The Josh Innes Show - Random Thoughts: One More Thing About Lebron

Episode Date: December 1, 2022

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And one more thing about the LeBron thing that I just didn't get into a second ago. Another thing in this is his main question was, why are you not asking me questions about Jerry Jones? Here's a pretty good idea of why they're not asking you about Jerry Jones. You're a fucking basketball player. They're asking you about Kyrie because you played with Kyrie. You play against Kyrie. He's in your league. You're an outspoken guy talking about politics and religion and sex and drugs and everything else.

He plays in your league. Jerry Jones is an old dude that's an owner for a football team. When you ask that question, when you say, yeah, why don't you ask me, it's like you're desperate. You're desperate to be asked about something that is a story that doesn't involve you, and you want to interject yourself into the story. And by the way, the Jerry Jones picture is a non, to me, it's a story because there's a white guy who owns a team. He's the most high profile owner in all of sport, and it's race, and race sells. That's what these people do. They're all the media people, they race, it sells, it sells, it sells.

That's why it's out there. That's why it's a story. That's why it's in the news. It's Jerry Jones, rich white guy, get all that. But explain to me why it's the job of NBA reporters to ask you about a picture of the owner of a football team. After a game, you're sitting there. You play against Kyrie. You know Kyrie. He's your buddy. It's a big story. It involves on-the-field, on-the-court shit.

That's why they ask you about it. It is relevant to you. What is not relevant to you is what's happening with Jerry Jones in a picture when he was 15 years old 65 years ago. That has nothing to do with anything that happens on the field today, in particular on the court, with what you're doing. It has nothing to do with you. And the only reason it's something is because people are thirsty and desperate to make it something because it's rich, white guy and race and Jerry Jones and the Cowboys.

That's why. That's why the media is completely inauthentic and disingenuous. They know that there's nothing to that picture. They know it. But they know it's sexy. Like, oh boy, look. Oh my God, shocking development. A kid that attended that high school or that school was in attendance that day at school.

Wow! Shocking development. But listening to LeBron whine about it, why don't you guys ask me a question? Why don't you keep that same energy? Listen here, LeBron, why don't you keep the same energy whenever your Cleveland Browns have a guy that jerks off on all these women? Keep the same energy. Spare me the keep me the same energy bullshit. We could say that about anything.

Anybody could say that about anyone, anytime, anywhere when people are criticizing something that you're on the side of versus something you're not. Or your group's being criticized, but you feel like another group is not. But this idea that somehow, like the reporters owed it to you to ask a question. And by the way, the only reason that Jerry Jones picture is even in a talking point today is because of you. No one cared about it. Maybe that's what you wanted, of course, but no one cares about that picture because anybody with a brain can look at that and go, there's a dude standing in a crowd of people. But just at its core, the question of why haven't you asked me about Jerry Jones?

Why would they need to? You're a basketball player after a basketball game. And in relation to Kyrie Irving, of course, one actually might be an anti-Semite, and one is a dude who 65 years ago was standing around a group of people at a school.

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Limited time offer. See terms at pick six dot draftkings.com slash promos but either way like the idea that the media owed it to you to ask you how dare you not tee me up to say some profound statement to make a profound commentary about race in America. How dare you, media people. How dare you! I am the great LeBron, and you owe me this. You owe me this! How dare you.

Ask me questions. Tee me up. That is your job. Tee me up to make a profound statement that makes SportsCenter television tonight. Tee me up to make a commentary that will go viral on social media. Please! It is your job, media. Bend over for me. I am LeBron and I will ask you every question. I will tell you

what questions to ask me. Why do you care about Kyrie? Well, they care about Kyrie because he plays in the league you play in and it impacts you and your business. Jerry Jones does not. Ask me questions about Jerry Jones. No, we don't want to.

It's not part of our job. I'm sorry. I'm in the media. Like, if I'm a media person, I have a job, and most people who are in a press conference after a game have to write stories about the game they attended, right, or, you know, what happened in the game, right? A column, whatever. They're writing something about what happened in that game. Sorry that Jerry Jones being a high school student 65 years ago in a picture is not newsworthy or germane or important to what they are writing

about the game you just played or the sport you play come on guys tee me up man come on tee me up man why don't you guys ask me these questions because we don't give a shit about your answer because it's not that big of a deal and it might also shocker here you never know some of those guys in the same way you have an agenda that's based on race as you pointed out out in your statement about how it impacts my people and my culture and black people across the country, did it ever occur to you, LeBron, that maybe those people, I bet you a lot of the people in the media there, in the New York media and the big-time NBA media, probably got themselves some Jews in there. And they probably don't like it that you minimize what happened to them and support Kyrie Irving, who might be an anti-Semite. So I understand that it's difficult for you because you're black and you've chosen this path that you're on, which is I'm black and this is what happens to my culture and I only

care about what happens to my culture. Fine. You've made that decision. You have every right to make that decision. But in the same way that your people were somehow just treated horribly or have suffered a great indignity because Jerry Jones was in a picture 65 years ago, there's also a group of people who come from a line of people who were thrown into fucking ovens that dealt with a lot of shit that you might have also dealt with. A lot of bad shit. So maybe some of those folks who are Jewish media people in the same way that you only care about what happens to your people, they might give a shit about what happens to their

people and how it impacts them. Oh God, aghast. How could that be?