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LeBron shuts down Donald Trump's definition of 'locker room talk'

Published Nov. 15, 2016 2:57 p.m. ET

Andrew Lynch

When Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's inexcusable comments from 2005 recently leaked, professional athletes in all sports made one thing very clear: what Trump said is by no means "locker room talk."

On Wednesday, Cleveland Cavaliers superstar LeBron James went a step further and explained what locker room talk really entails — and how what Trump said simply doesn't have a place in society. Oh, and just for good measure, the 2016 NBA Finals MVP refused to refer to Trump by name.

Via ESPN.com:

"What is locker room talk to me? It's not what that guy said. We don't disrespect women in no shape or fashion in our locker room. That never comes up. Obviously, I got a mother-in-law, a wife, a mom and a daughter and those conversations just don't go on in our locker room. What goes on in our locker room is sporting events that happened the night before, about family, about strategies that we may have that night, about a highlight that made it happen— if it was a home run in the bottom of the ninth or it was an alley-oop dunk from a player the night before— that's what happens in our locker room. What that guy was saying, I don't know what that is. That's trash talk."

Trash talk, indeed.

Earlier this month, LeBron endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.