Lebron James post game comments

[shookones99]

"The third person references really hammer home the 'global icon' that Lebron wants to become.  I just want him to play basketball"

Hey, MMacOH, I'm not doubting that this is true (that Lebron wants to become a 'global icon' but I was wondering if you had anything to back this up that I could read on the net?

Thanks so much, I've enjoyed your POV throughout this series.

Oh man, I can't remember where I saw him say that.  It may have been in an interview last year.  It is all over the net though if you do a google search on it

He said he wants to be a global icon like Muhammed Ali was.  Unfortunately he is not anywhere near Ali in terms of social consiousness.

[Finkelskyhook]

He said he wants to be a global icon like Muhammed Ali was.  Unfortunately he is not anywhere near Ali in terms of social consiousness

??  It takes no conciousness to dodge the draft and not serve the country which as facilitated your wealth and fame.  Clay/Ali was a great great fighter.  I find nothing else about him outstanding.  Anyway, it's irrelevent.  Tiger and Michael are every bit the global icons that Clay/Ali was and they are so private that nobody has a guess where they stand socially. 

The NBA's messiah is also a great, great player who has been so coddled that he'll never come close to being the greatest player he can be.  The way James is officiated gives major validity to the NBA's officiating scandal. He gets bailed out of so many situations with obvious bogus calls that he'll never have to rise to the levels that previous NBA greats had to.  I'd also say the same thing about Jordan.  Jordan was so great that there should be no dispute at all over the greatest player ever.  He was the first great player to benefit from crooked and coddled officiating.  If Jordan would have been officiated like his peers, we'd have seen things from Jordan that we'd never seen before and would never see again.

Again, James would be smart to follow the Tiger and Michael's model and stay out the social arena.  He's very young so a few naive comments should be commonplace.  But if his goal is to become a billionaire, he should stay out of stuff he has no time to be learned in.