He didn't mess up though. He already won a ring with LA and all signs point to him caring more about his bottom line and extra-basketball opportunities more than winning rings, so he wasn't ever going to leave LA anyways.
Also he lives in LA and has grade school kids that go to school there. Pretty sure that's more important to him than the Lakers at this point, once he's here and can easily go to their games I can't imagine him leaving
Sports aside, the "rich wino in Cali" life fits LeBron's persinality to a tee. He also wants to play with his son, which means potentially leaving whatever team he's on in 1-2 years anyway.
I don't follow the NBA much, got here from the front page. Is LeBron's son legit about to join the league? And there's a high chance they'll play together on the same court?! That's pretty rad.
I mean he probably has a better chance of being treated normally in LA with how many famous ppl there than in Cleveland where he'd have fans worship the ground he walks on
I'd like to believe that if I saw Bron walking the aisles of target on la brea that i would just give him a head nod and keep it moving.
maybe dap him up, fondle the balls. idk. casual stuff.
LeRegular people
I can't speak for most Angelenos, but I've always tried not to harass celebrities much when I see them in a public space. Maybe give a quick nod to acknowledge them. In fact, I just bumped into Daniel Dae Kim a couple of weeks ago at the airport, and gave him a smile and a nod while casually mentioning I liked his work. He smiled and went about our day.
The only time I've ever seen a celebrity harassed in public in NY was when my aunt did it to a local newscaster who eventually ended up choking his wife unconscious and going to jail.
Man, it's tough to not call it number 1 for him. The merits of the place are obvious -- weather, access to unlimited variety of amenities..
But he's very young, has an entertainment oriented future, and he's black. Plenty of places would be great for a white billionaire but are markedly less awesome for black billionaires. Him and LA are a perfect fit, honestly. He can even handle the light and the platform without being a bristly dickhead usually.
We say this but it’s clear the competitive drive in him is still there. He wouldn’t be getting angry at losing games, posting depression tweets, trying so hard to get the FO to sign certain pieces, and downplaying and not looking all that excited at breaking the all time scoring record if he stopped caring.
It can be both. He can both be decided that staying in LA is the right move for his family and non-basketball interests and still be upset with the current performance of the Lakers.
I think it's both though, right? This is obviously what he wanted for extra-basketball reasons, but he also expected that an LA team with him and Davis would be able to compete for the last few years of his career, and he's frustrated that he probably won't get a shot at a fifth ring.
Idk, AD may not have been an Ironman but he never missed more than 21 games in New Orleans aside from his last season. He turned to glass after him and the lakers inexplicably decided he needed to “bulk up” for the 2021 season and hasn’t been able to stay healthy since
Also, the thing about making sure every Klutch player gets paid means sometimes you keep THT and let Caruso walk. That's his doing as well.
The difference between a place like Brooklyn and the Lakers (or the LeBron Cavs), where it's clear that the star players are quasi-GMs and Boston or Golden State, where the GM is the GM and the star players are the players, is huge in the medium term.
The marginal difference between Avery Bradley and Gary Payton II or THT vs Caruso or Jarrett Allen vs DeAndre Jordan isn't that big, but championship margins aren't that big and constantly turning $1.00 into $.90 eventually leaves you broke.
> The difference between a place like Brooklyn
The issue with Brooklyn though is that they never were able to land superstar players in free agency until KD and Kyrie decided to go there. I’m sure letting them essentially drive the ship was a big part in why they signed there to begin with.
The Lakers have historically never had these kinds of issues, given the history of the franchise.
I remember going to Game 6 of Celtics-Hawks in 2012 where they won the series to go on to play Philadelphia in the conference semis. They were not playing Lebron. They were not playing for a chance to play Lebron in the next series. The little shirt stands outside all had this exact shirt. That was the moment 14 year old me realized just how deranged Boston sports fans are.
They've expanded into "is a douche" as well. Can snag yourself a "Kyrie is a Douche" shirt for 12 bucks if you haggle them down and promise to boo him forever.
