Rants

Why LeBron's the Villain Now

Egomania hits new level with ESPN special.

If you’re easily offended by profanity, you may want to skip this one; otherwise, check out Drew Magary’s rant at Deadspin about why LeBron James is officially a villain now. Magary says James, who will announce his next team in an hour-long broadcast on ESPN Thursday night, is “a self-aggrandizing sack of shit, and ESPN is a bunch of pussy-whipped enablers for giving him a free hour of airtime [tonight].” James’ request to give the commercial airtime to charity isn’t changing Magary’s mind: “That's the most transparent use of charity for the sake of self-glorification I've seen since I saw some actor do it yesterday.” Magary writes, “LeBron is now the guy you openly root against. If he leaves Cleveland tomorrow night, he'll have needlessly strung along an entire fanbase and given them the middle finger by making their breakup spectacularly public. If he stays, he'll have spent two years cockteasing the rest of the world about going somewhere else when he probably never wanted to leave Ohio to begin with. There's no end result [tonight] that makes LeBron a sympathetic figure.”