***News Flash***

Cleveland still has some ill feelings towards a certain basketball player. Of course, said basketball player could give two sh*ts about anything Cleveland thinks because lately, his new team have put it together while the Cavs, on the other hand, are doing their best impression an imploding meteorite. So go figure that since they can’t exact revenge on the court the next best thing would be to defer the cause to another, more capable set of hands.

Now there is a reason, I haven’t been referring to LeBron James on a first name basis. Because as it turns out, the job was outsourced the local DJs out at 96.5 FM WAKS, who quickly decided to put the Quitness’s name in the ranks of the seven dirty words that can never be uttered on anything other than satellite radio.

WFNY caught up with the man behind the decision, night time disc jockey (“Java”) Joel Murphy, to discuss the move. Murphy tells us that the decision was more of an epiphany, but its one that the station feels resonates well with Clevelanders given their well-documented feelings towards the departed James.

“I was playing the song and realized that the word “LeBron” is as offensive to some people as the ‘Seven Words You Can’t Say On The Radio,’” said Murphy. “Anytime one of those words shows up in a song, we either bleep it, cut it out completely or obscure it by flipping it backwards. So, I suggested to our programming dept that we should treat the name “LeBron” similarly.”

Yup, so to put things into context, the line from “Empire State of Mind,” now reads “If Jeezy’s paying Norbel, I’m paying Dwayne Wade.” So, following suit, and keeping TSS a work friendly site, from here on out, I shall refer to him as L*Bron, L*Br*n, or L*****, to prevent those pesky firewalls from blocking you fellow readers from reading up on all things fresh.

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