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To Elevate His Legacy, LBJ Must Do NYC
To Elevate His Legacy, LBJ Must Do NYC
by Jay Mariotti NEW YORK -- It felt like a recruiting trip, the one he never had when he bypassed college for the NBA . Only this process involved the world's most glamorous arena, a 10-story Nike billboard out on Seventh Avenue and a hip-hop mogul like no other, ready to tell LeBron James ...
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While We’re Waiting…Browns Woes, CC Sabathia Bringing LBJ to NYC and Indians Arbitration
WaitingForNextYear — ... The daily article by some national columnist proclaiming that NYC and LBJ are the perfect match: “It felt like a recruiting trip, the one he never had when he bypassed college for the NBA. Only this process involved the world’s most glamorous arena, a 10-story Nike billboard out on Seventh Avenue and a hip-hop mogul like no other, ready to tell LeBron James that New York is a ‘concrete jungle where dreams are made of … there’s nothing you can’t do.’” [Jay Mariotti/AOL Fanhouse] Thank you John Hollinger! This proposal makes any scenario where LeBron leaves quite strange: “Let ...

Mo Williams: “You Can’t Underrate Home”
WaitingForNextYear — ... too concerned about it, because I know his heart and his love is here in Cleveland,” Williams told [David Aldrdige] last week. “I know that. Just like anybody else, we love the New Yorks, we love the Miamis, we love the L.A.s, we love the Torontos. That’s probably the most underrated city. We love those cities. But you can’t underrate home.” Which has me thinking.  For every time that the ESPN’s of the world want to play Empire State of Mind on loop to the point where Jay Mariotti has to pretend to be hip , where’s Kanye West and Chris Martin’s Homecoming ?  Instead of ...

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