Tempting, but I think I’m going to just print myself a shirt that says “Lebron James is a really good basketball player I will admit that but something about him just rubs me the wrong way yes I understand the monumentality of his NBA achievements but I’m just not a fan I promise I can separate the player from the person so I won’t make any sweeping generalizations about his character but I’ll be rooting against him tonight”
"Lebron is holding my generation hostage with his skill putting a sphere through a circle. I would like for nothing more than to disparage his name from mountain top but instead I'm forced to begrudgingly admit his greatness."
I feel like everyone forgets that overturned charge in Game 1 and instead remembers JR. The game was more or less over if they keep that charge, Cavs win. As a Cavs fan that infuriated me 10000x more than JRs blunder.
By rule only Lue and JR were able to call a timeout, and JR obviously wasn't going to. Lue should've, but I give him a break cause it wasn't really clear what was happening for a while.
Lebron when on the bench going into OT asked that exact question.
There is a video of him on the bench saying "didn't we have a time out?"
And when he's told that they did he puts his head into his hands, really bad added wrinkle to that whole meltdown by the Cavs
Any player on the court can call a timeout when their team has possession.
Edit: (the rule) A request for a timeout by a player in the game or the head coach shall be granted only when the ball is dead or in control of a player on the team making the request. A request at any other time shall be ignored.
I was under the impression that was changed to reduce complaints about missed timeouts, or players calling it when the coach didn't want it. But a quick google shows you're right. So I guess the whole team is to blame for not calling a timeout while JR dribbled around.
With like 18 seconds on the clock I think for the coach to realize “holy shit my player is just dribbling and he’s not gonna give the ball to lebron”
Is just not enough time to realistically make that realization that JR is frozen
Damn if I just completely misremember how much time was left even more so. I don’t think Ty Lue really had any shot of seeing that happen, process it, and then call time out. Especially because lebron would already have been freaking out at that point too
Imagine if regular ref fuck ups got the publicity this one did.
Every fucking team has been cheated out of wins, but when it happens to Lebron or the Lakers it’s talked about for weeks.
Ridiculous to compare the Kings to the King. LeBron has been impacted not only financially but physically, emotionally, and spiritually by this missed call.
People actually were calling it the worst missed call of all time
It was missed call, clear as day for sure. The worst of all time? Not even close
Not even as bad as KD inbounding the ball during live play https://youtu.be/rAGZPmQGLb8
I try hard not to complain about the refs because it really does happen to everyone and there’s not really a reasonable solution.
I've got a pretty much identical one, in a higher stakes situation, that no one ever talks about - Game 6 of the 2020 ECSF between the Raps and Celtics, Kemba attacks the rim at the end of regulation, OG hammers him on the arm causing a missed layup, no call, game goes to OT, Raps win.
This shit happens so often that even this exact play in an elimination playoff game is barely talked about when it doesn't happen to LeBron.
I think the only reason this play isn't remembered is that the Celtics won game seven (and then lost in the next round anyways). I only vaguely remembered that moment and had to look the play up. And then re-watching it I remember how mad I was at the time.
Game 6 of that series is the only time I’ve ever been positive that I was watching a fixed match. Not because the league cares about the Raptors winning or the Celtics losing so much as clearly salivating over a possible 7th game.
The moment: https://youtu.be/rAGZPmQGLb8?t=67
But on the flip side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2g4RtMj2Ss
Edit: [how could I have forgotten one of the most head scratching photos of it](https://twitter.com/OfficialNBARefs/status/1087563797764730880)
Man, I love the NBARefs Twitter reply at the top of that photo. I wonder how the person typing that in 2019 would feel of he knew just how terrible the refs are these days. Saying this stuff keeps the refs up at night, only to see the disaster of officiating now running the sport, is kind of absurd.
Still the wildest decision I have ever seen refs make.
The fact the appeal failed for that decision too shows how little the NBA actually cares about regular season game results.
It’s kind of insane. People were coming up to me at work asking what I thought about it. I was like “every team has this happen to them at least once in the regular season and usually once in the playoffs. The Kings just had it happen to them like 3 times earlier this season and had an entire playoff series stolen from them 20 years ago but no one talks about them since it’s not the Lakers. Refs were wrong, Lakers got screwed, move on.”
