LeBron James is not shy about voicing his frustration when referees swallow their whistles on plays he believes to be fouls, which irks former NBA star Mychal Thompson, father of Golden State Warriors sharpshooter Klay Thompson.
"We all respect LeBron's ability...but man, sometimes he acts too entitled like he's supposed to get everything he wants," Mychal Thompson said Monday, per Diamond Leung of the Bay Area News Group.
Per Leung, Thompson added that James "couldn't have survived in the '80s with the physicality and the words guys said to each other back then."
These comments come on the heels of Warriors forward Draymond Green getting suspended for Monday's Game 5 of the NBA Finals for accruing too many flagrant fouls after he hit James in the groin during the fourth quarter of Game 4 on Friday.
Green explained the controversial sequence to Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated:
[James] stepped over me and I felt like that was disrespectful. I don’t disrespect you on the court. Don’t disrespect me. There’s no love lost. It is what it is. It&rs ...
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