Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James points at a team mate during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Portland Trail Blazers Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, in Los Angeles.
The AC Milan striker and former LA Galaxy star criticized James and other socially conscious athletes Thursday in an interview with Discovery Plus. Ibrahimovic called it “a mistake” for James and other athletes to get involved in political causes, saying they should “just do what you do best, because it doesn’t look good.”
“I preach about my people and I preach about equality, social injustice, racism, systematic voter suppression, things that go on in our community,” James added. “I know what’s going on still, because I have a group of 300-plus kids at my school that’s going through the same thing, and they need a voice, and I’m their voice. I’ll use my platform to continue to shed light on everything that’s going on around this country and around the world.
Indeed, Ibrahimovic told Canal Plus that “undercover racism” caused the Swedish media and public to treat him with less respect and reverence: “This exists, I am 100% sure, because I am not Andersson or Svensson. If I would be that, trust me, they would defend me even if I would rob a bank.”James and Ibrahimovic overlapped in Los Angeles for about 16 months from the summer of 2018 until November 2019, when Ibrahimovic went back to Europe.
Lebron says he will never shut up about things that are wrong. Yet he’s not saying a damn thing about what’s going on in China.
Some say the best place to be a black mas is in North America. How is the black man doing in South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe, or... They cannot grow food to feed themselves. SJW liquidate & Move to Africa support them. feed, house cloth educate them
I never shut up unless it is my Master China!!! China can do whatever it wants!!! I says nothing!!! Or I says ' not well educated '
Lebron goes after those that go after China (like Donald Trump). Where does Nike produce their products for pennies on the dollar? Yes, China. Follow the money folks. Follow the money.
“I would never shut up about things that are wrong — unless it’s genocide in China, I won’t talk about that because those guys pay me.” FIFY
LeBron does a lot of good for underprivileged communities, but his stance on HK was not a good look. If you are fighting for justice, you need to be consistent in those beliefs. It can't just be justice for one group and not for another, especially when money is thrown around.
100% agreed with LeBron. Muhammad Ali became Muhammad Ali because his political activism. There are more important things in life than these fucking basketball and soccer matches which yield nothing but joy/heartache for a few moments.
Except China
Zlatan is right though...
Lmaaooo
LeCuck James should learn to read first.
Zlatan has ties to an actual genocide that killed untold thousands. LeBron who thinks himself a king has been pampered since he was a teenager. Sorry but Zlatan has the upper hand on this one. LeBron will suck up to the Chinese any time he gets because he gets paid.
Ibrahimivic is right, if you're going to use your popularity to indulge in politics, cherry picking your agenda doesn't provide you with much credibility.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Has JLin7 said anything about Bron having his back? They called this man coronavirus on an NBA Court because he is Chinese.
The hubris of this guy. The Uighur children dying in Chinese concentration camps would like a word.
Except for China and suppression of the people of Hongkong. Always quiet about that because it affects the NBA bottom line.
Of course *throws protestor off roof' I'm an activist. *sterilizes woman* why *genocides uighyrs* do you ask? Black lives matter, not Muslim lives matter.
Zlatan goes bang 👍👍👍
Does King James know that China is part of the “world” that he is so dedicated to speaking out about all the injustices taking place? Seems he criticized a GM in the NBA that dared to say something about the Chinese government and how they treat their citizens. Hypocrite.
Comical. Hypocrite.
Like it or not. Lebron isn't famous or wealthy because of his political beliefs or social agenda. If he couldn't dribble or shoot he would be another poor kid from Ohio.
Tell that to the people in China’s concentration camps. Lmao
Millionares crying about injustice. The irony of it all.
I'll take China for $100
Coward
Why is it that plumbers, machinists, farmers, insurance salesmen, or other people with with regular jobs get to have opinions and LeBron shouldn't?
Lmfaoooo zlatan ain’t perfect but at least he doesn’t bend over like lebron does
CHINA
KingJames unless it's about your precious CCP.
He can say what he wants, the people who care what he says are the problem.
Of course he did lmao
Except China
Oh, but he does shut up about some things. He's a puppet and he knows when he needs to shut up.
It’s okay to be white. You can thank white people for most inventions.
China
Until LeBron denounces the CCP, I wont take him seriously on any political topic.
Can he shit up about things that aren't real, like police shootings of blacks? According to a recent poll, the MSM is doing a great job deceiving every American. Even conservatives think there are 10 times the number of black people shot than truly are each year. Nation of fools.
Damn he sure shut his ass up about what was going on in China huh? Who's the real hypocrite Lebron?
Clown 🤡
Lebron hasn’t said one word about the situation in China.
Never heard a word from him about China's human rights abuses while he was playing games in that country.
Trash human being
KingJames who listens to an ignorant high school dropout anyway? Your political opinion is near the bottom of anyones list.
