You can’t say “I wish lebron had Spoelstra for longer” when lebron chose to leave himself

All you need to know about LeBum is he tried to get Spoelstra fired as well. He deflects everything. He loses and he HAS to blame the coach. Thank god Pat Riley saw through the BS

Kendrick Perkins "maybe LeBron should retire and be the head coach" 😂

Espn still talking about lakers instead of team actually being the playoffs

Every time LeBron loses it is always the coaches, even Spoelstra was being questioned about his coaching ability when he was LeBron

That filter on SAS got him looking like early 2000’s SAS

Gregg Poppovich credits his career to the fact that Tim Duncan was coachable. Lebron James doesn't seem coachable. Thus, his teammates don't respect whomever is their coach either

Them bron bucks hit his account this morning lol

If u call yourself the goat... act like one period...

Talking about a team that’s in Cancun how predictable

The nuggets lost game 1 The cavs won round 1 But still lets talk about lebron 😂

Shannon point makes no sense, he left ty lou and erik spolestra

Does ESPN know the NBA Playoffs are going on?

LeBron is the PRIME example of a person that throws rocks and then hides their hand smh

Stephen A's face when Shannon says " it helps his case" 😂... Bottom line is the coach is respected.. Like a father.. Do the math!!

Tom Brady. Peyton Manning. Wayne Gretzky. Joe Montana. Kobe Bryant. Derek Jeter. The great ones , ALWAYS TAKE RESPONSIBILITY, when they have shortcomings!!!!

Now number of head coaches is a criteria for a player's excellence? 😂😂

Stop disrespecting Mike Brown he helped Bron get to that Finals against San Antonio

U talk about goat status?wen it comes to coaches getting fired and hired. Y’all really reaching now

This is why I feel analysts like Stephen A paint their own picture when it comes to sports and covering sports. If you’re going to tell the story tell it correctly. David Blatt was hired a few months before LeBron decided to go back to Cleveland. According to Stephen A, LeBron could have told the organization to hire Ty Lue over Blatt….How? The man was hired before LeBron came back. I agree he has had a lot of coaches. But putting it all on him is not the full story.

David Blatt was already hired a couple months before LeBron returned to Cleveland. He was hired and signed to a contract to coach a young Cavs team with rookie pick Andrew Wiggins, Dion Waiters, Tristan Thompson and Kyrie Irving. He was expecting a rebuilding team and instantly got a win-now one as a rookie NBA coach.

Wilbon been friends wit Ham for over 30 years.... there's your conflict of interest

They fear Lebron so much they are criticizing him with annoying carefulness...

Shannon should be ashamed .

To say lebron doesn’t get held accountable is laughable 😂yall drag this man every year he doesn’t win the championship

Ham was trash he had his favorites over players that actually needed to play. He mismanaged the hell outta timeouts all yr these dudes just be talking

What have those coaches done in their careers without Bron besides Spo? Legitimate question. Those coaches only have rings as head guys while Bron was on their roster. Spo included btw. Mike didn’t win without Phil, but Phil has won without Mike.

Dude mad cause his friend got fired these media dudes be killing me “ Lebron and Ad were great against DEN but they weren’t good enough” like what ?

Bron and AD *WANTED* Darvin Ham And then they threw him under the bus

39 years old and avg 25/8/7 He should not be the best player on the lakers and every coach he ever had was new or inexperienced. But it all good that he made the Lakers relevant again and still gets all the backlash. Lakers should have stuck with what got them the championship in 2020 two defensive centers.

Im so old I remember when sports networks talked about the teams that were still in the playoffs!

Kobe had 11 lol

They drag him every chance they get and say he don't take accountability fire these old guys

Yes , they could have spoken up for D Ham .. but to be fair , Embiid , who won MVP two weeks prior , said he wanted Doc Rivers to come back after they lost in 2023 and well

Wilbon has been Hams friend for years…. He talks about accountability yet this coach shows none and did a horrible job at holding others accountable…. Ham didn’t get fired because they lost to the Nuggets, Ham got canned because he botched line up decisions that put them in as a 7 seed.

They be waiting for anything to take shots for their goat argument lol 🤣😆😅

COACH BEING FIRED HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH LEBRON 😂

Lebron and AD played great vs the Nuggets, the 10 or so other players didn't

If he has the best ever mind in basketball then he should've been the all time leader in all statistical categories

So many coaches will be fired this year yet the only coach firing that matters is lbj typical 🤷🏽‍♂️

"i don't know what the hell is coming out of your mouth" 😂

Changing HeadCoaches hurts Lebron's Legacy what a Joke!!!!!!!!!

Mike Wilbon and Darvin Ham are close friends so don’t get fooled by the bias

Michael Wilbon is from Chicago. What else is he gonna say 😂.

so, you blaming a player for what an owner did. Which is fire an employee.

