This is Crazy

NBA / Mar 19, 2008 / 12:34 pm

By Dime Magazine

Have you taken a good look at the LeBron/Giselle Vogue cover?

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25 Responses to “This is Crazy”

March 19th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Ross says:
Oh dear.
March 19th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
YOUNGFED says:
A lil late on this one Dime already saw it.
March 19th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Prof. TX says:
I just assumed they’d go with a more GQ look for LeBron. Aside from the resemblance in the imagery, it’s just not a great picture for either of them.
March 19th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Brown says:
I saw this a week or so ago, and thought it looked horrible in every way. Like Prof. TX, I thought it would be a classy GQ-type cover. It doesn’t even fit LeBron’s personality type.
I have no clue what Vogue was thinking. Maybe there’s a reason men don’t grace the covers of that mag.
March 19th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Dime Magazine says:
YOUNGFED –
We assumed everybody saw it, but did you click on the link?
March 19th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Kobeef says:
My guess is that David Stern didn’t have any input on Lebron’s “look” on that cover. Not a classy image of the NBA’s cover boy.
March 19th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
yallallreadyknow says:
ugly cover as i remember EVERYONE stating last week on here.
ugh and yuck
how does that cover invite anyone to buy the mag?
March 19th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
fallinup says:
Ahhhh, get it? King James….King Kong?…eh? Either that, or like the blog post said, they think he’s a gorilla.
March 19th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Logan Light says:
Odd. The link mentions that they are trying to portray a black man as a gorilla… that’s dumb. Yes, I did think they would have gone with a suited up Bron, but it is what it is. LeBron agreed to it. His publicist agreed to it. I don’t see a problem… other than Bron looking like he getting ready to eat Giselle.
March 19th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Dell says:
LMAO @ Logan’s “I don’t see a problem… other than Bron looking like he getting ready to eat Giselle.” What they did is take one of the richest businessmen in the world and make him look like he couldn’t control “the animal” within because of her beauty. While you can’t knock ‘Bron’s saavy he is still only 23. Bad move.
March 19th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
JA says:
Everytime I see this cover I laugh. I bet he didn’t consult his ‘mentor’ Jay-Z on this one. What a joke.
March 19th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
josefk says:
well, it seems odd to me that while it’s okay for the NBA (and American sports culture in general) to market African-Americans purely for their physical qualities, it is something else for a white collar magazine to do the same. Would decorating Lebron in a suit for tasteful viewing by rich white folk make any difference? WOuld it really alter public perception of his value to society or of the majority of African-Americans in general?
March 19th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
What is this!? says:
LOL @ them saying Lebron looks like a gorilla. SMH, I have seen soooo many people online talk about that cover like that. Just not a good look. They have a better picture with him and Giselle on the inside of the mag…they should have used that picture for the cover.
March 19th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Kudabeen says:
I think juxtaposing the image against the vintage King Kong images ( aka Big Ass Violent Gorilla coveting a Blonde) was quite fitting. I saw that cover on the heels of coming out of a certification course on Human Race Studies and thought, “Damn, 10 NBA championship wins won’t erase that loss…”
In the big picture of this country (His earning potential) this of course isn’t a big deal, but I thought his publicist and marketing people were better than this.
Ah well…
March 19th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
frankie says:
Fitting that on a basketball website, everyone would notice that there’s something wrong with a black man looking like a gorilla, but wouldn’t notice the stereotypes of A). woman as possession of man, or B.) white woman as object of black man. Stop being so vain, assholes.
Also, keep in mind that the cover story is that he has “the best body”. Wow – I would hate to be on the cover of a huge magazine that said that I had the “best body”, all while being pictured with a beautiful woman. Poor guy.
March 19th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
frankie says:
Oh yea, and p.s. – any time a black guy has a white girl on his arm, does that mean he’s being compared to King Kong? (AKA an unstoppable physical force – again, must be rough.) Beware all black men: if you have a white girlfriend, do not hold her in one arm! You WILL be compared to King Kong! That’s a bad thing!
March 19th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
josefk says:
yes frankie, have encountered these arguments before.
1) There are victims everywhere. Everyone’s being oppressed. So am I. But do I let it get to me? Oh no way! I’m way above that,and you should too.
2) The only way to rise out of your victimhood status is to beat your oppressors at their own game, show them you can make it big and flaunt your wealth. Then you can also show everyone that you weren’t really oppressed at all, only psychologically. There’s nothing wrong with the system. It’s just you.
3) Don’t talk about oppression. Live with what we have, which seems to work best for most people anyway, and shut the fuck up and take your angst someplace else.
