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LEBRON JAMES GAME WINNING 3 POINT SHOT BEATS BUZZER CAVALIERS WIN AGAINST ORLANDO MAGIC VIDEO

King James proved why he was named the MVP this season. Lebron James landed a game winning 3 point shot with seconds to go on the clock against the Orlando Magic.

Talk about a miracle. Lebron James Game Winning Shot Live NBA Playoffs 2009 Game 2 Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Orlando Magics

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The noise was alive, throbbing like a heartbeat, pounding like a drumbeat. It flowed up and down, over and through, around and around the writhing huddle of white-and-wine-and-gold players, keeping time as they hugged and hopped and whooped and hollered.

When the game-winning 3-pointer by LeBron James - who else? - settled through the net as time expired in the Cavaliers' 96-95 victory over the Orlando Magic on Friday night at The Q, it set off a frenzy never before seen in those confines. It was primal-scream group therapy for 20,562 fans, 15 players, a coaching staff that never doubted and hundreds of employees who didn't either.

Sasha Pavlovic rushed to James, who ran into the arms of Anderson Varejao. Mo Williams, who threw the inbounds pass that James turned into a miracle, dropped to his knees as if in prayer. The Cavs' big men - Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Ben Wallace and Joe Smith - were a tad slow arriving to the party, but when they got there, they jumped on top of the pile.  [source]

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LEBRON JAMES TELLS HIS MOTHER TO SIT HER ASS DOWN DURING PLAYOFF GAME

We love King James. But LeBron James has some explaining to do for telling his mom to "sit her ass down" during last night's playoff game against the Celtics. Watch the video to read LeBron's lips.

LeBron James put his mom and then the Boston Celtics in their places.

James scored 21 points, delivering a devastating dunk over Kevin Garnett in the final two minutes, as the Cleveland Cavaliers kept the Celtics winless on the road in the playoffs, 88-77, in Game 4 on Monday night to tie the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal series at 2-2.

Still stuck in a shooting slump (seven for 20), James dominated down the stretch and finished with 13 assists -- four in the fourth quarter. The Cavaliers also showed that they can play stingy defense too, holding the Celtics -- the NBA's best defensive team -- to only 12 points in the final period.

"That's what we needed to do," said James, who yelled at his mother, Gloria, to sit down after she came to his defense early in the game after he got tangled with Paul Pierce and Garnett.

The players' momentum had carried them into a crowded front row, where Gloria James told Pierce to leave her baby alone.

"I told her to sit down, in some language I shouldn't have used," James said. "Thank God today wasn't Mother's Day. All I could think about is her. . . . I know my mother. It's fine, we're good."

Boston fell to 0-5 on the road in the postseason after going 31-10 during the regular season.

"It's hard to say. I have no answer for it," Ray Allen said. source

LEBRON JAMES VOGUE MAGAZINE COVER "KING JAMES TURNED INTO KING KONG" CONTROVERSY

LeBron James is featured on the historic April issue of Vogue magazine with supermodel Giselle Bundchen.  We were disappointed that the cover didn't feature handsome LeBron James wearing a suit. LeBron is in our opinion one of the best dressed athletes in any sport. The Vogue issue is part of a new controversy with some people wondering why LeBron James is scowling in the cover photo with his teeth exposed to appear like a menacing "King Kong" character. Blogger Ali Eteraz describes Annie Leibovitz's image as the modern day interpretation of LeBron James as "King Kong" and Giselle Bundchen as "Fay Wray".

Ali says the cover "fulfills every racist stereotype in the world: primal screaming, white girl carrying, black beast.  Way to go Vogue Magazine."

Many scholars believe King Kong is a parable of racism and a metaphor for Hollywood's depiction of the Black man in America.

Author David Rosen writes about the symbolism of King Kong in his essay King Kong Race, Sex and Rebellion. Click here to read the article from the book Jump Cut A Review of Contemporary Media.

It doesn't require too great an exercise of the imagination to perceive the element of race in KING KONG. Racist conceptions of blacks often depict them as subhuman, ape or monkey-like. And consider the plot of the film: Kong is forcibly taken from his jungle home, brought in chains to the United States, where he is put on stage as a freak entertainment attraction. He breaks his chains and goes on a rampage in the metropolis, until finally he is felled by the forces of law and order. The causative factor in his capture and his demise is his fatal attraction to blonde Ann Darrow (Fay Wray). As Denham says in the last words of the film, “Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.” If we look at KING KONG in terms of a racial metaphor, “Beauty” turns out to be “the white woman.”  Aside from the sexual aspect implicit in the question of race, there’s the more direct, and somewhat delirious, sexual imagery in the film. The ape often functions as a most appropriate anthropoid symbol of “lower,” “animal” instincts. In this case we have a giant ape (literally a huge, hairy monster) and his unrestrained, headlong pursuit of a “blonde,” that archetypical Hollywood sex-object, ending on top of the world’s foremost phallic symbol.(1) The sexual theme touches on the standard racist myth of the black male’s exaggerated sexual potency, and the complementary notion of his insatiable desire for white women. It should be noted that the popular cultural representations of the twenties and thirties continued to present the Sambo character and the minstrel tradition, exemplified by Stepin Fetchit on the one hand, and Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor on the other. In other words, blacks were presented as the stereotypical good natured, fearful, stupid, lazy characters who loved to dance and sing, and who provided laughs and entertainment for white audiences. source

