LeBron: I’d Dunk on George Bush

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• Yesse Posted: Oct.24 at 8:33 am
  “LeBron, the most dynamically violent dunker since Dominique Wilkins” Are you serious?Have you forgotten about the violent power dunking centers?Shaq, Darryl Dawkins, Patrick Ewing, Dwight goes hard sometimes too.

• LeoneL Posted: Oct.24 at 8:38 am
  Kobe can dunk better.

• 360vue Posted: Oct.24 at 8:42 am
  Be good to see as a halftime in all star break

• Vanilla Thunder Posted: Oct.24 at 9:57 am
  Shawn “I am you father” Kemp.

• Vanilla Thunder Posted: Oct.24 at 9:57 am
  Shawn “I am your father” Kemp.

• AlbertBarr Posted: Oct.24 at 10:55 am
  The last two options were legit. Maybe if every day until he actually checks a task of his to-do list, LeBron posterized him, Obama would get some sh!t done faster. I personally think Obama will be fine (he has long term strategy not short term) but any motivation is good.

• AlbertBarr Posted: Oct.24 at 10:57 am
  but Keith Bardwell should literally be dunked into the hoop in place of the ball. That guy is a douche.

• Rog123 Posted: Oct.24 at 11:34 am
  I thought you guys would have for sure mentioned Braylon Edwards ! ! !

• Mak Posted: Oct.24 at 12:01 pm
  ‘King James lets out a political opinion.’ I actually thought that was sarcastic. The last Republican candidate for presidency went out of his way to distance himself from Bush for crying out loud. Bush is about as relevant to global politics as my goldfish is to the foreign exchange market. LeBron’s answer wasn’t even close to a political opinion. By the way, I didn’t see LeBron doing this when Bush was still actually the president. All this makes Mr. James’ persona even more laughable.

• Da Hood Posted: Oct.24 at 12:45 pm
  @LeoneL, Get Kobe’s Beef out ya mouth!

• juliocoolio Posted: Oct.24 at 1:46 pm
  kobe is a better dunker but king james is a better all around player!

• Holy Baller Posted: Oct.24 at 2:09 pm
  I would like to nominate Kanye West, because he’s an @ss. Not just to young girls either, he’s truly an all-around jack@ss.

• Jay-G Posted: Oct.24 at 2:10 pm
  I’d like to dunk all of the living presidents.

• Holy Baller Posted: Oct.24 at 2:12 pm
  And the coach of the Patriots.

• Holy Baller Posted: Oct.24 at 2:12 pm
  And Spreewell.

• Teddy-the-Bear Posted: Oct.24 at 2:14 pm
  The reason why Obama can’t just work faster is because of America’s messed up system. Yes, democracy is “just” and “right,” but the fact is, the whole legislation process takes way too long in order for any president to make significant changes in a 2-year term. Americans are scared of higher taxes, the Republicans surely won’t support pubic healthcare, and not even every democrat supports the public option. So no matter how hard Obama tries, he can’t pass any policies.
  You have to wonder why the President–who the people voted on–can’t make a freaking change that would benefit most people in the nation, because the people essentially have no say in what bills are passed. Nope, instead the people have to rely on a bunch of knucklehead politicians sitting in a room, all making the same generic promises of solutions to problems they don’t really understand.

• Teddy-the-Bear Posted: Oct.24 at 2:15 pm
  Complaining about politics is fun.

• Captain Jean Luc-Picard Posted: Oct.24 at 2:30 pm
  LeBron is a punk. Wha? NBA players too tough for him.

• rainman10 Posted: Oct.24 at 2:33 pm
  haha this is just bad writing. I’ve liked a lot of your writing in the past, but Glenn Beck a bigot? Did you hear that from Olbermann or John Stewart? Nothing that Lebron says about politics, let alone to Maxim magazine, should be worth a story. The Jones and Snyder bits were good though.

• Enigmatic Posted: Oct.24 at 3:07 pm
  “blah blah blah blah blah”……sorry, I don’t speak liberal….

• Jake Posted: Oct.24 at 3:15 pm
  Cause our current president is doing such a good job*rolls eyes*.I wish everybody would stop riding his jock without reason.The Nobel prize was a total joke.He’s not even the first multi-racial president,so I don’t know why people make such a deal of it.He’s not a BAD president but he certainly isn’t the renaissance man that 90% of people are making him out to be.The U.S. political system only allows for the president to have about 12% total power which means Dubya wasn’t as bad as it would seem to the naked eye and Obama,Clinton,and whatever other “good” presidents we’ve had aren’t as good as they would seem.It all depends on the people they have in place to support them.

