I think that it is unintentionally perpetuating the stereotype. Someone might want to fire this photography team or the photo editor for creating such a double-entendre of a photo. Really, there are so many shots that they could have used!

Go on, Gisele! You keep on wincing witcha bad self! =P

This photography team has helped to make this cover a collector's item. I doubt anyone's going to get fired over it...

-- S

But collector's item for all the wrong reasons. Oy vey, that is big business for ya though!

I don't think anyone should be fired for it.  There is a good chance that nobody on the team thought about negative attention.  I mean people do alot of things everyday that could be construed as perpetuating a stereotype and not even realize it.

Oversensitive.  Hypersensitive.  Seeing boogie men where there are only shadows.

My sister and I saw this magazine cover a couple days ago. I just kind of thought it was funny how she's all smiley and he was all like "Raah!" I didn't think anymore of it.

 

Nothing racial, nothing stereotypical. Just two people on a magazine cover.

it just shows his intensity...that is part of what makes him the phenomenal player he is

Christ are you shitting me? This is nothing unusual. This is a standard basketball pose. Players make angry faces and take aggressive stances when they play, and as a result when the pose.

For exampe:

http://michael-jordan-23.com/uploads/pics/michael-jordan-dunk9.jpg

http://www.detroitbadboys.com/images/dirk-nowitzki.jpg

http://www.yardbarker.com/m/3937/xl/charles-barkley-savage-thumb.jpg

http://www.wallpaperbase.com/wallpapers/celebsm/kevingarnett/kevin_garnett_1.jpg

http://www.operationgadget.com/images/kevin_garnett.jpg

http://www.sacbee.com/static/live/user_photo/lg_peja_7374.jpg

This is not racist or a negative stereotype. My fucking God.

The first Kevin Garnett one, that looks like King Kong, Lebron's pose is mild in comparison!

Yeah. Thats not even him posing. Thats from a game, he's doing it entirely by accident.

I think the picture is great. I also think people are just getting a little ridiculous with the racial issues. Differentiating between black and white is getting the best of people. It's a good picture and his expression has nothing to do with the color of his skin.