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Ever since the P Diddy scandal blew up, a lot of names have been making rounds on the internet. As a barrage of allegations surrounding them erupt, these names have been catching fire with Diddy. This list included the name of professional basketball power forward LeBron James as well, who has been earning a lot of backlash for his reported association with the now-disgraced music mogul.

Unfortunately enough, though, the fire doesn’t seem to be lightening for the NBA player at all. This is because netizens seem to have dug up yet another controversial claim about James and his alleged association with Diddy for his biggest dance performance yet to further embroil him in negative media attention. But the real question is: How much of this claim is actually true?

LeBron James. | Credits: The Jim Hill interview / YouTube. Was LeBron James’ biggest dance performance inspired by P Diddy?

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There are happy endings. There are Hollywood endings. And then there is the ending to the new film Free Leonard Peltier.

Peltier had been imprisoned for well over 45 years when David France and Jesse Short Bull decided to make a documentary about him. The Native American activist is serving two life sentences in federal prison for killing a pair of FBI agents in a shootout at South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975, even as he maintains he didn’t do it. The FBI and other law enforcement groups have campaigned hard against any change in Peltier’s sentencing.

All of that formed the arc of Free Leonard Peltier, which premieres Monday at the Sundance Film Festival. It seemed fated to end like so many stories of Peltier, who is an almost folkloric symbol of Native American independence and resistance — with those hoping in vain for his release. After all,...