Thursday, January 31st, 2008 at 10:30 am  |  52 responses

Note to NBA Fans: Stop Talking to LeBron

by Marcel Mutoni

For the second time this season, some jagoff in the front row thought it was a good idea to talk smack to ‘Bron in the second half of a tightly contested game. You can probably guess the outcome.

After getting swatted a couple of times, and hearing it from the crowd (and specifically, from some frizzy-haired dude sitting courtside), LeBron hit three straight bombs (making sure to stare down the heckler after each make) and split the entire Blazers defense as he waltzed in for the game-winning layup.

Said James in his post-game sideline interview:

“(The fan) cost his team the home-court advantage … It’s all in good fun. I’m here to entertain and help my team win the game.”

He’s the game’s best closer this season, and the Cavs have the most come-from-behind victories as a result.

At this point, it’s probably not even a good idea to make eye contact with the man in the fourth quarter.

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  • hbomb Posted: Jan.31 at 10:31 am
    lol, first.

  • white hot eboy Posted: Jan.31 at 10:37 am
    I like it.

  • polowthaJon Posted: Jan.31 at 10:38 am
    the king is a beast!!!

  • Krayzie Bone Posted: Jan.31 at 10:42 am
    What hath Lady McBosh wrought?

  • Ryne Nelson Posted: Jan.31 at 10:43 am
    The best way to get back at the hecklers – score some d*mn baskets.

  • Holly MacKenzie Posted: Jan.31 at 10:43 am
    jagoff?! haaahha Mutoni, you make me laugh.

  • Krayzie Bone Posted: Jan.31 at 10:47 am
    Also worth mentioning: NBA’s top ten daily plays are getting weaker as the season goes on. There were 3-4 legit candidates, and the rest were pretty questionable. Tomorrow we’ll have Steve Nash with the freethrow: look at the form!!!!

  • Keith Posted: Jan.31 at 10:53 am
    I’ll repeat what I said on another thread “Lebron is Jordan-esque when it comes to fans heckling him”. Learn people, learn.

  • Tarzan Cooper Posted: Jan.31 at 10:55 am
    he had a nice clear path to the rim for the game winner. with such defense, bill walton is rolling over in his grave.

  • Ryan Jones Posted: Jan.31 at 11:04 am
    What would be dope is if some team could convince their fans to be completely silent whenever LeBron had the ball, and he only scored like 3 points in a 40-point loss. Could it be so easy?

  • Keith Posted: Jan.31 at 11:04 am
    In short, no.

  • Krayzie Bone Posted: Jan.31 at 11:09 am
    Ask the nets, they play to crowds like that on a nightly basis (piped in crowd noise – the nba, where snoozing happens). Of course there is the motivation of beating up on Vince “pretend Jordan” Carter.

  • Captain America Posted: Jan.31 at 11:13 am
    Bron does not need no outside motivation. He says Kobe is best.

  • Captain America Posted: Jan.31 at 11:14 am
    Cavs need to get deep in playoffs for any comparison with MJ.

  • Keith Posted: Jan.31 at 11:17 am
    You don’t think ‘Bron’s reaction and ability to perform when heckled is slightly Jordan-esque? How about his unbelievable stregth and ability to finish when being fouled hard?

  • Russ Bengtson Posted: Jan.31 at 11:18 am
    Shouldn’t the Cavs plant someone at every road game specifically to taunt LeBron? Wouldn’t that be an easy way to, you know, win the rest of their games. And CA, the Finals isn’t deep into the playoffs?

  • Keith Posted: Jan.31 at 11:23 am
    Lebron is overrated. The guy needs someone to heckle him in order to perform.

  • Lz - Cphfinest3 Posted: Jan.31 at 11:25 am
    Cap America, the Cavs wasn’t deep in the playoffs last year?

  • Lz - Cphfinest3 Posted: Jan.31 at 11:25 am
    Ups, Russ already said that.

  • ends Posted: Jan.31 at 11:25 am
    Now could he take a punch in the stands of detroit, like ron-ron. I dont think so. Talkin’ crap to fans in Toronto and Portland – home of hard core gangsta rapper the Professor. Oh Bay-beee!

  • Lz - Cphfinest3 Posted: Jan.31 at 11:26 am
    And Keith if anything LeBron is underrated.

  • Keith Posted: Jan.31 at 11:38 am
    I stand by my point. The guy isn’t even averaging a triple double.

  • Dizzle Posted: Jan.31 at 12:08 pm
    @Keith: Isn’t averaging a triple double? I guess it’s only been about a trillion years since the last person averaged a triple double. I guess close doesn’t count

  • Esco Posted: Jan.31 at 12:15 pm
    Some people don’t get sarcasm…

  • Spaceship Jay Posted: Jan.31 at 12:27 pm
    Dizzles right! Give Lebron a break. Lol sarcasm is always best when not understood.
    Bengtson’s idea is in-genius

  • Phil B Posted: Jan.31 at 12:30 pm
    that drove me crazy last night. i’m a huge portland fan, but once lebron started getting angry and making threes, i knew it was over. portland had been doing this to teams all year (without the greatest player on our team) so it was due to happen to them.

