“I’d be frustrated too” Nick Wright goes beyond his way to defend LeBron James for purposely hitting Scottie Barnes


“I’d be frustrated too” Nick Wright goes beyond his way to defend LeBron James for purposely hitting Scottie Barnes

Nick Wright and LeBron James

LeBron James has finally shown how fed up he is with the Lakers’ disastrous season. On Monday night the four-time NBA champion exploded at his own teammates when he found that no one came in his support while he was grabbing the rebound surrounded by the Raptors players. Laker’s star forward frustration was clearly noticeable when the team was getting dismantled by the Raptors in the game which even Chris Broussard and Nick Wright tried to explain.

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Many video clips of LBJ getting exploded at teammates are getting viral and his furious action on Raptors Rookies has caught a lot of headlines. In the clip, it can be clearly seen that both James and Barnes were hustling to get possession of the ball when it got rebounded from the rim but when LeBron caught the ball in the air, he furiously threw it on the Raptors forward who was lying on the bound line.

LeBron James hits the ball hard on Scottie Barnes
LeBron James hits the ball hard on Scottie Barnes

Meanwhile, the fans are highly criticizing LeBron James for taking out his frustration on the rookie but Nick Wright believes that it was a “good play” by LBJ as he was just trying to throw the ball on Barnes as he was out of bound which would have given the possession to the Lakers.

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Nick Wright and Chris Broussard defend LeBron James’ furiousness against his own teammates in the showdown with Toronto Raptors

LeBron James
LeBron James

Moreover, Nick Wright in the recent episode of ‘First Thing First’ of Fox Sports explained why LeBron was so furious at the Lakers roster. He said, “LeBron looked around the court and said you got to be kidding me. I’m in year 19, I’m averaging 30 a game, we are you know 10 under 500. and I am sharing the court on the play where he slams the ball down and like This is our 5?!’

Wright continued, “The five-player lineup I’m out here with me, Malik Monk, Winyan Gabriel, Tayton Horton Tucker, and Wayne Ellington okay I don’t know what you want from me guys. I’ll score the 30, I’ll play the 40 minutes brew, I’ll do what you can’t what I can but you got to be kidding me,….. this is my team and so yeah, I think he’s frustrated!”

Wright has highlighted that LeBron is unhappy with the roaster and why his frustration is clearly visible on the court. Even during the postgame, LeBron refused to speak to the media as he didn’t want the media to catch any incendiary statement by him.

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Further, on the show, Wright advised LeBron James to attend the press conference just like the way he did in the whole season. He said, “You’re not supposed to skip out on the media LeBron done so much media and you know he shows up to 95% of the media avails. I’m not going to kill him for that but he should show up to 100 of them.”

Wright ended his point by saying, “I’d be Frustrated too man! there’s a frustrating situation he finds himself in.”


Meanwhile Chris Broussard stated, “I see competitiveness [from LeBron] before I see frustration. Sure, there’s frustration too. But like Nick (Wright) said, some of these are good basketball plays. I’m not trying to go all ‘when men were men mode.’ I’ve done it on this show, I’ll do it again.’

Chris Broussard
Chris Broussard

Broussard added, ”But this play with Scottie Barnes, that’s a great basketball play. They’ve been doing it since Doctor Naismith been hanging peach baskets. Absolutely. That was my go-to move. I didn’t have much, but I had that in my arsenal. So that’s a great play.”

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