{"id":442819,"date":"2021-04-22T16:05:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T20:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=442819"},"modified":"2021-04-22T16:06:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T20:06:04","slug":"nba-sponsors-remain-mum-amid-lebron-james-controversy-over-youre-next-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nba-sponsors-remain-mum-amid-lebron-james-controversy-over-youre-next-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA, Sponsors Remain Mum Amid LeBron James Controversy Over \u2018You\u2019re Next\u2019 Tweet"},"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%2Fnba-sponsors-remain-mum-amid-lebron-james-controversy-over-youre-next-tweet%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=442819&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\/04\/fb_image-3317.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Star NBA player LeBron James has ignited another controversy and, again, the National Basketball Association and his mega-sponsors are staying silent amid the hubbub.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time NBA champion has been blasted for a Twitter post to his 50 million followers in which he included an image of one of the Columbus, Ohio, police officers involved in the shooting death of 16-year-old Ma\u2019Khia Bryant. \u00a0James\u2019 caption read: \u201cYOU\u2019RE NEXT #ACCOUNTABILITY.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James has since deleted the post.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News reported that it had made numerous attempts to get comment from the NBA, but so far nothing. James\u2019 team, the Los Angeles Lakers, also didn\u2019t respond for requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>But the Lakers did comment Tuesday following former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin\u2019s conviction for murder in the George Floyd case, saying they were \u201cencouraged\u201d by the verdict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe grieve for George Floyd\u2019s life specifically, and the multiple racial injustices that Black people face every day in this country,\u201d the Lakers\u2019 statement read. \u201cWe will continue to use our voice to demand that our nation live up to the promise of liberty, equality, and\u00a0 justice for all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James\u2019 sponsors also have said nothing. \u201cFox News also made attempts to reach out for comment regarding the anti-cop tweet to some of James\u2019 sponsors, including Nike, Pepsi, General Motors, Beats Electronics and Walmart, but none have answered as of Thursday morning,\u201d Fox reported.<\/p>\n<p>James later explained that he sent the \u201cyou\u2019re next\u201d tweet out\u00a0 of \u201cANGER.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cANGER does any of us any good and that includes myself!\u201d he tweeted (presumably he meant to say \u201canger does not do any of us any good\u201d).\u00a0 \u201cGathering all the facts and educating does though! My anger still is here for what happened that lil girl. My sympathy for her family and may justice prevail!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.5035460992908\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ANGER does any of us any good and that includes myself! Gathering all the facts and educating does though! My anger still is here for what happened that lil girl. My sympathy for her family and may justice prevail! \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffe\u270a\ud83c\udffe\ud83e\udd0e\ud83d\udc51<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LeBron James (@KingJames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingJames\/status\/1385011051087810561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He later added, \u201cI\u2019m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police. I took the tweet down because its being used to create more hate -This isn\u2019t about one officer.\u00a0 it\u2019s about the entire system and they always use our words to create more racism. I am so desperate for more ACCOUNTABILITY.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.578313253012\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police.\u00a0I took the tweet down because its being used to create more hate -This isn\u2019t about one officer.\u00a0\u00a0it\u2019s about the entire system and they always use our words to create more racism. I am so desperate for more ACCOUNTABILITY<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LeBron James (@KingJames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingJames\/status\/1385013333007343619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>James was ripped on social media for his \u201cyou\u2019re next\u201d tweet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the officer hadn\u2019t shot the girl with the knife, the other girl would have died. You\u2019re making it a little to[o] obvious that you don\u2019t care about black on black crime because it doesn\u2019t fit your narrative,\u201d wrote one person on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.400778210117\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If the officer hadn\u2019t shot the girl with the knife, the other girl would have died. You\u2019re making it a little to obvious that you don\u2019t care about black on black crime because it doesn\u2019t fit your narrative.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalebJHull\/status\/1385021679206866945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSerious questions,\u201d wrote another person. \u201cWhy don\u2019t you care about the life of the Black woman wearing pink in this phot whom Ma\u2019Khia Bryant was attempting to stab when she was shot by the officer? Do you think that police officers SHOULDN\u2019T stop stabbings that happen right in front of them?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.620689655172\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Serious questions.<\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t you care about the life of the Black woman wearing pink in this phot whom Ma\u2019Khia Bryant was attempting to stab when she was shot by the officer? <\/p>\n<p>Do you think that police officers SHOULDN&#8217;T stop stabbings that happen right in front of them? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mg5WlBiX1E\">pic.twitter.com\/mg5WlBiX1E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewCFollett\/status\/1385018951256653824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhere is your anger that she was attempting to stab multiple other girls. Where\u2019s your anger at her deadbeat mother and no-show baby daddy who had her in a foster home? Where\u2019s you anger at loud mouth rich people like yourself that do nothing to clean up or mentor the inner city?\u201d wrote another.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.585798816568\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Where is your anger that she was attempting to stab multiple other girls. Where\u2019s your anger at her deadbeat mother and no-show baby daddy who had her in a foster home? Where\u2019s you anger at loud mouth rich people like yourself that do nothing to clean up or mentor the inner city?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan T Gilliam (@JGilliam_SEAL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JGilliam_SEAL\/status\/1385061050006097920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star NBA player LeBron James has ignited another controversy and, again, the National Basketball Association and his mega-sponsors are staying silent amid the hubbub.The four-time NBA champion has been blasted &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276493,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3317.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"NBA, Sponsors Remain Mum Amid LeBron James Controversy Over \u2018You\u2019re Next\u2019 Tweet","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3317.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"NBA, Sponsors Remain Mum Amid LeBron James Controversy Over \u2018You\u2019re Next\u2019 Tweet","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442819","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=442819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}