This is really a post about LeBron James. It is also a commentary on how strange our society has become. LeBron James has a history of cramping. This is something that became widely known following Game 1 of the NBA Finals. LeBron James had to leave the game because he cramped up. He tried to come back, to no avail.
Immediately following the game, questions were flying around about his toughness. How could he not play through a cramp when all sorts of athletes had played through X, Y, and Z much worse injuries. Then, as if that isn't bad enough, people are posting videos "LeBronning" which is apparently limping around with a cramped leg. Really original... I hope you paid some fake royalties to the people who invented Tebowing you lame hacks.
It has become really easy for idiots to go on Twitter and talk a whole bunch of crap about famous people. I was as pissed off as anybody about "The Decision" and I think LeBron got a pretty fair dose of blowback on that and deserved a lot of it. He asked for that. That was a long time ago. LeBron James has grown up quite a bit. He is an ambassador for the game of basketball and is 2 parts Magic Johnson, 1 part Michael Jordan in a game dominated by players that don't even know who to pass the ball correctly. I actually feel bad for the guy.
The thing that is even more bewildering is that these idiots on Twitter/YouTube/other social media outlets don't seem to have ever had a cramp. Did they ever play outside? Maybe somebody should point out that that horrible pain in their thumb playing video games is a cramp and that if that kind of pain shuts down your video game session, it makes sense that it would shut down an athlete. I wish severe leg cramps on ever single one of the morons who criticized James' toughness the other day. Stop the stupidity.
Yeah, cramps suck. I think a lot of times people just like to make fun of athletes in a situation like this. It's a good way to get cheap shots in and make jokes.
ReplyDeleteNobody is supposed to feel bad for LeBron. It's not how it is supposed to be. He chose to play on a team full of All-Stars unlike Bird and Magic, who only played with Kareem, Worthy, Cooper, Parish, McHale, Ainge, and Bill Walton. Those guys all sucked.
And I think people seize on cramps especially because they SEEM so trivial and relatively minor; they're not catastrophic, they can go away quickly, etc., and so they're easy for normal guys to minimize--if you can play today you should have been able to play yesterday, and if that guy could play with a fractured bone in his foot then you should be able to play with mere cramps. They dismiss how much cramps can mess with your movement, coordination, and ability to perform.
ReplyDeleteSame with concussions. Remember when those were trivial? Now theres a whole generation with major cognitive problems because of them
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