park? Sad superstar!

[Budkin]

Sometimes I wish 1 month I didn't have to pay my bills :cry :cry :cry

This.

[Whisky Dog]

If he doesn't want the pressure of defense on him I'll gladly take over his contract for him

[SanDiegoSpursFan]

He's been the focus of the defense since his sophomore year in high school. It's surprising that he even remembers what it feels like not to be focused in on.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

You'd never hear Jordan say that.

[boutons_deux]

You'd never hear Jordan say that.

he it said MANY times

[timvp]

Sometimes I wish banks would let me just walk in and take out all the money I wanted.

[Seventyniner]

Sounds like he doesn't make love to pressure. Maybe a kiss on the doorstep.

[Das Texan]

Sometimes I wish I had the ability to choose which mansion I want to stay in tonight.

[TampaDude]

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/205128/MichWhambulance2_medium.jpg

[JR3]

Thats fine.... for one game lets also not call him the greatest player in the world.

[Jwash_1986]

Well, sometimes I wish I could play in just one basketball game where I was 6'8" 250 pounds with elite athleticism, shooting range, and enough quickness to stay with guards. :rollin

[elmanutres]

thats just part of being a star player lebron. deal with it

[LoneStarState'sPride]

Cry some more, LeBitch

[SupremeGuy]

Wow. That's a whole lot of bitchin'.

[ShooGazer]

Just watched this interview and this seems a bit out of context. Lebron was just pandering to the stupid question by the interviewer. It's not like he himself was complaining about the defense always being focused on him. He even started by answering "it is what it is," but entertained the interviewer's idea by implying it would be nice, hypothetically, for defense to focus on someone else. C'mon, y'all.

[Baseline]

Was this at the nail salon...between the mani and the pedi? It's wonderful that during the NBA Finals, LeBron is able to bond with Rachel over how tough life is.

[eyeh8u]

