After a detour on the moral dereliction of Tiger Woods — “Can a sister get a table dance, Tiger?” — Whitlock accuses LeBron of elitism because, basically, he “won the genetics lottery” and was “born 6’8.””
Whitlock takes the opportunity to remind his listeners that he is not an elite — his is a wolf, folks, who graduated from Ball State University with a 2.3 GPA — and neither, for that matter, is Mugsy Bogues, who overcame physical limitations to achieve success in the NBA.
LeBron James is something else entirely.
In an even more incendiary follow-up hot take, Whitlock clarified his thesis: Due to his physical gifts, LeBron was “born on third base.” (Listeners were upset, Whitlock said, because he’d gone “against the narrative” that LeBron had overcome adversity.”)
According to Whitlock: “Athletic privilege works a lot like wealth privilege… There is not a great deal of difference between LeBron James and Donald Trump when it comes to being an elite person and a privileged person.”
Whitlock is a wolf, recall, and wolves have to think differently, more calculatingly, more “in-depthly,” as he says. His eminently lupine theory is that LBJ’s early adversity is irrelevant, because every person has faced some form of adversity.
Donald Trump, for example?
This article appears in Feb 15-21, 2017.
And then Scene turned against Jason Whitlock because he had an opinion that doesn’t follow the narrative. Again damn those people thinking it’s okay to have differing opinions! LeBron was a celebrity at age 14.
Born at 6’8″ sure must’ve made his mom sore.
yup, just do like the Donald did, borrow, a million from your daddy, and oh yea, I forgot, Lebron’s daddy was where? and then don’t pay taxes for 18 years, year that’s hard work. Ridiculous, this guy has lost his mind and if your case is your that your height of 6’8″ that makes you what you are, then where’s all the other super star 6’8′ people. And if you have an opinion, that’s great! Don’t kill me for mine.