 |
Now he looks even more ridiculous. TMZ has captured and released the Top Secret video showing the previously obscure Jordan Crawford climbing up through the air, slamming the ball over James — and splintering James’ fragile ego.
As we’ve recently seen, James is a good-natured 24-year-old kid until he either loses or gets some college player’s foot planted in his chest, as in the case with Crawford. The cover-up became much, much bigger than the Crawford dunk itself — which, by the way, was nice, but hardly historic or even memorable.
LeBron’s has proven conclusively that his exaltation as a precocious, wholesome basketball player was premature and misplaced. Before this, most NBA pundits and media preferred “King James” over Kobe Bryant as an international NBA ambassador. Kobe was justifiably denounced as a self-absorbed, narcissistic prima donna who got caught up in a near-disastrous sex-capade with some female in Eagle, Colo. But now Kobe has a title and James has to ice down his bruised ego, again.
Now James is the one who comes off as an infantile, petty and small-minded person who gets his feelings hurt easily. Worse, he came like a buffoon with all those pre-game and in-game shenanigans — while he was winning. But when he lost, he got ghost. When the Orlando Magic rudely booted the Cavs out of the NBA playoffs, James stormed off the court in a hissy fit, not even bothering to shake hands with the conquerors. Then LeBron mumbled and fumbled through some incoherent, inarticulate, irrational excuse for why he blatantly disrespected his adversaries and the game of basketball.
Even at 6-foot-9 and 260 pounds, LeBron James still has a lot of growing up to do. –terry shropshire
