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What You Say About Yo Mama?
I saw this on the web but didn’t think about making a post for it until I was prompted by a coworker. On Monday night in a playoff game between the Boston Celtics and the Cleveland Cavaliers Lebron James took a hard foul and got pulled out of bounds by Paul Pierce of the Celtics. A few feet from the players was momma James, Gloria James who sprung into action. Now this is where it gets interesting check out thie video:
Now I don’t know if you read lips but you saw the caption. (For those like my brother who get youtube blocked at work he told her to Sit Your A$@ Down)
Lebron’s response to reporters was:
“I told her to sit down with some language I shouldn’t have used. Thank God today wasn’t Mother’s Day.
“Even though that’s my mother, the commissioner doesn’t care if it’s your mother or your kids or anybody. You can’t allow fans and players to get involved like that. And I can’t afford for my mom not to be at every last one of my games.”
Yeah OK… BMWK family, you tell me, is this a case of babies having babies (Gloria was 16 when she had Lebron) and those babies growing up not respecting you? Having a kid you’ve been living off of since before he finished school? Or being your kids buddy so he treats you like a buddy?
Could you have pulled that one on your mama?
Ladies if that was your son what would you have done?
May 15th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Okay, I had my oldest child when I was 18 and he is now 9 and I’m 28. I wish he would disrespect me! I can’t necessarily say what Lebron’s rationale behind this was, whether he and his mom are “buddies” or what have you, but I don’t treat my child as if we are friends. I keep the relationship mother/child and when he becomes an adult we can then have a mother/child/friend relationship. I understand the game was going on and “King James” was probably caught in the excitement of it all, but to curse at your mother —especially in public—is just disrespectful.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I love this site, just found it a few days ago. Longing to have a family myself so I really respect you and your wife as well as other married couples.
Ok, back to the subject…..I dont think he should have done that in public but I think he was in the heat of the moment.
I could not get away with that if it were my mother. She had my oldest brother when she was 18 and he could not then or even now and he is 40 years old.
I think it has alot to do with the way your are raised and then your life experiences when you leave the home and what your parents will and will not allow you to “get away” with in terms of speaking to them even as an adult child.
As a grown woman I have tried a time or two to assert myself and my mother and father will remind me that yes I am grown but they are still my parents and then I stand down. LOL!
May 15th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
He would have received a pimp slap to the gums if he was my child.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
My, my, my, (shaking my head); If I could reach him, I think he would have been an instantly, pimped slapped on national TV. My children joke with other people saying, “My Mama is not afraid of the police”. They know that I love them but I don’t play that crap. My job is to parent them not to be their buddy. But, this just gets my blood boiling. No child, I don’t care who he is or how much money he makes, should disrespect his Mom like that whether it be done publicly or privately! There are boundaries. And if his taking care of me financially is going to blur the boundaries, he will need to keep his money.
My son plays basketball, I have enough sense not to run on the court. She really had no business on the court unless he had been injured, however, it doesn’t excuse his response. Men/boys who disrespect their mamas aren’t worth a crap as husbands and fathers. However he treats her is how he will treat you.
But to his response about the commissioner…..it appears that Mr. James has more respect for the commissioner than his Mama. What’s up with that?
May 15th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Good point Mrs. D, he was all concerned about David Stern, what do you think about that comment of at least it wasn’t mother’s day? Priceless
May 17th, 2008 at 10:03 am
What he said was wrong. I guess what ppl don’t realize is that he was not raised by his mom but his grandma. Therefore there is not really a mother/son bond. Many kids are resentful towards a parent who was absent or nonparental durning their up bringing. Gloria may have given birth to Lebron but he is not the man he is because of her. She is loud, ghetto, irresponsible and I understand why he said what he did. I don’t mean to diss his mom but just calling it like I see it. She is riding on his gravy train and needs to understand her son is loved, respected and adornded by many. She needs to sit down and be quiet. It’s his shine not hers.
BTW, I say she is irresponsible not because she had a child at 16(that happens everyday) but because she received a Escalade while he was in high school( and the scouts were dangling a carrot to get her son on their team). She got pulled over for dui, argued with the police (and even stated “do you know who I am”) no insurance and a suspended license. She will always be his mom. I just wish she would stop embarassing this young man.
Just my take on the situation and I am allowed my opinion.