LeBron James Fights To Hold Back His Laughter During Macy Gray's Disastrous National Anthem Performance
LeBron James couldn’t help himself from cracking up during Macy Gray’s rendition of the national anthem ahead of the 2022 NBA All-Star Game.
Just before Sunday’s All-Star Game, the 37-year-old basketball legend was caught on video struggling to keep his composure amid Gray’s performance of The Star-Spangled Banner – a peculiar performance that was ridiculed online immediately following the singer’s final note of the tune.
In the video, LeBron is seen next to fellow NBA star Steph Curry as he rocks back and forth with a big smile on his face before looking down in a half-hearted attempt to hide his laughter. The camera quickly cuts away, but it was too little too late for the Los Angeles Lakers star because the shots of him chuckling to himself quickly went viral.
After the video of LeBron struggling to keep it together during the 54-year-old Grammy-winning R&B artist’s performance started spreading online, people wasted no time calling out the NBA player and laughing along.
“Why is this always the hardest part for the players LMAO,” one person commented after The Neighborhood Talk posted the video to their Instagram with the captions, “LeBron fighting demons trying to hold in his laughter” and “he was trying his best to keep it together during Macy Gray’s National anthem.”
“The camera man is the real villain here,” another person wrote, calling out the person who caught LeBron laughing at Gray’s performance before cutting back to the singer.
“LOL HE wrong, that's her style of singing tho,” one more person commented on the video, laughing along with LeBron while also backing up Gray and her particular style.
LeBron's laughing incident comes a little more than a month after he reprimanded Tristan Thompson at an NBA game in January.
Hot off the wake from Thompson’s bombshell DNA test confirming he is in fact the father to a child with Maralee Nichols, LeBron reportedly called the Sacramento Kings player out after falling into the team’s bench.
"I'm a motherfu--ing problem, bitch," he yelled at Thompson before getting back on his feet and back into the game.