Never forget Zlav...whatever, Is just 1 or 2 grades short of full nazi...maybe Is Nazi 200%
In all things, before you speak, gain wisdom, so you know what you say is truthful. If all you do is repeat a half told lie, then you're part of the problem.
KingJames any comments about the Uyghur in concentration camps in China since you claim that you would never shut up about things that are wrong? Or are you just a hypocrite who is afraid to upset your Chinese Communist overlords?
Guess KingJames doesn’t consider a genocide on Uighur Muslims wrong then, bc he shut the fuck up about that in about half a second.
Then why are you silent on China
Sure have shut up about China...🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
Every Fortune 500 company kisses China ass, many of whom employ the very same people commenting under this thread that “Lebron LoVeS ChInA” China is literally the only thing people can bring up, if that didn’t happen what else would they have to say?.....
Shut up and dribble, Kissinger....
Except the genocide taking place in China, right KingJames?
'never' must he one of them fancy college words.
Who cares what he thinks
I'm anxiously awaiting KingJames to weigh in on this topic he's had years to study since first being asked.
I don't remember him saying a thing when non black civilians get murdered by cops. almost like it's just for clout.
Who? I had to Google him...ohhh the white guy. 🙄🤨
UighurGenocide
STFU
Please ask him about honk kong and china again. It shouldn’t be this easy to cover ones greed.
I don’t give one flying flip that LeBron James is good at basketball nor do I value a thing he says about anything. He is insignificant even if he likes to call himself a king
But he never says anything about Uyghurs.
Now do China - you won’t
Hypocrite KingJames is silent on China. I wonder why?
The issue is that Lebrun thinks that is what politics are about. He is about tearing down. Not building up. He is a typical liberal extremist. He does not care about helping people. Only about what he thinks is wrong.
LeBron lies ..... he is a tool for the Chinese Communist
All people have the right to their views, and while I think pro athletes should know how they make their $$, LeBron is the exception as his actions are just and he wants to help make a better world for all.
China
Now do China...oh wait.$$$
I thought KingJames said he would NOT play in the NBAAllStar no matter what. I guess he put politics aside and will now play? Politics crybaby
Never?!?! Did we forget China?
Communist James
Exempt when it comes to calling out what China is doing to Muslims, you could give a fat shit.
What a crock. Citizens of HongKong or the Uighurs would like a word on why he so bloody silent to their cause, bit couldn't find a microphone fast enough for just about everything else
“Unless it’s about China and the genocide & human rights violations there because I make a ton of money from China. Other than that I won’t shut up”
KingJames short term memory issue LB?
“I speak from a very educated mind” - LeBron lol That’s cute......he thinks he’s a smart one.
KingJames tell us more about china
“I would never shut up about things that are wrong, only if they are my skin color' Can't wait for these closet racists to get exposed.
Fuck Zlatan, of course he would tell others to not stand up for what’s wrong.
now buy my sweatshop sneakers
L
Lebron being silent on China makes him a hypocrite because it would ruin his brand there. His apparel is made by those that are completely oppressed.
Except when it comes to China then you are silent.
You’re right LeBronJames
That’s a blatant lie. He shut his mouth real quick after he criticized how the CCP is treating the Uighur Muslims. What a POS
'CCP laughs in $ bills'
The biggest difference between LeBron & Zlatan is that LeBron has the smarts to understand what the hell is going on and ability to voice those concerns intelligently. I would modify Zlat’s admonition, dumb people (athlete or not), unwilling to become educated should keep quiet!
LeBron James failed to speak out against China’s treatment of the Uyghurs and actively tried to silence anyone who did
We’ve all been a big disappointment to LeBron.
Tell that to China
Except on Hong Kong
Look who's talking... or doesn't he see his own Hypocrisy LeBronJames China
KingJames Except China you POS
KingJames bows to China and shuts his mouth about the genocide occurring there.
Bullshit
Chibron 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳
Why do we need to know that? Does it even matter if they can speak?
lil bron is an uneducated Chinese stooge.
Unless I personally profit from those things that are wrong.
Black people should stop crying so much
Everybody has the right to be heard regardless of profession or race. Only the ignorant, regardless of race, think otherwise.
This guy profits off slave and exploited labor and he is a social justice icon? GTFOOH
Ummm China!!?!
Listening to HALF WITT Don Junior speak somebody should reel him in, he’s like a bad cartoon character especially with that sloped back forehead advertising his undeveloped frontal lobe Just a 4th grader spouting hateful rhetoric that he believes real Republicans want to hear!
....unless my bosses, the Chinese are doing it, then it’s just fine with me
🇨🇳
That is flat out a lie.
You can criticize athletes for what they say and don’t say. For instance, Zlatan is sorely mistaken and King James would mop the floor with him. Sorry, I mean mop the pitch with him. 🙂
Except when it comes to China!
except in China...