  • Dizzle Posted: Jan.31 at 12:35 pm
    What the hell is sarcasm?

  • Dizzle Posted: Jan.31 at 12:38 pm
    Actually I didn’t read Keith’s previous comment. Sorry dude. I guess I’m like the frizzy haired dude (a damn fool)

  • riggs Posted: Jan.31 at 12:55 pm
    Brandon shouldve told dude to stfu.

  • JackBrown Posted: Jan.31 at 1:08 pm
    Dammit.

  • LaPhonso Ellis Posted: Jan.31 at 1:33 pm
    “LeBron James will be an average NBA player.” -Michael Jordan

  • The Best Yet Posted: Jan.31 at 1:35 pm
    Wow! An Esco sighting. Its been a while. Y’all musta got him upset by callin VC a pretend MJ. Dont be mad Esco, VC will make a …ahem….comeback.

  • The Best Yet Posted: Jan.31 at 1:39 pm
    Lewwe do dis!

  • Mike Posted: Jan.31 at 1:47 pm
    “LeBron James will be an average NBA player.”
    -Michael Jordan

  • Paniscus Posted: Jan.31 at 2:02 pm
    watching portland a lot this year, it seems like we the team can both overcome AND lose any lead. it makes things exciting, but it sucks too. guess that’s what’s up with youth.

  • Ryne Nelson Posted: Jan.31 at 2:14 pm
    Portland is still a young team. They’re also not going for a chip this season…and may actually pull of a deal to load up for the future. The Blaze will only continue to improve, and will no longer have these issues in ensuing seasons.

  • its just alex Posted: Jan.31 at 2:30 pm
    Watching LeBron interact with fans is fantastic. I was at the Knicks *cough*/Cavs game at MSG in December. Some fan screamed “you suck” while LeBron was talking to Spike Lee. Seemed innocuous to most, but Bron looked directly at the guy said “Ok, Ok” and then drained a three in front of the guy’s seat about 10 seconds later and stared him down.

  • underdog Posted: Jan.31 at 2:37 pm
    That was BIG mistake by the defensive team, and Brandon Roy. But Cavs won, and I can’t argue with that…

  • John E. Sanford Posted: Jan.31 at 2:42 pm
    @Mike: It’s been proven that Michael Jordan is incapable of judging basketball talent. Just look at his GM track record.

  • Spaceship Jay Posted: Jan.31 at 2:46 pm
    Someone from the Cavs needs to hire Joe Pecsi to heckle Lebron through-out the season. 63 points, 32 rebounds, 7 blocks, and 19 assist a game.

  • drew Posted: Jan.31 at 3:42 pm
    when will people learn?

  • sjeezy Posted: Jan.31 at 3:56 pm
    im lovin this, as a fan and a basketball purist i love this more than anything, young guns like me should learn from this, when someone talks smak bout ya game, shut him up with your game, not your mouth. LEBRON BIG BIG BIG UPPSSSS TO YOU MAN. KEEP ON SHUTTING THE HATERS UP.

  • Jordan Hagedorn Posted: Jan.31 at 5:41 pm
    LeBron is amazing.
    Surround him with some more talent please.
    They need to find him a Pippen because LHughes is mediocre.

  • Ryne Nelson Posted: Jan.31 at 5:50 pm
    Bron’s so hard to find a complementary player because of his supreme ability. Can anyone other star than Kidd co-exist successfully in Cleveland?

  • James Posted: Jan.31 at 6:01 pm
    Mike Bibby

  • Balling NZ Posted: Jan.31 at 6:16 pm
    Bron took Roy to school in the 4th. Hughes is unbelieveably sh*t

  • Russ Bengtson Posted: Jan.31 at 6:37 pm
    What LeBron needs in a complementary player is a lockdown defender that can handle twos and threes (to ease his load on the defensive end), and who’s a deadeye spot-up three point shooter. Basically, Bruce Bowen from five years ago. Although I’d imagine he’d settle for a deadeye three-point shooter. They should just try and coax Reggie Miller out of retirement. Could he be worse than Larry Hughes?

  • Reggie Evans Posted: Jan.31 at 6:40 pm
    Where’s the reporting about when Lebron doesn’t deliver after being heckled? Has it never happened? I’ve never seen the headline “HECKLER CAUSES CAVS TO LOSE”.

  • Mike Posted: Jan.31 at 7:00 pm
    Reggie: That’s because the more appropriate headline during those times is “LEBRON’S TEAMMATES CAUSE CAVS TO LOSE”

  • Jordan Hagedorn Posted: Jan.31 at 7:04 pm
    I’d rather have Reggie out of retirement than Hughes. Especially because he finally fixed those nasty teeth! Russ…get at me we got some business to talk, you’d like what I have to say I assure you. Has to do with Tinker, Sig Shoes, and Kicks Mag.

  • RedRum Posted: Jan.31 at 9:08 pm
    “LeBron James will be an average NBA player.”
    -Michael Jordan Did he really say that?? well.. I guess that is expected from a man that he talent evaluation made him draft Kwame as no1…

  • Miles Luke Posted: Jan.31 at 10:34 pm
    Please keep talking mess to Lebron so he can do you just like he did the blazers. The blazers should kick dude out for the rest of the season.

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