LeBron James: Possible feuds started with Daryl Morey comments

Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James has found himself in some hot water following some comments made about Houston Rockets’ general manager, Daryl Morey.

LeBron James stated he did not want to start a feud with his pointed comments criticizing Daryl Morey and his tweet. He didn’t. He may have started a few! Lake Show Life delves into an in-depth discussion of potential feuds that will last not only through this season but beyond for years to come.

The Los Angeles Lakers played the Golden State Warriors on Monday night. They continued their dominance over the western conference champs this preseason winning 104-98. The Lakers started their load management schedule with most of the veterans including LeBron James.

That should have been the story of the night, but thanks to a press conference before the game, nobody cares.

While the Lakers were in China playing a back to back series with the Brooklyn Nets, all was quiet from the team thanks to NBA Cares events being canceled by the Chinese government and no media availability to either team.

A few people speculated what LeBron James was thinking and wondered why he hadn’t made a public comment on the matter. Well, the NBA world can all stop wondering what he was thinking and shift focus to analyzing what he said over his potential thoughts.

Let’s take a real close look at the part of the comments that will add enough fuel to the fire that will have NBA commissioner, Adam Silver up at night trying to clean this up.

"“I don’t want to get into a [verbal] feud with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn’t educated on the situation at hand, and he spoke,” James said Monday, referencing the Houston Rockets general manager who posted the tweet in support of the protesters."

Don’t want to get in a verbal feud? It may not be a verbal feud, but it will be a feud nonetheless. Like Daryl Morey wants these comments added to his list of issues as if he doesn’t have enough problems with his boss, owner Tilman Fertitta.

With the potential losses coming, Fertitta is probably seeing so much red that it makes the Rockets road uniforms look pink. What’s even more intriguing is Daryl Morey might be the least of LeBron’s problems.

It’s one thing when corporate problems of this magnitude play out in a private company. The NBA doesn’t fall in that category. The league is dealing with a business impasse that is being played out in front of the world with a country that has just as much leverage as they do.

After LeBron’s comments to the media that caused a firestorm, he took to Twitter to clarify some of the statements.

Looking at the time that this tweet was sent out shows that this is serious. The time the tweet went out was when he was supposed to be on the basketball floor for the preseason game.

Maybe the rules for having cell phones on the bench for the LeBron is different in this situation, but even that is a violation of league rules. I’m sure Amir Johnson will gladly attest to that fact.

But in other news, the Los Angeles Lakers played their next preseason game against the Golden State Warriors in the Staples Center on Wednesday. Think the NBA world will care about the result? Man, the press conference before and after the game will be more entertaining than the actual game itself.

Lake Show Life will try (There are so many layers to this, its mind-blowing folks!) to connect the dots between basketball, business partnerships, capitalism and a ton of social media opinions.

Will all of it get covered? Not possible. But LeBron James will realize that his comments may not incite an incident like Daryl Morey’s tweet but it has its price.

Let’s get started.