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LeBron James responds to Ron Harper's insult with profane shot
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LeBron James responds to Ron Harper's insult with profane shot

Originally posted on Larry Brown Sports
By Darryn Albert  |  Last updated Apr 17, 2026 10:01 PM ET
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One former Los Angeles Lakers champion is going after another one this week.

Lakers star LeBron James targeted retired former NBA point guard Ron Harper on the latest episode of his “Mind the Game” podcast with Steve Nash. While the conversation was on San Antonio Spurs guard Dylan Harper, Ron’s son, and Dylan’s chances of winning NBA Rookie of the Year, James a profane his dig in.

“Dylan’s great,” said James. “I mean, his daddy ain’t s–t. But he’s good. I’ll see [Ron] when I see him.”

Here is the video of the clip (but watch out for the bad language).

The five-time NBA champion Harper, now 62 years old, actually played for the Lakers from 1999-01 and won two championships there. As the father of both Dylan Harper and Boston Celtics guard Ron Harper Jr., Harper currently has two sons playing in the NBA.

But the elder Harper clearly drew the ire of James with some inflammatory comments he made a couple of months ago about James’ style of parenting (in reference to James’ son Bronny being teammates with James on the Lakers). 

"I'm not LeBron James. I'm not going to tell my kids what they have to do," Harper said. "I just want to play and enjoy the game and whatever they can get back out the ball game, we will take it."

James has profanely called out other prominent figures in recent months for mentioning Bronny and clearly has no qualms about doing the same to the former Chicago Bulls guard Harper here.

This article first appeared on Larry Brown Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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