Restaurants & Bars
Bar Owner Won't Show NBA Games Until LeBron James 'Expelled'
NBA games won't be on the TVs at Linnie's Bar in Cincinnati after the league's top superstar made a controversial police tweet.
CINCINNATI — Cincinnati hasn't been home to an NBA team for nearly a half-century now, and now one of the Queen City's bars won't show any of the league's games on television.
That is until the league bans its top superstar, according to a Facebook post from the bar's owner.
Jay Linneman, owner of Linnie's Pub in New Delhi Township, said "if anyone wants to watch an NBA game, don't come to Linnie's Pub. We will not air them until LeBron James has been expelled from the NBA," several media outlets have reported.
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Linnie's owner made the NBA game ban after James tweeted, and then deleted, the phrase "You're Next #Accountability" in reference to the Columbus, Ohio, police officer who shot and killed 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant earlier in the week.
If anyone wants to watch an NBA game, don’t come to Linnie’s Pub. We will not air them until Lebron James has been expelled from the NBA.
Posted by JC Linnie on Wednesday, April 21, 2021
James, sarcastically, reacted to the news of the Cincinnati bar's decision.
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"I was headed there to watch our game tonight and have a drink! Welp," he tweeted Saturday.
The four-time NBA champion and former Cleveland Cavaliers superstar earlier said he deleted his original tweet directed at the Columbus police officer because it was being used to incite more anger.
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