{"id":1197538,"date":"2022-01-07T15:50:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1197538"},"modified":"2022-01-07T15:50:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T20:50:18","slug":"lebron-james-continues-push-to-get-wizards-broadcaster-fired-over-insensitive-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lebron-james-continues-push-to-get-wizards-broadcaster-fired-over-insensitive-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebron James Continues Push to Get Wizards Broadcaster Fired Over &#039;Insensitive&#039; Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flebron-james-continues-push-to-get-wizards-broadcaster-fired-over-insensitive-comment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1197538&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Lebron-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">LeBron James is keeping the pressure on to have Washington Wizards announcer Glenn Consor fired over Monday night\u2019s gaffe when he unknowingly made a shooting analogy involving Rockets player Kevin Porter Jr\u2019s father, who once shot and killed a girl in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>James let his feelings known about Consor\u2019s unfortunate color commentary after the announcer made to comment on Porter\u2019s winning basket in the final moments of the Rockets-Wizards game on Monday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to give credit,\u201d Consor said. \u201cKevin Porter Jr., like his dad, pulled that trigger right at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comment, though, struck a sour chord because Kevin Porter\u2019s father served time for shooting and killing a 14-year-old girl in 1993. The elder Porter was later shot and killed himself in a 2004 bar fight.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, Consor got the wrong Kevin Porter. The Wizards\u2019 Kevin Porter Jr\u2019s felon father was not an NBA player. There was a Kevin Porter who played for Washington, but he is not the current player\u2019s father.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>James tweeted about Consor\u2019s comment on Thursday, calling Consor \u201cinsensitive\u201d and saying there is \u201cno place in our beautiful game\u201d for him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oh he thought this was cool huh!!?? Nah we ain\u2019t going for this! Sorry but this ain\u2019t going to fly! How insensitive can you be to say something like this. Beat it man! I pray for you but there\u2019s no place in our beautiful game for you! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UgVOBUOsPK\">https:\/\/t.co\/UgVOBUOsPK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LeBron James (@KingJames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingJames\/status\/1479093878560985090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, Consor quickly apologized for the misfired color commentary:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I want to sincerely apologize to Kevin Porter Jr and clarify last night\u2019s call. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UweFhFnkbt\">pic.twitter.com\/UweFhFnkbt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Consor (@glennconsor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/glennconsor\/status\/1479117620427177984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But as Friday dawned, it seems the apology is not enough for James.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI stand by my tweet. I stand by everything I said. So, let\u2019s just say, he thought that was the case. We get scouting reports on players, and I know you guys from the media all get memos and stuff for players and stuff before the game, right?\u201d the NBA star <a href=\"https:\/\/lakersdaily.com\/lebron-james-doubles-down-on-criticism-of-wizards-analyst-insinuates-he-lied-to-cover-himself-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, via Lakers Daily.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LeBron explaining his tweet criticizing the Wizards announcer for comments about Kevin Porter Jr and his dad (only 1:30+ mins worth from his presser, he spoke for much longer on the subject): <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o0J7lBmEOF\">pic.twitter.com\/o0J7lBmEOF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Ward (@RyanWardLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanWardLA\/status\/1479210081401061380?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cY\u2019all get like packets of stuff when y\u2019all come to the game and what\u2019s going on and game play,\u201d James continued. \u201cAnd I believe that \u2013 I\u2019m not a play-by-play person, analyst \u2013 but I believe that they do they due diligence as well when they get their reports on teams that they\u2019re about to play as well as their own team, right?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I was actually watching the game live last night when I heard, and I waited. I didn\u2019t do it right away as you see with my tweet, I was watching the game. So, if that\u2019s the case, if I am a play-by-play announcer, right, and I\u2019m covering a team \u2013 my local team \u2013 in his case he\u2019s covering the Wizards. So he remembers the Kevin Porter who used to play for the [Washington] Bullets, correct?\u201d He said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first thing I would have done, I would have said, \u2018Kevin Porter Jr. is coming into town, let me see if that\u2019s his son.\u2019 I would\u2019ve did that due diligence way before, and I think everyone on this call would have did the same thing,\u201d James added.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James is keeping the pressure on to have Washington Wizards announcer Glenn Consor fired over Monday night\u2019s gaffe when he unknowingly made a shooting analogy involving Rockets player Kevin &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}