After four long, anxious days of waiting to find out who the next president of the United States would be, Joe Biden was declared president-elect by every major news outlet on Saturday morning. As Democratic voters around the country began to celebrate, it was NBA superstar LeBron James who had one of the most entertaining tweets of the day.
LeBron James and other NBA players had the best tweets about Joe Biden being named president-elect
You know LeBron had this one saved in the drafts for months.
Ricky O'Donnell has covered basketball at all levels for more than a decade at SB Nation. He’s currently the Associate Director of Programming.
James, who has been critical of Donald Trump throughout his presidency, sent out a Photoshop’d image you know he had waiting in his drafts for months. It doesn’t get any better than this:
James is recalling perhaps the greatest player of his career: his Game 7 crunch-time block against Andre Iguodala to seal the Cleveland Cavaliers’ 2016 NBA championship over the Golden State Warriors.
Watch the block again here:
James and Trump were not fans of each other. At a recent Trump rally in Pennsylvania, a ‘LeBron James sucks’ chant broke out. James memorably fired off a tweet in 2017 calling Trump a ‘bum’ after the president said he wasn’t inviting Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors to the White House after their NBA championship, only after Curry himself already said he wasn’t going.
Biden’s win even brought LeBron and Draymond Green together:
LeBron wasn’t the only NBA player to celebrate Biden’s win. Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid, always entertaining on social media, tweeted this:
His teammate Ben Simmons was a little more subtle in celebration:
Here are some other celebratory tweets from NBA stars:
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