Witness Protection Program

Got Dunk Tape? No, I highly doubt you do. It's been a few days since Xavier's Jordan Crawford put Lebron on a potential poster. The Internet traffic has been going crazy, everybody seems to be searching for this footage. So crazy that the google adds to the right of this blog have been advertising 'the dunk tape' google search.

You've heard, you've seen, you know. Well actually, you haven't seen. In case you've been living under a rock, Nike officials confiscated 'The Tapes' of 'The Dunk'. Man this is just ridiculous. Riddle me this Batman; If it was so wrong for these guys to be filming in the first place, then why weren't the tapes taken before he got dunked on? Apparently they weren't supposed to be filming at 'that particular time' according to Nike officials.

Syracuse university Graduate Ryan Miller was one of the men who had their tapes confiscated. The original rumors were that Lebron spoke to the Nike officials who then proceeded to approach the men filming and once more, confiscate the tapes. In an interview with US radio station 13WHAM.com, Miller claimed that Lebron in fact approached the officials/Representatives during a break and told them to get the tapes. In Miller's words; "He (the media rep) just kept telling him, 'take his tape, take his tape'".Miller went on to say "Every time I would try to explain who I was filming for and why it wasn't against the policy, he didn't want to hear it and kept saying 'take his tape.'"

Now after a hoax on a 'BSPN' fake website, apparently this tape is to be auctioned off for charity. Well I bought into it myself before having looked into it, but it appears there is no such auctioning. Now I love King James, the guy is just an unbelievable talent but his ego is becoming too much these days and I blame Nike and the media world in general for putting him up so high on a pedestal, where they can rip him down from such great heights. Nike don't want this happening just yet though, they gotta eat. In the words of Chuck D; 'I like Nike but wait a minute...'. Not the message intended but fitting right here.

James needs to be smarter than that. Put that tape out there. Have a laugh at yourself man. How many cats have you dunked on and how many more will you put to shame in the future? Nobody is gonna stop showing Lebron James love for getting dunked on, if anything the opposite. It happens to the best of them only this time it happened to 'the best', depending on who you're talking to of course. All players get dunked on. It wasn't so long ago that Courtney Lee threw one down on Lebron in the Eastern Conference Finals and at that stage he was like what, a year out of college? Get over it. it happens. The thing that really gets me is if he had just let it out there, he'd cop less of a backlash than he has the way he's reacted. That said we all make mistakes, but learning from them is the point of making them.

Actions like this will only land Bron right in that Brat Pack where Kobe was all those years and to his own faults allot of the time. The New York Gloating. The 'not shaking hands'. The LBJ MVP T-Shirt ala Run DMC. And now this. It's a cold world when you act like this and Nike need to quit marketing this guy like he's immortal. Not one professional athlete is immortal, not even their image. The reaction from the Hoops world over the last few days has proven this. Lebron definitely ain't the first player and he won't be the last. I watched Kobe go through practically the same thing. It was somewhat funny watching the two of them in those infamous puppet commercials, but it's sad when you see them actually becoming puppets.

I must give Jordan Crawford his props. In an interview with ESPN (posted below), the kid showed more maturity than Lebron has in this whole situation. He showed allot of heart. The kid seemed switched on enough not to gloat about it and talk himself up in his 15 minutes. Respect. On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being Chris Rocks 'Never Scared' Tour and 10 being Eddie Murphy's 'Delirious', well, this is right up there or right down there, completely hilarious. Let me just say it's been one complete joke. But Bron, I still got love for you, just please don't do it again, alright? Damn!

On the lighter side; check out the reporters left nostril getting sucked in in the video below gradually from the 5 second mark to the 10 second mark where it's entirely closed and then popping out at the 15 second mark. Coudn't help but notice and thought I was seeing things!

Weird stuff happening over at ESPN...



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