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LeBron James: The media is making drama of Kyrie vs. LeBron again

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 23: LeBron James #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers with Kyrie Irving #11 after the game against the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center on January 23, 2020 in New York City. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Matteo Marchi/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 23: LeBron James #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers with Kyrie Irving #11 after the game against the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center on January 23, 2020 in New York City. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Matteo Marchi/Getty Images)
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LeBron James and Kyrie Irving both want the exact same thing!

The NBA is taking care of logistics as of this writing to get things ready for the players, coaches and team support staff. There’s just not enough players that are willing to sit out to stop the season from resuming. Even though there is a laundry list of problems in the world right now, LeBron James wants to play. Sorry, to those that think that’s wrong. But guess what?

LeBron James is not wrong.

Plus a report from Mark Medina and Jeff Zillgitt of USA Today, James will have the support of the NBA if he decides he wants to finish the season.

"While the NBA and players have issues to resolve, two people familiar with talks between the two sides told USA TODAY Sports they expect to find common ground and play the season. Another person told USA TODAY Sports that as long as Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James still wants to resume the season, he will have the support of most players. The people were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the sensitive nature of these discussions."

So even though the season will continue on, does that mean Kyrie Irving is wrong? Douglas Hartmann says to USA Today that he is not wrong.

"“A boycott is a powerful threat. But when it actually comes through, what you’ve done is you undermine the very thing that gives you your voice,” said Douglas Hartmann, a chair of the sociology department at the University of Minnesota who has also written books about the 1968 Olympics and the NBA. “It’s more powerful to find ways within the structure of athletic competition and ceremony rather than to reject that structure.”"

Kyrie Irving is not wrong.

What is wrong is how some members of the media along with people that will state opinions about what should happen while not sacrificing or contributing anything to the parties involved.

Over the next few days to the June 24th deadline, the media and sad narrative will be the real distraction. Instead of helping find solutions and reporting what Avery Bradley and LeBron James is doing with their platforms or what Kyrie Irving did to spark change, the reports will be the same.

Kyrie Irving against LeBron James.

So even in the midst of a season in which the Lakers currently sit atop the Western Conference and are poised for a title run, fans may want to remember this while the media brings up Kyrie Irving.

  • Bradley and Howard agreed with the Nets point guard when he stated that basketball shouldn’t be the priority right now.
  • Instead of being a “distraction” from social justice issues, Bradley and Howard took to media platforms to spread exposure illuminating concerns from multiple players from the inside of the league and the union.
  • LeBron James will never stop speaking out on social issues based on his long history of doing so. 

In other words. Don’t believe the media hype.