Skip Bayless Caught in Lie Regarding MJ and LeBron

LeBron James looked exhausted at times during the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Game 2 loss at Oracle Arena on Sunday night.

James has been incredulous in Cleveland’s deep playoff run. In his past four postseason games—two against the Golden State Warriors and two versus the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals—he has averaged 41.3 points, 10.8 rebounds and 9.8 assists in a whopping 46.5 minutes per contest.

LeBron looked exhausted in Game 2 of the Finals. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)

Given those gaudy numbers, his usage rate on the court and lack of rest, James should be tired.

Just don't tell that to Fox Sports 1 Analyst Skip Bayless, who has spent much of the past decade hating on James and diminishing the many accomplishments of the greatest player of the 21st century. Bayless mocked how James was called tired by ESPN Analyst and former NBA player Chauncey Billups and asserted NBA icon Michael Jordan would never be labeled tired.

Think about this: Chauncey Billups just said on ABC that LeBron "looked a little tired." IT'S ONLY GAME 2 OF THE NBA FINALS. I covered Michael Jordan when he was year older than LeBron is now. NOBODY EVER EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT MJ BEING TIRED. That would've been blasphemous.

— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) June 4, 2018

Interestingly enough, Jordan actually was called “tired” twenty years ago—by none other than Bayless himself in a column he wrote during the 1998 NBA Finals.

Twitter users took notice and exposed Bayless.

THIS IS ART, a two-part classic. pic.twitter.com/NkdhLNObxo

— Akash Anavarathan (@akashanav) June 4, 2018

Fantastic twitter own right here pic.twitter.com/M8Z8Q5kvDI

— Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz) June 4, 2018

That is some poetic justice right there. Bayless tried desperately to pedal the Jordan/James storyline, and it backfired. He must not have remembered writing that column, but people (aided by some quick research) don’t forget, Skip. People don't forget.