On Saturday night, my Twitter timeline went a little crazy after
the Celtics/Heat game. No, not about the superman performance
Rajon Rondo put on, but about the press conference Dwyane Wade
and LeBron James were having. As per usual, Wade and James did
their postgame media availability together and when a reporter
asked Wade about the play with Rondo where the two were tangled,
she asked him about the potential assumption that the play was a
dirty one. As the question was being asked LeBron, annoyed with
the question, mumbled into his microphone, “That’s retarded.”  I
wasn’t able to hear him clearly the first time, but after the
Tweetdeck updates came in fast and furiously and the YouTube
clip was uploaded, it was confirmed: LeBron said retarded in a
press conference, sitting in front of a microphone and lots of
recorders and cameras. He said it and there doesn’t appear to be
any real backlash. I can’t lie, I’m pretty surprised.  I get it.
People use the term all of the time. He didn’t mean it like
that. He w