LeBron has made some very interesting comments this week-end at the All-Star Game in reference to Sam Presti.
He made note of some of Sam Presti’s first round picks over the years and then went on to praise Josh Giddey’s rare skill of seeing the floor at NBA warp speed.
He didn’t mention some of the things which went the wrong way in Oklahoma City, but instead was extremely kind in his comments to Sam Presti. He didn’t mention Russell Westbrook’s destructive effect on the Lakers this season but went out of his way to praise Sam Presti.
LeBron said he wants to play his last NBA season with his son when that time comes which I would think would be two years from now.
He said money wouldn’t be a factor and I’m guessing that to mean he’d play for the vet minimum if that’s what it would take for him to play on the same team as his son Bronny James.
Maybe LeBron is recruiting Sam Presti to replace Rob Pelinka kind of like USC lured Lincoln Riley to USC. Like reading the Grapes of Wrath twice in the same sports years.
I don’t know.
Presti has always puzzled me in this respect because I think he’s an intelligent man even though he’s still paying off Kyle Singler’s contract and Andre Roberson still can’t shoot a basketball.
He has a history degree like I do. I think he went to Emerson College if I remember his resume correctly.
I cannot imagine a proud man like LeBron James playing his last NBA season in Oklahoma. To me, that would be like Hillary Clinton running to be the governor of Mississippi.
Some things are beyond changing.
There are some things which aren’t changing in my lifetime. Maybe not even in my son’s lifetime.
I would love to talk to Sam Presti sometime off the record to know his true inner thoughts on subjects like race and social inequality in our country.
If LeBron wasn’t the most famous athlete in the world…would anyone even give a second thought to what he’s trying to say.
Or would he just be another ‘nigger’ like George Floyd who needs to be shown his place in America?
By the way, this just doesn’t seem to be a problem in the South. Every time we turn on the news white policemen are killing a black person in Minnesota.
Sam Presti comes from the San Antonio-RC Buford NBA tree. I would guess he and Greg Popovich have some commonality in their views of our country.
LeBron James to Oklahoma City?
Nah.
That makes less sense than Hillary Clinton to Mississippi.
Because in the end… I don’t think LeBron wants his legacy to be that he’s just perceived as an uppity ‘nigger’ who never learned his place in America.
Instead, I would think LeBron just wants his son to remember his father as a man who spoke his mind and his heart, even in a country which has regressed on racial issues in recent years.
Or…maybe not regressed per se, but with the words of Donald Trump, just feel very comfortable in openly making their inner views be known in public. instead of keeping their thoughts private.
Next up on Black History Month on my blog…. Tim Scott the GOP black United States senator from South Carolina.