When you're 25 years old, the best basketball player on the planet, and have a massive entourage constantly reminding you that you're the best basketball player on the planet, chances are you're going to have a pretty high opinion of yourself.
But as we're finding out more and more this summer, there's a limit to the number of enablers that a person can surround himself with before losing his attachment to reality.
LeBron James appears to have passed the tipping point.
In the September edition of GQ, J.R. Moehringer elicited LeBron's most damning post-Decision interview yet. Moehringer had a chance to interview LeBron three times during the summer—twice before the Decision, once after—and what he uncovered suggests a man who's fully absorbed in his own world, completely oblivious to his surroundings.
Maybe this doesn't come as a huge surprise, given the narcissistic nature of The Decision.
Maybe, after seven years of rehearsed answers, choreographed pregame introductions, and James' affinity for referring to himself in the third person, we should have realized that King James lived in a world of sun ...
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Article written by Bryan Toporek
LeBron James’ GQ Interview Suggests He’s Fully Detached from Reality
August 17th, 2010 by Bryan Toporek Leave a reply »
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