Lebron James goes viral for rejecting a kid for a photo... was he being mean for his response to the young fan? Leroy defends his fellow Athlete while JFig tries to show some sympathy towards the child.
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00:00Did anybody see LeBum being a jerk to some kids?
00:04I loved that.
00:05I did see that.
00:06He was getting off his car.
00:09You know why I just find that amazing?
00:13Because everybody thinks that because you play, that you don't have your own time, right?
00:22That he can never be annoyed or he can never, no, no, no, no, no.
00:26Make us a bicycle clown, right?
00:29That kid was probably bowing him hours beforehand.
00:31That ain't even rude for the French.
00:33I'm just saying, like, wow, like that's who you...
00:38Being a jerk to some kids by saying no, that's being a jerk.
00:43I don't give a rat's ass who they were.
00:46So the kid asked, can I have a picture, and he like stepped back and put his hand up,
00:52and I think he said something along the lines of, don't do that.
00:56And then walked away.
00:57Like, don't take a picture.
00:58No, I think the kid, because the kid ran up on him on a...
01:03Getting out of the car.
01:04Right.
01:05Not really.
01:06He wasn't running up.
01:07He was already there.
01:08I saw the kid sidle up like LeBron was walking up.
01:10The kid like runs up to him with the phone like this.
01:13Not that intensely.
01:14I don't think it was that exaggerated.
01:18I'm just saying, like, I get it, but to be upset because somebody won't let you do
01:27what you want to do is not being a jerk.
01:33The kid walks up with a camera.
01:35Can I get a picture?
01:36You know he has the option of saying no.
01:39He doesn't have to say yes because he's a kid.
01:43Don't get caught up in that nonsense.
01:45Should ask somebody who didn't play on the team, like Tatum.
01:48Tatum's got time.
01:50Have you ever rejected a fan photo?
01:52Yes.
01:53Sure.
01:54If I got something to do or I'm in a restaurant or whatever, yes.
01:58I don't feel bad about it.
01:59I do enough of them, right?
02:02I'm very nice, but if I don't want, if I'm not feeling it at that moment, deal with it.
02:09Well, he was feeling it because two seconds later, he was dancing.
02:14So what?
02:15Yeah, but he was dancing.
02:16He was dancing, going into the restaurant.
02:17Like he was going somewhere.
02:18Yeah.
02:19Two seconds later.
02:20Okay.
02:21If he takes one picture, then it's like he's got to take a hundred pictures.
02:26It is a fine line of like, you have to be a jerk to one person to take a picture.
02:31But that's what I'm saying.
02:32It's only one picture.
02:33No, it's not.
02:34If I play that video.
02:35No, it's not.
02:36That's not the Olympics, right?
02:37Like, I won't get flags.
02:38No, that's not Olympic footage.
02:39I think, I don't know if there's cursing in there or not.
02:41No, I mean, I muted it either way, but you know, he's getting out of the car.
02:45Look at all the people around though.
02:46It's not just.
02:47Savannah was there too, like right in front of him.
02:52Just a simple little, you know.
02:53It's really not that bad of an interaction.
02:56Like he told the kid, no, it's not like he's like, he said, stop, like, don't like, you
03:00know what?
03:01LeBron, please.
03:02Like, you take.
03:03The picture.
03:04Wait, wait, Jfig, let me ask you a question.
03:09If somebody just walked up to you and put a camera in your face and say, take and start
03:13taking.
03:14Do you really think that camera was up on his face?
03:17But I'm just saying he.
03:18That kid was hypothesized.
03:19Obviously, obviously it wasn't up in his face.
03:21The kid's half his face.
03:22Exactly.
03:23Right.
03:24Exactly.
03:25Watch him approach with a camera.
03:26Watch him approach with a camera.
03:27And he said, don't do that.
03:28See?
03:29Yeah.
03:30See, I saw a different angle and the angle was way different than this.
03:38But like, does he not have that option of saying no?
03:40Or is there a certain way he has to say no?
03:42I'm not saying he doesn't have an option.
03:44I'm just saying like the whole hand thing is a little aggressive.
03:48That's probably what everyone was talking about.
03:49They're referring to the hand.
03:51The kid should have gone.
03:52Here's what you do.
03:53What you do is as LeBron's getting out of the car, you're at the distance, say LeBron
03:57selfie.
03:58Yeah.
03:59Just do the selfie.
04:00LeBron walks into the selfie.
04:01He does it.
04:02That's the smart way.
04:03I've seen these kids.
04:04They do it.
04:05Like when the guy's coming down the tunnel.
04:06Yeah.
04:07So here's what you do, Leroy.
04:08You go down the tunnel.
04:09You go, Steph, Steph.
