Tag: Presidential election

LeBron James posted a heartfelt message to his daughter after the presidential election

LeBron spoke with love about his daughter.

As the entire NBA took Tuesday off for Election Day in the United States and the results poured in, it took time for many folks to digest the news.

Even though sports is likely not on the mind of many Americans today after such an impactful political decision, the gravity of the results will certainly impact virtually everyone in America. That includes four-time NBA Finals MVP and Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James, who expressed his thoughts on social media after the election.

It isn’t easy to have the right words to say right now, but James immediately thought of his 10-year-old daughter Zhuri.

ELECTION RESULTS: It’s hard to write about sports today.

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Here is what James wrote on Instagram:

“HEAVY ON MY HEART & MIND THIS AM MY PRINCESS 👸🏾!! PROMISE TO PROTECT YOU WITH EVERYTHING I HAVE AND MORE!! WE DONT NEED THEIR HELP!”

James had a similar reaction when Donald Trump won the U.S. Presidential Election in 2016.

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Why the NBA has zero games scheduled on Tuesday night in 2024

The idea is to encourage fans to participate in the civic process.

If you tuned in to the NBA last night, you got to see every single team take the court. Tonight, on November 5, the opposite will happen.

Due to the 2024 presidential election, every single team in the league will have a night off on Tuesday. The league made a similar decision in 2022 for the midterm elections.

This is the first time that the league has scheduled no games for a presidential election, but the idea is to promote voting and once again “encourage fans and the broader NBA community to participate in the civic process” this year, per NBA.com.

Basketball will quickly return to its regularly scheduled programing with an enjoyable slate to look forward to on Wednesday.

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Marshawn Lynch to start podcast with California Gov. Gavin Newsom

Marshawn Lynch to start podcast with California Governor Gavin Newsom

There’s an old saying: Politics makes strange bedfellows. Right now, we are seeing that come true in a rather unusual way. On Wednesday morning, it was announced that former Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch and his agent Doug Hendrickson are launching a podcast this summer …

… with California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Huh. I can honestly say I did not see this one coming!

The trio announced the podcast, called Politickin’, on Instagram. It will debut on July 15. The summary of the podcast on the iHeartMedia website reads: “Gavin Newsom like you’d never heard him and Marshawn Lynch exactly how you’d expect him.”

ESPN’s Adam Schefter gave a little more insight on the podcast in the tweet below.

It is always an interesting crossover when the worlds of sports and politics intersect, and it’s not often that there is such a direct connection like this. I’ll admit, my curiosity has certainly been piqued.

Additionally, I can’t help but wonder about the timing of this. I am not a political pundit, nor is anyone coming to Seahawks Wire for political analysis. But Newsom’s name has been floated over the past few years as a potential replacement for President Joe Biden. Recently, those calls have increased among certain Democrats following the President’s debate performance in late June.

Could Newsom be engaging in a new tactic to grow his popularity and relatability with younger voters? If this is truly his plan, pairing up with one of the most iconic, charismatic and popular athletes is a creative way to try to accomplish it.

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LeBron James shares photoshop of Joe Biden blocking Donald Trump to celebrate result

LeBron is PETTY.

The 2020 presidential election is finally over and Joe Biden has been elected as the new president elect of the United States.

People across the country are celebrating. LeBron James is among them. The Los Angeles Lakers star was heavily invested in this election. So much so that he actually gave a full endorsement to Biden for this election.

His history with Donald Trump is also well documented — James called him a bum. So it goes without saying that James is absolutely thrilled with this result.

He’s so thrilled, in fact, that shared a photoshop of Joe Biden playing the role of James in what is probably going to go down as the greatest moment of his career — the chase down block on Andre Iguodala in game 7 of the 2016 Finals.

And I bet you can guess who was photoshopped onto Iguodala.

WHEW that is spicy. And you can bet that he’s got more in the tank where that came from.

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