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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.”
Rob Parker: “I don’t know how LeBron could be upset. This happened in the Bucks’ backyard. They should be the lead on this, not LeBron James.”
Goodman: “It’s all about egos, Rob, and when you’re LeBron James and Chris Paul you want everything going through you first… It wasn’t a formal vote as what I was told last night. A couple of players said to me last night ‘hey, we know this thing can turn quickly, it was heated, there was a lot of frustration, and tomorrow’s meeting [Friday morning] is going to be the key.’” (Full Segment)
Listen to NBA insider Jeff Goodman discuss with Chris Broussard and Rob Parker the NBA’s whirlwind last 24 hours that nearly saw the entire season called off, as players had reportedly come dangerously close to boycotted the rest of the playoffs.
Goodman explains how disjointed the developing ‘boycott’ was, and how the teams literally had no idea that the Milwaukee Bucks were going to boycott their game vs. the Orlando Magic until tipoff, which reportedly angered LeBron James and Chris Paul.
Check out the interview above as Goodman even describes Thursday morning’s do-or-die conference call, which Goodman’s sources tell him that LeBron did not say one single word during, as he supposedly was angry and not willing to admit that he ‘jumped the gun’ on the original boycott idea on Wednesday night.
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