• Jake Posted: Oct.24 at 3:20 pm
  Oh also,public health care sucks di*k.I dealt with it for 10 years in Canada.Meds are expensive and the waiting lists to get something as simple as an MRI are sometimes up to TWO YEARS.I also waited in the emergency room with someone for 8 hours and then got told to go to a different hospital because the one I was at was too busy.

• KRoq Posted: Oct.24 at 3:26 pm
  So as long as athletes speak out on behalf of Dave Zirin’s liberal politics, they’re all good. They have no obligation to do so; let them be.

• Captain Jean Luc-Picard Posted: Oct.24 at 4:07 pm
  Our Prez needs to limit NBA player salaries like he is doing with the financial services wage earners. As he says, it just ain’t fair. Right LeBron?

• EC Posted: Oct.24 at 4:29 pm
  Wheres AL DAVIS????

• Rog123 Posted: Oct.24 at 5:26 pm
  Lebron is a way better dunker than kobe. Waaaay better. Can kobe even dunk anymore. Props on his dunk over howard, but other than that, I don’t know

• Teddy-the-Bear Posted: Oct.24 at 6:02 pm
  @ Jake: Tell that to someone who can’t afford healthcare PERIOD in the states. Waiting eight hours is a lot better than not being treated, wouldn’t you agree? Thanks for not totally disregarding the situations of countless other people in the future.

• Hursty Posted: Oct.24 at 7:04 pm
  He should dunk all over the BNP - then teabag them afterwards. Maybe throw in a knee or hip on the movement too.

• Da Hood Posted: Oct.24 at 7:37 pm
  Everytime we talk bout Lebron, somebody always pull Kobe out they ass. Can he live? Kobe supporters are scared of any threat to Kobe, like he god or somethin. People should just keep Kobe’s beef out their mouth if the topic doesnt have spit to do with him. Kobe riders are the worst.

• Dave Zirin Posted: Oct.24 at 8:38 pm
  Great to see the comments. I’m not going to weigh in on the silly person who defended the US health care system. But I do want to defend why I wrote that LeBron is the most “dynamically violent dunker since Dominique Wilkins.” Of course Shaq, Kemp, and many others throw down harder that James. But it’s the “dynamic” part. What made Doninique special was artistry plus power. LeBron has that combo as well.

• BETCATS Posted: Oct.24 at 10:48 pm
  dunk on somebody? Really Dave? I mean, symboliclly i see what your saying, and how the dunk would ‘mean’ something. Still, i dont fully understand where Lebron is comming from. Yes George Bush was a terrible president. That is a well documented fact. But he is now a private citizen, and i think it is best for us and for him if it stays that way. The last thing any of us want is for George Bush to re-enter the political spectrum, keep him secluded on his ranch where he can do us no harm. When Lebron says he wants to ‘dunk on him’, it makes the name George Bush relevant again, and that is something you, me, or any person with a functioning brain would want. Beside that, even if George Bush was a terrible president, he was still our president. He was voted into office 2 times (sorta, well not really the first time) by the overriding conset of the entire country. Insulting him as a person not as a policy maker is unacceptable. Yes we have free speech in this country, yes Lebron and yes you are entitled to use it. But i think we as Americans should all be more careful how we use it. When Lebron says he wants to dunk on George Bush, it just brings that name out of the shadows where it was hidden, and it is a low blow to it. When you write a article about it, no matter how entertaining and well written it is, it adds to the ‘issue’. So to sum it all up: I have a problem with the concept of your article, not the message carried by it, but just the concept.

• sush carter Posted: Oct.24 at 11:31 pm
  4-But maybe the most obvious choice of all is the guy overseeing two wars in 2009; the guy who won’t fight for a health care public option or broader union protections; the guy dragging his feet on LGBT rights; the guy who also happens to play hoops. Watch out Mr. President: here comes the King. worrrrrrrrrrrrrd

• Hursty Posted: Oct.25 at 12:50 am
  ^ BETcats, that was really well said.

