Skip Bayless Releases Bold Statement About LeBron And Playoffs Without Him

The Los Angeles Lakers are missing the playoffs for sixth consecutive year. LeBron James will miss the playoffs for the first time since 2005. This is definitely not his style, but there was no other way to handle the situation in Los Angeles. The young Lakers couldn’t make a move without LeBron after his groin injury, and their season ended too soon. Everyone knows that the playoffs won’t be the same without LeBron, including Skip Bayless. This came like a surprise, right?

Skip Bayless isn’t the greatest fan of LeBron. He isn’t a fan at all. It seems like he doesn’t like anybody. You can tell that by the way he talks about them. In one occasion, Bayless slammed LeBron for breaking the NBA’s tampering rules. There was no such thing, and Bayless crossed the red line. It was about a tweet LeBron wrote, and it involved Kyrie Irving.

“When he posts it’s for real,” Bayless said on Skip and Shannon. “He’s usually passive-aggressively trying to make a statement about something. This wasn’t even passive-aggressive. This was just blatant. He tagged him across the top. He’s not tampering, it’s just a pathetically, public plea, ‘Please come back Kyrie! I miss my closer. I need my closer’.

“If LeBron happened to watch, and I bet if I know LeBron, he did watch Saturday night, Kyrie was closing. He couldn’t close it all the way but he hit three big late shots against Golden State until Steph and play were all over him. If they had just boxed out correctly and gotten Draymond’s second free throw miss, Kyrie would have gotten the last shot and I wouldn’t bet against him making that shot. It was pathetically begging. That’s just desperate.”

In one of his most recent analysis, Bayless sort of praised Kevin Durant. Well, Durant doesn’t even compare himself to others.

“I try not to compare,” he said. “Each stop along the journey has been — I’ve just been tailor-made for the moment, I guess. I learned a lot so far as a player up until this point, so I think I’m starting to put everything together on both sides of the ball. I’m not looking at points or shots that I get up, just how focused I am for each possession.”