A Cincinnati, Ohio, bar owner says NBA games won’t be televised at his establishment as long as LeBron James is a member of the league.
“If anyone wants to watch an NBA game, don’t come to Linnie’s Pub,” Jay Linneman, owner of Cincinnati’s Linne’s Pub, wrote on Facebook in regard to the recent controversy surrounding the Los Angeles Lakers star. “We will not air them until Lebron James has been expelled from the NBA.”
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Linneman added that he believes basketball players “just need to play the game and that’s it” and “their opinion doesn’t really matter.”
James has been widely criticized for taking various political stances over the last few years, especially this week, when he tweeted and then deleted a post appearing to threaten a police officer who shot and killed a 16-year-old girl in Ohio as she attempted to stab another person.
James later attempted to clarify the post by saying, “I’m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police. I took the tweet down because its being used to create more hate -This isn’t about one officer it’s about the entire system and they always use our words to create more racism. I am so desperate for more ACCOUNTABILITY.”
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The NBA superstar earned sharp pushback from sports commentators Marcellus Wiley and Jason Whitlock, as well as from former President Donald Trump.
“LeBron James should focus on basketball rather than presiding over the destruction of the NBA, which has just recorded the lowest television RATINGS, by far, in the long and distinguished history of the League,” Trump said in a statement. “His RACIST rants are divisive, nasty, insulting, and demeaning. He may be a great basketball player, but he is doing nothing to bring our Country together!”
