Dan Devine,Yahoo Sports 16 hours ago
LOS ANGELES — Asked for his response to Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham’s assertion that he should “shut up and dribble,” LeBron James came up with two.
No, and thank you.
As always, the four-time NBA Most Valuable Player and three-time NBA champion drew a mammoth crowd during his interview session at Saturday’s All-Star Media Day. The Cleveland Cavaliers superstar, one of two captains for Sunday’s 2018 NBA All-Star Game, held court at the Los Angeles Convention Center on topics ranging from theonward march of international talent in the NBA (“At the end of the day, our game is so worldwide, and to have so many different competitors from all over the world is what makes our game beautiful”) to the just-released hit Marvel movie “Black Panther” (he hasn’t seen it yet, but he’s proud of it and the people who made it).
But the first topic James touched on — and the one to which he devoted most of his attention during his press conference — was Ingraham’s response to a video in which James and Kevin Durant criticized President Donald Trump. In the clip, James said that Trump, elected to “the No. 1 job in America, the appointed person, is someone who doesn’t understand the people and really don’t give a f*** about the people.” Ingraham highlighted the video during Thursday’s episode of her Fox News show, calling James and Durant’s comments “ignorant” and recommending that they “keep the political commentary to yourself, or, as someone once said, ‘Shut up and dribble.'”
Durant and James both offered responses on Friday …
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