For a guy so successful and popular, LeBron James of the Miami Heat can't seem to say anything right publicly.
After his Heat lost the NBA Finals to the Dallas Mavericks Sunday, James addressed fans who've rooted against him since he publicly dumped his former team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, on ESPN's TV special The Decision.
James told the haters to get a life, according to the Associated Press.
"All the people that were rooting on me to fail, at the end of the day they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today. They have the same personal problems they had today. I'm going to continue to live the way I want to live and continue to do the things that I want to do with me and my family and be happy with that. So they can get a few days or a few months or whatever the case may be on being happy about not only myself, but the Miami Heat not accomplishing their goal. But they got to get back to the real world at some point."
The comments came off churlish to NBA analysts on ESPN2's Mike and Mike in the Morning Monday.
"He needs to learn to speak to the media. He puts his foot in his mouth time and time again," said Jalen Rose.
Jon Barry said King James needs to "think" about the implications of his comments before making them. "Don't tweet at 2:30 in the morning. Don't say we're going to win 5,6,7,8 championships."
But Tim Legler excused it as natural frustration after a year of getting beat up by fans and the press. "There's only so much a human being can listen to."
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