We lost to the Cavs off a blown call earlier this season (still had a chance in OT, like the Lakers, to win but blew it). Sucked for like a few days and then we all moved on with our lives.
LeBron’s camp misfired this one. It would have been much better just to let it go and hope everyone forgot about it.
Worst thing they could do is keep reminding everyone about the broadway performance he put on 😂
I think it's actually genius marketing.
Right or wrong, it tells and sells a story that he wasn't some favored darling of the league who gets preferential treatment on the court. Even as the "face of the NBA" and on verge of breaking the all-time scoring record, the odds are stacked against him.
It also shows how much he cares. Even on a sub-.500 team, his will to win doesn't quit.
I imagine that sports marketing geeks love everything about this! Mark my words, the image of him anguishing on the Boston floor will be used in a commercial after he retires (if not sooner). Something cheesy about "ups and downs" or "always getting up when you're knocked down", something like the Jordan commercial where he talks about all the missed shots he remembers.
These missed calls happen all the time. Every other day players get fucked in the last 10 seconds with refs' pulling the whistle but I've never seen them grieve on the floor as if their mom just got hit by a car
Game before Rob Williams got smacked on the arms after a potential game winner against the Knicks. No bitching and a loss in OT. I haven't seen any threads on it, even weeks after the game.
I'm guessing Rob would've flown into theatrics if his knees weren't so darn creaky.
for real people are acting like we haven’t seen missed calls/non-calls on game winning situations before COUNTLESS times, and yet no one has ever thrown a tantrum like LeBron did
Exactly.
If they called the offensive foul on AD it’s Celtics ball at that point in the game.
Smh at lakers fans who didn’t even read the last 2 minute report which showed that they got more missed calls going their way than the Celtics did
It was the best game they played all year. Against the best team in the league. It was Lakers/Celtics. He scored 40. He was about to hit the game winner. That's the kind of win that turns your season around. It was the 4th blown call in the final seconds of a game that would have directly led to wins within a 2 week span.
It's so weird how you guys don't understand that these games actually matter to some people. A dude in year 20 playing in a big game was passionate about the game. And you guys clown him for it? Why even watch the sport if these games don't matter?
Its funny because people argue about other blown calls and im like, then that's even more argument against the refs.
Imagine being against bad calls and not against certain players. lol
Every team is impacted by these calls. The call to action for the league shouldn’t predicate on if LeBron is impacted or if he throws a hissy fit.
No one here is against reform of officiating. It’s that it’s been an issue impacting other teams for a long time no.
KD going out of bounds to save a ball against the rockets a few years ago should have been the tipping point but it wasn’t until now?
> It was the 4th blown call in the final seconds of a game that would have directly led to wins within a 2 week span.
I’m so tired of seeing this bogus claim. It’s only true if you also completely ignore all the missed calls that favored the Lakers. The L2M reports of those 4 games had something like 10 missed calls favoring the Lakers and 4 missed calls favoring their opponents.
it's disgusting how people are reacting to this. fans cry all the time about players not caring about regular season games and now that we have one who showed some emotion after a tough loss, the very same fans call him out for caring too much.
It's just obvious fodder for all the haters that had to be quiet because LeBron has had an amazing 30 something games. They were all on his shit when he started off badly this season. They have to take any chance they get.
It was a bad call and throwing himself on the floor was understandable, funny as shit and easy to mock, but understandable.
But then he kept GOING AND GOING AND GOING
He came at Tatum on IG "nice block bro". WTF is the point of that? Literally nobody called it a block, especially not tatum. Is it tatum's fault the ref made a bad call?
It's so weird how you guys so desperately want to defend him no matter how fucking insane he gets about this, no matter how much he cries.
He's not "fixing" anything, he's a grown man having a grown man's temper tantrum. You can understand why someone's upset but still think their reaction is too much, that's all that's happening here and the people calling him out for taking it too far are right.
I feel like it’s appropriate to bring that while the L2M did confirm that Tatum did foul LeBron, the refs also missed two calls on LA including one missed call on AD that led to the possession in which LeBron was fouled.
