What's happening with Lin right now? Unprecedented. I have never seen it before — shit, I've never even seen a homeless man's version of it before. And we're going to hit some of my favorite things about his ascent throughout this mailbag. Just know that LeBron's shadow lingers over all of it. He could have owned New York, and more important, he should have owned New York. There was — literally — no reason that it shouldn't have happened other than greed, hubris and (I hate to say it) just a hint of cowardice. I refuse to believe that, after playing in that building in front of those fans for seven years, it didn't dawn on LeBron that he could have been immortal in New York. How could someone not see that? My friend Lewis (a die-hard Lakers fan) went to Friday's Lakers-Knicks game as well as Game 7 of the 2010 Finals — he said that the crowds were identical. Think about that. Chew on it. That's what LeBron James passed up. And I'll bet anything that, at some point in his life, he's going to regret it.What I thought of "The Decision" in real time HERE.
And here's why Bron Bron will never be truly great:
LeBron's biggest fault as a superstar will, in the end, most likely be that he's just not an asshole. Even Magic, who would spend the game smiling et al, surely was cracking the whip behind closed doors. You know you wouldn't see Bird or MJ or Russell pull some whiny, mopey pouting act in a deciding playoff game because one of their teammates was banging their mother. They'd punch them out like Roger Dorn did to Rick Vaughn at the end of Major League, but they'd get the W first.
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you left out the funniest part of the article:
but when you consider this is following the real-life Rudy or Rocky script — and he's more talented than either of them — wouldn't we have to call it Jeremy? And have Pearl Jam remake "Jeremy" with lyrics that center around a Taiwanese-American Harvard grad saving the Knicks instead of, you know, a bullied kid destroying everyone in his class?
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