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LeBron James tweeted a photo of a police officer who was present when Ma’Khia Bryant was shot, with the caption, “You’re Next.”The officer has been identified as officer Nicholas ReardonYOU’RE NEXT ⏳ #ACCOUNTABILITY pic.twitter.com/NnBfz9zdWq— LeBron James (@KingJames) April 21, 2021Outrage to the basketball star’s tweet was swift:Narrative Commitments + Retribution > Facts + Effectual ReformsThis is a recipe for savagery, not #Accountability https://t.co/hx0reKLoaC— Kmele (@kmele) April 21, 2021LeBron James is now sharing a picture of the Columbus police officer who shot the woman wielding a knife and attacking another woman.With zero regard for facts, he’s solely focused on dividing the...

During an appearance on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch discussed President Trump, gentrification in Oakland, Colin Kaepernick and more.

If Warriors' Steve Kerr has his way, San Antonio Spurs' Gregg Popovich and Texas U.S. Senate Candidate Beto O'Rourke will be on the 2020 Presidential ticket. Even though there has been a push for Kerr and Pop to run for the presidency, Kerr showed his support for O'Rourke with the Spurs Head Coach as his running mate for Vice President.

James, who hosts the show that vows to have “spirited, free-flowing discussions,” attended St. Vincent-St. Mary Catholic School in Akron, Ohio, as a basketball prodigy. He said upon entering school, he didn’t have any desire to talk to any of his white classmates, as he was there to play basketball. “When I first went to the ninth grade in high school, I was on some ‘I’m not -–---- with white people,’ ” James said. “I was so institutionalized growing up in the ‘hood, it was like, ‘They don’t -–- with us, they don’t want us to succeed.’” “So I’m like,...

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Donald Trump insulted NBA star LeBron James from afar but passed up an opportunity to criticize him on his own turf, sticking to Democrats, the news media and other familiar targets during a campaign rally Saturday night in James' home state of Ohio. When Trump took the stage in a sweltering high school gymnasium north of Columbus, his late-night tweet deriding James' intellect had already generated hours of online buzz in defense of the all-star from Akron who had just opened a school for at-risk children in his hometown. Even first lady Melania Trump provided an...

LeBron James attended a Cleveland campaign rally for Hillary Clinton in 2016 even though she was likely to lose his home state of Ohio. After Donald Trump’s election, James repeatedly blasted the president. When Laura Ingraham said James should “shut up and dribble,” he rebutted the Fox News host by saying he had never heard of her before her remark. And now this: On Monday, James wouldn’t rule out running for president in 2020. James began to get involved in political issues during the Obama years — publicly backing the first African-American president and the Black Lives Matter movement, for...

President Donald J. Trump tweeted late last night his apparent distaste for CNN’s Don Lemon and NBA superstar Lebron James after an interview between the two aired on CNN, saying, “Don Lemon…made Lebron look smart, which isn’t easy to do.” But, during the conversation, James also indicated that he would not be willing to sit down with President Trump. Lemon asked him, "What would you say to the president if he were sitting right here?" James responded, "I would never sit across from him." The current Los Angeles Laker recently told CNN that he believes President Trump is using sports...

Lonnie Walker IV made a different kind of fireworks on his Fourth of July. The Spurs rookie drew a lot of attention when he tweeted Wednesday that he did not celebrate the holiday. Walker’s implication, it seems, is the holiday does not observe independence for all Americans. “Will never celebrate the 4th of July,” he wrote. “Know your history and stay woke.”

NBA legend Oscar Robertson has one question as he looks out at the recent collision of politics and sports: “Where are the white players?” Robertson, “The Big O,” was honored with the league’s lifetime achievement award at the NBA Awards banquet Monday night in California. During his remarks on stage, he spoke about the need to “be persistent, or as I’ve been called, stubborn. Stubborn about what you believe in.”