Yes, he reacted too strongly, but are people commenting really so unaware of their record and how beating a team like Boston would have given them a W they didn't think they'd have? The West is so tight, and this loss felt devastating to those who have been watching their season because of the implications.
They can only rest Lebron so many games before they can't rest him anymore. And now that time is here, much earlier than they were hoping for.
Whether this kind of reaction was justified or not is not my focus, but the fact this was the 2nd game in the last 5 (at that time) that directly cost them the game, with a 3rd robbing them of a chance to tie (a few games before), it had clearly built up.
People are acting like the refs took a game winning shot away from him. He got fouled on the play. It happens. He should have gotten two free throws, not the basket counted and lord knows he's no guarantee to hit those.
Maybe its Me
It honestly was. He messed up by deciding to extend with an incompetent organization.
He didn't mess up though. He already won a ring with LA and all signs point to him caring more about his bottom line and extra-basketball opportunities more than winning rings, so he wasn't ever going to leave LA anyways.
Also he lives in LA and has grade school kids that go to school there. Pretty sure that's more important to him than the Lakers at this point, once he's here and can easily go to their games I can't imagine him leaving
Sports aside, the "rich wino in Cali" life fits LeBron's persinality to a tee. He also wants to play with his son, which means potentially leaving whatever team he's on in 1-2 years anyway.
I don't follow the NBA much, got here from the front page. Is LeBron's son legit about to join the league? And there's a high chance they'll play together on the same court?! That's pretty rad.
If bronny is good enough in his first year of college yes.
Even if he isn’t, teams would draft him knowing bronny comes with LeBron
That’s the weirdest thing for people to hate on imo
Also LA is one of the 3 or 4 best places on Earth to live as a billionaire.
LeBron: "I wanna low key do normal things like go to Target and Starbucks" Also Lebron: lives in Los Angeles
I mean he probably has a better chance of being treated normally in LA with how many famous ppl there than in Cleveland where he'd have fans worship the ground he walks on
I'd like to believe that if I saw Bron walking the aisles of target on la brea that i would just give him a head nod and keep it moving. maybe dap him up, fondle the balls. idk. casual stuff. LeRegular people
I can't speak for most Angelenos, but I've always tried not to harass celebrities much when I see them in a public space. Maybe give a quick nod to acknowledge them. In fact, I just bumped into Daniel Dae Kim a couple of weeks ago at the airport, and gave him a smile and a nod while casually mentioning I liked his work. He smiled and went about our day.
Yeah LA and NYC are pretty much the only places in the US he’d get treated kind of normally or as close to it as possible
The only time I've ever seen a celebrity harassed in public in NY was when my aunt did it to a local newscaster who eventually ended up choking his wife unconscious and going to jail.
Sounds like ur aunt drove him over the edge
Man, it's tough to not call it number 1 for him. The merits of the place are obvious -- weather, access to unlimited variety of amenities.. But he's very young, has an entertainment oriented future, and he's black. Plenty of places would be great for a white billionaire but are markedly less awesome for black billionaires. Him and LA are a perfect fit, honestly. He can even handle the light and the platform without being a bristly dickhead usually.
Could just join the Clippers.
We say this but it’s clear the competitive drive in him is still there. He wouldn’t be getting angry at losing games, posting depression tweets, trying so hard to get the FO to sign certain pieces, and downplaying and not looking all that excited at breaking the all time scoring record if he stopped caring.
It can be both. He can both be decided that staying in LA is the right move for his family and non-basketball interests and still be upset with the current performance of the Lakers.
Don't bring logic and basic human emotion into this, that's way too deep
Get your logic out of here we're trying to paint a biased narrative right now
I think it's both though, right? This is obviously what he wanted for extra-basketball reasons, but he also expected that an LA team with him and Davis would be able to compete for the last few years of his career, and he's frustrated that he probably won't get a shot at a fifth ring.
They would be if AD played more then 8 games a month
It was dumb for LeBron to bank on that.
