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"I'm not going to let him disrespect my legacy like that," James told ESPN. "I'm not the one who threw somebody through a window. I never spit on a kid. I never had unpaid debt in Las Vegas. I never said, 'I'm not a role model.' I never showed up to All-Star Weekend on Sunday because I was in Vegas all weekend partying.

"All I've done for my entire career is represent the NBA the right way. Fourteen years, never got in trouble. Respected the game. Print that."

James, whose friendships with Dwyane Wade, Chris Paul and Carmelo Anthony have also been called into question, recalled watching a 1993 NBA Finals game between Jordan's Chicago Bulls and Barkley's Phoenix Suns and being surprised what he saw on his screen.

"Go watch the '93 Finals when John Paxson hit the shot," James said. "Barkley and Jordan were laughing and joking with each other during one of the games while somebody's shooting a free throw. In the Finals. But, oh, nobody were friends back then."

"I know he wanted to retire a long time ago, but he can't," James said. "He's stuck up on that stage every week."

"I collect one paycheck from this," James said of his role with the Cavs. "There's the owner, Griff's [David Griffin] the GM, I'm the player. Screw Charles Barkley."

Cnasty wrote:League full of the most drama and drama queens:

NBA
MLB
NFL

I gotta go MLB and NBA are very close.

DRiccio21 wrote:thats borderline crossing the line in terms of 'nba player man code' too. opens the door for someone else to be like 'oh yeah lebron how about that time you showed up late to the game in Milwaukee cause you were banging so and so's wife in Chicago' etc etc

amazingly out of character for him.

cougnix wrote:

Cnasty wrote:League full of the most drama and drama queens:

NBA
MLB
NFL

I gotta go MLB and NBA are very close.

The statement was most drama and drama queens. Fastballs at heads, there is no drama...

By far the NBA...

wdoupis wrote:I honestly can't see how anyon can like Lebron. There is a new sherif in town, get the fuck outta here.

wdoupis wrote:I honestly can't see how anyon can like Lebron. There is a new sherif in town, get the fuck outta here.

DRiccio21 wrote:

wdoupis wrote:I honestly can't see how anyon can like Lebron. There is a new sherif in town, get the fuck outta here.

funny, i don't get how anyone can't like him.

what has he done wrong exactly? he is the most high profiled athlete other than maybe Tiger/MJ in our lifetime and there isn't an ounce of confirmed dirt on him out there and he's always said and done the right thing other than his decision to do a TV special to announce his free agency (and thats even debatable whether it was bad or not)

all together, that's pretty remarkable.

DRWebs wrote:I think everything leading up to this has been remarkable but it's hard to get behind a player making the most in the league, on the team with the highest payroll, demanding more when they've given him basically everything he wanted up until this point. His legacy is safe but this does sound like whining on his part

shel311 wrote:Blatantly quit in multiple playoffs?

shel311 wrote:

DRWebs wrote:I think everything leading up to this has been remarkable but it's hard to get behind a player making the most in the league, on the team with the highest payroll, demanding more when they've given him basically everything he wanted up until this point. His legacy is safe but this does sound like whining on his part

He lead the league in minutes at 32 years old with more miles on a 32 year old than anyone else in nba history.

If that doesn't prove to you that something is lacking, what would?

wdoupis wrote:

shel311 wrote:Blatantly quit in multiple playoffs?

You can not watch game 6 of Mavs series or the series vs Celtics and tell me Lebron did not quit