It’s March 8, 2024. Lakers vs. Bucks. Courtside seats, bright lights, two female team execs, and the King himself. LeBron’s wedged between Jeanie Buss and Linda Rambis, laughing, flexing forearms, basking in that “NBA ambassador of everything” energy. Then, after a few false starts, he drops it: “First and foremost, Happy International Women’s Day.”
Both women gush. Jeanie rests her head on his bicep. Linda clings to his arm like a Karen before a 911 call. Cue the internet doing what it does best — immortalizing the moment in GIFs and thirst trap memes that live in infamy.
This is LeBron’s particular brand of virtue signaling: harmless and dripping in that classic millennial try-hard sincerity. He’s trying to be wholesome, progressive, the guy who never forgets Hallmark holidays. Somehow, the virtue signaling comes off like Republicans quoting Martin Luther King Jr. It’s ego cosplay. We would’ve loved to be a fly on the wall when he got home. Only LeBron could turn International Women’s Day into a try-hard flirt.
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