Mo’s dunk in Game 1 against the Celtics was apparently the first of his career. After the game, Mike Brown was asked about it and could barely respond.
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“I love Akron to death,” James said. “Since I was a little kid, I always said I was going to find a way to put this city on the map. And I’m going to continue to do that.”
As James spoke after receiving his second straight MVP award Sunday at the University of Akron, you couldn’t help but think to yourself: He ain’t leaving.
Of course, James didn’t go that far. He kept his wiggle room as the greatest prize in the greatest free-agent class in NBA history by saying, “No matter what might be ahead for me, this will always be my home.”
But everything else about the afternoon said he’s staying with the Cleveland Cavaliers. After all, the overriding theme of the event was loyalty — to his mom, to his family, to his high school teammates, to his city and to his team. Now in his seventh year with the Cavs, James even invited his teammates onto the stage, where they mugged and posed for pictures while sharing inside jokes.
“I don’t have any special insight into this,” said Keith Dambrot, James’ first high school coach and now the head coach at Akron. “But if I had to, I’d bet my house that he stays. Why else would you do things like this?”
There’s more than just 40 miles separating Akron and Cleveland. When asked last summer about his loyalty to Cleveland, James had this to say:
“My loyalty is to Akron. I’m looking forward to this upcoming season, but I’m looking forward to the summer of 2010, too, to see what may happen. No matter what happens that summer, you know, I’m still here. I’ve got a nice big house here that I’m always coming back to. You know, I love this city and I’ll always give back to this city no matter what my profession; if it takes me somewhere else.”
James has been careful to distinguish his hometown from the city where he works, and he has always left for the possibility that he’ll change teams this summer, even at his loyalty-themed MVP event.
I don’t think Cleveland’s proximity to Akron would trump another early postseason exit for the Cavs, but we may never know for sure.
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Here’s a shocker — LeBron James is going to win the 2009-2010 Most Valuable Player award.
At age 25, James becomes the second-youngest to win back-to-back MVPs. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was a couple of months younger when he won his back-to-back award in 1972. The others two win back-to-back are Steve Nash, Tim Duncan, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Moses Malone, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell and Abdul-Jabbar. Only Bird, Chamberlain and Russell ever won the award three years in a row.
Last year James won in a landslide, getting 109 of the first-place 121 votes given out to sportswriters and broadcasters who cover the league. This year, James is expected to approach winning the award unanimously.
LeBron has a good chance to win this award again and again, though NBA writers are fickle and they’ll start looking for reasons to give the award to someone else once voting for LeBron wears thin. The same thing happened to Michael Jordan.
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LeBron James posted a near-triple-double (19-10-9) to help his Cavs fend off the feisty Bulls, 96-94. Antawn Jamison led Cleveland with 25 points.
In Boston, Dwyane Wade has his own near-triple-double (31-8-10) but the Heat fell to the Celtics, 96-86. Ray Allen caught fire from three (5-of-6, 24 points) and Paul Pierce chipped in with an efficient 21-7-6. Rajon Rondo posted 16-8-12 in the win.
The two teams square off in the next round — it should be a knock-down, drag-out battle. These two franchises simply don’t like each other.
I know he didn’t shoot up a strip club, run over somebody with his car or get caught financing an underground dog fighting operation, but “King” LeBron was still an a-hole to this ball boy:
Someone should remind LeBron that he has as many championship rings as the ball boy.
And that would be 0.
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