He's a great player, and I think he seems like a really good person as well
I beg to differ based on:
- The fact that he made threatening tweets against a police officer who saved a young black girl's life and made no apologies about it
- The fact that he attacked Daryl Morey (and defended China) when Morey spoke out against China's treatment of people in Hong Kong
- The fact that he seems to have had no issues throwing teammates under the bus when he wasn't happy (e.g. Kevin Love in Cleveland)
I don't think Lebron is a "really good person" at all. I think he's an arrogant, egotistical person with a major god complex.
Now do research on the good things Lebron has done for marginalized communities. If he isn't a good person, no one is.
Doing a number of good things for the community doesn't make you a "really good person" if you also do a bunch of pretty horrible things as well to offset that.
Lebron is well aware of how sensitive the subject of Police brutality is right now and how volatile the situation is politically. He's well aware that there are countless people out who are just begging for an excuse to commit acts of hate and/or violence against Police Officers. For him to post a tweet that could so easily be interpreted as a call to violence (and was at the very least a call for prosecution) against a Police officer, without waiting to see any evidence at all, is extremely irresponsible.
The fact that Lebron never apologised for his tweet (even after the video evidence was released showing he was wrong / the cop was innocent) changes it to 'sinister and downright despicable'. He clearly has no problem with the idea that his tweet could generate hate towards police and threats/violence towards an objectively innocent man. He absolutely should have been fined by the NBA for this but gets nothing because in the eyes of the NBA he's untouchable.
Furthermore the fact that he has constantly speaks out about oppression, and yet has absolutely no issue care in the world about Hong Kong civilians being oppressed by a tyrannical Chinese government, shows that he is nowhere near as sincere and empathetic a person as he'd like people to believe.
To not care about this and simply turn the blind eye would suggest he is selfishness, cowardly, or lacking in empathy. But Lebron didn't just turn the blind eye. He went out of his way to actually SUPPORT the oppressive regime by using his influence to try and discredit someone who actually DID stand up and say something. And we all know why Lebron did that - because China is the biggest NBA market, and happy China means more money for the NBA, which means more money for Lebron. Prioritising money over human rights - unethical and truly despicable.
Just a couple of examples that demonstrate just what type of person Lebron actually is. He may try to put on his "Knight in shining armour" fascade for the sake of public popularity, but underneath it all he's...well, lets just say he's
not a good person.