There is a Blame Graph 📊 for any fired coach; The Coaching staff, The players, The leaders, The front office. The issue is the LeBron Haters are trying to shovel 50% blame on him, 25% on the coach, and 25% on the front office. The Lakers have had 8 head coaches since Phil Jackson retired, and *16 Head Coaches in 34 seasons* since Pat Riley left. That included Phil Jackson's 11 seasons. *So in 23 other seasons, that's 15 head coaches.* If the Lakers had 3, or 4 head coaches from 1990 until 2018, then 3 from 2018-2024, I'd absolutely pin MOST of the blame on LeBron. But if we're discussing "Taking accountability," the Lakers Front Office cannot continue to escape this conversation either based on their track record.

Imagine trying to act innocent when a coach gets fired because of a child’s game. The false reality these people live in. Like if it’s important to this world

Shannon must be related to bron or something cause his takes just be meat glazing 😂😂😂

They didn’t just fire the coach, but the entire coaching staff, man…

Why is this a conversation? Especially to the level & energy being displayed about it….?

Last i check, coaches have to be held accountable as well. Lets not act like Ham is a top 10 to top 15 coach right now. If a team leads a 5 game series for 68% of the time and still loses the series, thats a coaching problem. Everybody quick to blame Kyle Shannahan and Dan Quinn when ATL blew a 25 point lead in the Super Bowl, but now its all on the players? Man stop it!

Micheal and Kobe > Lebron ‼️💯

It’s takes like this that makes me want to tell Shannon stick to football and Club Shay Shay interviews

Bottom line GOATs don't call themselves GOATs, others do.

Stephen a was really gonna say,”I might call the head boss “ 😂

LB and AD cost there coach his job. They refused to take responsibility. This is wrong.

Shannon questioning his bronsexuality

We asking a 39 year old to be better 😂😂😂

These players played for different teams! They couldn’t take the coaches with them. This is why mainstream media is failing. We need more player voices

The hypocrisy is crazy. He said LeBron could have influenced certain coaching moves but then criticizes him for influencing coaching moves.

The problem is that LeBron wants to proclaim himself the GOAT, so he takes credit for all his various teams' successes but never their failures. He's more interested in controlling the narrative about his GOAT status than actually winning championships. There is a difference.

when will these fools realize, lebron doesnt need a coach, lebron is uncoachable since day 1, and he calls the plays not the caoch

Whats funny is when MJ got swept by the celtics but he scored 63 its because his team wasn't good enough but 39 year old LBJ does his job it wasn't enough

MJ: if Phil is back then im back LJ: i have nothing to do with hiring the coach

WHY are we still talking about lequeen!?

Surely Unc knew he was yapping , hence the laughter

When the teacher gets fired,do you blame the students 🤔🤔

Mj never won a ring without Phil . Kobe never won a ring without Phil . Duncan never won a ring without pop. Shaq never won a ring without Phil or pat Riley . Shannon is right .

Y'all did Steve Nash bogus because he's white. Darvin Ham line ups these past 2 seasons were horrible. Not once did anyone criticize Darvin Ham in the media.

Why are they even speaking about Lebron lol.. look at the teams in the playoffs .. yah want someone to be the face of the league and take the throne but don’t speak about anybody else other then Lebron 🤦‍♂️

If Bron don’t leave Miami he have Erick Spoelstra for 13 years… he don’t leave Cleveland he keeps Ty Lue… LeBron left them coaches.. Kobe and Mike had the same coach primarily because they was on the same team..

Shannon act like don't know lebron try to fire Miami heat coach but Riley say no to him

These guys love to hear themselves talk so much that they don't actually hear what they're actually saying. They're basically saying stick with a coach who obviously isn't the right fit to spare his feelings. Ask Stephen A why Max Kellerman isn't on first take anymore, and he'll tell you it wasn't working anymore.

They are so delusional 🤣 that last take on almost everyone had 9 or more..no one ask lebron about coach being fired publicly but they talking like he did dars crazy work

The only time LeBron won back-to-back chips was when Miami stood behind Spoelstra and empowered him to be the coach. If LeBron had gotten his way in Miami, a coach now universally looked at as one of the best would have been fired. Jordan had Phil but Jordan also put his trust in Phil before Phil had won any chips. LeBron's biggest weakness is his habit of needing to influence his team. That's fine in Cleveland where they proved that LeBron needed to push them to improve but in Miami and LA, he should have taken a leap of faith. Instead, he tried to run Miami but couldn't and pushed LA into making moves they might now regret.

