By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
“Inappropriate. Whiny. All of the above”, Charles Barkley, analyst of the ‘Inside the NBA’ show on TNT said of LeBron James last week.
“The Cleveland Cavaliers, they have given him everything he wanted. They have the highest payroll in NBA history. He wanted J.R. Smith last summer, they paid him. He wanted Shumpert last summer. They brought in Kyle Korver. He’s the best player in the world. Does he want all of the good players? He don’t want to compete? He is an amazing player. They’re the defending champs.”
The answer was quick by the Cleveland Cavaliers’ star: “He’s a hater,” James told ESPN. “What makes what he says credible? Because he’s on TV?”
“I’m not going to let him disrespect my legacy like that. I’m not the one who threw somebody through a window. I never spit on a kid. I never had unpaid debt in Las Vegas. I never said, ‘I’m not a role model.’ I never showed up to All-Star Weekend on Sunday because I was in Vegas all weekend partying.”
James was referring to the former Philadelphia 76ers and Phoenix Suns player throwing a man through a window in 1997, spitting on a little girl in 1991 and his “I am not a role model” commercial for Nike, obviously fed up with the treatment he’s been receiving from Barkley.