NBA legend smashes LeBron James over Covid-19 Instagram post – News.com.au

An NBA legend has laid into LeBron James after the Lakers star uploaded an Instagram post about Covid that didn’t sit well with everyone.NBA icon Kareem Abdul-Jabbar believes LeBron James tarnished his legacy by sharing a Covid-19 meme on Instagram.This week the Lakers legend wrote a blog post blasting James, titled: “Dear LeBron: Here’s the Covid-19 Help You Requested in Your Spider-Man Meme.”Watch the 21/22 NBA Season with ESPN on Kayo. Live coverage every week plus every game of the NBA Finals. New to Kayo? Start your free trial >The New York Post reports two days prior, James shared the aforementioned meme that showed three Spider-Man characters pointing at each other, labelled, “Covid,” “Flu” and “Cold”.The Lakers star captioned his Instagram post: “Help me out folks.”Abdul-Jabbar described the meme as “uninformed” and said “LeBron has encouraged vaccine hesitancy which puts lives and livelihoods at risk”.Abdul-Jabbar wrote: “With his message: ‘Help me out folks’ was a blow to his worthy legacy. The meme’s implication is that LeBron doesn’t understand the difference among these three illnesses, even after all the information that’s been presented in the press.”He concluded: “While LeBron is a necessary and dynamic voice critical of police brutality against the…
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