What Do LeBron's Subtweet Hashtags Even Mean?

We’ve been over this a few times now, but last week LeBron James and Kyrie Irving had a dust-up through the media that began with a monologue from Stephen A. Smith that the latter was unhappy in Cleveland deferring to the former.

LeBron sent off a scathing subtweet that, although he told reporters was not about teammates, was 99.8% about Kyrie. The King also took an in-season vacation to Miami, where he posed mockably on Snapchat at a gym with Dwyane Wade. Stephen A. weighed in again.

In the final stages of the lull between the Super Bowl and March Madness, where Peyton Manning can monopolize SportsCenter with a retirement announcement that everybody saw coming but nonetheless might not be permanent, it comes as no surprise that the Cavs drama is continuing.

Ominous! And there’s one more:

What do these hashtags even mean? A quick investigation reveals that they might mean “The Da Vinci Code,” “The Dream Continues,” and “Strive For Greatness.”

Anyways, after dealing with this shit all week, Kyrie lets the world know that two can play that game:

The one person breathing a sigh of relief in all this has to be Kevin Love, who was the recipient of this passive aggression last season. To rampantly speculate, one wonders if the clandestine poolside meeting last summer carried with it a ceasefire proposal to entice a return to the Cavs.

Again, all the problems in Cleveland are of the comparative variety. They’re the first seed in the East and everybody is harping that they seemed destined to finish the season as merely the second best team in the NBA. Wouldn’t the Knicks love to have their issues?

Who knows, maybe LeBron is a master psychologist and this all works out for him and everybody writing them off looks silly in June. But, the emotional melodrama feels like the foundation for The Decision III, and it’s entirely within the realm of reason that his whereabouts for next season will be in question until July.