Skip Bayless will make $26 million in the next four years while working at
Fox Sports. Which is incredible when you consider that
LeBron James killed him less than 24 hours ago.
Figuratively, of course, but after recognizing how the soon-to-be-former
ESPN First Take-er built the latter (and most profitable) part of his career on anti-LeBron
James hot takes, it feels like at least a part of Skip Bayless has died.
Which is sad, since it also feels like our idiotic
American sports media innocence is lost. We were so happy with LeBron's failures. They kept us safe at night, reassuring us that in our great country even the dumbest of opinions should find mainstream support. LeBron James was a choke artist, gutless Millennial who lacked both respect for the game and a "clutch gene." And if some know-it-all stat nerd type or basketball historian dare make an effort to highlight
Bron Bron's excellence, we all had the infallible fable of
Michael Jordan to wrap around ourselves for comfort.
He's not
Jordan. He'll never be Jordan. LeBron James is a fraud because he's not Michael Jordan.
WE WERE SO HAPPY WITH LEBRON'S FAILURES. THEY KEPT US
SAFE AT
NIGHT, REASSURING US THAT IN OUR
GREAT COUNTRY EVEN THE DUMBEST OF OPINIONS SHOULD FIND MAINSTREAM SUPPORT.
This was Skip Bayless during his 12 years as a full-time ESPN employee, half troll, half mouthpiece for
America's idiots. If LeBron James hit a game winning shot, it was only great in that it made up for all of his "misses and blunders." If LeBron James at the time was a seven-time All-Star, two-time All-Star
MVP, three-time
NBA All-Defensive First Team starter, and two-time
NBA MVP who led a team of trash cans to the
NBA Finals, he still wasn't a top-five
NBA player. If LeBron James broke some statistical record, or all the statistical records—Michael Jordan. Jordan was great, LeBron is not great, and those were the rules according to
Skip and his band of serial haters.
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- published: 21 Jun 2016
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