{"id":433748,"date":"2023-04-21T20:05:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T00:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433748"},"modified":"2023-04-21T19:49:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T23:49:39","slug":"lebron-disregard-brooks-dig-at-him","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lebron-disregard-brooks-dig-at-him\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron disregard Brooks dig at him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The superstar of the Los Angeles Lakers announced that he will show up on the court against Memphis Grizzlies and Dillon Brooks instead of talking to the media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not here for the bulls&#8212;,&#8221; the King said after practice today, cutting off his media availability after bypassing Brooks-related questions for about 5 minutes. &#8220;I&#8217;m ready to play, and that&#8217;s it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Memphis won Game 2 103-93 in the 1st round playoff series in the West, and Dillon decided to take that opportunity to tease LeBron James after the match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t care &#8212; he&#8217;s old. You know what I mean?&#8221; the Grizzlies player said Wednesday after staring down LeBron on the floor when he scored from the 3-point line in the 4th quarter. &#8220;I was waiting for that. I was expecting him to do that in Game 4 and Game 5. He wanted to say something when I got my fourth foul. He should have been saying that earlier on. But I poke bears. I don&#8217;t respect no one until they come and give me 40.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lakers\u2019 Rui Hachimura on Dillon Brooks calling LeBron James old: \u201cThat\u2019s all they can do. They\u2019re a young team. They just want to talk. We don\u2019t really care. We\u2019re just going to play our game and try to win the game.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eGmxHQmqqj\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/eGmxHQmqqj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Medina (@MarkG_Medina) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkG_Medina\/status\/1649511655779504129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When asked about the Dillon trash-talk, LeBron said he is listening to it now, but it doesn&#8217;t impress him, and the matches are won by playing, not by talking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The superstar of the Los Angeles Lakers announced that he will show up on the court against Memphis Grizzlies and Dillon Brooks instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":433749,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16972,16970,17837],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[17644,17645,1067],"acf":{"announce":"James said that he is ready to play.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433748"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433748"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}