President Donald Trump, asked to weigh in on the \u2060basketball careers of Michael Jordan and LeBron James, said Friday that James might be a racist.<\/p>\n
In a White House news conference, Fox News\u2019 Peter \u200bDoocy mentioned the Friday news that James \u200cintends to \u200csign with the Philadelphia 76ers, \u200bthen asked the president whether Jordan or James is the \u201cbest ever.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump replied, \u201cMichael Jordan is a \u2060guy that\u2019s a friend of mine. I play golf with \u2060him. He\u2019s a really good guy. I think LeBron is \u2014 maybe \u200bhe\u2019s a racist, but maybe \u2060he doesn\u2019t like Trump. I don\u2019t know. I only like \u2060people that like me, \u200bso I would say Michael \u200bJordan all the way.\u201d<\/p>\n
James endorsed the \u200bthree \u200ccandidates that ran against Trump in the past three presidential elections: Hillary Clinton in 2016, Joe Biden in 2020 and Kamala Harris \u200cin 2024.<\/p>\n
James also criticized Trump following the president\u2019s withdrawal of the Warriors\u2019 invitation to the White House in 2017, after Golden State star Stephen Curry \u200bstated \u200bthat he would have declined the \u200bvisit.<\/p>\n
Jordan, 63, won six NBA titles \u2060for the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s and was a five-time league MVP.<\/p>\n
James, 41, owns four NBA championship rings and has been \u200bselected MVP four times during his career with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat and Los Angeles Lakers. He is the NBA\u2019s all-time leader in points and games played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump, asked to weigh in on the \u2060basketball careers of Michael Jordan and LeBron James, said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[12,3013,355,99],"class_list":["post-785306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-donald-trump","tag-lebron-james","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}