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Lonely ‘Bron: LeBron James Allegedly Asked Out An Olympic Swimmer, Was Allegedly Denied


Look how happy LeBron looks in that photo. It’s like he woke up on Hipster Christmas morning, ran downstairs, and found a bunch of tiny backpacks filled with Prince CDs and turquoise bow ties. That is pure nerd joy right there.

He probably had no idea a soul-crushing defeat would come soon after this photo was taken.

On a recent evening in London, the star-studded U.S.A. Basketball team toured the sex ranch for insanely fit twenty-somethings known as the Olympic Village. The basketball team, made up of globally recognizable NBA multimillionaires, is staying at a hotel away from the Village. This was their first opportunity to mingle with some of the other, less famous Olympians.

As you know, everyone gets laid at the Olympic Village. There is simply too much toned ass everywhere for the athletes not to take a dip in someone else’s similarly-gifted gene pool. Now, I have no idea what LeBron James’ intentions were when he sidled up to U.S. swimmer and Greenville, North Carolina native Lauren Perdue — he may have just been looking for a friend who wouldn’t take photos of him as he napped. Nevertheless, a request was made.

And that request was denied.

Via the Charlotte Observer’s Scott Fowler:

The biggest news Perdue has made at the Olympics, though, was when she sent out a tweet one night saying LeBron James had asked her to dinner and a picture of the two of them together.

I asked Perdue about it Wednesday. “The basketball players were nice enough to kind of come out and meet the swimmers and take pictures,” Perdue said, speaking of a recent evening when the basketball players toured the Olympic Village (they aren’t staying there — the swimmers are).

LeBron did take a liking to Perdue, though, who is a star swimmer at the University of Virginia. So did he really ask her to dinner?

“He did,” Perdue said. “He was kind of joking but he was basically like, ‘Would you like to come eat with me at the dining hall?’ And I said, ‘Um, I’m sorry, I have a curfew. So I turned that one down, yeah.”

This is a tough one, folks. There’s really no other way to classify it. One of our best athletes, fresh off his greatest victory, has suffered a potentially confidence-shattering setback.

LeBron, as Yahoo! points out, never went to college. This is worth noting, because he never got to eat at a dining hall with a pretty girl. Now, thanks to Lauren Perdue and her phantom “curfew,” he may never get that chance.

Cold blooded, Lauren Perdue. Cold. Blooded.

[Scott Fowler, Yahoo, Black Sports Online]


  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    she had a prior engagement with kobe…

  • Anonymous

    Boom.

  • Anonymous

    Isn’t Lebron married?

  • M?

    She should be spread eagle2 please the man and his capabilities out of loyalty to the USA

  • Machballa12

    If the Miami heat Fail to win ever again it’s all Lauren purdues fault for crushing his dreams, poor guy they say white woman is a black mans kryptonite. And yes lebron is engaged but she won’t leave him….he’s lebron James

  • Bobbycream650

    I think your giving her a little too much credit..I also can see that your not use to dating,you probably married the first thing that smiled in your face..Lebron asking her to dinner in another country is a straight booty call,she really should feel more disrespect than
    flattery.Bron Bron we know what it was,if that’s what it meant..That’s a small thing,just charge it to the game..

  • KMAC562

    LOL WAHT DA HELL LEBRON?  DA GUY HAS NO GAME!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/TP6D4VLUYSPLZBF3UJHGMV4C44 Randall

    Maybe it was his hairline!

  • Lilkennyp23

    How creative of you, whats your yearly salary since u have jokes ?

  • Enertel2

    WTH. She should have said yes, how many more chances will you get to take home a celebrity athlete then chop his balls off for thinking he can belittle a woman because of his wealth. M? You suck. You probably sit on your hands and yank the stranger then bury your head.

  • JEREMY

    Lauren has the good judgement to recognize A MAN WITH TRUE CLASS when she sees one.

    LeBron James has NO CLASS.
    HE IS TOO HIGH ON HIMSELF.

    HE IS NOT AND NEVER WILL BE IN THE SAME CLASS AS JORDAN,BIRD, & SHAQ.

    The closest he’ll EVER be in their class is DETENTION HALL,where he, Dwayne Wade,
    and Kobe ALL BELONG
      

  • Anonymous

    Fuck this stupid bitch! Why would u put something like that on twitter and then come back and say it was “kinda” like a joke? See Lebron that’s what happens when you don’t act stuck up to little 21 year old girls. I ain’t never heard of this chick till I saw this story. Get the King’s name out of ur mouth little girl.

  • Anonymous

    No! Lauren is a little 21 yr old bitch! Why post some suggestive  shit like that if you thought it was kinda like a joke? Then post a pic with the caption “oh hey Lebron.”  Then she deleted that tweet, tell ur lauren (with a small “l”) to shut the fuck up and keep the King’s name outta her mouth. No one knows her or care about her.

  • Larry

    It’s not colded blooded- lebron is engaged- shouldnt even be doing this

  • factchecker

    you know his fiance savannah is in london staying in the hotel with him, right?