If you going to criticize Lebron James about the coaches - You need to go into detail into what happened with those coaches. Paul Silas - feuded with Eric Snow Brendan Malone - Interim Mike Brown - Nice success but you can't have the best record and lose to Boston in 6. David Blatt - Was hired as HC a few weeks before Lebron came obviously not his guy Lue - Great success but Lebron left to go to the Lakers - Now coaching the Lakers Walton - didn't make the playoffs in his tenure Vogel - wasn't exactly the Lakers 1st choice as lowballed Lue and Monty Williams and have Jason Kidd as a assistant - Did win a title but unfortunately the Westbrook situation went sideways. Ham - Hard to name a positive thing he done for the Lakers. The only thing I criticize Lebron James is the roster construction that I got to blame on him.

Lebron literally tried to get Erik spolstra fired. He had the choice to stay with Miami and have spolstra the rest of his career. But he didn’t. He wanted him out

We knew Lebum was like this 15 years ago that is why Jordan and Kobe will always be greater than LBJ. The Lemedia just pushing agendas to prop up LBJ but we see right through it. Jordan and Kobe has soo much more to offer and they took accountability. The very respectable Michael Wilbon is 100 percent right and we appreciate his genuineness to say the truth. Jordan and Kobe has real leadership and they figured this out very quickly and might I say at a younger age. Jordan and Kobe formed Dynasties and they won back to back Championship twice in less than 15 years with their own team and won it with 1 Coach. It’s more impressive to graduate earlier. Even Steph Curry got 4 rings in less than 15 years and he got drafted 6 years after LBJ and S Curry is 6’ -2”.

lmfao shannon, if Phil Jackson was coaching LeWhine, Phil would get fired as soon as they started losing.

That was the most delusional take Shannon has ever given. Trying so so hard to not blame his Lebabe

Everyone he named didn't come up in the social media era. Also MJ and Kobe got one of the best coaches of all time for majority of their careers. It's not the same as having coaches that have never been a hc or coaches that were played or drafted in the same years as you.

I challenge Stephen A. Smith, Kendrick Perkins, and Shannon Sharpe to tell me who on the list of LeBrons prior coaches actually won a championship before he was on the team. He won his first chip with Eric Spoelstra, the video room guy that Pat Riley took a chance on. Has Eric Spoelstra won a chip since he won one with LeBron? Nope! LeBrons next chip came with Tyronn Lue, a rookie coach with no head coaching experience. Has Tyronn Lue won a chip since he won one with LeBron? Nope! Then we have Frank Vogel who was the most experienced out of the three, but the closest he got to winning a chip was the Eastern Conference Finals with the Indiana Pacers where the Miami Heat, led by Eric Spoelstra and LeBron James knocked them off. Has Frank Vogel won a chip since he won one with LeBron? Nope! As a matter of fact, he just lost another coaching job after short stint with the Phoenix Suns. The facts are, when you give LeBron the right coach and a few good pieces around him, he wins chips. LeBron has given 3 coaches their only championship rings, so blaming him for not going to bat for a coach that obviously isn't equipped to win is crazy to me. The man is practically 40 years old heading into his 22nd season. I wouldn't co-sign keeping a coach that I can't win now with either. His window is almost closed.

The look on Stephen A face lmao😂😊

KD HAD 8 COACHES IN HIS CAREER THAT HURTS HIS LEGACY ACCORDING TO WILBON N STEPHEN A

I love Mike wilbon he's a straight shooter and calls it like he sees it and I love it. He doesn't follow the same narrative that the rest of the media does where they just shove LeBron down our throats 24/7. Back in Jordan's day there wasn't even internet or social media. And everybody in every home in every city in the world knew his name. LeBron will never ever be that and Shannon wants to say he wishes he had coach spo for his entire career but he could have had him for most of his career but LeBron chose to leave because Pat wouldnt get rid of spo. He's a crybaby and anytime he doesn't win or something goes wrong the coach is gone and so is half the roster😂😂😂

Jesus Christ. The Lakers did not lose because of Ham. The Lakers did not lose because of Lebron and AD. How can the Lakers win if they have no perimeter defense and have no solid back up big to AD?

Jordan and Jackson were together 8 years.

five better bball iq than lebron? - Zeke, bird, magic, stockton, kidd, CP3.

Steven A just be talking, Blatt was hired before Lebron decided to head back to CLE…he should know that

This whole narrative is absurd. 29 year old Lebron would have said i need to be better. 39 year old Lebron is looking for everyone to carry their weight.

Chanting. Shannon said name five better basketball minds. I got it. MJ, Kobe, magic, bird, Kareem 👀

Are we sure , Shannon, that Jordan had Phil “at least a decade “?

Someone please tag the link when Lebron said he don’t have anything to do with the firing of his coaches

Shannon had to EAT this debate.

Ham had a CHANCE to PROVE himself, he didn't so BYE

What about gregg popovich

Kobe play for 10 coaches in 20 years nobody say nothing

What was the common denominator for all 9 coaches: Lebron James. At some point we gotta stop looking outward to blame others.

Bron legit left Miami bc they wouldnt get rid of Spoelstra

I forgot how Bron did Blatt 😂😂