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Mike D. Sykes, II

The NBA’s Eric Lewis situation has gotten so wild that even LeBron James is questioning it now

The NBA’s situation with Eric Lewis and a mysterious Twitter account had already come to a head when the league announced that it was launching an investigation into the activity surrounding the account.

The account was discovered by NBA fans earlier this week. The tweets in question are all in defense of calls that Eric Lewis has made. There are no real allegiances to any teams or players apparent within the content on the account, but it still seems a bit strange.

Initially, fans believed the account was a burner Twitter account that Eric Lewis uses But the person behind the account claimed to be Lewis’ brother, Mark.

As I said, this is all pretty strange. It’s strange enough for players to start to question it. And not just any player — we’re talking about LeBron James here.

James hopped on to Twitter and asked whether the news about Lewis was true.

Whew boy.

Look, we have no idea what James knows or what he’s questioning here. But the most important part about officiating is the integrity of the official. Players, coaches, fans and everyone else need to feel that each official is trustworthy.

We’ll have to wait and see what gets uncovered from the NBA’s investigation into the social media activity. Honestly, it didn’t seem like that big of a deal. But it’s obviously snowballed into a bigger thing here and now Lewis’ integrity is being questioned here.

That right there is not a good look.

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