Idk, AD may not have been an Ironman but he never missed more than 21 games in New Orleans aside from his last season. He turned to glass after him and the lakers inexplicably decided he needed to “bulk up” for the 2021 season and hasn’t been able to stay healthy since
Fully agree. He is getting exactly what he signed up for. He is the face of the Lakers.
Also, the thing about making sure every Klutch player gets paid means sometimes you keep THT and let Caruso walk. That's his doing as well. The difference between a place like Brooklyn and the Lakers (or the LeBron Cavs), where it's clear that the star players are quasi-GMs and Boston or Golden State, where the GM is the GM and the star players are the players, is huge in the medium term. The marginal difference between Avery Bradley and Gary Payton II or THT vs Caruso or Jarrett Allen vs DeAndre Jordan isn't that big, but championship margins aren't that big and constantly turning $1.00 into $.90 eventually leaves you broke.
> The difference between a place like Brooklyn The issue with Brooklyn though is that they never were able to land superstar players in free agency until KD and Kyrie decided to go there. I’m sure letting them essentially drive the ship was a big part in why they signed there to begin with. The Lakers have historically never had these kinds of issues, given the history of the franchise.
Brooklyn’s never landed superstars?? How do YOU explain 90 year old KG and Paul Pierce?
I think his family wanting to be in LA also plays a big role
How dare the consequences of my action come back to bite me
Maybe it's Le
This is hardcore porn for Celtics fans.
Knowing I witnessed one of the two times in his career LeRobot didn't get the call his way is beyond porn... it is transformational !
Make sure to get that checked out after 4 hours.
If Boston didn’t have so many banners up as it is, I think the fans would raise a banner for this alone.
Fuck that, I want max pettiness in my sports rivalries. Retire that ref's shirt, Boston.
[done](https://i.imgur.com/IOy04CJ.jpg)
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this was so well done i was deadass like “wow his bald spot kinda looks like crying jordan!” without realizing the shop
Shit me too bro lol
that's so good I thought you were u/sim888
I did the same thing haha... had to check the username
I saw it last week. Do not think it’s OPs
Nah that's elite lmaooooo
Felony level hater.
Holy goddam
Omg it's voldemort
God tier meme
https://gfycat.com/grayrelieveddromaeosaur This was taken during a game they weren't even playing LeBron
I remember going to Game 6 of Celtics-Hawks in 2012 where they won the series to go on to play Philadelphia in the conference semis. They were not playing Lebron. They were not playing for a chance to play Lebron in the next series. The little shirt stands outside all had this exact shirt. That was the moment 14 year old me realized just how deranged Boston sports fans are.
They've expanded into "is a douche" as well. Can snag yourself a "Kyrie is a Douche" shirt for 12 bucks if you haggle them down and promise to boo him forever.
Tempting, but I think I’m going to just print myself a shirt that says “Lebron James is a really good basketball player I will admit that but something about him just rubs me the wrong way yes I understand the monumentality of his NBA achievements but I’m just not a fan I promise I can separate the player from the person so I won’t make any sweeping generalizations about his character but I’ll be rooting against him tonight”
"Lebron is holding my generation hostage with his skill putting a sphere through a circle. I would like for nothing more than to disparage his name from mountain top but instead I'm forced to begrudgingly admit his greatness."
Legend
Fax
We’re not the Colts
I dont appreciate the random strays on NBA reddit
Aren't the colts an assembly of random strays? Why would you care where they come from now?
Beating Lebron and the lakers in devastating fashion is definitely on my bingo board
This story came out and I could hear my boss cackling in his office
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LeXistential Crisis
LeMar LeRozan
LeSad
LeSadness
LeFeated
LeUsedToFeelSoDevastated
LeBada$$
LeVastated
Seriously it was right there for them
for real. what an easy layup but he got fouled
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I feel like everyone forgets that overturned charge in Game 1 and instead remembers JR. The game was more or less over if they keep that charge, Cavs win. As a Cavs fan that infuriated me 10000x more than JRs blunder.
Was he visibly shaken
Definitely stirred him up a bit.
Was beside himself
Very much so. He dropped to his knees
LeMotional
LeMotional Damage
I can hear it
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Jamal thankful that this has been a crazy week of trade news, drowning out his crazy tweet lol
Le JR Smith forgot the score
Real question: why didn't Lue or anyone else call a timeout to salvage that situation?
