LeBron James, The New Ayatollah?

Virginia Tech guard Malcolm Delaney was on the court at LeBron James’ basketball camp when Xavier’s Jordan Crawford dunked on the “King.” Said Delaney on his Twitter account:

“YES LEBRON GOT DUNKED ON… FACE @ FACE WIT @ HANDS N IT WAS NASTY.. I had front row seats cuz I was playin.. Lmao..”

James reportedly had a brief conversation with officials from Nike (which sponsors the camp) and shortly thereafter, the only two video tapes of LeBron getting posterized were confiscated.

For starters, if these “journalists” work for any news organization, they should be fired. It’s called freedom of the press and they don’t have to turn their tapes over for anything. My response to Nike would have been, “talk to my lawyers.”

Nike claims the reporters signed some kind of agreement that either did not allow them to record the games, but I think that’s a bunch of crap. If they weren’t allowed to record it, why would you allow them in with video cameras? And, why only after LeBron gets embarrassed is Nike enforcing the rule?

But, what isn’t being reported is that James got dunked on again - at least according to Delaney, who posted the following Tweet:

“he [James] got dunked on again yesterday too.. danny green caught it off the rim on him”

Of course, we’ll never know because the Nike gestapo took the tapes. LeBron could very easily have turned this into a positive PR campaign. What bothers me even more, he denied Crawford evidence of what is probably the most memorable moment in his basketball career. Shame on you LeBron and Nike.