--- title: Lebron James Apparently Stares Down Michael Jordan During Dunk description: Or at least, that's what the ESPN announcers think is happening canonical: https://time.com/78387/lebron-james-michael-jordan/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-27T15:12:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:09.882Z og:title: Lebron James Apparently Stares Down Michael Jordan During Dunk og:description: Or at least, that's what the ESPN announcers think is happening og:url: https://time.com/78387/lebron-james-michael-jordan/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c4e441d8f11f4c3/69868cb713c79f3db8191d41/screen-shot-2014-04-27-at-10-43-04-am.png?branch=production&width=1092&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1092 og:image:height: 614 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-04-27 at 10.43.04 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lebron James Apparently Stares Down Michael Jordan During Dunk twitter:description: Or at least, that's what the ESPN announcers think is happening twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c4e441d8f11f4c3/69868cb713c79f3db8191d41/screen-shot-2014-04-27-at-10-43-04-am.png?branch=production&width=1092&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # LeBron James Apparently Stares Down Michael Jordan While Dunking by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 27, 2014 3:12 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 27, 2014 3:12 PM UTC While the Miami Heat were playing the Charlotte Bobcats Saturday, LeBron James just _might_ have thrown some shade at — _gasp!_ — Michael Jordan. James got a breakaway dunk, and as you can see in the video above, he casts a stern look to the right as he approaches the net. The ESPN announcers assumed that this stare was directed at Jordan, who owns the Bobcats. But maybe not. When asked during the post-game press conference about the alleged glare, LeBron said, “Don’t start that. Absolutely not, man, absolutely not.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/78387/lebron-james-michael-jordan/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/78387/lebron-james-michael-jordan/"},"headline":"LeBron James Apparently Stares Down Michael Jordan While Dunking","datePublished":"2014-04-27T15:12:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:09.882Z","description":"Or at least, that's what the ESPN announcers think is happening","url":"https://time.com/78387/lebron-james-michael-jordan/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Basketball","Sports topic","Lebron James","NBA","michael jordan"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c4e441d8f11f4c3/69868cb713c79f3db8191d41/screen-shot-2014-04-27-at-10-43-04-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c4e441d8f11f4c3/69868cb713c79f3db8191d41/screen-shot-2014-04-27-at-10-43-04-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-04-27 at 10.43.04 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/78387/lebron-james-michael-jordan/","name":"LeBron James Apparently Stares Down Michael Jordan While Dunking"}}]}] ```