  • AJCrow88

    It was a joke obviously, just the media hyping up a dumb joke again to get people fired up, the chick is a slut anyways, she was with Kobe.

  • KROHMER

    Why?   She just shows she has a better taste for her man!

  • http://twitter.com/BObO7578 Iam_BoVice

    You can’t believe everything you hear folks. LOL

  • Sat Mann

    Using Allegedly twice in the headline lol “on a recent evening in London” LOL oh and my favorite ”Confidence Shattering-setback” LMFAO!!!! I think we can all spot a LeBron hater a mile away but this Dan Faggaty is on a whole other level! I bet your wife/husband or whatever your into dreams of Lebron when you make failed attempts at fornicating… but i digress… You have no credibility good sir you are a pissed off journalist who will never make it. Good Day!    

  • Ikiecohen

    Just showing Anthony Davis how to conduct himself with class. The real truth is the girl got a good look at the King up close. There goes LeBron’s makeover even though he was probably suggesting that he only wanted to have a bible study with her.

  • solidMaestro

    Mwahahahaha!!

  • Heat0212

    Lmfao Shaq has class wtf are you talking about, this is the same guy who disrespected one of the most respected coach of all time Pat Riley, he also blamed others for his mistakes and cried at others success..not to mention cracks on reporters with yo mama jokes..Shaq class pleaseeee. You Truly Know Nothing about Basketball, Shaq never won a ring without a superstar by his side.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1212474336 Jack Carmody

    hahahahhahahaha You fools crack me up!  Labron is just a man who is great at what he does….Nothing more than that ! He has money and the best of what it will buy for him. But he is just a man…Let it rest

  • The_3_bozos

    shaq has 3 finals mvps asshole

  • Maximilian

    There is something after all that Lebron had to take from Kobe’s playbook..

  • Maximilian

    And Lebron it would help if you would look your best when hitting a girl just in case..Take that baseball cap off and those ridiculous glasses..

  • Maximilian

    Oh and Lebron has a good taste..I would bang that definitely but then dump her of course..Seems like a bitch and you have to take advantage off those kinds of girls to the max ..

  • RJG

    Good move Lauren!

  • Midnight Rider

    What are the chances, a hottie North Carolinan turns down a date from a slobbering African American male who just so happens to have a fiance with his children back in the states….

  • C2Poke88

    Lauren is a pretty girl, but there are at least 100 hotter girls participating in the Olympics.  We only have Lauren’s word that Lebron hit on her.  I doubt that Lebron hit on her and she turned him down.  She sure posted that pic of her and Lebron quickly.  And in that pic she deosn’t seem creeped out at all.  In fact, she seems to be enjoying the opportunity to take a picture with Lebron.  It’s  a status thing with her.  She posts a pic of her and Lebron in a photo and implies that he tried a booty call with her, but she turned him down.  Color me skeptical.  She’s a barely known olympic swimmer who claims that the best basketball player on the planet & one of the most famous people in the world wanted a piece of her and she turned him down.  Now everyone is going to look up her profile & check out any available pics of her they can find.  Also, this just increased her sex-appeal profile at Olympic Village as every guy there is really going to bang the girl that Lebron allegedly couldn’t close the deal with.  This situation she created sure seems like a win-win for her.

  • C2Poke88

    I meant  to say that every guy at Olympic  Village is going to ‘want to’ bang the girl that Lebron allegedly couldn’t close the deal with.

  • Amg313

    kinda pathetic this is an article, nothin newsworthy,  let em be….jeez

  • T.Wade

    leave them white girls alone, didnt he learn anything from Kobe!

  • http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.zimmel Jonathan Zimmel

    lebron always had a problem closing

  • http://www.facebook.com/jean.v.alexis Jzoe Tru

    I see people can say anything to start drama that what they want, and you all just took the bait smh when are we going to stop the hate. The same way yall hate the same way your kids will grow up to be.

  • Demonfamly

    no he’s not.

  • http://www.facebook.com/john.j.masucci John J Masucci

    This is as stupid a story as it gets , Fogarty get a life…!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001339657203 Janice Tillman

    LEBRON YOU HAD BETTER LEAVE THE WHITE TRASH ALONE, ALL SHE WANTS IS SUE YOU AND GET HER  NAME IN THE PAPER, AND CRY RAPE…AND POSE NUDE.

  • Leejesusjackson

    What ignorance,your big toe has more sense than you do,what type of a reporter are you?
    You don’t have both sides don’t have the truth and you didn’t even consider what the repercussions would be for LeBron and his family. What a wrecked wreck you are ,all for a story. Place your kids in that position.

  • Artisimus

    Just wondering how exactly he was “belittling a woman because of his wealth”? That is such an ignorant comment I don’t know where to start. So rich people can’t ask a woman out to dinner anymore because you think it belittles the woman? Enertel2 you also suck. You probably sit on your thumb and twiddle the stranger then bury your head… Whatever that means.

  • Artisimus

    Looool seriously? Yearly salary is your weak excuse for a response? Guess what? Bron’s hairline IS receding, no joke there. Not a huge deal but if your response is yearly salary, why not put some of that yearly salary towards some treatment for that hairline.

