Okay, so it’s none of my business. I’m not him. I’m not a member of his family. I’m nothing to Lebron James. But that does not change the fact that he’s somebody to a mass amount of people. He knows he’s somebody to a mass amount of people or he wouldn’t have ended up on ESPN with a show called “The Decision”, simply to tell the world where he’s going to work for the next five years. Quite frankly, there are a ton of people in America who would love to be able to quietly tell their families around the dinner table where they’re going to be working for the next week or so.
What does that have to do with Lebron? Well in the midst of all of this unemployment out here, folks reach out for a little escape. They look towards an evening at the movies, HBO, and if they’re lucky an evening at the basketball game to root for their hero. Hey, even if they can’t make it to the game folks settle for a chance to look at the big pictures in the sports section of their local newspaper or catch the highlights on the web, evening news and of course… ESPN.
This evening, however, on ESPN they got to watch “The Decision”. Lebron Jame’s way of telling that mass amount of people who care for him in Ohio, where unemployment is sky rocketing, and where he has been their escape for seven years as a professional and four years as a sensational high school ballplayer, that he was leaving so he could be a second fiddle in Miami. Don’t get it twisted, Miami is DWade’s town, not Lebron’s, not Chris Bosh’s. They say it’s the big three, but in actuality Lebron has trade his black Batman cape in for a yellow Robin one. This of course, all in the name of a ring.
Now, I could understand New York, because he still would have been Batman… No let me take that back in New York he would have become Superman. I understand Chicago. In Chicago he would have become the leader of the Justice League, leading Noah, Rose and now Boozer. But Miami? To join Dwade and Chris Bosh? Who the heck is Chris Bosh? Is he better than Derrick Rose in Chicago? Is he better than Carlos Boozer, now in Chicago? What in the world was going on in Lebron Jame’s head? I’ll tell you, juvenile peer pressure. Dwayne Wade says, come on. Bosh says, I’m in. “Hey Lebron, isn’t this what we talked about. You come down here and now we can rule the NBA world.” So, James kicks not only hometown loyalty, he could have given Cleveland two more years, and common sense, Chicago was the best choice of all destinations and would have made his move at least more palatable to Cleveland fans by staying close.
Miami? So he wanted the sunshine, nice cars, a Hollywood East lifestyle. But he also wanted to relieve himself of the pressure. As great as his gifts are on court. As wonderful as his charitable contributions are and I suspect he is really a nice guy, James did not want the pressure any longer of having it be about him. It got to him. It got to him in the Boston/Cleavland playoffs. It just got to him. This will be forever that what separates him from Jordan, Bryant, Magic and even those who did not get a ring, like Barkley and Malone. They did not call themselves the King, but nonetheless they wore heavy the crown. They did not mind the pressure.
This was his worst decision. This decision was when he abdicated his crown.
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