• Klemperer Posted: Oct.25 at 1:15 am
  1) Lebron’s comment was idiotic
  2) But he is a dynamic, powerful dunker like Nique: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqD-JoDgKao
  3) This article was very entertaining
  4) And neither Lebron’s comment, nor this article makes GW’s name relevant again, especially as Obama will continue to refer to Bush’s messes as he creates his own.

• Sri Posted: Oct.25 at 1:48 am
  Liberal bias is even worse on basketball blogs than on political media…SMH.

• Sri Posted: Oct.25 at 1:58 am
  and I cosign BETCATS to the fullest…whether or not you’re a Bush hater (I am a conservative and I’d rather not get into it with this board about the typical shit) Bush was our President, and he is no longer our President. He was the leader of the free world for 8 years, and he is entitled to our RESPECT. What he is not entitled to is our COSIGN. You don’t have to cosign someone to respect him/her…respect is confused so often with agreement, it’s quite sad IMO. What LeBron said was disrespectful. It’s pretty safe to bet that LeBron is not a fan of GWB. Many aren’t (hell even I wasn’t). But as such a public figure, he had an opportunity to stick it to the moron media and tell ‘em to ackrite, by staying out of politics. Use his stature to promote civil dialogue and human respect for our leaders. He wasted that opportunity by saying some dumb ish…and to make matters worse the question wasn’t even regarding politics. He had a strong track record up this point as far as public displays of political allegiance…he cosigned Obama to the fullest, but showed McCain the respect he had earned. This was an unfortunate departure from that, with uncomfortably Kanye-esque tilt.

• Anton Posted: Oct.25 at 2:18 am
  How is it political? It’s been the super cool & trendy thing to do to hate on Bush since 2005. If he said: “I’d dunk over Bill Clinton because he didn’t have a good relationship with the CIA, and failed to capture Bin Laden in the late 90’s”, then that would be political.

• Free Wally Posted: Oct.25 at 2:23 am
  I cosign BETCATS to the fullest…whether or not you’re a Bush hater (I am a conservative and I’d rather not get into it with this board about the typical shit) Bush was our President, and he is no longer our President. He was the leader of the free world for 8 years, and he is entitled to our RESPECT. What he is not entitled to is our COSIGN. You don’t have to cosign someone to respect him/her…respect is confused so often with agreement, it’s quite sad IMO. What LeBron said was disrespectful. It’s pretty safe to bet that LeBron is not a fan of GWB. Many aren’t (hell even I wasn’t). But as such a public figure, he had an opportunity to stick it to the moron media and tell ‘em to ackrite, by staying out of politics. Use his stature to promote civil dialogue and human respect for our leaders. He wasted that opportunity by saying some dumb ish…and to make matters worse the question wasn’t even regarding politics. He had a strong track record up this point as far as public displays of political allegiance…he cosigned Obama to the fullest, but showed McCain the respect he had earned. This was an unfortunate departure from that, with uncomfortably Kanye-esque tilt.

• BIRDMAN JR Posted: Oct.25 at 3:13 am
  Yall idiots defending bush need to choke on a fork. After what he did during katrina to new orleans and the south he should be under the ground right now. If it occurred in orange county or some other place they would’ve sent the whole damn special forces. Nobody should defend that evil clown and if u don’t like it eat a fat one.

• TP Posted: Oct.25 at 4:00 am
  @BIRDMAN JR: Couldn’t agree with you more. People of all political bends need to get more informed. The Bush administration killed over 1,000,000 people.

• BETCATS Posted: Oct.25 at 8:15 am
  ^nobody is defending him as a policy maker. As a ex-president, just as a ex-president he will get my respect. 98% of his policies do not get my respect. But George Bush as a man, as a former leader of our country, no matter how terrible he was, gets my respect. This article is a attack on George Bush the man not George Bush the policy maker, so best believe i will defend what i see fit. And what i see fit is not the George ‘i boutched Katrina’ Bush, its not George ‘i went to war in Iraq in attempt to secure oil deals’ Bush, its not George ‘i listen to advice from D!ck Cheney’ Bush. Who i am defending is George Bush;ex-president. He is a man who wears many hats, and if you cant seem to undertand what to attack him for based on what he is doing, you need to reevalutate your polictical knowledge.

• BETCATS Posted: Oct.25 at 8:17 am
  *undertand = understand.

• LeoneL Posted: Oct.25 at 8:47 am
  LOL @ Da Hood.. Take a chill pill. That’s meant to be a joke.

