YIKES...This can't be good (LeBron+Espy)

[Maximus]

I dont care who it is - "What a fruitcake!":chuckles:

 

[Kypus]

This has awesome written all over it!

Looks like LB Jiz God to me.

:chuckles: Oh ^%$@- that's good stuff...been laughing for a solid minute now...

 

[TheAdmin]

He can't carry a tune in a bucket....

They played a short clip on Kimmel's show tonight here's the link if anyone wants to see it.

http://www.realcavsfans.com/showthread.php?p=163502#post163502

 

[bail]

did lebron win any award?

 

[TheAdmin]

Yes, but the ESPY's haven't been shown yet. It airs on Sunday.

 

[TheAdmin]

Lebron James is slated to be the host for Saturday Night Lives premier in September. Someone must have liked his performance at the ESPYs.

 

[cdt]

Global Icon Baby :chuckles:

 

[Mac]

8-8-08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[chiefwahoo]

I didn't watch the ESPY's but it seems like Bill Livingston has his panties in a bunch over a skit that LBJ did:

http://www.cleveland.com/sports/plaindealer/bill_livingston/index.ssf?/base/sports/1184748980177390.xml&coll=2

Plain Dealer columnist Bill Livingston criticizes the Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James for his ESPYs joke attempt
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Bill Livingston
Plain Dealer Columnist

LeBron James threw the baby out with the bath wa ter when he co-hosted the ESPYs last week. In trying to make fun of his "King James" image, he created a worse one in a matter of seconds.

Shouldn't anyone be in hot water after slam-dunking a baby?

The criticism has been slight so far because ESPN broadcasts the similarly named ESPYs, and the "worldwide leader" isn't going to criticize itself. Also, the ESPYs audience skews to the young and attention-challenged.

No one except comedian Dane Cook acknowledged the ill-advised skit. Cook wondered if James' dancing in a Hammer/Bobby Brown send-up or "when he dunked the baby" was more tasteless.

In the skit, James stood at the side of the stage, holding a baby in a blanket in his arms. The baby looked too big to be his infant second son, Bryce Maximus, but who knows? It's hard to tell on TV. Then James jumped and dunked a doll wrapped in the same blanket through a basket. After it smacked off the floor, he said, "Let's see if Angelina Jolie can adopt that baby."

Jolie is an actress, a magnet for the tabloids and entertainment shows, and one half of the Brangelina couple with Brad Pitt. People magazine can't publish without them.

Jolie is comic gold to some because she is a serial adopter. But international adoption agencies say her celebrity status has brought increased awareness of the problems children face in such impoverished nations as Cambodia and Ethiopia, from which she had adopted children. Other parents have been encouraged to follow her example. It was tone-deaf to bash this kind of work.

By the most generous interpretation, the skit was part of a show-long attempt by James to mock himself while throwing criticism back at his detractors.

Some fret about his egomania because he likes to be known as basketball royalty. So the Cavaliers forward entered the show on a throne, borne by muscle-bound bearers, with what looked like the Imperial margarine crown perched on his head. Co-host Jimmy Kimmel knelt and kissed his ring.

Those of us who have been around him for years in the media like him for this. He can poke fun at himself. It is rare in a world in which players take offense at any perceived slight and speak of themselves in the third person. Later in the show, James mocked his nervous habit of biting his fingernails, chewing at them as if they were an ear of corn.

As for the baby slam, however, if it was supposed to be some kind of reply to fans wondering why he hasn't married his girlfriend, it didn't work.

And why drag Angelina Jolie in for doing a good deed in a world in need of it?

It was shock for the sake of shock. James was playing against type as the guy who wants everyone to like him. It also was an appalling lapse in judgment.

Blaming the people who wrote the script doesn't work. James has made almost no missteps in his endorsement and entertainment career. He chooses smart, funny commercials that let him "showcase," to use one of his favorite terms, his sense of humor. He has held his own with David Letterman.

It was up to him to say he would not do the skit. Because humanitarianism isn't the butt of a joke. Because child abuse isn't funny.

To reach Bill Livingston:

blivingston@plaind.com, 216-999-4672

Previous columns online:

cleveland.com/columns

 

[B Mac]

Shut up Livingston. You can tell this guy has nothing else to talk about.

 

[The Voice]

Is Livingston an idiot? Does he have no humor? I recall all the people laughing at the ESPY's. If you laugh at the joke... you are just as guilty. Why not knock everyone at the ESPY's? I don't think it was an attack on Jolie. It was a joke and nothing more.

 

[Jon]

The baby slam really was in terribly poor taste... it made me think of something they'd do on SNL. Apparently they liked!

 

[highplainsdrifter]

Im not a big fan of Livingston. Lighten up. I thought it was funny. He's comparing dunking a baby doll to child abuse? Come on. Thinks he should be married? Maybe he doesnt share your spiritual beliefs Bill. Im looking forward to his hosting SNL.

 

[James]

Deffinitly a tasteless "skit" and an even more so comment. Make a joke about somebody trying to do good in the world after throwing a "baby" to the ground. Nice job LeBron.

At least he isnt fighting dogs or anything.

And Dane Cook getting no laughs was probably the greatest thing ever, that guy is soooo bad.

 

[highplainsdrifter]

Lighten up James. Jeepers.