LeBron James leans against a waist-high stone wall with a 16-foot-tall Buddha hovering over him.
He’s at Tao, a bustling restaurant and nightclub inside the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas, and his arms are crossed as he listens to Lynn Meritt, senior director of Nike Basketball, and Charles Denson, president of Nike Brand.James is quiet, occasionally applying Chap Stick on his lips and nodding when he hears something he likes.
Five security guards are stationed around him, one at each corner of the table he’s about to sit at and another roving around with him, watching his every move. Anyone who takes two steps toward James is stopped and must have James’ approval to come closer.
The waiter bringing him his cup of green tea with a spoonful of honey and a dash of lemon juice makes the cut, as does the scantily clad brunette with a tattoo of a heart on her right shoulder.
She wants to take a picture with him. “I can’t right now,” says James. “Maybe later, upstairs, I’ll remember you’re the one with the tattoo.”
James will host a party later in the upstairs nightclub at Tao, but he is currently hosting a dinner for his friends and family in the downstairs restaurant. Wearing a gray striped shirt and gold crucifix around his neck, he bobs his head to music played by an amped-up saxophonist who weaves his way around the table like a one-man mariachi band.
I have somehow found myself at this exclusive table, seated beside Eddie Jackson, who is introduced to me as James’ father (though he actually began dating James’ mother, Gloria, after LeBron was born and the two are no longer together). Jackson, wearing a muscle shirt accentuating his large biceps, looks like a member of James’ four-man entourage, like one of his childhood friends.
James’ circle includes Randy Mims, seated to his right at the center of the table, Maverick Carter, seated at the head of the table, and Richard Paul, seated in front of James. The quartet makes up the initials behind LRMR Marketing, the management firm James founded almost four years ago with his buddies. Their offices in downtown Cleveland gained notoriety this month as the location teams flocked to for their meetings with James.
LeBron James partied at Tao last weekend, complete with a kings’ cake and an entourage to make heads of state jealous.
Seated to the right of James is Chris Paul, whose brother, C.J., is seated across from him. The New Orleans Hornets point guard has seen how James has positioned himself to win a championship by signing with the Miami Heat and joining forces with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh and has reportedly considered a similar move himself.
The truth is, in James’ dream world, the duo he would love to play with for the next decade would be Wade and Paul, his two closest friends in the NBA. Paul has been like a brother to James since the two were in Las Vegas four years ago for USA Basketball training camp, when as a rookie he carried James’ and Wade’s bags to and from the team bus.
James and Paul are fairly quiet at the center of the table as they take in the scene around them. As family style plates of miso-glazed Chilean sea bass and crispy lobster and shrimp dumplings are brought to the table, James effortlessly picks up the food with his chopsticks and occasionally raises his cup of green tea to passersby as they raise their martinis and mojitos in his direction before being helped along by security guards.
When trays of dessert plates are brought over, James gets up, preferring to start his party upstairs instead of indulging in the giant fortune cookies and chocolate cake. A security guard comes over and puts plastic wristbands on our wrists and escorts us through the back of the restaurant, up a flight of stairs in the bowels of the hotel and through a back entrance into the club. About a dozen security guards, moving their flash lights, direct us to a roped off section on the dance floor of Tao next to a couple of apparently nude women in a bathtub full of water and rose petals.
James, now wearing sunglasses in the dark club, immediately stands up on the couch and folds his arms high on his chest and nods his head. He smiles as he looks at the dozens of people crowded on the dance floor. Noticing him, they stop dancing and snap pictures as the DJ screams out, “LeBron James in the building!” and plays LMFAO’s “I’m in Miami.”
Carter, LeBron’s childhood friend and manager, begins dancing around James like Puff Daddy in a Notorious B.I.G video. A giant red crown-shaped cake is brought over to James while go-go dancers dressed in skimpy red and black outfits raise four lettered placards that spell out, “KING.” Carter grabs a bottle of Grey Goose and pours a quarter of it on the floor and raises it up before passing it off.
James’ infamous one-hour special, “The Decision,” was reportedly the brainchild of Carter, a 28-year-old who has never managed anyone outside of his friend James. This three-day party marathon in Vegas (which James is being paid six figures to host) is also Carter’s idea.
Bottle after bottle of “Ace of Spades” champagne is delivered to the table by a waiter flying down from above the dance floor like some overgrown Peter Pan on a wire. One time he’s dressed like a King, another time as Indiana Jones and another in a replica of James’ No. 6 Miami Heat jersey.
James, who can hardly see the flying figure through his tinted glasses, almost gets kicked in the head on the waiter’s last trip down. He looks at the girls around him and says, “I wish they’d have one of these girls with no panties do that instead of the guy.”
Toward the end of the night, Boston Celtics forward Glen Davis walks past James’ party and looks at the scene up and down several times like a painting in a museum, soaking in the images of the go-go dancers, the “King” sign and the costumed man delivering bottles of champagne.
Davis shakes his head and walks on.
James dances on the couch and sings along with the music blaring from speakers all around him.
The more you hang around James, the more you realize he’s still a child wrapped in a 6-foot-8, 250-pound frame. The night after the party at Tao, he and his crew walk through the casino at the Wynn and Encore and he pretends to dribble a basketball as he walks past ringing slot machines and tourists who do double-takes. In a Nike T-shirt, jeans and sneakers, James’ pantomime seems unconscious. He stops every few feet to shoot a jump shot, his right hand extended above his head on the follow through. He weaves through a pack of a dozen friends and pretends to connect on a layup as he walks past a gift shop. He passes overhead casino signs and jumps up and slaps them, pretending to dunk. Columns covered with advertisements for lounge acts become stationary defenders, chumps to fake out before connecting on imaginary mid-range jump shots.
James probably goes through a practice’s worth of shots as we walk from the XS nightclub at Encore (James left his poolside table when he saw the club was practically empty), through Wynn and over the bridge to the Palazzo.
Soon after arriving at Lavo, a restaurant and nightclub at the Palazzo, a scene straight out of “West Side Story” breaks out when James and Lamar Odom, seated at a nearby table, engage in an impromptu dance-off to California Swag District’s “Teach Me How To Dougie.”
Odom, smoking a cigar, can’t quite keep up. James celebrates by crossing himself and taking a shot of Patron. Moments later, a handful of girls dressed as cheerleaders walk toward his table with someone dressed in James’ Heat uniform. Someone throws talcum powder in the air as James does before every game, while his new unofficial song, “I’m in Miami,” plays.
Odom casts a glance James’ way before looking in the opposite direction and raising his glass at a couple on the dance floor who point to their ring fingers and smile.
Back at his table, James and his crew sing every word to Rick Ross’ “Free Mason.” LeBron raps every line to former teammate Damon Jones (who played with him in Cleveland). Jones, puffing on a cigar, nods.
James rips out the lines:
“If I ever die, never let it be said I didn’t win/ Never, never say/ Never say legend didn’t go in/ I just wanna die on top of the world.”
While he looks at club-goers flashing the LA and Westside signs at him, James smiles and points to Jackson’s T-shirt, which reads, “Another Enemy,” and raises his glass of champagne.
Finally, Carter tells James it’s time to leave the club and they do, LeBron pretending to cross-over tables and shoot over slot machines all the way back to his room.

