Lebron James goes viral for rejecting a kid for a photo... was he being a jerk?

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Lebron James goes viral for rejecting a kid for a photo... was he being mean for his response to the young fan? Leroy defends his fellow Athlete while JFig tries to show some sympathy towards the child.

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00:00Did anybody see LeBum being a jerk to some kids?

00:04I loved that.

00:05I did see that.

00:06He was getting off his car.

00:09You know why I just find that amazing?

00:13Because everybody thinks that because you play, that you don't have your own time, right?

00:22That he can never be annoyed or he can never, no, no, no, no, no.

00:26Make us a bicycle clown, right?

00:29That kid was probably bowing him hours beforehand.

00:31That ain't even rude for the French.

00:33I'm just saying, like, wow, like that's who you...

00:38Being a jerk to some kids by saying no, that's being a jerk.

00:43I don't give a rat's ass who they were.

00:46So the kid asked, can I have a picture, and he like stepped back and put his hand up,

00:52and I think he said something along the lines of, don't do that.

00:56And then walked away.

00:57Like, don't take a picture.

00:58No, I think the kid, because the kid ran up on him on a...

01:03Getting out of the car.

01:04Right.

01:05Not really.

01:06He wasn't running up.

01:07He was already there.

01:08I saw the kid sidle up like LeBron was walking up.

01:10The kid like runs up to him with the phone like this.

01:13Not that intensely.

01:14I don't think it was that exaggerated.

01:18I'm just saying, like, I get it, but to be upset because somebody won't let you do

01:27what you want to do is not being a jerk.

01:33The kid walks up with a camera.

01:35Can I get a picture?

01:36You know he has the option of saying no.

01:39He doesn't have to say yes because he's a kid.

01:43Don't get caught up in that nonsense.

01:45Should ask somebody who didn't play on the team, like Tatum.

01:48Tatum's got time.

01:50Have you ever rejected a fan photo?

01:52Yes.

01:53Sure.

01:54If I got something to do or I'm in a restaurant or whatever, yes.

01:58I don't feel bad about it.

01:59I do enough of them, right?

02:02I'm very nice, but if I don't want, if I'm not feeling it at that moment, deal with it.

02:09Well, he was feeling it because two seconds later, he was dancing.

02:14So what?

02:15Yeah, but he was dancing.

02:16He was dancing, going into the restaurant.

02:17Like he was going somewhere.

02:18Yeah.

02:19Two seconds later.

02:20Okay.

02:21If he takes one picture, then it's like he's got to take a hundred pictures.

02:26It is a fine line of like, you have to be a jerk to one person to take a picture.

02:31But that's what I'm saying.

02:32It's only one picture.

02:33No, it's not.

02:34If I play that video.

02:35No, it's not.

02:36That's not the Olympics, right?

02:37Like, I won't get flags.

02:38No, that's not Olympic footage.

02:39I think, I don't know if there's cursing in there or not.

02:41No, I mean, I muted it either way, but you know, he's getting out of the car.

02:45Look at all the people around though.

02:46It's not just.

02:47Savannah was there too, like right in front of him.

02:52Just a simple little, you know.

02:53It's really not that bad of an interaction.

02:56Like he told the kid, no, it's not like he's like, he said, stop, like, don't like, you

03:00know what?

03:01LeBron, please.

03:02Like, you take.

03:03The picture.

03:04Wait, wait, Jfig, let me ask you a question.

03:09If somebody just walked up to you and put a camera in your face and say, take and start

03:13taking.

03:14Do you really think that camera was up on his face?

03:17But I'm just saying he.

03:18That kid was hypothesized.

03:19Obviously, obviously it wasn't up in his face.

03:21The kid's half his face.

03:22Exactly.

03:23Right.

03:24Exactly.

03:25Watch him approach with a camera.

03:26Watch him approach with a camera.

03:27And he said, don't do that.

03:28See?

03:29Yeah.

03:30See, I saw a different angle and the angle was way different than this.

03:38But like, does he not have that option of saying no?

03:40Or is there a certain way he has to say no?

03:42I'm not saying he doesn't have an option.

03:44I'm just saying like the whole hand thing is a little aggressive.

03:48That's probably what everyone was talking about.

03:49They're referring to the hand.

03:51The kid should have gone.

03:52Here's what you do.

03:53What you do is as LeBron's getting out of the car, you're at the distance, say LeBron

03:57selfie.

03:58Yeah.

03:59Just do the selfie.

04:00LeBron walks into the selfie.

04:01He does it.

04:02That's the smart way.

04:03I've seen these kids.

04:04They do it.

04:05Like when the guy's coming down the tunnel.

04:06Yeah.

04:07So here's what you do, Leroy.

04:08You go down the tunnel.

