News of the Miami Heat’s new all black uniforms isn’t sitting well with the team’s star player. LeBron James thinks that the new uniforms will further add to the basketball giant’s villainy, according to Yahoo Sports.
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Don’t let Yahoo! fool you, LeBron never said anything on record about his like or dislike of the new uniforms. He did talk to ESPN about being cast as a villain, however.
Reporting on the new jerseys Yahoo! Sports published this today:
To these eyes, the jerseys are pretty cool. You can never dress in black and look uncool, but the alternate uniforms do seem to fly in the face of LeBron James’ month-long hope for he and his Heat cohorts to stave off looking like the NBA’s villains as they attempted to win their first ring together.
Especially following what James told ESPN last week:
“I play the game fun, joyful, and I let my game do all of the talking and I got away from that. That’s what I lost last year. Going through my first seven years in the NBA I was always the “liked one” and to be on the other side — they call it the dark side or the villain or whatever they call it — it was definitely challenging for myself. It was a situation I had never been in before, and it took awhile … it took a long time to adjust to it. […] It basically turned me into somebody I wasn’t. You start to hear ‘the villain,’ now you have to be the villain, you know, and I started to buy into it. I started to play the game of basketball at a level, or at a mind state that I’ve never played at before … meaning, angry. And that’s mentally. That’s not the way I play the game of basketball.”
See the conclusion Yahoo! Sports has drawn? Two +Two = five. Or All black anything = villainy, including the players.
Yahoo’s story was a reach, it was about creating news and it’s really old, stupid, bigoted and inflammatory when you actually add two and two together.
Sports and race are deeply touchy subjects in this country and LeBron, who transcended his color when he became a hero in Cleveland, is mentally scarred because of people’s reaction to his decision to head to Miami, and Yahoo! Sports isn’t helping matters in its reporting a year later.
Up until a year ago, the soon to be 27-year-old former Cavalier, father and entrepreneur, was a god in Cleveland leading the Cavaliers to the NBA play-offs consecutively for five seasons . Then he did a grown up thing and made a decision to live his life and play somewhere else as an, you know, an adult. All hell broke loose: effigies got burned, racist taunts were thrown along with other name calling after Bron Bron’s move to Miami.
The uniforms, all black with white trim, used mainly for road or alternate games, were unveiled recently.
I think they look cool and could be paired with some dope black canvas Nike Vandals with white trimming if I want to rock a duotone head-to-toe look and if I wore basketball jerseys.
What’s your take?
SOURCE: ESPN
