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Legendary retired NBA player Shaquille O’Neal appears to be fed up with extremely privileged NBA star and multimillionaire LeBron James’ constant grievances.

Without actually directly naming James, the 49-year-old legend went off on a rant this week about NBA players who incessantly “complain and make excuses.”

“When you’re living in a world where 40 million people have been laid off and I’m making $200 million, you won’t get no complaining from me. I’d play back to back to back to back to back,” he said in an interview with CNBC.

“I’m not knocking what anybody said, but me personally, I don’t complain and make excuses, because real people are working their tail off, and all we gotta do is train two hours a day and then play a game for two hours at night and make a lot of money … So my thought process is a little different,” he added.

While he didn’t name James, it’s strongly believed that his rant was a response to a grievance-filled fit that the Lakers star had thrown days earlier.

On June 16th, he posted a poorly written Twitter screed whining that so many NBA players wouldn’t have been injured this season had the league listened to him — the apparently all-knowing, all-seeing — and delayed the return of basketball.

Look:

They all didn’t wanna listen to me about the start of the season. I knew exactly what would happen. I only wanted to protect the well being of the players which ultimately is the PRODUCT & BENEFIT of OUR GAME! These injuries isn’t just “PART OF THE GAME”. It’s the lack of PURE

— LeBron James (@KingJames) June 16, 2021

RIM REST rest before starting back up. 8, possibly 9 ALL-STARS has missed Playoff games(most in league history). This is the best time of the year for our league and fans but missing a ton of our fav players. It’s insane. If there’s one person that know about the body and how it

— LeBron James (@KingJames) June 16, 2021

works all year round it’s ME! I speak for the health of all our players and I hate to see this many injuries this time of the year. Sorry fans wish you guys were seeing all your fav guys right now. 🙏🏾👑

— LeBron James (@KingJames) June 16, 2021

According to CNBC, top “players including James Harden, Kevin Durant, Kawhi Leonard and James’ teammate Anthony Davis suffered key injuries in the NBA’s 72-game campaign and postseason.”

James believes that these injuries would have been prevented had the league not started this year’s season in December, which is when the season has always begun.

The NBA has, for its part, disputed this narrative.

“Injury rates were virtually the same this season as they were during 2019-20 while starter-level and All-Star players missed games due to injury at similar rates as the last three seasons,” NBA spokesperson Mike Bass aid in response to James’ complaints.

“While injuries are an unfortunate reality of our game, we recognize the enormous sacrifices NBA players and teams have made to play through this pandemic,” Bass added.

NBA spokesman Mike Bass after criticism of the league schedule from LeBron James:

“Injury rates were virtually the same this season as they were during 2019-20 while starter-level and All-Star players missed games due to injury at similar rates as the last three seasons. (1/2)

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) June 16, 2021

More from NBA spokesman Mike Bass to @NYTSports on criticism of this season’s schedule registered today by LeBron James:

“While injuries are an unfortunate reality of our game, we recognize the enormous sacrifices NBA players and teams have made to play through this pandemic.”

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) June 16, 2021

However, an analysis by ESPN’s Kevin Pelton found that the “average number of players sidelined per game due to injury, non-COVID-19 illness or rest this season was …. the highest since he started tracking it in 2009-10,” as reported last month by ESPN.

“The increase was even more pronounced when focusing on the league’s stars. This season’s All-Stars missed 370 of a possible 1,944 games (19%), the highest percentage in a season in NBA history, according to Elias Sports Bureau research. They missed an average of 13.7 regular-season games each this year,” ESPN added.

And so maybe James had a point?

But by the same token, these players are paid millions upon millions upon millions to put up with such circumstances, so it seems O’Neal also had a point.

Plus, this isn’t the first, second, third, fourth, or even fifth time that James has gone viral for complaining about something, anything.

Correction: Anything but China and its human rights abuses. When it comes to the genuine abuse felt by true victims, James has always preferred the route of silence.

Greg Gutfeld shreds ‘filthy hypocrite’ LeBron James, says it’s time for US stakeholders to confront China https://t.co/hu07onne0S pic.twitter.com/hjHkiYJf3Y

— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) June 22, 2021

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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.

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