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Broadway Danny Rose said it best — 'Acceptance, forgiveness, and love,'"
Raab writes after today's big news. "As human beings, that's the only recipe for leading a righteous life in this world. Such words — from the famous and unfamous — come cheap. But you're living those truths now, walking that walk. Who am I to hold a grudge?"
In other words, Scott Raab, who profited off of his sports-fan indignation, read James's touching announcement as an apology to Scott Raab, and he would like the best basketball player on earth to know that apology is accepted.
Watch a Broadway Danny Rose clip after the jump
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Well, there seems to be a consensus among the menfolk. Last night when my son informed me LeBron was returning, and I'm like, I hate that SOB. My son smiled gently and said something like, It's gracious of him to return. Or did he say, It is harder to come back than to leave. And I'm like, what the hell?
Later he said
'Mom?'
'What do you want?'
'I want you to forgive LeBron.'
'If you want me to forgive LeBron, I'll forgive LeBron.'
Funny backstory:
My sister and nieces and I were returning from visiting my daughter at camp one summer. We got to my house, and the three of them were very interested in watching the LeBron 'decision' of whether he'd leave Cleveland. I hadn't even heard about it. I've disliked him ever since. But I forgive him :)
You got to forgive the king in which hands lie the promise of fortune... or something.
Btw is that really 'forgiving'?
Calling on all scribes...
I do not understand any of this.
It is beyond my ken.
Something something basketball something something famous player, something moving something career something something choose city something something Miami something Cleveland something wudz something sports presenters something something forgive.
Conclusion: ¿
I need a punctuation for a dog tilting its head, "¿Er?"
At the FED people would come to work on Monday deeply depressed whenever the Broncos lost a game. So every Monday then. This did not compute. Did not process.
gear click gear click gear click whirrrrrrrr snap clang.
I'm sorry, you were saying? You invested your emotion, and deeply, in the performance of a City's sports team on which you have zero control. Bad investment, that. Why did you direct any faith at all? And on a team with such an unreliable and poor performance record? So now it affects your own performance in the real world where you can apply control, and must.
I wanted them to win.
LeBron.
That's French for "The Bron."
You're welcome.
There is something clanging or clashing in the story and the virtues of 'equality' so prevailing today.
There is an inconvenient admission in his return... that we may never get to hear admitted... if what nags at me is anywhere cohesive.
LeBron was in Miami Heat but he was not a Miami Heat.
There is more to it underneath the surface.
Chip worked at the Federal Reserve? Hmm, he just keeps getting more interesting. Like Verbal Kint. Or was that Keysar Soze?
Lebron thoughts:
I don't mind him, or any other athlete, moving from team to team as long as they play as well as they can when they're with a team - provided they don't promise more than that. Lebron promised Heat fans, probably in the heat of the moment, that he'd win at least 8 championships for them. Hard to do in four seasons.
Similarly, Shaquille O'Neal had promised the Orlando Magic and its fans that he would give the Magic a chance to match the last offer from anyone else. Not only did he not do so, he took less money from the Lakers than the Magic had offered him, and claimed exactly the opposite. For THAT I will not forgive him. (I knew people with connections to both camps. Sometimes Orlando still felt like a small town back then.)
I don't know what Lebron promised Cleveland when he went there, and shortly before leaving, so I can't speak to that.
Lebron is leaving a team that is declining and not likely to get better for a team that is younger and shows more promise. (At least it shows more promise with him on the team.)
But what I don't understand is that apparently Houston was offering him a spot, and even after trades to clear cap room, and even being in the Western Conference (at the moment the much tougher conference), they seem to be a better chance to win. So maybe wanting to raise his children near home really is the main appeal.
Finally, the guy that should be really pissed at Lebron is Dwayne Wade. He passed up two guaranteed years at about $40 million to become a free agent - all in an effort to clear cap room in an attempt to (a) attract decent free agents to Miami and thus (b) get Lebron to stay. Wade is falling apart, physically, and he probably will ultimately lose money from declaring free agency.
But the ironic thing to me is that the best thing the Heat could have done would be to let the Big Three all declare free agency, then offer Lebron the max and let him know that they would NOT bring back Wade. That would have cleared up a lot of cap room, and also freed a lot of minutes for someone with fresher legs.
And no player is OF a team any more. They probably never were, and they certainly aren't now. It's just that sometimes a player and his career work out well in one city. See Big Papi and Tom Brady in Boston.
lol Bat
Nick, it's baseball and football for me.
Scott Raab on his book being spiked at ESPN:
"Then I found out that Bill Simmons spiked a review of the book written for Grantland, the Sizzler of sports websites. Ran it up the flagpole first — and Simmons doesn’t answer to a lot of people; he’s Bill fucking Simmons, after all — and then killed it." And that was the last straw. That I did take personally.
Nice LBJ is returning to Cleveland. Although, I haven't watched an NBA game since Jordan Retired.
The problem with the NBA is that its star driven. There's an incredible sameness to the games and teams, and the season is a very long, and mostly meaningless, 82 games. Hence, you need a Super-star to root for, or a rivalry. Magic vs. Bird. Malone vs. Charles Barkley. Cowens vs. Kareem. Jordan vs. Thomas.
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