{"id":137397,"date":"2020-03-02T11:50:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T10:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=137397"},"modified":"2020-03-02T12:10:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T11:10:13","slug":"lebron-on-people-that-will-critique-his-decision-to-embrace-tell-them-to-kiss-my-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lebron-on-people-that-will-critique-his-decision-to-embrace-tell-them-to-kiss-my-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron on people that will critique his decision to embrace Zion: Tell them to kiss my ass&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James and Zion Williamson <a href=\"\/?p=137356\">dueled<\/a> in New Orleans in Lakers&#8217; win over the Pelicans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/28819469\/lebron-james-lauds-zion-williamson-lakers-push-pelicans\">Per ESPN<\/a>, After it was all over, James and Williamson met for an embrace at half court, with the 35-year-old in his 17th season passing on some words of encouragement for the 19-year-old taking the NBA by storm in his rookie season.<\/p>\n<p>After sharing his message with Williamson, James had another message for anyone who would choose to critique his decision to embrace an up-and-coming competitor that he could very well see again in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anybody that says that, &#8216;LeBron, why would he do that while he&#8217;s playing? It&#8217;s a sign of weakness. &#8230; He&#8217;s buddy-buddy with the guys he&#8217;s going against.&#8217; Tell them to kiss my ass,&#8221; James said to wrap up his postgame locker room session. &#8220;All right? With a smile, too. Appreciate it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron with a simple message to the people who are going to criticize him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[152,3685],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-137397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-lebron-james","tag-zion-williamson-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137397"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=137397"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=137397"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=137397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}