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LeBron James queries why media asked him about Irving but not Jerry Jones

LeBron James played alongside Kyrie Irving at the Cleveland Cavaliers
LeBron James played alongside Kyrie Irving at the Cleveland Cavaliers. Photograph: Michael Owen Baker/AP

LeBron James took reporters to task on Wednesday for their failure to ask him about a controversial photo featuring Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.

The Washington Post recently unearthed a photo from 1957 in which a teenaged Jones is in the crowd while a mob of white boys blocks six Black students from entering Arkansas’ North Little Rock High. The photo was taken in a period when schools had started to desegregate in the United States. Jones has said he was an observer during the incident and had been unaware of what was going on.

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