What Is Going On With LaBron?

[tmcats]

what a joke. show me the percent of income comparisons.

[Quietstorm5]

what a joke. show me the percent of income comparisons.

I have no idea what percent of income he gives but there have been multiple different agencies and organizations that track donations yearly and James is always in the top 10 of athletes. You can dislike his politics but he has always been a relatively good/generous person. Married to his high school sweetheart, no children except with his wife. never been in any legal trouble. Never involved with any scandals. Honestly aside from Jordan going out of his way to stay apolitical and James being very political, James has been the "better" person over his career.

https://www.sportszion.com/most-charita ... the-world/
https://www.yahoo.com/now/23-athletes-l ... 08428.html
https://www.sportsjoe.ie/football/crist ... orld-36137

[tmcats]

i'm happy for him. he's a racist.

[KITNooga]

I have had the opportunity to meet and listen to some very interesting people through my so-far life.

one of my favorites is Magic Johnson. Can look at his life and question a few of his choices, but Mr. Johnson is doing a lot of things 'with' his wealth, to improve many communities. Mostly black.

He's investing in businesses. Doing a lot more of the 'hand up' vs 'hand out' stuff.

Do I think he's a saint? no. nor do I care. but I respect and admire 'Magic' for what he is doing and how he is doing it.


I hold out hope for Lebron. Perhaps with more age will come more wisdom. I admire and respect Lebron for helping communities that he sees NEED additional help.

it's neither my place nor my desire to not like Lebron. I remember when I was younger and some of the things I thought/did.

figure in about 20 years I'll look back at 'this time' in my life and shake my head a bit too...

[ToledoCat#3]

LeBron's support of woke causes is his main unredeeming quality -- plus, his unwavering support of Communist China and it's human rights record. If he really cared about humanity, he's kick China to the curb -- but that's where his $$$ come from. He's a social-cause hypocrite.

[xtrawildcat]

All of this angst about James because he made a big shot and did the Cassel celebration that was common by NBA players before the NBA decided it didn't project the right image.
Didn't finger the fans, shout at the fans or do anything other than celebrate a big shot in the wrong way.

I am not a Lebron fan but I expect that's because I like to root for underdogs and he has been too dominant.
hJordan and Lebron have both been generous with their money. Lebron putting money into education for Akron students would seem to be helping them up rather than just giving money. Who can complain about that.

Regarding Lebron not making statements condeming NIke for their stance on China. I take it Jordan is doing that.

[xtrawildcat]

what a joke. show me the percent of income comparisons.

Well Jordan has 2 billion dollars. I don't know what his income is now but expect it isn't too bad.
And both Jordan and James have been philanthropic with their money. James seems to be a little more actively involved but I don't know that and every person is different in how they handle giving money to charity.
I don't consider Warren Buffet that active compared to Gates but at the end of the day, they will both give most of their money to charity.

[Puffdad]

This summer shortly after the Olympics were over the different NBA teams were playing in a summer league in Las Vegas where rookies and marginal NBA players get a chance to play and show their basketball skills. Anyway while watching their respective teams play Kevin Durant ran into Dean Wade in the hallway and struck up a conversation. Kevin asked Dean what his favorite “project” was. Dean said he supported the wounded warrior project and Kevin got his checkbook out and wrote him a check for 25,000$! He told Dean he wanted to give it to him in particular because he respected Dean’s guarding skills against him more so than anybody in the NBA. He got no credit for the money. Dean did. I’ll take Kevin Durant’s character and charitable giving over LeBron any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

[Highway26north]

Thanks for sharing that tale Puff. I wonder a lot what these guys who are making tens of millions of dollars every 6 months do with it. How the heck
can you spend it? I'd like to think that a lot of it is quietly doing to good causes without a lot of public fanfare and this story gives me a little hope (but only a little!) that some of it is.

[Puffdad]

Most of them are pretty decent guys. Unfortunately the news gives too much time to the ones who are not necessarily so.