With Miami Heat training camp opening this week, it should have been about basketball, but yet again, LeBron James has made the story about himself.
Both James and his business partner Maverick Carter appeared on CNN Wednesday night for a piece that was mostly about Carter, the mastermind behind the “Summer of LeBron.” During that segment, James was asked if race had anything to do with the backlash directed at James after he signed with the Miami Heat.
"I think so at times. It's always a race factor," James said in the interview. Carter later reaffirmed that statement.
Give me a break.
Ever since “The Decision,” LeBron and his camp, including his newfound media assistant Dwyane Wade, have tried to defend James’ actions this summer and pin it on something else. However, not once, has James just owned up to the fact that the negative press is his own doing.
Carter and LeBron are so in denial with that fact they’d only admit that the self-aggrandizing television special, in which James broke the hearts of every Clevelander, might have had something to do with the backlash.
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