• rainman10 Posted: Oct.25 at 11:28 am
  Haha you can’t blame Bush for a natural disaster. And you can’t blame Bush for the governor of Louisiana refusing help, over half of federal money given to LA to fund levy building, levy repair and maintenance was spent on marinas and the casinos. The state of Louisiana had been warned for years and years to fix the levies so that they could withstand a storm higher than a level 3 (something like that I don’t know the exact level). They failed to do so because people never see the importance of taking preventive measures. Well it bit them in the ass. And to say they would’ve sent the whole damn special forces to orange county…what does that even mean? Are you trying to say Bush hates Black people?

• gigolo Posted: Oct.25 at 3:56 pm
  LB should SNATCH the “MVP” from Kobe first.
  And survive KG and Superman this years.

• giogolo Posted: Oct.25 at 3:58 pm
  maybe he should win a chip 1st.

• that dude Posted: Oct.25 at 7:05 pm
  Get off your high horse BETCATS. You’re all over the place. First you don’t like that Lebron is bringing Bush back up because you want to keep him out of the political spectrum (because a comment from Lebron in a maxim article would somehow do that), then you say you respect Bush the ex-president, simple because he was the president. “No matter how terrible he was, gets my respect.” Are you serious guy?? If Bush deserved respect, he would have it. Respect is earnt, not given. “This article is a attack on George Bush the man not George Bush the policy maker.” Completely wrong. George Bush is not known for being “a man”. He’s in the public sphere because he was the president and that includes what he did AS president. How the hell do you differentiate his presidency from what he did as president? Thats illogical.

• Holy Baller Posted: Oct.25 at 7:53 pm
  People really need to step off of Bush. No, he’s not the most intelligent human being in the world. 30 minutes of listening to him give you that. But I have 2 problems with you Bush attackers. #1, Half of you people complaining about him voted him there in the first place, then RE-ELECTED HIM.

• Holy Baller Posted: Oct.25 at 7:56 pm
  #2, Like it’s already been said, Bush only had about 12% of power. His advisors, his counsel, THEY made most of the decisions. One man cannot rule a country, that’s why we don’t have other forms of government where one man makes every decision. Even in the executive branch, there are many people who basically decide things for the president because he can’t focus on 200 different topics at once. He can’t be an expert in everything, so he has advisors, and his advisors are the ones who really made the mistakes.

• Anton Posted: Oct.26 at 2:38 am
  Barry Obama was nominated for the Nobel Peace prize two weeks into his presidency.

• Sparker Posted: Oct.26 at 12:33 pm
  cue americans revealing themselves to be crazy

• Dave Zirin Posted: Oct.26 at 5:47 pm
  Damn. This discussion is somewhat nutty like Austin Powers’s coffee. LeBron was making a joke that also had an edge. I wish more athletes would do the same - whether I sympathize with them politically or not. But burying athletes with sanctimonious ying-yang like “Bush is entitled to our respect” only makes it less likely they’ll let us in next time. We always complain when athletes speak from the robo-cliche handbook. Let’s not whine because LeBron stepped out of his box.

• BETCATS Posted: Oct.27 at 3:43 pm
  you guys obviously know nothing about me. I volunteered for the Obama campaign and spent election night at Obama campaign head quarters with my grandparents (both active participators in the civil rights movement). Please do not ever accuse me of being a republican supporter. I do however, have a high sence of patriotism. @That Dude- Lebron was trying to be political. That is entering the political spectrum. I dont care where he said it, his intentions were clear. You are entitled to your views that as a American you dont have to respect your president for having the title of president if you dont agree with what he is doing. It is your right. If you find that illogical so be it. @ Dave Zirin i find you totally off base in your last comment. What box did Lebron step out of? He displayed no knowledge of Bush’s presidency, no hatred towards Bush’s policy making. All he said was that he wanted to dunk on him. And if this was truly a ‘joke’ like you claim, why did you write such a serious article based on that joke? Please do not call these comments ‘Austin Power’s coffe’.By saying that you are making us seem like idiots. Making us seem like idiots so you can shrug off our opinions is what you are doing. Are you scared of civilized conversation that requires everybody involved to think? If so why? Why are you scared of conversation?

• Z Posted: Nov.3 at 11:00 am
  Americans wonder why the rest of the world find them arrogant, obnoxious and misinformed… but they call their president the freaking leader of the free world and they say ‘god bless america’ in every speech. I’m just sayin.