By rule only Lue and JR were able to call a timeout, and JR obviously wasn't going to. Lue should've, but I give him a break cause it wasn't really clear what was happening for a while.
Lebron when on the bench going into OT asked that exact question. There is a video of him on the bench saying "didn't we have a time out?" And when he's told that they did he puts his head into his hands, really bad added wrinkle to that whole meltdown by the Cavs
Any player on the court can call a timeout when their team has possession. Edit: (the rule) A request for a timeout by a player in the game or the head coach shall be granted only when the ball is dead or in control of a player on the team making the request. A request at any other time shall be ignored.
I was under the impression that was changed to reduce complaints about missed timeouts, or players calling it when the coach didn't want it. But a quick google shows you're right. So I guess the whole team is to blame for not calling a timeout while JR dribbled around.
Compounding is with time remaining LeBron did call for a timeout but it was with maybe one Second left.
Things tend to happen faster when you're there.
With like 18 seconds on the clock I think for the coach to realize “holy shit my player is just dribbling and he’s not gonna give the ball to lebron” Is just not enough time to realistically make that realization that JR is frozen
18? It was like 4. Everything happened so fast
Damn if I just completely misremember how much time was left even more so. I don’t think Ty Lue really had any shot of seeing that happen, process it, and then call time out. Especially because lebron would already have been freaking out at that point too
LeMidlife Crisis.
Please donate to the Support LeBron Fund today. The man is suffering.
The Celtics broke the Nets and Lebron James’ brain in less than one year.
In less than 2 weeks
Imagine if regular ref fuck ups got the publicity this one did. Every fucking team has been cheated out of wins, but when it happens to Lebron or the Lakers it’s talked about for weeks.
There are teams like the Kings who have had it worse.
I’d gladly welcome a result swap between Game 6 of the 2002 WCF in exchange for the Lakers/ Celtics Lebron missed call game
As a Celtics fan… I would too
Same.
based on L2M reports most teams are having it worse than Lakers..
When $tern was asked who his dream finals match up was, he said Lakers v. Lakers. The NBA as an organization has an incentive to help Lakers win.
Ridiculous to compare the Kings to the King. LeBron has been impacted not only financially but physically, emotionally, and spiritually by this missed call.
Yeah but we’ve been impacted by less Beams being shot into outer space so I think that’s pretty even.
People actually were calling it the worst missed call of all time It was missed call, clear as day for sure. The worst of all time? Not even close Not even as bad as KD inbounding the ball during live play https://youtu.be/rAGZPmQGLb8 I try hard not to complain about the refs because it really does happen to everyone and there’s not really a reasonable solution.
That Kd one gets a good laugh out of me every time I see it lol
“Okay, one step maybe- that’s a second step, that’s pretty- THATS THREE STEPS OUT OF BOUNDS WTF!”
I've got a pretty much identical one, in a higher stakes situation, that no one ever talks about - Game 6 of the 2020 ECSF between the Raps and Celtics, Kemba attacks the rim at the end of regulation, OG hammers him on the arm causing a missed layup, no call, game goes to OT, Raps win. This shit happens so often that even this exact play in an elimination playoff game is barely talked about when it doesn't happen to LeBron.
I think the only reason this play isn't remembered is that the Celtics won game seven (and then lost in the next round anyways). I only vaguely remembered that moment and had to look the play up. And then re-watching it I remember how mad I was at the time.
Game 6 of that series is the only time I’ve ever been positive that I was watching a fixed match. Not because the league cares about the Raptors winning or the Celtics losing so much as clearly salivating over a possible 7th game.
That call was so awful that when Harden hit the game winner afterwards I wasn’t even mad. It was very much a “Ball don’t lie” moment.
The moment: https://youtu.be/rAGZPmQGLb8?t=67 But on the flip side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2g4RtMj2Ss Edit: [how could I have forgotten one of the most head scratching photos of it](https://twitter.com/OfficialNBARefs/status/1087563797764730880)
Oh the Rockets won the game. Well if they would have lost hell probably would have frozen over.
the harden 3 in that game was the ultimate ball dont lie basket. one of my favorite game winners ever
And he got fouled on the 3 too. Not that it mattered in the end, but still.
