LeBron James’ off-court archenemy strikes once again, and this time he takes aim at The King’s offseason grind.
Not his fans, not his kids, not even Savannah James, no one is more obsessed with LeBron James than Fox Sports analyst Skip Bayless.
The former ESPN employee has built a career trashing The King in such blasphemous ways over the years, he can’t even get any more dismissive, even as much as he pleases.
Whether it’s on his show with NFL legend Shannon Sharpe or on his own podcast, not a day goes by for the 70-year-old when he doesn’t try to belittle the 18x All-Star in the cruelest way possible.
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It was the latter where he launched another attack on the 37-year-old. But this one looks legit, unlike most shots of him.
Skip Bayless criticizes LeBron James for not dedicating an entire offseason to free throws
At the recent launch of his hometown group, The Skip Bayless Show, the veteran analyst wondered what question he would ask LeBron James if he ever got the chance.
We’ve all witnessed the free throw struggles of the 4x MVP, haven’t we? And that’s what Skip had in store to ask James before the 2022-23 season begins. Here, try it.
If you could ask LeBron James one question, what would it be? I answer here in @SkipBaylessShow:pic.twitter.com/DRgayzwysH
— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) October 6, 2022
As much as one hates Bayless or loves LeBron, they can’t butt into the fact that this generation’s GOAT contender suffers heavily along the lines of charity.
And it’s a problem that has plagued him for most of his nearly two-decade NBA career.
Free throws have somewhat restricted The Kid from Akron to achieve even more,
LeBron is one of the most efficient players in basketball history. Him having a career field goal conversion rate of 50.5% and a true shooting percentage of almost 59% makes him one of the best in efficiency.
But his free-throw woes have also hurt his career a lot. A career 73% free throw shooter himself, James has had 10 of 19 seasons in which he averaged less than 75% from free throws all year.
Assessing what would happen if he was an 80-85% free throw shooter like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, it’s just amazing. The 4x NBA champion could have had a few more championships if his FT were more accurate than 74%.
It’s hard to imagine that he didn’t spend a couple of preseasons just working on FT, maybe that’s just not his thing.
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Still, considering what he does on the basketball court and continues to do so with such ease, it’s hard to think he worked all or even half of the offseason and didn’t succeed.