ESPN's Jemele Hill gave her opinion on the Vogue cover. She advises LeBron James to protect his image and to be more aware of how he is depicted in the media. CLICK HERE TO WATCH A CLASSIC MONTAGE OF HOLLYWOOD STEREOTYPES DEPICTING CARICATURES OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS. Radio shows, movies, books and comic strips were filled with caricatures and negative images of Blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, Asians, etc.

LeBron's image clearly means a lot to him, maybe even as much as pursuing a championship. And that's why I can't understand why he would allow Vogue to feature him with supermodel Gisele Bundchen in such a distasteful manner.

In case you haven't seen the cover, LeBron has Gisele in one hand and a basketball in the other. LeBron is dressed in basketball gear, with his muscles flexing, tattoos showing and bared teeth. Gisele, on the other hand, is wearing a gorgeous slim-fitting dress, and smiling.

She looks like she's on her way to something fashionable and exciting. He looks like he's on his way to a pickup game for serial killers.

Now, maybe the point was to show the contrast between brawn and beauty, masculinity versus femininity, strength versus grace. But Vogue's quest to highlight the differences between superstar athletes and supermodels only successfully reinforces the animalistic stereotypes frequently associated with black athletes.

A black athlete being reduced to a savage is, sadly, nothing new. But this cover gave you the double-bonus of having LeBron and Gisele strike poses that others in the blogosphere have noted draw a striking resemblance to the racially charged image of King Kong enveloping his very fair-skinned lady love interest.

LeBron is just the third male ever to appear on Vogue's cover, but it's hard to believe Vogue would have made Brett Favre, Steve Nash or even David Beckham strike his best beast pose. And even if Vogue had, it wouldn't carry the same racial undertones as having a fear-inducing black man paired with a dainty damsel.

Too often, black athletes are presented as angry, overly aggressive and overly sexual. Or sometimes, they're just plain emasculated. source

LEBRON JAMES AND GISELE BUNDCHEN MAKE HISTORY WITH APPEARANCE ON COVER OF VOGUE

Lebron James and Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen are making history with their appearance on the cover of the April issue of Vogue.

We wish Lebron James was photographed looking handsome in a suit like George Clooney was on his Vogue cover. Here's NY Magazine's take on the issue.

Basketball player LeBron James and supermodel Gisele Bündchen will mug for the cover of Vogue's shape issue, according to the New York Post. This would break all the rules of a Vogue cover. Seldom does editrix Anna Wintour put on her cover: (a) more than one model, (b) a man, (c) a person of color. We looked back at ten years of Vogue covers and compiled a list and images of these three rare instances after the jump. We also discovered Gisele was the last lady to appear with a man (George Clooney) on the cover, proving life is just not fair. source

NY Magazine also compiled a list of Vogue issue with Models of Color appearing on the cover.

Unfortunately, number of covers featuring models of color in the past 10 year history of the magazine totaled less than 10.

French Vogue Paris made history with model Andre J appearing on the cover of their November issue.

COVERS WITH MODELS OF COLOR:
Issue: "The Power Issue" (top left)
Cover model: Jennifer Hudson.
Date: March 2007.

Issue: "Reality Chic Fashion" (top center)
Date: May 2005.
Cover model: Liya Kebede.

Issue: "Gifted: 175 Perfect Presents" (top right)
Date: December 2002.
Cover model: Halle Berry.

Issue: "Strong and Sexy Spring" (bottom left)
Date: January 2001.
Cover model: Marion Jones.

Issue: "Oprah!" (bottom center)
Date: October 1998.
Cover model: Oprah.

Issue: "The Best and Worst Looks of '97" (bottom right)
Date: January 1998.
Cover models: Melanie Brown with fellow Spice Girls Victoria Beckham, Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton, and Melanie Chisholm.

AIR ZOOM LEBRON V RELEASED IN YANKEE COLORS PINSTRIPES

NBA All-Star LeBron James is a huge New York Yankees fan.

He has teamed up with Nike to design his new shoe, The Air Zoom LeBron V.

Under the tongue of the shoe are the words: "Le-Bron Ja-Mes. Clap. Clap. Clap Clap Clap,"  similar to the chant New York fans do during Yankee games.

On the strap is the phrase: "Fresh for '08. Suckers!"

The Air Zoom LeBron V shoe features New York's pinstripes as well as James' No. 23, the number worn by popular Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly.

The pin stripe shoe will only be released in New York this March. (source)
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