'Unless you are the PRC'
Except for slaves making his products.
We all know Lebron can’t speak about China and their treatment of the Uighurs.. Mesut özil of Arsenal football club in the UK tried and China boycotted the football matches on their tv networks..
Unless you ask him about China
Except he was licking China's boots when it came to discussing the Hong Kong protests 🤡
Googles: things that are wrong
Except for China lmao imagine shilling for literal concentration camps
*Unless it conflicts with my corporate sponsors interests. My people are green.
Yeah sure. China says thanks for your silence. KingJames
Thats right KingJames now go kiss your Chinese overlords butt.
this is Zlatan character isn’t even a US citizen. He has no idea about the racial dynamics in this country. How comical - an uninformed foreigner trying to tell us Americans how to behave. focus on Sweden or Bosnia or Slovenia or wherever the fuck your from. Zlatan espn NBA
Then I eagerly await KingJames’s forthcoming comment about the Uighurs
Have a read then. Especially under 'capitalist hypocrisy'
*except the greatest humans rights violation of our lifetime 🤡🤡🤡
He’s ok with genocide in China tho
Except china. I agree he should just shut up.
KingJames NBA Unless China tells him to...
Yes he will shut up. He has as a matter of fact when it effects his pockets. His morality can be bought, so why is anyone taking this dude seriously?
The media is evil! Who cares! Pitting people against each other! He feels athletes shouldn’t talk about politics. Lebron does- it’s OPINION! Neither wrong. Nobody needs canceled!
He certainly is protective of the CCP and the whole concentration camp thing. But hey, semantics.
Except when it comes about China...
Unless the things that are wrong are in China. Then he will shut up.
Hong Kong?
🇹🇼
Fuck them Ughars.
Lol except when it comes to China. I wonder why that is KingJames
Wow, how brave of lebron 😐 what he meant to say was - “I would never shut up about things that are wrong... unless it results in me getting paid less”
Lol. Such a sellout hack.
Lol
Laughable.... Address china.... Coward
Wheres the commentary regarding what is happening in Nigeria?
Zlatan is from Sweden where the biggest issue the country faces is what to do with their extra renewable energy. Lebron is from a country where people who look like him are treated as less than human.
Did anyone ask LeBron on his opinion about China. He seems to have shut up about them
It's just that they so totally suck at picking which things are 'important'.
I see the morons couldn't hesitate to bring race into this. If you don't like what Zlatan has to say then move along. Lebron continues to make a fool of himself and your defense is that he's black. Lebron gets on his knees for china.
but he does project the lies of BLM . . .
Now do China, KingJames
Yes KingJames is outspoken on America where he is beloved and safe. Yet ask him about China and their atrocities, their prison camps, raping and killing muslims... and well Lebron... you bend the knee and keep quiet since they are paying for your silence!
china
Except China. That you will shut up about 🙄
Like China?
Huh, still waiting for KingJames to comment on the Uighur mass incarceration's inside China where, among other things, they are sterilizing inmates.
The Uyghurs are staring at you, KingJames. Anything to say?
Funny how he shut up about China last October after the Chinese people who were protesting humans rights at nba games were muzzled. 🐸☕️
Remember that LeBron publicly shamed NBA officials who spoke out against China and said they shouldn't speak on the issue...
Unless it’s in China. LeFraud James.
KingJames
Great LeBron, now do China
12 Million Uighurs were not immediately available for comment....
And yet you’ll turn a blind eye to China.
Like how it was wrong for Morley to put his $$ at risk?
“White man tells black man he should stick to sports”. Can white people FINALLY stop telling black people what to do? It’s. Not. Your. Business.
The problem with James’s criticism is that it’s always outward, when there are plenty of problems inward that contribute to the overall problem
Hey LeBron! Can you give me some of that oppression in your bank account? Thanks!
What’s an ac milan striker?
Except China.
KingJames is very similar to many ultra rich, influential people. He does good works, gives voice to important issues, compromises his integrity in line with his business and political interests, and has an oversized ego. Making + or - cartoons out of people is not helpful.
Except when it’s China and standing up for something good would actually cost him money instead of making more but sure
China says “Hi”
“Wrong” is a guy with a shitty spray tan spouting off at the mouth, but not a country currently engaging in a *literal* Holocaust against Muslims, just because they generate billions in revenue for his employers. Sure.
Remember when South Park made fun of Lebron's defense of the CCP treatment of Hong Kong by quoting his words verbatim?
Lebron is wrong so I guess we all need to keep speaking up about that
Unless that injustice is the genocide of certain ethnic minorities in a certain Asian superpower
Except China enslaving Muslims. That’s cool.
You have an opinion not a license on the truth or what is right. Stay in your lane.
