Anyone following this Stephen A Smith vs LeBron dispute?

SAS could probably tone it down a little here.

As a lifelong Celtics fan, I have to poke at James occasionally (it's in our bylaws), but I have never understood the level of passionate negativity he seems to attract. He's clearly the dominant player of his era, dragged a number of underpowered Cavs teams to the finals, and actually brought a championship to Cleveland. Off the court, he has never been in trouble, essentially a model citizen, and has been very generous in making sure he supports his old home town of Akron.

He hasn't been perfect by any means, but he gets held up to absurd standards of perfection on and off the court. I just don't get it.
He's the target with the "shut up and dribble" crowd and that's terrible of course.

But is a major portion of this beef the fact that SAS thinks he's #2 all time behind Jordan? I mean, who cares? I did see where SAS went on about stuff he COULD have reported about, but didnt.. by actually reporting on it. I dont know.

It's weird and I don't really care.