Crowned
LeBron "King" James
LeBron "King" James
Dan O'Brien
Originally published in the September 2012 issue of Empirical
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| "LeBrown James with Halo" PHOTO: Craig Hatfield |
I have always loved basketball.
When I was much younger I would sit by the TV with a pen and pad and write down the order of the NBA draft as it was announced. I remember quite clearly talking about the free throw percentage of particular players during the playoffs as an indicator of their eventual success. As I grew up, the game changed. Michael Jordan and Larry Bird were replaced with players who no longer seemed bigger than the game, but demanded to be. My brother and I pretending to be Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen as we played on cracked asphalt, shooting a basketball through chain nets, was a thing of the past.