p.s. for all dime readers: http://www.nyupress.org/books/Living_Through_the_Hoop-products_id-5178.html
March 19th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
josefk says:
yes frankie, have encountered these arguments before.
1) There are victims everywhere. Everyone’s being oppressed. So am I. But do I let it get to me? Oh no way! I’m way above that,and you should too.
2) The only way to rise out of your victimhood status is to beat your oppressors at their own game, show them you can make it big and flaunt your wealth. Then you can also show everyone that you weren’t really oppressed at all, only psychologically. There’s nothing wrong with the system. It’s just you.
3) Don’t talk about oppression. Live with what we have, which seems to work best for most people anyway, and shut the fuck up and take your angst someplace else.
http://www.nyupress.org/books/Living_Through_the_Hoop-products_id-5178.html
March 19th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
frankie says:
Haha. I get it.
March 20th, 2008 at 5:21 am
word says:
it ain’t nothing about a white girl on his arm it’s about his damn facial expression, shit why is that so hard to understand. if he had a normal face on it would’ve been fine but he looks like and idiot on the cover and the picture inside he looks gay straight homo. and the same photographer that did those shots is the one who did jennifer hudson when she was on it and made her look wack too with a horrible expression actually similar to lebrons and just plain wack looking. that magazine is straight racist trying to make blacks look like brutal savage’s coming out the jungle like blacks ain’t civilized. its quite disgusting but they have to please their white audience.
March 20th, 2008 at 5:26 am
YOUNGFED says:
OK Dime I click on it but don’t know exactly what I was supposed to see. Unless its the that Lebron looks exactly like King Kong. LMAO.
Get at me and let me know if that was it.
March 20th, 2008 at 7:31 am
vince says:
No, YOUNGFED, you were supposed to see that, as intriguing as geometric Newtonian gravity may be, its basis, classical mechanics, is merely a limiting case of (special) relativistic mechanics;[11] in the language of symmetry: where gravity can be neglected, physics is Lorentz invariant, not Galilei invariant – and the differences between the two become significant when we are dealing with fast motions or high-energy phenomena.
Lorentz symmetry introduces an additional conformal structure, namely the set of lightcones (see the image on the left). For each event A, there is a set of events that can, in principle, either influence or be influenced by A via signals or interactions that do not need to travel faster than light (such as event B in the image), and a set of events for which such an influence is impossible (such as event C in the image). These sets are observer-independent.
Special relativity is defined in the absence of gravity, so for practical applications, it is a suitable model whenever gravity can be neglected. As gravity comes into play, assuming the universality of free fall, an analogous reasoning as in the previous section applies: there are no global inertial frames. Instead there are approximate inertial frames moving alongside freely falling particles; translated into the language of space-time: the straight time-like lines that define a gravity-free inertial frame are deformed to lines that are curved relative to each other, suggesting that the inclusion of gravity necessitates a change in spacetime geometry.
A priori, it is not clear whether the new local frames in free fall are indeed those in which the laws of special relativity hold – that theory, is based on the propagation of light, and thus on electromagnetism, and its preferred frames might not be the same as the local free-falling inertial frames. But using different assumptions about the special-relativistic frames (such as their being earth-fixed, or in free fall), one can derive different predictions for the gravitational redshift; the actual measurements show that free-falling frames in which light propagates as it does in special relativity. The generalization of this statement, namely that the laws of special relativity hold, to good approximation, in freely falling (and non-rotating) reference frames, is known as the Einstein [equivalence principle], and is one of the guiding principles when it comes to generalizing special relativistic physics to include gravity.
However, again with reference to experimental data, it becomes clear that, for instance, proper time for clocks in a gravitational field, is not measured by the Minkowski metric of special relativity. As in the Newtonian case, this is suggestive of a more general geometry: where all reference frames in free fall are equivalent, and approximately Minkowskian, we are dealing with a curved generalization of Minkowski space: instead of Minkowskian, assume the metric tensor to be, more generally, semi-Riemannian. Furthermore, each Riemannian metric is naturally associated with one particular kind of connection, a Levi-Civita connection; assume this to be the connection implied by the universality of free fall…
March 20th, 2008 at 7:56 am
YOUNGFED says:
Vince:
WTF (x)10, I went to College graduated with a 3.8 gpa and still don’t know what the hell your talking about dude.
March 20th, 2008 at 7:58 am
YOUNGFED says:
Dime if you can translate that I’ll be truly AMAZED. LOL
March 20th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Byrd says:
Yo for real who cares? Its a MAGAZINE COVER! You guys gunna stop buying LeBron kicks and jerseys because of it? Any pub is good pub. You guys think his image is ruined now? He is no longer marketable, we had better hope someone from college can come in and be the new league savior.
Give me a break.