If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.
In the sad, pathetic case of LeBron James, that advice was followed too closely.
James, the mercurial star who jumped to the Miami Heat a couple weeks ago, has already, at age 25, tarnished his legacy in an irreparable nature.
Even if James manages to win an NBA title as part of the Heat’s new triumvirate of James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, he’s a loser.
The kid, by fleeing Cleveland, has put himself in a lose-lose situation.
Never will his legacy shine as brightly as those of Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Isiah Thomas and Michael Jordan. Not even close.
Especially not when two of those—Magic and Jordan—have already come out publicly as saying that they would never have dreamed of joining their rivals simply to form a powerhouse team.
“I came out of college wanting to beat Larry Bird,” Johnson said of his plunge into the NBA after his sophomore year in 1979, when his MSU Spartans beat Bird’s Indiana State Sycamores for the NCAA National Championship.
And thus was born an individual rivalry that in ...
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LeBron James to Miami Is a Cowardly Act That Forever Tarnishes His Legacy
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