Yet more examples of ESPN being US Weekly

The above video and this article by Jemele Hill are examples of the wrong type of journalism by ESPN. Since when did celebrity gossip become sports news? Just because LeBron James is involved with sports professionally doesn’t mean what he does during his summer is relevant news.

This wasn’t Dennis Rodman jetting off to Vegas between NBA Finals games. That aspect of his personal life is fair game because if he starts doing tequila shots off of model’s bodies at the Spearmint Rhino it is likely to affect his perfomance in practice or a game.

James’ sport camps are something he does in his own free time away from his obligation to perform on the court. Bayless and Hill are the same people who collectively tossed James’ salad for being so gracious in giving up his time to the kids in the first place. Now they are salivating at the chance to tear it all down.

I won’t bother defending LeBron, his people have done that. I’ll just say that if he’s being childish, so is Skip Bayless and Jemele Hill in the above video. They are just pissed off because they can’t see the dunk. They hang on every move that athletes make so when you take away something like this, a YouTube video guaranteed to go viral, they throw a tantrum. They don’t just want to cover athletes professional lives, they want those athletes to submit everything they do for evaluation.

If Nike were to go up to both Bayless and Hill, and say “We can’t release this because it’s our policy, but we’re going to show you the dunk so you can discuss it on TV” their stance would change completely. They’d be as smug as a person who just silently ripped ass in a crowded elevator and is waiting for the stench to reach the nostrils of everyone else. I bet if that happened their cries of “can’t defend this…childish…etc” would turn to “Well, I have seen the tape so trust me, I would know, it’s not a big deal. Being blown out of proportion. Move on people, it’s the off-season, find something else to occupy your lives.”

Also, for those of you who love Skip I have a treat for you. Check out his face at about 2:51 till 2:46 right before he starts talking. That’s his sex face. So if you ever wandered what you’d get in bed from Hurricane Skip there you go. I just can’t decide whether that’s him straining while he waits for the Viagra to kick in or him after he has blown his load. Tough call.

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