This is really weird by LeBron.
There have been barbershop shows for decades and he isn’t the first athlete to do one. The one LeBron does is very infrequent and frankly not many people associate him with barbershop shows, so I don’t know why he is going so hard at Nick Saban and Bama’s show.
Speaking Tuesday, Saban said he didn’t know about James’ show.
“I think LeBron James is a great player,” the coach said. “There’s been at least 20 barbershop-type things I’ve seen. I didn’t even know he had one. I’m sorry anybody could be offended by something we were just trying to have fun with. I enjoyed it and we’re going to continue to do it.”
James responded to Saban’s rebuttal following the Cavaliers’ 112-106 win over the Raptors on Tuesday night.
“I mean, I think you guys know Nick Saban more than me from a media perspective,” he said. “You guys know Nick Saban more than I do, so that’s exactly what I would think he would say. I built UNINTERRUPTED for a reason and for us athletes to have a platform to be able to speak about whatever we want to talk about. I respect him as a coach, but I’ll be damned if I’ll allow someone to use our platform or try to do the same thing we’re doing and just think it’s OK.
LeBron is way off on this one.
Flip the page for video of him talking about it.