 nobody nobody defends LeBron James more than me they might you love the condor love I love the condor half for years I think he's an exemplary person I think he lives his life the right way for a star of that nature and magnitude but he did something over the weekend that just weeks of stupidity so he was asked after the the Lakers beat the box and by the way LeBron might have moved ahead of Antata Koopa over the weekend for the MVP they beat the Bucks and the Clippers 1-2 and LeBron was great in both games anyway I digress so after the game against the Bucks you know it's brought up to him that there's a chance there there's a talk that some NBA games might actually be played in empty arenas if the spread of the coronavirus continues and LeBron kind of laughed and said well I'm not playing that what well I play for the fans and if there's nobody in the crowd I'm not gonna play really LeBron really you're not gonna play how about the millions of people I'll be watching on television I mean what a what a ridiculous statement so ill-informed because let me just give you a little bit of a clue LeBron it might happen it might happen Rob Manfred the Commissioner of Baseball is having a conference call with all 30 owners today they're talking about eventualities they're hoping that it doesn't happen but everybody has to plan for it and the first stepped on you texted me about it over the weekend the NHL is not allowing people into into their locker rooms and sooner or later there's gonna keep winnowing people winnowing people winnowing people so that they're not large groups of people congregate it and for LeBron to say that it's just such a bad message because what in fact happens if this virus continues to spread and they do have quarantines and there's no people in Madison Square Garden or Staple Center what's he gonna do not play can we you can we can I play this real quick the actual words from LeBron here yeah games without the fans I ain't playing that's why I play for my teammates play for the fans that's what it's all about so I show up to a really no fans in there I ain't playing so they could do what they want to do see ridiculous to me like okay Gandhi you know I think he gets sometimes a little self-absorbed in like whatever I say is just pure gospel I understand the sentiment you play for the fans but just think for a second if you're playing for the fans then you have to play with the arenas empty because all those fans will be watching on television some of them unfortunately are gonna be quarantined in their house not allowed to leave wanting to watch you play so if you really want to play for the fans you have to play in those games with the arena empty so I know he wanted to make this big grandstanding moment but if he thought for just 30 seconds he'd realize how ridiculous what he said was he's still playing for the fans even if the building's full the large majority of his fans watch or listen or how many more people actually watch that are in the arena 20,000 people in which probably millions in LA is probably down to like 14 that maybe actually care and the other people just want to be seen you know but how many people care about the Lakers not just in LA but all around the world that watch or consume in other ways that will be tremendously disappointed if he doesn't play in the games and this is maybe also doesn't realize the reality that we may be facing either they'll come down with the edict that no fans are allowed or there's gonna be a suggestion from government to not conjugate in places where there's more than maybe a thousand people and even if they sell gay congregate you can't definitely can't conjugate no congregate excuse me thank you for correcting me with more than a few hundred or a thousand people that even if they sell tickets there may not be anybody there we've already seen attendance affected by this boxed himself in verbally because there's a chance that this could happen so he's not going to play I think he'll just go back on it I think we'll just easily and quickly go back on it I think you're making a little too big of a deal of it we did say I mean he did say it and he was what you heard he was kind of he was he wasn't I did you see the video too you just heard he was dead serious I'm not saying serious I'm not saying he's not serious but I think as he gets presented with more real information that this is a real thing not just something he's being asked after a game I think he'll reconsider it what's he gonna do really miss games leave his team out to dry and the fans at home in Los Angeles and all over the world that the most popular team in the game well I would hope that he reconsidered but boy he's gonna he's gonna like a fool that's the part I disagree with you on why I don't they look like a fool what is he so in his own little bubble that he doesn't realize what's happening in the world now that's it that that take now that take I hear you on like he's obviously a little out of touch to not understand that this could be reality that part I hear you on but I don't think you'll don't you think you'll look like that stupid if he's just like hey you know what well I talked it over that himself right I didn't really quite understand the magnitude this is what we're gonna have to do when he can't get out of it I mean anybody can apologize and be forgiven I mean he's a good guy so I guess if he depends on the statement that he makes but if he stands by this and doesn't play he's gonna look really bad I think because you say you're playing for the fans the majority of the fans are outside of the building and this is becoming more and more of reality it changes by the day so I think that's probably what he's gonna focus on is listen I was asked about it I've been living in my basketball bubble but I've doing some homework talking to some people I didn't think it was as much a reality when I was asked the question as it is so after after pontificating about it you know or whatever that'll be a different word and I think you'll get up from it I will tell you of course I'll get up from it but it just it was a silly thing for him to say with such you know surety oh I'm not playing I just play for the fan oh just a 20,000 just those 20,000 those are the only ones you play not the millions that watch on TV I think he's guilty of in that moment thinking I'm gonna make this grand gesture to show how much I care about the fans and not realizing that no no it was more of a gesture saying that you don't I don't want to say misspoke but I think he just so much wants to kind of jump in front and be out front of things and be bold with his statements and his opinions that he just didn't take the moment because the setup was the setup was do you care would you mind not having fans there it's you know what Don it's a tough thing to I could see how you could answer the wrong way and get lit up going the other way so he decided to go with no the fans are everything you know and I think he did back himself into a corner because now it maybe you're right maybe he was just thinking too much about the political ramifications of whatever he said right instead of answering as a human who's just like play in front of no fans hmm well I guess it wouldn't be ideal you know I I just think he overthought it I'm sure it would be very difficult to play um without fans in the stands you know I mean they do play off emotion I think all athletes oh there's no so all of a sudden you're playing in front of a dead empty arena that's that's not optimum but neither is the coronavirus