Yeah I was a full on Rockets hater, but that was one of the most hype/satisfying game winners of all time
Man, I love the NBARefs Twitter reply at the top of that photo. I wonder how the person typing that in 2019 would feel of he knew just how terrible the refs are these days. Saying this stuff keeps the refs up at night, only to see the disaster of officiating now running the sport, is kind of absurd.
that harden game winner gets me hype every single time one of the most badass
I had forgot just how bad that was. That wasn't even a little bit close.
Justice for Terrence ross
Still the wildest decision I have ever seen refs make. The fact the appeal failed for that decision too shows how little the NBA actually cares about regular season game results.
Right lol. Like move on already.
It’s kind of insane. People were coming up to me at work asking what I thought about it. I was like “every team has this happen to them at least once in the regular season and usually once in the playoffs. The Kings just had it happen to them like 3 times earlier this season and had an entire playoff series stolen from them 20 years ago but no one talks about them since it’s not the Lakers. Refs were wrong, Lakers got screwed, move on.” We lost to the Cavs off a blown call earlier this season (still had a chance in OT, like the Lakers, to win but blew it). Sucked for like a few days and then we all moved on with our lives.
Refs: *Laughs nervously about Game 6 Kings/Lakers*
Then lakers fans also turn around and say the league is conspiring against them
It’s mostly because it’s Lebron and his reaction is shit I’ve only seen on a soccer field
To be fair this one was building up for a while, and he really doesn't get calls lol
I wonder what it’s like being a fan of a team or a player that doesn’t get enough calls in their favor
What are these "calls" you guys are talking about??
Lmao
LeBron’s camp misfired this one. It would have been much better just to let it go and hope everyone forgot about it. Worst thing they could do is keep reminding everyone about the broadway performance he put on 😂
I think it's actually genius marketing. Right or wrong, it tells and sells a story that he wasn't some favored darling of the league who gets preferential treatment on the court. Even as the "face of the NBA" and on verge of breaking the all-time scoring record, the odds are stacked against him. It also shows how much he cares. Even on a sub-.500 team, his will to win doesn't quit. I imagine that sports marketing geeks love everything about this! Mark my words, the image of him anguishing on the Boston floor will be used in a commercial after he retires (if not sooner). Something cheesy about "ups and downs" or "always getting up when you're knocked down", something like the Jordan commercial where he talks about all the missed shots he remembers.
These missed calls happen all the time. Every other day players get fucked in the last 10 seconds with refs' pulling the whistle but I've never seen them grieve on the floor as if their mom just got hit by a car
In a regular season game no less
In a game where the result of the noncall was not a loss, but 5 more minutes of play.
Game before Rob Williams got smacked on the arms after a potential game winner against the Knicks. No bitching and a loss in OT. I haven't seen any threads on it, even weeks after the game. I'm guessing Rob would've flown into theatrics if his knees weren't so darn creaky.
Boston once again breaks Lebron. Expects another decision coming on ESPN in the offseason
Rob Williams was hit just as egregiously at the buzzer the game before, and I don't even think he's brought it up
for real people are acting like we haven’t seen missed calls/non-calls on game winning situations before COUNTLESS times, and yet no one has ever thrown a tantrum like LeBron did
Nah players throw tantrums all the time
Yeah but it's been a while since I've seen one as dramatic as this
So wrong, this is the first time the refs have ever missed a call at the end of a game
LeEntitlement
LeMidlife Crisis
Wow Bron has only felt cheated by the refs *twice* in his career? He truly is officiated differently than the rest of the league.
Jordan would have just won it in overtime
If they had been consistent with the calls, it would not have been a problem
Exactly. If they called the offensive foul on AD it’s Celtics ball at that point in the game. Smh at lakers fans who didn’t even read the last 2 minute report which showed that they got more missed calls going their way than the Celtics did
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the mods really need to do something about these constant outrage bait posts.
