Lakers’ LeBron James says he’s taking a social media break – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

LOS ANGELES — LeBron James says he is taking a break from social media.

The Lakers star posted on X (the platform previously referred to as Twitter) and Instagram on Wednesday to announce he was stepping away from its pages. The NBA’s all-time main scorer has 159 million followers on Instagram, 52.9 million on X.

James started his farewell by reposting one thing that Wealthy Kleiman, Kevin Durant’s longtime supervisor, posted on X on October 24.

“We will all acknowledge that sport is the final ingredient of society that universally brings folks collectively. So why cannot the duvet do the identical? » Kleiman wrote that day. “It’s simply clickbait while you say it.” When the platform is that this massive, you can also make the change and permit us all to flee the negativity of actual life. Individually, I discover all this only a waste of breath.

James, on Instagram, posted a screenshot of Kleiman’s message and added the caption: “Such a disgrace what it got here to.” On X, his repost of Kleiman merely stated: “AMEN!! »

Kleiman has solely posted a number of instances since his Oct. 24 put up, and clearly James has no plans to put up a lot — or something — till additional discover.

His announcement got here a day after he stated “everybody on the web known as me a liar on a regular basis” when he stated he watched Dalton Knecht’s school video games final yr at Tennessee – lengthy earlier than the Lakers usually are not drafted. the rookie sniper guard.