{"id":463788,"date":"2025-10-10T08:58:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=463788"},"modified":"2025-10-10T08:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:58:41","slug":"espn-reporter-matt-barrie-joked-about-lebron-james-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/espn-reporter-matt-barrie-joked-about-lebron-james-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN reporter Matt Barrie joked about LeBron James\u2019 injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"168\">ESPN reporter Matt Barrie joked about LeBron James\u2019 injury. The Lakers star is currently dealing with a sciatica issue that is expected to sideline him for 3\u20134 weeks.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"170\" data-end=\"271\">Barrie made light of the situation, also referencing LeBron\u2019s much-discussed \u201cThe Second Decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"273\" data-end=\"348\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Here\u2019s the ironic remark made by the reporter and reported by Legion Hoops: &#8220;I have an idea, maybe he can rub some Hennessy on it and everything will be fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ESPN reporter Matt Barrie on LeBron&#8217;s injury:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have an idea, maybe he can rub some Hennessy on it and everything will be fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ohnohedidnt24?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ohnohedidnt24<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fullcourtpass?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Fullcourtpass<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0bDUWty7FL\">pic.twitter.com\/0bDUWty7FL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LegionHoops\/status\/1976402043561709895?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN reporter Matt Barrie joked about LeBron James\u2019 injury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":453184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-463788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/lebron-james-2.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463788","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\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463788"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=463788"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=463788"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=463788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}