04:09You go, Steph, Steph.

04:10And that's how you do it.

04:11That's the way to do it.

04:12These kids are smart these days.

04:13This kid.

04:14Yeah.

04:15That's it.

04:16Too close.

04:17You don't walk up on people like that.

04:18Yeah.

04:19And then, oh, so he's been.

04:20That is also.

04:21I, I, the thing that I have a problem with is because somebody doesn't appease, you doesn't

04:29make him a jackass.

04:30Right.

04:31Right.

04:32It makes you seem like a jackass that he was supposed to do it because it's you.

04:37So I have a different view of that.

04:40You understand what I'm saying?

04:42Like he's not required to, you know, entertain you.

04:46It sounds as the kid there took a charge.

04:49I'll tell you what, though, man, that you have a celly with the dunk on LeBron.

04:56You think that guy's going to get like a canvas painted like the Sistine Chapel in his house

05:00of that?

05:01That's one of the worst he's ever taken.

05:03Right.

05:04But that was it.

05:05That was a poster, dude.

05:06Oh, my God.

05:07Whoa.

05:08I've I've I've told people like, you know, I've told the story after every game in Minnesota,

05:16I'd sign 25 autographs.

05:17I don't care if it's raining, snowing, whatever.

05:19I have the same cop that walk.

05:21You know, you have a cop walk you to the car.

05:23Cop will walk me to the car.

05:24I say, just let me know when it gets 25, dude.

05:26I'm not thinking about it.

05:27I appreciate it.

05:28Right.

05:29Boom, boom, boom.

05:30Hey, 25.

05:31Each home game, I would sign in a different spot.

05:35Right.

05:36So I wouldn't so the people wouldn't get in one spot.

05:39Got to 25 one time guy goes, come on for the kids.

05:42I'm like, hey, man, I'm done.

05:44Right.

05:45He says, we pay your salary.

05:46I say, really?

05:48So I stopped.

05:49I walked back.

05:50I say, how much you pay for your ticket at a time was like thirty five, forty bucks.

05:55Right.

05:56I took 40 bucks out of my pocket and threw it at him.

05:58Say, don't come back.

05:59Like, no, don't play me like that.

06:02I am not your entertainment.

06:03Eight hundred dollars.

06:04I mean, I mean, it was eight hundred dollars.

06:05You know what I mean?

06:06But for some reason, for some reason, when people don't get their way, then they start

06:13commenting on the way they get and get their way.

06:17Not that they didn't get their way when the biggest issue is he didn't get the picture

06:20with LeBron.

06:21It definitely.

06:22So we can all say what we want about it.

06:24It always it always sucks because it's like, yeah, I'm sure LeBron wants to be nice to

06:28every kid that he interacts with.

06:29You know, like we've heard a thousand stories around the market about I had a bad interaction

06:34with Marino.

06:35I had a bad interaction with Alonzo Mourning.

06:37Like right.

06:38Happens sometimes you guys catch him at the wrong moment.

06:40You know, I don't know what to tell you.

06:41Right.

06:43But that's my that's my point.

06:44Like, like, wow.

06:46When is enough enough?

06:48That's what I would ask.

06:49So if he did that and 20 other kids would have came up.

06:52When is enough enough?

06:53I saw.

06:54When can he stay?

06:55When can he say no?

06:56It was at the Hard Rock when the guy made you sign 40 posters.

06:57Oh, my God.

06:58Right.

06:59That was in the middle of the middle of the Hard Rock.

07:04So you did 40 and not 25?

07:06No, it felt like it felt like I didn't know.

07:09First you said, can you sign this?

07:10And then it was just a conveyor belt of this and this and this crazy.

07:17So, yeah, it was it was it was it was it was it was like, geez, it was like it was a lot.

07:26You were very you were very pleased because it was it was because I was getting ready

07:30to get really pissed off.

07:32And I just didn't want to like when you and like, see, if I were to get pissed off at

07:38this guy and the wrong person came over there and we're at the Hard Rock, nobody understands

07:45that.

07:46Right.

07:47Nobody gets it.

07:48They would always say, oh, well, you could have just stayed calm or you just could have.

07:51No, it doesn't work.

07:53You can't be like that with people, because like I said, if I would have said sign one.

07:57Right.

07:58And I said, OK, no more.

07:59One more.

08:00Come on.

08:01One more.

08:02Right.

08:03It doesn't stop until you're me.

08:04That's the part that people don't understand.

08:07So if he doesn't say no to the first kid and 30 kids or 20 kids or 15 kids come over.

08:14Right.

08:15And now he's stuck in a worse situation.

08:19Nobody understands that part of it.

08:21So, yeah, don't just because somebody don't sign your autograph or take a picture of you

08:26doesn't mean he's a.

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