  • acid_1

    dan fogarty is a damn fool. have fun sweating behind your type writer you lebron hating POS. i would love to see the long line of ratchet sea hags that turned your broke ass down over the years. i doubt that’s even what happened in this non-news.

  • Anonymous

    They were lovely. All of the sea hags. (I like that, by the way).

    Who said I hated ‘Bron?

  • NeeNee

    He what?  Asked her out to dinner….LOL: WOW…. My…My I have a picture of me and Lebron because I asked him to take a picture with me and we are posing just like they were.  I did not post my picture and pretend he asked me out.  It appeared that this little ass girl was excited about  meeting Lebron and taking a picture with him; so she had to add a story line with the picture. Thats so child like……. But she must remember the King already has a Beautiful Queen. So believe me his Queen Isn’t Going NO Where She Is Locked In.  SO THIS LITTLE GIRL NEEDS TO SIT HER ASS DOWN SOME WHERE!!!!
    WORDS FROM THE WISE

  • acid_1

    yeah i use sea hags regularly… i love the imagery that it brings. i was put on to your hateful ways by your vitriolic writing. first you rip bron for his nerdy hipster look, then you use terminology like “soul-crushing” and “confidence shattering setback” in reference to this situation (like a rejection like that would really affect mr. james so deeply…) when we both the know the truth is lebron could buy a dining hall and stable of hungry thoroughbreds and wanna-be basketball wives would just show up… and why mention the fact that he didn’t go to college? smells like you’re a fan of one the teams lebron dropped a triple double on on the way to taking the championship this year… just saying…

  • acid_1

     *and a stable of hungry thoroughbreds

  • SoulSister

    College is Shit if you don’t cannot make that M-O-N-E=Y. Education comes- from- life experiences. “He never got to eat at a dining hall with a pretty girl.” What-Der Hell is wrong with this writer? A DINING HALL …A PRETTY GIRL… The girl/lady he has now, who Lebron has shared special moments… like his sons with….This young lady is pretty…. She is beautiful…  Okay….Okay I forgot the writer may think only white women and girls are pretty. This Shit is so…so… funny….

  • Doggfather79

    Lebron ain’t worried bout you bloggers he has a fulfilled life

  • Smiller2

    Yes he is, and hasn’t been married for that long either is he getting bored or just horny!!!!!!!!!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/BK7KXMXF3J4PWXYJTKYNMRICGI cassandra

    Lebron has more class in his little finger then you will ever have in you’re entire life!!!!! And Dwyane Wade  and James were never in trouble in there whole life you never heard anything bad about them !!!!!!!!Maybe you’re  the one who belongs in a detention center or maybe you were in one already!!! And that Lauren chick only posted that lebron asked her out to dinner and the picture was to boost her own ego!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If Lebron wanted to get someone  to go to dinner with him he would not have any trouble whatsoever trust me!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

  • Myteddylee

    Dan Fogarty you are stupid.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/YMHTF3U4J7QXMZXVO5ZY2J5NEU Heywould

    Not into Primates? That’s good.

  • Ranger

    Overpaid ball ape wanders into Olympic village and leaves when he realizes money grubbing  prostitutes and low end strippers from broken homes do not reside there.

  • Catvomiting222

    I would rather be LeBron James than Lauren Perdue. Lauren Perdue may think she is high and mighty because she “turned down” LeBron James, as if she has “power” over him because she’s a girl and he wanted her more than the other way around. But LeBron is a champion and can get more attractive women in the drop of a hat, and Lauren Purdue will be damaged goods for life in 8 years as she ages and deteriorates.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe she only dates within 50 points of her own IQ. 

  • Norges Salg

    Who do you think you are – the White woman obviosuly displayed some decency by rejecting this pavement ape`s sexual advances for “tha zatizfactiah of muh dik” and you are SMEARING her for it….shame on you, you spineless excuse for a man!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6LPSARPXSLZWTLRRKW3QPUGESQ Count Yob

    She was wise to not get taken in by a big black undereducated basketball player.

  • John

    Please name me one, just one player who has won a ring WITHOUT another superstar by his side. JUST ONE, NAME JUST ONE. That is an inane statement.

  • John

    Sure does, just ask The Knicks and Celtics and Pacers and Thunder and…………………………..

  • Brian

    This is such a NON-STORY…LeBron was just being nice offering her to have dinner with him at the freaking DINING HALL, not some fancy, trying to impress her 5 star restaurant, hardly sounds like any kind of serious thing other than him TRYING to be nice to this young woman! smh….

  • KROHMER

    This old news!  Yet 1 person each has something say about!  Get a life this was brought to press over a week ago no one care any more!

  • Jta

    wow. the racism always seems to find its way into everything. even a non-story.  I think if he really wanted some, he would have done it a bit more discreetly. I believe this was a case of misunderstood intentions on her part.  Understood when u are standing next to the King…

  • Josef

    I call the black race… “the race without women”…an ALL-MALE race

  • Josef

    I call the black race… “the race without women”…an ALL-MALE race

  • Roger

    Maybe she just doesn’t like fucking niggers.


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