Jeff Goodman: “After talking to a couple players who were in the meeting, the problem was the lack of coordination, frustration, and the egos that were involved -- whether it was with LeBron or Chris Paul -- with the Bucks kind of making that decision on their own. I talked to one player on Orlando who said they had no idea legitimately until right till the game started that anything was going on and that the Bucks weren’t going to play. The frustration was more of ‘Hey listen, if we’re going to do this, let’s be unified, and let’s have a coordinated effort’… I was listening to that call months ago with the 88 NBA players and they’re not that organized. They’re not, and that’s part of the problem here. They need to get more organized. Today’s meeting at 11am was far more organized because you had two voices for the most part. You had Chris Paul, and Andre Iguodala. My sources said that LeBron James did not say one word in that meeting this morning that lasted about 45 minutes.”
Chris Broussard: “Are other people reading anything into LeBron not saying anything?”
Goodman: “I talked to one player and he said it was LeBron not willing to admit that he was jumping the gun last night, and was doing it the wrong way, instead of taking the temperature of the room. It was more frustration that got to him that he wasn’t more involved, and some of the other big voices weren’t more involved. If you’re a Lakers player what are you going to do? You have to walk out with LeBron. I don’t understand why the Clippers necessarily did it, but if you’re a Lakers player you have no choice but to follow LeBron.”
Listen to NBA insider Jeff Goodman explain to Rob Parker and Chris Broussard how Thursday’s critical NBA meeting went down between the players, that ultimately led to the league avoiding a complete boycott and having the playoffs called off.
Check out the segment above as Goodman details how LeBron James surprisingly played zero part in that meeting, as Goodman’s sources told him that LeBron didn’t say one word in the 45-minute meeting, and was apparently bitter and not willing to admit that he ‘jumped the gun’ on Wednesday night in leading a Lakers boycott before ‘taking the temperature in the room’ before hand.
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