Take It Easy Lebron

Allegedly Lebron James was dunked on by Xavier guard Jordan Crawford in a scrimmage after hours at Lebron James summer camp for top high school players. The scrimmage was between the counselors who are top college players and Lebron James, and early in the scrimmage Crawford went to the basket and dunked on Lebron. This was probably one of the highlights of Crawford's early career and probably would have gotten him on Sports Center and on multiple TV shows talking about the dunk. Unfortunately for Crawford Nike reps confiscated the video of the game and the tapes have not been released to the public. According to the people at the game after the dunk Lebron called over a Nike rep and said something and the rep later went around to gather the video evidence. Despite all of this Crawford acted maturely saying "It was exciting just to be playing on the same court as him. I can see why he is so great at what he does."

As much I love Lebron James and for the most part defend him when haters try to attack him, but I cannot defend this action. You got dunked on no big deal everyone who has played basketball at at least the college level has been dunked on by an opposing player. Jordan was posterized by Starks. Lerbon himself has posterized people from Sheed, to KG to Tim Duncan. Part of being one of the premier players in the league means people are gunning to score on you. Jordan dealt with everyone trying to make him look silly. Iverson crossed him once and the video is all over YouTube.

Lebron you cannot get upset just because a talented college kid threw it down on you, and as long as you are a premier player in the league you will be a target for people to try and dunk on you. Let the kid have his moment and let it go. No one will think you are less of an NBA player because you were dunked on by a college kid.

So please let the video out and throw on a smile. Laugh it off and give the kid some props. Nobody wants to root for a player who gets this upset at being dunked on by a fellow player. I promise you will still be considered the best player in the league.