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USA Today via Reuters

USA Today via Reuters

The season is already looking bad for the Los Angeles Lakers. Since 2015-16, this is the first time the Lakers have started this horribly. Despite having LeBron James on the roster, they were unable to showcase any significant performances in the games. Winning two out of eight games early on, the Lakers really looked like they are fumbling. And the inconsistent performances of King James is a cherry on top. After displaying an underwhelming performance against the Utah Jazz, King James supposedly showed no sportsmanship while going back into the dressing room after starting to receive jeers from the fans. This incident has upset a section of fans.

The Utah Jazz were in Los Angeles looking for a win to stop their losing streak of consecutive two games, while the Los Angeles Lakers were looking forward to their 3rd consecutive win of the season. However, one has to come victorious between them, and the Jazz utilized this opportunity pretty well. The match ended with a box of? 116-130.

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King James’ disappoints against the Utah Jazz

While LeBron James might think of enjoying his twilight seasons with a bit of respect. But that was not the case after his performance against the Jazz. He finished the match with a statline of 17 points, 8 assists, and 10 rebounds. He was a pretty sub-par scorer for the Lakers with the amount of game time.

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Without being able to win the match, LeBron started to receive taunts from the fans. This resulted in King James walking straight back into the dressing room without any interactions with the fans.

Afterwards, this gesture from LeBron James received a negative response on the Internet. The fans accused LeBron of having no sportsmanship.

One of the fans commented, “If he won he will be nice and shaking hands but if he lost he will leave the game so fast, what a character.”

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Others also commented,

“HELL YEA! ima lakers fan but this is why I LOVE sports. Just pure emotion every way no holds barred!”

“He’s disappointed in himself missing all those shots”

“he only shows sportsmanship when his team wins”

Well, it seemed like the comments by the fans came due to the disappointing performance of LeBron. They surely expected their favorite player to deliver. But in reality, the match showed the fans a very underperforming LeBron James.

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LeBron James reflects on Kyrie Irving

Amidst the underperformance in the match, LeBron James opened up about the recent controversy regarding Kyrie Irving. LeBron seemed to criticize Kyrie Irving for his actions. He said, ?I believe that what Kyrie did caused some harm to a lot of people.?? LeBron went on to say that an apology could not fix when a problem had already been created. He finished off by saying that he would not condone any things that would harm people

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