LeBron James 'bum' tweet led to racist messages, Cavaliers owner says

foxnews.com ^ | 9/30/17 | foxnews/ap

[ColdOne]

Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert has revealed that he received "vile, disgusting" voicemails after star LeBron James called President Donald Trump a "bum" on Twitter.

James' message last weekend came in response to Trump rescinding an invitation for the NBA champion Golden State Warriors to visit the White House.

[ColdOne]

Let me guess....racist tweets=Loving this country and Trump?

[Surrounded_too]

Obama Fallout.

Communists ruin everything.

[Jeff Chandler]

Because only big mouthed black celebrities receive disgusting tweets.

[laweeks]

Le Bron James is a high school graduate only because he was carried through junior and senior high school by all his teachers. He is a stupid thug who would be in prison if he weren’t playing professional sports. And his mother who took all kinds of gifts and royalties before he finished high school and while she was on welfare is no better. THUGS

[headstamp 2]

Including his own tweet I assume.

[simpson96]

Awww.

Did it hurt his feewlings?

Guess that never crossed his mind when he did his tweet.

[x1stcav]

If they’re voice mails it should be easy to track who left the message.

Then it would just be a matter of publicly disclosing the identity of the racist.

Just more leftarded BS.

[bubbacluck]

I do not believe Mr. Gilbert. I think he is making this up.

[conservative98]

Still waiting for an update on the racist graffiti at Lebron’s house that nobody saw and that was painted over in the wee hours in the morning from the time they called the police to the police arriving.

[grania]

Dan Gilbert's comments were on TV this AM. It seems to me that Dan Gilbert is bullied by LeBron. LeBron chooses coaches and players who will be on the team, when he and his best buddies can take games off. It's reached a whole new level when Gilbert blames the fans for the ebonics-laden insults from LeBron.

Sad thing is, it's entirely possible fans will keep filling the stands to see LeBron play.

[ColdOne]

Notice he doesn’t have any of those voicemails so all of twitter land can heard them?

[Dr. Pritchett]

That house belongs to us, too, and I don’t want those spoiled cry baby millionaires in there either. Pound sand, losers. No enemies allowed, foreign or domestic.

[ColdOne]

Look who NBA fan base is. Of course they will continue to go to games.

[beergarden]

Yeah. We’ve seen this before. ONLY RACIST BLACK LIBS receive “racist” tweets and replies. Same BS liberals throw back at us when we criticize Odumbo.

[odawg]

Break my heart. Calling the president a “bum” is disgusting and vile.

[beergarden]

Lebum is headed to the Lakers. According to one article, he got pissed because Trump called Gilbert one of his supporters and friends. Because Lebum HATES Trump, he’s supposedly out of there.

[Will88]

So, this Gilbert character had no problem with Lebron calling President Trump “a bum” and his supporters “uneducated”?

[DoodleBob]

I have no doubt that racism exists in this and practically every other country. Indeed, one of the best expositions I ever read on the subject came from Ayn Rand:

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism....Racism claims that the content of a man’s mind (not his cognitive apparatus, but its content) is inherited; that a man’s convictions, values and character are determined before he is born, by physical factors beyond his control. This is the caveman’s version of the doctrine of innate ideas—or of inherited knowledge—which has been thoroughly refuted by philosophy and science. Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes. It is a barnyard or stock-farm version of collectivism, appropriate to a mentality that differentiates between various breeds of animals, but not between animals and men (emphasis added).

I have no doubt Mr. James (and pretty much most humans) has been subjected to racism. However, at its core, this issue is all about one thing: WHO'S DA BUM?

bum (bŭm) n.

1. A tramp; a vagrant.

2. A lazy or shiftless person, especially one who seeks to live solely by the support of others.

3. An incompetent, insignificant, or obnoxious person.

4. One who spends a lot of time doing a particular recreational activity: a beach bum; a ski bum.

According to this article, LeBron James went clubbing after Cleveland blew a 26-point fourth-quarter lead in an overtime loss to the Atlanta Hawks, then sat out the next game when the Cavs needed a win to obtain top seeding.

[N. Theknow]

Racist?

Hmmm?

Did not know Asshole was a race.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Notice he doesn’t have any of those voicemails ...”

If they’re via cellular, aren’t they still somewhere, and retrievable, even though deleted from the device itself? It just takes is a warrant to the cell provider...?

I watch Law & Order :)