Thanks, LeBron: Heat Fires Season Ticket Salespeople

He was probably joking though... right?

(NEWSER) - With the lockout officially cutting into the NBA season , would LeBron James consider suiting up for the NFL? Probably not, but the King is definitely stoking speculation. Last week his highness donned his pads and practiced with the Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary high school team, then tweeted that it “felt great being back on the field. Should I?” Last night he took it a step further, asking ESPN NFL guru John Clayton via Twitter when the deadline to sign free agents was. More»

Trust us, there are a lot of them

(NEWSER) - LeBron James has been called one of basketball’s greatest since his high school days, and we’d probably have no problem believing it—if he didn’t open his mouth so much. In fact, his ugly reaction to Miami Heat's homecourt loss in the 2011 finals is just the tip of his egomaniacal iceberg. BleacherReport pulled together a list of James’ most jaw-dropping quotes throughout his career:

• “A LeBron James team is never desperate,” James said during the 2008 Eastern Conference Semis. James' Cavs were probably exactly that after losing the series a few days later.

Miami star clarifies his post-game comments

(AP) - LeBron James was not a happy camper after the Dallas Maverick's win over the Miami Heat in Game 6 of the NBA finals, and he let everyone know about it . In a clarification today, James said the humanity-dissing comments he made may have been misunderstood, and that when it comes to the overwhelming criticism of himself and his team, "not only myself, but everyone has to move on with their lives." James also said that he's "not superior to anyone," and that he knows his comments could have been interpreted differently. More»

Unfortunately, the team lost the NBA finals to the Dallas Mavericks

(NEWSER) - At least Miami Heat fans have one positive newspaper clipping for the scrapbook. The morning after the Heat lost the NBA finals to the Dallas Mavericks, the Miami Herald mistakenly ran a nearly full-page Macy's ad congratulating the Heat on its "win" and offering championship T-shirts and hats. And a little more salt-in-the-wound: NPR notes that the ad appeared just below a story with the headline, "Heat Just Never Got The Point During Finals Loss To More-Organized Mavs." More»

Miami's loss shatters James' reputation

(NEWSER) - Sports columns everywhere are thick with schadenfreude today after LeBron James yet again vanished during the fourth quarter to hand Dallas the NBA title . Here’s what people are saying:

• LeBron is still royalty, but he’s not a king—he’s “an emperor with no clothes,” writes Mark Heisler of the LA Times . “James came out firing and making … then faded into the mists.” The Mavericks have exposed him, and everyone will keep him out of the lane from now on.