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Billboard mocking LeBron James earns Dan Le Batard suspension from ESPN

ESPN's message was sent out loud and clear Thursday: Don't go at The King.


Dan Le Batard, host of 'The Dan Le Batard Show' on ESPN Radio in Miami, decided to poke LeBron James by taking out a billboard in Akron that said 'You're Welcome, LeBron. Love, Miami' with a picture of two championship rings. Le Batard executed the stunt in response to James' letter in Sports Illustrated in which he announced he was returning to Cleveland but did not thank the fans in Miami.


'It's just fun anarchy,' Le Batard, also a contributor at the Miami Herald, said on the radio show recently, according to USA Today. 'All meant in fun.'


ESPN suspended Le Batard from radio and his television show 'Highly Questionable' for two days calling the light-hearted gag a 'stunt.'


ESPN released a statement Thursday: 'Dan LeBatard will be off the air for two days, returning Monday. His recent stunt does not reflect ESPN's standards and brand. Additionally, we were not made aware of his plans in advance.'


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If Le Batard's name sounds familiar, it may be because he imfamously sold his baseball Hall of Fame vote to the readers of the sports website Deadspin.com earlier this year, earning a lifetime ban from the Baseball Writers Association of America.


It's been a suspension-filled August for ESPN, which benched Stephen A. Smith for a week after controversial comments involving the Ray Rice and his wife after Rice was shown on surveillance cameras carrying his unconcious fiancee out of an elevator in Atlantic City.


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