The Sunday Mail (Zimbabwe)

‘I stick by my words’

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Iing, so he clearly Googled me. So, appreciate that.

“But listen, man, I’m not going to get upset that somebody set something bad about me. I’m not like 12-years-old. Like I said, my initial criticism was fair, and I’m good with that.

“I think when you don’t like the message, you just kill the messenger. Some of the things he said about me are correct. That still does not make my message incorrect. I thought he was really whiny and complainin­g the last couple weeks talking about how he got no help. I’m like, ‘Dude, you believing that identity being so rare in the power structure of profession­al sports makes him and his partners targets.

“I collect one paycheck from this,” James said of his role with the Cavs. “There's the owner, Griff's (David Griffin) the GM, I'm the player. Screw Charles Barkley.” just won the championsh­ip and it’s the middle of the season, and you’re just bashing your teammates.’ I think that wasn’t right.

“You keep saying, ‘We’re not in it, we’re not that good,’ and I’m like, ‘Dude, y’all are the reigning defending NBA champs,’ and I appreciate Tristan Thompson actually having the stones to say something, but he’s the only one.

“The rest of them are just so intimidate­d. And anybody in that circle, they’re so intimidate­d, but I’m not intimidate­d at all.” —Yahoo Sport.

James put on his baseball cap and offered a parting thought as he prepared to leave the visitors' locker room at the American Airlines Centre to head to the airport for a flight back to Cleveland.

“I'm tired of biting my tongue,” James said. “There's a new sheriff in town.” —ESPN. Business School to help expand her candy business, added she had written a book about her life.

"I wrote a book which will be out in September. First it will be issued in English and then translated into Russian." Participat­ing in the in 2020 Tokyo Olympics is still too distant to contemplat­e.

"Now I'm focused on my comeback," the London Olympics silver medalist and 2008 Fed Cup winner told Russia's TASS news agency, saying it was "still unclear" if she would play in Tokyo.

"I would really love to play (in the Tokyo Games). It was hard to watch people competing at (Rio) Olympics, while I was unable to play there," she added.— NDTv Sports.

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