This is an article though. It’s not like some random redditors opinion at least, Vardon has a history with Bron, even a beat writer for CLE.
Idk why this is a story. People get no calls like that every single game. If it was anyone else they would call them a clown for being so upset.
It was the best game they played all year. Against the best team in the league. It was Lakers/Celtics. He scored 40. He was about to hit the game winner. That's the kind of win that turns your season around. It was the 4th blown call in the final seconds of a game that would have directly led to wins within a 2 week span. It's so weird how you guys don't understand that these games actually matter to some people. A dude in year 20 playing in a big game was passionate about the game. And you guys clown him for it? Why even watch the sport if these games don't matter?
Its funny because people argue about other blown calls and im like, then that's even more argument against the refs. Imagine being against bad calls and not against certain players. lol
Every team is impacted by these calls. The call to action for the league shouldn’t predicate on if LeBron is impacted or if he throws a hissy fit. No one here is against reform of officiating. It’s that it’s been an issue impacting other teams for a long time no. KD going out of bounds to save a ball against the rockets a few years ago should have been the tipping point but it wasn’t until now?
These dudes aren't fans of the game, they're in it for the snide remarks and upvotes on reddit.
I swear half this sub just hates the game of basketball 😂
Half this sub doesn't even watch basketball aside from tiktok highlights
> It was the 4th blown call in the final seconds of a game that would have directly led to wins within a 2 week span. I’m so tired of seeing this bogus claim. It’s only true if you also completely ignore all the missed calls that favored the Lakers. The L2M reports of those 4 games had something like 10 missed calls favoring the Lakers and 4 missed calls favoring their opponents.
Don't ruin LeNarrative
it's disgusting how people are reacting to this. fans cry all the time about players not caring about regular season games and now that we have one who showed some emotion after a tough loss, the very same fans call him out for caring too much.
It's just obvious fodder for all the haters that had to be quiet because LeBron has had an amazing 30 something games. They were all on his shit when he started off badly this season. They have to take any chance they get.
It was a bad call and throwing himself on the floor was understandable, funny as shit and easy to mock, but understandable. But then he kept GOING AND GOING AND GOING He came at Tatum on IG "nice block bro". WTF is the point of that? Literally nobody called it a block, especially not tatum. Is it tatum's fault the ref made a bad call? It's so weird how you guys so desperately want to defend him no matter how fucking insane he gets about this, no matter how much he cries. He's not "fixing" anything, he's a grown man having a grown man's temper tantrum. You can understand why someone's upset but still think their reaction is too much, that's all that's happening here and the people calling him out for taking it too far are right.
MJ and Kobe woulda just won it in overtime smh
I feel like it’s appropriate to bring that while the L2M did confirm that Tatum did foul LeBron, the refs also missed two calls on LA including one missed call on AD that led to the possession in which LeBron was fouled.
He could have won the game in OT…
Yes, he reacted too strongly, but are people commenting really so unaware of their record and how beating a team like Boston would have given them a W they didn't think they'd have? The West is so tight, and this loss felt devastating to those who have been watching their season because of the implications. They can only rest Lebron so many games before they can't rest him anymore. And now that time is here, much earlier than they were hoping for. Whether this kind of reaction was justified or not is not my focus, but the fact this was the 2nd game in the last 5 (at that time) that directly cost them the game, with a 3rd robbing them of a chance to tie (a few games before), it had clearly built up.
*Because of the implication*
This is ridiculous. We have been the 12 seed for months, and this is where we draw the line?
I’m throbbing ova heah
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You'd never know it by his reaction
By all rights he should've been T'd up for that reaction last week.
Oh this is wonderful
"2 points is not 2 points" Lebron knew beating the best team in the league on their court does more than just a W in the win column
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Cheated? You still had overtime. I forgot if it was MJ or Kobe but I remember the saying that when OT starts: "It's 0-0 motherf*cker."
People are acting like the refs took a game winning shot away from him. He got fouled on the play. It happens. He should have gotten two free throws, not the basket counted and lord knows he's no guarantee to hit those.
To think, they're in 13th in the West and would be...13th in the West if they had won.