Over the past week, we’ve seen viral clips of LeBron James dunking while participating in a pre-AAU game layup line that his son Bronny was a part of and the Lakers star going wild at his kid’s championship-sealing dunk.
It was that behavior that Jason Whitlock of Fox Sports 1’s Speak For Yourself pointed to in scathing criticism on Monday, in a segment in which he called James “the latest helicopter dad to land on sports Earth.”
“LeBron is making a spectacle of himself, a circus of his son’s early playing days and using his son’s game as yet another platform to build a LeBron social media brand,” he said.
But James had so many defenders that came out on social media, and that included Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum, who wrote this on Twitter:
With so many fathers not supporting there kids we get upset because he is genuinely happy for his son! Lol that’s crazy I can’t wait till my son get older and I get to support him with whatever he wants to do!
A take from Lions DT Damon “Snacks” Harrison:
Here’s more response:
