Waiter Calls Foul on LeBron James

Posted May 9th 2008 10:11AM by TMZ Staff

LeBron James is a bad tipper Cleveland Cavalier LeBron James recently dined at Cleveland's XO Prime Steaks where he ate like a king, but tipped like a servant.

According to Cleveland Scene, LeBron and a few friends stopped by the restaurant for a late night bite. The group stayed well past closing time, until nearly 4:00 AM, ordering drinks and racking up an $800 bill. When it came time to pay up, LeBron allegedly left a measly $10 tip. Brick!

Maybe LeBron should take a lesson in tipping from Barack Obama.

Calls to LeBron's rep were not returned.

Filed under: Talk Sports, The Rich Life

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1. Lebron is the most overatted player of all time in sport history. Everybody try to compare him to MJ when he first came into the league. Give me a break lebron can't even make a shot for all that is worth. I am going to start calling him PRINCE JAMES INSTEAD OF KINGJAMES. OVERATED,OVERATED,OVERRATED,OVERRATED,OVERRATED,OVERRATED,OVERRATED,OVERRATED,OVERRATED.

Posted at 2:03PM on May 9th 2008 by Anti_Lebron

2. That's a 1.25% tip.

Posted at 2:05PM on May 9th 2008 by SuperGenius

3. No suprise here. LeBrick doesn't live in the same world as the rest of us. When he gets a foul call everytime there is any minor contact against him, but he is allowed to run threw or over his opponents, it probably scews with Lebrick's perspective on life. If the refs give him everything and don't recieve anything back from Lebrick, he's probaby thinking the waiters should be happy with it to. Here is hoping the only championship Lebrick will ever win is the Gold medal for team USA this summer. Hopefully true NBA success will continue to elude him.

Posted at 2:08PM on May 9th 2008 by Rob

4. Have you been to XO? The wait staff is terrible; the owner/manager is a little b*****! I'm not surprised he left such a little tip.

Posted at 2:10PM on May 9th 2008 by angie

5. Why are someone's tipping habits up for public discussion anyway?

Posted at 2:21PM on May 9th 2008 by seriously?

6. Hey!

These are jocks, not math geniuses. We pay them to grunt and sweat for our entertainment and fun. We like to laugh at point at them

leave them alone.

Posted at 2:22PM on May 9th 2008 by CoolGirl2008

7. Another cheap a hole. Put this loser on blast

Posted at 2:26PM on May 9th 2008 by trickdaddy

8. Cheap (n)

Posted at 2:47PM on May 9th 2008 by playmisty4me

9. You can take him out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out ofhim....

Posted at 2:50PM on May 9th 2008 by swizzle

10. 10 bucks on 800. Read the story here:

http://clevescene.com/2008-05-07/news/when-it-comes-to-tipping-lebron-goes-scrooge-mcduck/

Posted at 2:54PM on May 9th 2008 by Joe

11. You can take him out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out of him....

Posted at 2:57PM on May 9th 2008 by swizzle

12. im starting to belive tmz has a few klan members.

Posted at 3:01PM on May 9th 2008 by whateversclever

13. To Dawn:

I worked in the Montrose area in Ohio and he would do the same thing in our restaurant. He would come at 10:30 PM when we close at 11 and we would have to stay open because he was a 'star'. He would stay all night, run my servers ragged, leave a mess from here to China and tip worth a crap. This article doesn't surprisee me and I have been saying this all along... He is overrated!!!

Posted at 3:30PM on May 9th 2008 by Dino

14. You can take him out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out of him....

Posted at 3:30PM on May 9th 2008 by swizzle

15. Ok, I am not racist and I work with a lot of black people and they all say the same thing; Black people don't dip! I would say that maybe 1 out of 10 black people know how to tip.

Posted at 3:53PM on May 9th 2008 by LVserver

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