[Wildcat67]

You haters are pathetic. Of course he would like to not be the focus it would make everything easier for him. It would be fun for him. He wasn't complaining.

That's like saying I wish my workload at work were half as much for a week. It would be a good thing for me, but that doesn't mean I'm complaining about my workload.

You haters just twist everything into a bad thing at it's ridiculous how biased you all are. Get a life, there is nothing accomplished from hating a guy because he's good.

[eyeh8u]

You haters are pathetic. Of course he would like to not be the focus it would make everything easier for him. It would be fun for him. He wasn't complaining.

That's like saying I wish my workload at work were half as much for a week. It would be a good thing for me, but that doesn't mean I'm complaining about my workload.

You haters just twist everything into a bad thing at it's ridiculous how biased you all are. Get a life, there is nothing accomplished from hating a guy because he's good.


you are in the wrong place

[ohmwrecker]

This pretty much defines my hatred for this bitch.

[JingleJangleJingle]

This pretty much defines my hatred for this bitch.

because of he made joke? lol

how can we make fun of Lakersground if we are going to act the same way.

[ohmwrecker]

because of he made joke? lol

how can we make fun of Lakersground if we are going to act the same way.

What? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

[mystargtr34]

the overreaction in this thread is severe

[DMX7]

Sounds like he doesn't make love to pressure. Maybe a kiss on the doorstep.

lol, one of the greatest quotes in NBA history. Gotta love SJax even though he is so full of himself.

[SpurPadre]

On a side note...I'd sure enjoy a 1 on 1 with Rachel Nichols...

She'll only give you the time of day if you have won a championship recently. She's a front-running whore, tbh.

[100%duncan]

I'm surprised he didn't go like "not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5, not 6...."

Damn :lmao :lmao :lmao

as for OP, Lebron, is the greatest balla right now bar none but this nigga bitches alot tbh :lol

[Richie]

I take those comments as more of a jab at his teammates, specifically Wade & Bosh.

This. He's taking a shot at his team mates.

[weeks]

I take those comments as more of a jab at his teammates, specifically Wade & Bosh.

yeah that's how i read it as well

[lefty]

Well Rodman was right after all

[timmy2003]

Sometimes I wish 1 month I didn't have to pay my bills :cry :cry :cry


:downspin:

[Trainwreck2100]

You really shouldn't put Tony Parker and LeBron James in the same sentence...

You now realize that's exactly what you just did

[ShoogarBear]

You now realize that's exactly what you just did

:lmao

[The Reckoning]

damn she fine


nvm i thought it was the actress :depressed

[cd98]

Come play for SA. Our small forwards just play defense and shoot the corner three.

