Cover Debate: silly or insulting?

So Vogue's new cover features Giselle and LeBron James on the cover. This is the first appearance of a black man on the cover of Vogue which of course means it's more controversial than honorary.

Groups are saying depicting LeBron in this 'King Kong' pose plays on old stereotypes, and a less controversial cover image was available.

What do you think? I would argue that you can't just put an athlete on the cover and treat him like any other male model, as it looks in the 'alternative' but I also think they could have dressed him up a bit more---given him a David Beckham treatment with maybe a designer suit? GQ and Details do that all the time...

I'll have to think about this more, but as of right now, I'd say it's not bad enough for the uproar, but not nearly good enough to be tried again.