LeBron James Pressured Adam Silver To Punish Rockets GM Daryl Morey For Controversial Tweet

LeBron James didn’t speak his mind during the two preseason games in China, but he did take a side when the Los Angeles Lakers returned to the US. According to LeBron, Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey was “uneducated.”

It looks like LeBron pushed NBA commissioner Adam Silver to fine Morey for his tweet.

ESPN’s Dave McMenamin is one of the four LA-based reporters to report about the Lakers in China. He said that LeBron was among the players to demand that the Rockets GM is fined for his tweet.

“Nearly a week ago today, in a Shanghai hotel room, or Shanghai hotel ballroom, Adam Silver got up and addressed the players, and LeBron James is one of the players who got up and spoke and said, ‘Hey, what are we doing here? Daryl Morey made these statements,’” McMenamin recalled on air Tuesday. “You know damn well if a player made the same statements and caused such poor ramifications for the league, there would be some sort of league recourse or repercussions that the player has to pay.

“Potentially this tweet could cost the league hundred of millions of dollars, which could come out of the players’ pockets — so that was the double-standard that was being addressed in that meeting.”

This explains LeBron’s reaction when media members asked him about his thoughts of the controversy with China and Morey.

“I don’t want to get into a word or sentence feud with Daryl Morey but I believe he wasn’t educated on the situation at hand, and he spoke. And, so many people could have been harmed, not only financially but physically, emotionally, spiritually. So, just be careful what we tweet and what we say, and what we do. Even though yes, we do have freedom of speech, but there can be a lot of negative that comes with that too.

“That’s just my belief. I don’t know,” LeBron responded when asked about why he thinks Morey is uneducated. “That’s my belief. That’s all I can say. I believe he was either misinformed or not really educated on the situation. And, if he was, then so be it, but I have no idea. That’s just my belief that when you say things or do things and you know the people can be affected by it, and the families and the individuals and everyone that can be affected by it, sometimes things can be changed. And, also sometimes social media is not always the proper way to go about things as well. But, that’s just my belief.”

Morey didn’t target a certain group and didn’t attack anyone. China was offended by the tweet, and that’s outside everything Silver can do.