{"id":1715314,"date":"2022-10-28T16:33:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T20:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1715314"},"modified":"2022-10-28T16:33:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T20:33:18","slug":"lebron-james-says-he-stopped-being-a-cowboys-fan-over-teams-kneeling-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lebron-james-says-he-stopped-being-a-cowboys-fan-over-teams-kneeling-stance\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James Says He Stopped Being A Cowboys Fan Over Team\u2019s Kneeling Stance"},"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\">26<\/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-says-he-stopped-being-a-cowboys-fan-over-teams-kneeling-stance%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=1715314&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--><p>NBA star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/lebron-james\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LeBron James<\/a> said he stopped being a fan of the Dallas Cowboys over what he called the organization\u2019s stance regarding its players kneeling during the national anthem.<\/p>\n<p>During the 37-year-old Lakers\u00a0star\u2019s appearance with his business partner Maverick Carter on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LandonBuford\/status\/1585782157770891264?s=20&#038;t=9KUK8d4CbBwTyZb9j2tWVg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram Live<\/a> Thursday night, James was asked about his notable silence showing his fandom for the Cowboys, reports\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/lebron-james-is-no-longer-a-cowboys-fan-because-of-teams-alleged-stance-on-kneeling-during-national-anthem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Carter told the basketball star that he hadn\u2019t heard James \u201ctalk s*** about the Cowboys in a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou still a Cowboys fan?\u201d Carter asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNah man, I had to sit out on the Cowboys, man. It just a lot of things that [were] going on when guys were kneeling and guys were having freedom of speech,\u201d James said. \u201cAnd wanted to do it in a very peaceful manner. You know, a lot of people in the front office and a lot of people that ran the organization was like, \u2018If you do that around here, you won\u2019t ever play for this franchise again.\u2019 And I just didn\u2019t think that was appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LeBron James on why he\u2019s not <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dallascowboys?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dallascowboys<\/a> fan anymore:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNah man I had to sit put on the Cowboys man. It just a things that were going on when guys were kneeling\u2026 [The] organization were like if do that around here you won\u2019t play for this franchise again.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DallasCowboys?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DallasCowboys<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gYusCcs8KY\">pic.twitter.com\/gYusCcs8KY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Landon Buford (@LandonBuford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LandonBuford\/status\/1585782157770891264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like a lot of the players on the team still,\u201d he added, before noting that he had to \u201cturn it in,\u201d revealing which team he now favors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m all in on the [Cleveland] Browns,\u201d James continued, throwing his support behind the team that currently stands at 2-5 for the season.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2017 season, the Cowboys players did not join with other professional sports teams at the time who kneeled before the anthem. The owner of the team, Jerry Jones, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cowboys-owner-players-no-more-dissing-flaganthem-robert-kraychik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made it known<\/a> that kneeling wasn\u2019t going to be supported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is anything disrespecting the flag, then we will not play,\u201d Jones said at the time. \u201cPeriod. We\u2019re going to respect the flag and I\u2019m going to create the perception of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know this, we cannot \u2026 in the NFL in any way give the implication that we tolerate disrespecting the flag,\u201d he added. \u201cWe know that there is a serious debate in this country about those issues, but there is no question in my mind that the National Football League and the Dallas Cowboys are going to stand up for the flag. So we\u2019re clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At one point on the show, James made an announcement that his show \u201cThe Shop\u201d was going to be part of the November 17 Thursday Night Football broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA star LeBron James said he stopped being a fan of the Dallas Cowboys over what he called the organization\u2019s stance regarding its players kneeling during the national anthem. During the 37-year-old Lakers\u00a0star\u2019s appearance with his business partner Maverick Carter on Instagram Live Thursday night, James was asked about his notable silence showing his fandom &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1417892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715314","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1417892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}