04:10And that's how you do it.
04:11That's the way to do it.
04:12These kids are smart these days.
04:13This kid.
04:14Yeah.
04:15That's it.
04:16Too close.
04:17You don't walk up on people like that.
04:18Yeah.
04:19And then, oh, so he's been.
04:20That is also.
04:21I, I, the thing that I have a problem with is because somebody doesn't appease, you doesn't
04:29make him a jackass.
04:30Right.
04:31Right.
04:32It makes you seem like a jackass that he was supposed to do it because it's you.
04:37So I have a different view of that.
04:40You understand what I'm saying?
04:42Like he's not required to, you know, entertain you.
04:46It sounds as the kid there took a charge.
04:49I'll tell you what, though, man, that you have a celly with the dunk on LeBron.
04:56You think that guy's going to get like a canvas painted like the Sistine Chapel in his house
05:00of that?
05:01That's one of the worst he's ever taken.
05:03Right.
05:04But that was it.
05:05That was a poster, dude.
05:06Oh, my God.
05:07Whoa.
05:08I've I've I've told people like, you know, I've told the story after every game in Minnesota,
05:16I'd sign 25 autographs.
05:17I don't care if it's raining, snowing, whatever.
05:19I have the same cop that walk.
05:21You know, you have a cop walk you to the car.
05:23Cop will walk me to the car.
05:24I say, just let me know when it gets 25, dude.
05:26I'm not thinking about it.
05:27I appreciate it.
05:28Right.
05:29Boom, boom, boom.
05:30Hey, 25.
05:31Each home game, I would sign in a different spot.
05:35Right.
05:36So I wouldn't so the people wouldn't get in one spot.
05:39Got to 25 one time guy goes, come on for the kids.
05:42I'm like, hey, man, I'm done.
05:44Right.
05:45He says, we pay your salary.
05:46I say, really?
05:48So I stopped.
05:49I walked back.
05:50I say, how much you pay for your ticket at a time was like thirty five, forty bucks.
05:55Right.
05:56I took 40 bucks out of my pocket and threw it at him.
05:58Say, don't come back.
05:59Like, no, don't play me like that.
06:02I am not your entertainment.
06:03Eight hundred dollars.
06:04I mean, I mean, it was eight hundred dollars.
06:05You know what I mean?
06:06But for some reason, for some reason, when people don't get their way, then they start
06:13commenting on the way they get and get their way.
06:17Not that they didn't get their way when the biggest issue is he didn't get the picture
06:20with LeBron.
06:21It definitely.
06:22So we can all say what we want about it.
06:24It always it always sucks because it's like, yeah, I'm sure LeBron wants to be nice to
06:28every kid that he interacts with.
06:29You know, like we've heard a thousand stories around the market about I had a bad interaction
06:34with Marino.
06:35I had a bad interaction with Alonzo Mourning.
06:37Like right.
06:38Happens sometimes you guys catch him at the wrong moment.
06:40You know, I don't know what to tell you.
06:41Right.
06:43But that's my that's my point.
06:44Like, like, wow.
06:46When is enough enough?
06:48That's what I would ask.
06:49So if he did that and 20 other kids would have came up.
06:52When is enough enough?
06:53I saw.
06:54When can he stay?
06:55When can he say no?
06:56It was at the Hard Rock when the guy made you sign 40 posters.
06:57Oh, my God.
06:58Right.
06:59That was in the middle of the middle of the Hard Rock.
07:04So you did 40 and not 25?
07:06No, it felt like it felt like I didn't know.
07:09First you said, can you sign this?
07:10And then it was just a conveyor belt of this and this and this crazy.
07:17So, yeah, it was it was it was it was it was it was like, geez, it was like it was a lot.
07:26You were very you were very pleased because it was it was because I was getting ready
07:30to get really pissed off.
07:32And I just didn't want to like when you and like, see, if I were to get pissed off at
07:38this guy and the wrong person came over there and we're at the Hard Rock, nobody understands
07:45that.
07:46Right.
07:47Nobody gets it.
07:48They would always say, oh, well, you could have just stayed calm or you just could have.
07:51No, it doesn't work.
07:53You can't be like that with people, because like I said, if I would have said sign one.
07:57Right.
07:58And I said, OK, no more.
07:59One more.
08:00Come on.
08:01One more.
08:02Right.
08:03It doesn't stop until you're me.
08:04That's the part that people don't understand.
08:07So if he doesn't say no to the first kid and 30 kids or 20 kids or 15 kids come over.
08:14Right.
08:15And now he's stuck in a worse situation.
08:19Nobody understands that part of it.
08:21So, yeah, don't just because somebody don't sign your autograph or take a picture of you
08:26doesn't mean he's a.