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LeBron has had me burping crow for months now. It’s now at the point where it’s coming out of my ears and my nose, and I couldn’t be more thrilled.
I’m a fan of the name on the front of the jerseys and not the one on the back, so I’ll rarely celebrate individual accolades unless the intent and result favored the team. It’s not just a LeBron thing. I always yelled at Kobe (RIP) too for taking triple contested fade-away threes, lol, when he had three team mates open. Yes, even if the team mates were Kwame, Smush and Mihm; and even when he made them I yelled at Kobe because make or miss, it was still the wrong play. I was ‘mad’ because it was a play for him, not for us or his team. What I’m trying to say is that as a Laker fan I’m not impressed with no LeBron individual dunk or insane stat line. Not until he plays the right way; for us, for his team to win. It’s a leadership and responsibility of the group thing. I didn’t think he had it. I didn’t see it last year, he didn’t seem comfortable. I thought he’d fold and blame the youngins.
Never ever have I been a LeBron fan, and despite having watched his career I’m absolutely dumbfounded at how well he played out this season. He practically played a perfect post season. Stats, sure, but watch the games! Dominant. Shaq level dominant in terms of game impact. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen anything like it. It actually makes me wonder, has anyone ever seen a star player play a more flawless playoffs run? Has anyone ever dominated a postseason more consistently? Besides Shaq and Kobe and Kareem and Magic, Jordan etc that is ... I’d like to argue that this post season run by LBJ was historically great.
In the 2020 bubble playoffs LeBron played defense on a world elite level. I’ve never seen him play better defense. Mentally he stayed hyper focused and barely made any mistakes. Offensively, he made better plays in the half court setting up his team mates than I’ve ever seen him do. He even ran the break to perfection, still, even if to no surprise. The impact, efficiency and productivity he delivered is simply sick by any standards, compared to any player ever. Rebounding was solid to extraordinary, FTs were falling, and in terms of assists and playmaking on the break he was as good as I’ve ever seen him before. At age 36. Freak. Of. Nature.
Simply, there’s NOTHING more one could’ve asked LeBron to do. Nothing. There’s almost nothing to improve. I’m blown away impressed by what a total world class competitor he is, all time GOAT contender. Beastly, by historic proportions! Like, Michael Phelps or Bo Jackson or Tiger Woods badass dominant.
So before I let out my last crow burp, I apologize for calling you LeGroin, I apologize for calling you other bad names when you tried to play GM and drive our hard won promising youth out of town, and I’m glad that I was wrong thinking that when it came to the big stage—being a Laker great—you didn’t have the leadership cajones to carry the load. I thought you’d fold and that we should have preemptively traded you for cap space. I thought you were an amazing phenom on an historic scale, but one that was not a Shaq or Magic or Kobe or Kareem; one I could keep calling LeBronze.
I was completely wrong, and I’m perfectly happy to admit it and eat that tasty crow. Keep it going past 40, take a pay cut to stay and retire here a Laker legend.
Now send JR Smith packing, GM LeGroin.

Edit: And, credit to all of you who knew us LBJ doubters were wrong.