Looking forward to his comments on Chinese concentration camps
LOL KingJames
But yet he fails to speak out about all the people working in sweatshops in China making the gear that he makes millions off of. ThatIsOK
Lebron shut about about China. He’s a poser. Follow the money.
One fix his own backyard before fixing others. As much as Trump criticized China, his hateful crap were made there but only LeBron is China's slave. Maybe if he uses his platform to support a coup zlatan would be more supportive.
Sounds like some jealousy to me. Or he doesn’t agree with what he has to say. Either way, Lebron is the wrong guy to go at about this. The man backs up his talk with action off the court. Check his resume.
Lebron is fraud. A very rich fraud.
Never = “Unless my bottom line in our second-biggest market is at stake. Then it’s Muslim concentration camps and forced sterilization as far as the eye can see.”
Did this man just try and talk smack to the lion of the north
It is a privilege to be able to fight for your people (race) and have it be an acceptable position
Let this contradiction be as transparent as possible the level of phony here. His NBA payments come largely from the CCP; Nike's involvements w/CCP concentration camps. Yet any dissent regarding China, he keeps it politically safe or quiet. This guy also wants to run for POTUS.
Then why is KingJames quiet about the Chinese govt killing, torture, and enslavement of Uyghur muslims? Ohhhh that’s right..because he is a hypocrite and is willing to take their blood money to play ball.
With your grade 5 education, your the second smartest person Biden knows !
the Australian government has used sport and public holidays to keep us subservient, I'm sick of sport being abused and used against the loyal, ffs I'm sick of not enough athletes speaking up about the humanity they are apart of, ThankyouThankyouThankyouHumanity KingJames.
Lebron on China:
Has he started reading that Malcolm X book yet?
KingJames is such a phony bitch.
What about China
Yeah, he loves to support China and wear shoes made by slave labor. What a hypocrite.
Except for China of course. Fucking money hungry pussy
Ok LeBwrong Lameson, tell us about China!
Leave it to a european to once again tell a black man to “shut up and dribble” DoYouUnderstandNow
Zlatan spews a lot of nonsense all the time. He talks a lot of crap. If he wants to shut someone down, that should be weird and questioned.
Never...except when it comes to China or anything that threatens his income.
Racist country... What's his net worth again? Do his kids go to public school? Do only black people go to his games? Do only black people buy his shoes? How about a little about what is right with this country KingJames?
How about China then KingJames ?
LJ is a conscientious person who just happens to be a superstar celebrity athlete & he’s using that platform to make positive change & that’s admirable. If you’ve got a problem with that, ask yourself what societal force do you represent & why are you such a dick?
KingJames , You are in good company. MLK and Nelson Mandala were also maligned for standing up for what is right. When the history books look back on this, I have no doubt that you will outshine all the critics. Thank you for using your voice. VP , AOC , DrBiden , CNN
Still waiting on your guidance King James.
He is literally profiting of Muslim concentration camps this second
If you have a platform & don’t use it for good, are you human?
Zlatan is the man! Lebron should listen to him. James takes money from companies that exploit people HORRIBLY but then he plays a saint when it comes to black people.
If Ibrahimobitch is crying about you, you're probably doing something right.
2 of 2. And there are times when more aggressive actions are appropriate.
Except when China is paying you them $$$ right?
Why do people think that actors and athletes should not have nor voice opinions? Are athletes and actors not humans? We all have the right to hold & voice our opinions and should do so in a respectful & tactful way.
Heh
White people have always tried to shut black people up. They hate hearing the truth about racism, racists and white privilege. The louder our voices, the more empowered we become. More emboldened. And the smaller they become.
But you have completely shut up about anything to do with the wrongs in China? 🤔hmm, Lebron is such a joke.
((coughs)) Chinese government and their treatment of the Uyghur population.
I don't follow sports. I from India & my dad a Protestant pastor. I read James an African American footballer. What about Ibrahmovic? What race & faith. Bosnian dad & Croatian mom. Bosnian Muslim dad? Croatian orthodox mom. Yes he definitely white. Race indeed the separator?
Not true. He did not stick up for things that were wrong nor open to others who believe differently than him.
....Unless it’s about China 🇨🇳
How is the dirty money from China KingJames ?
[Laughs in Uyghur]
Except when it comes to China but Lebron only wants to speak on easy issues not issues that might cost him money. He caved like a house of cards on the NBA/China spat because he didn't want to jeopardize his Space Jam money.
KingJames - if anyone is wrong, it is you.
I know who LeBron is but never heard of the other guy!
Bravo
Says the guy who tells us to shut up about China and their genocide. Lmao what a joke
LeBron is a hypocrite and needs to walk the talk. He gets tens of millions a year in endorsement deals from companies like Nike, McDonalds and Samsung that don’t pay living wages and that use child labor. He made $100 million last year during a pandemic. He’s out of touch.
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