[J.T.]

This kind of thing is the biggest problem I have with LeBron. Everyone knows he's a great basketball player and respects him for that, both on and off the court. I think LeBron knows he's the most talented player out there right now too. But when you are that great, there's a level of responsibility that comes with that. When you're the best out there, you don't get free wins because you're more talented on paper and probably should get the win anyway. You have to go out there and earn it.

That's why a lot of people think he's full of shit for leaving Cleveland because he didn't have any help. I think he tried hard in Cleveland and that team just didn't get him any help so he bailed... can't really fault him with that. But he's the best player on his team. Every team he plays against is going to gameplan for him the most on defense because Heat - LeBron = beatable team. It's just simple math at that point. When you're a great player, you don't deserve a team to not key their defense on you. You rise above that defense and beat it. The old school Pistons teams were able to beat MJ by using the "Jordan Rules" and actually succeeded at it a few times and won championships because of it. Like MJ, LeBron is going to have to find a way to overcome that or else he's just going to be the most talented player of his generation that didn't have anything to show for it because he cried instead of working harder.

Honestly, I'd probably like the Heat as a team if they weren't a bunch of cocky entitled dipshits that think just because they signed LeBron and a few other stars that they deserved 8 championships. I like Spoelestra as a coach a lot too...I feel bad that he has to deal with LeBron.

[313]

:rollin
I almos-....NAH

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

[TheCerebral1]

As I've believed for quite sometime. This guy is a b****! He'll never be in the conversation with Jordan because the dude wears a skirt. My god you're going to complain about being double teamed when you're the "best player" in basketball. What a clown. Yet another example of what an entitled elitist little girl he is.

[G-Nob]

Just once I wish I could leave the house wearing shoes that didn't have goldfish in the heels.

[SenorSpur]

Hmmmm. Another interesting and revealing comment from the self-appointed King James. First he admits he's tired from the last series and now he wishing he could get a break from being the focus of the opposing team's defensive attention? Sounds like someone is proactively starting an excuse campaign in case his team loses the series.

I've got news for you LBJ. Michael Jordan was the focus of every team's defensive attention for every game of every year of his illustrious career. Yet he led the NBA in scoring 10 times. No one player was ever attacked, physically beaten and consistently knocked to the floor in the way Jordan was against those Bad Boy Pistons teams of the late 80's & early 90's playoff series. For every postseason failure, Jordan, while privately disappointed and perplexed, never complained publically. He simply kept going back to the lab each offseason and found ways to keep getting better, stronger and sharper. He was already fueled by an unmatched competitive drive. End result: 6 championships and 6 rings.

I've got more news for you LBJ. From a physical standpoint, you are the bully now. You are one of the most physically-dominant players in the NBA. You can literally do anything on the court, whenever your want. Quit your bitching and man up. No one cares to hear your excuses. Save them for your mother.

[TheGreatYacht]

Lebron James would be an average player if he played in the 90's according to Dennis Rodman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwygZBGUEBk

[Calispursfan11]

Don't you feel so bad for him? It's not fair! :lol

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he'd feel better if they focused on Haslem

[GaryJohnston]

You really shouldn't put Tony Parker and LeBron James in the same sentence...

I did, what of it? And so did you...:lmao

[weebo]

Don't worry Bron, eventually you'll reach TOSB status too...

[Wildcat67]

This thread is hilarious and keeps getting better and better. Hey dont let what he actually said get in the way of your blind hatred.

You all look like fools.

[TheGreatYacht]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMqQDhQChzs

[DMC]

Lebron is just stating the obvious. He's not whining about the defense, but if he had a pick, he wants a Kobe like environment where a Shaq like player draws a triple team and he's wide open all the time.

[DOS CHAINZ]

But there is one. IT'S CALLED AN ALL STAR GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!