ECA Review 2018-06-14

E C A r e v i e w H A N N A / C o r o N A t i o n / S t e t t l e r , A b J u N E 1 4 ' 1 8 9
Argument may be over: Lebron best of all time
by Bruce Penton
Since Michael Jordan
retired from the National
Basketball Association for
the third and final time in
2003, it was regarded as sacrilegious
to suggest that His
Airness was not the best
NBA player of all time.
Sure, it was debatable,
with the likes of Cousy,
West, Russell, Robertson,
Bird, Magic and
Chamberlain in the mix.
But the consensus, surrounded
by reverence,
seemed to be that Jordan
was the best ever.
Now, however, the talk is
veering down a different
path. In fact, the argument
may be over. Can we agree
that the GOAT — the
Greatest Of All Time — is
LeBron James?
The NBA’s current dominant
player, James — a
chiseled, athletic, 6-foot-8,
250-pounder and four-time
Most Valuable Player award
winner — plays the game
like he’s a man against boys.
Virtually unstoppable
when he decides he’s going
to score, James put up
30-plus points in 12 of
Cleveland’s 22 playoff games
as his Cavaliers fell to the
powerful Golden State
Warriors in the Finals, capping
a season when for a
time it appeared as if the
Cavs might miss the playoffs
altogether.
But riding James’ strong
shoulders, they knocked off
Indianapolis in the first
round, surprised the
Eastern Conference pennant-winning
Toronto
Raptors with a four-game
sweep in the second round
and then made it to the
finals by beating the Celtics
in Game 7 on Boston’s parquet
floor.
James was Mr.
Everything in that game,
with 35 points, 15 rebounds
and nine assists.
Making it to the NBA
Finals is a tough task, but
James has led his teams —
the Cavs and Miami Heat
— to eight consecutive
Finals appearances. It’s
unprecedented in the
modern-day NBA.
Jordan made it to the
finals six times (not in consecutive
years, though) and
won all six. James has only
three titles to his
credit.
James has few
detractors, but
many admirers.
Said Coach Steve
Kerr of the
Warriors during
the recent Finals:
“They have a guy
who’s playing
basketball at a
level I’m not sure
anyone has ever
seen before.”
And there’s
this from Dave
Deckard of SB
Nation: “James
may be the best
player of all time,
but Jordan is the
greatest winner
of all time.”
By the time
Shop
King James is done, though,
he may surpass Jordan’s six
titles. Trying to beat Golden
State with a weak supporting
cast proved to be
impossible, so as a free agent
after this year, James is
searching for a good landing
spot. Houston? With James
Harden and Chris Paul?
Philly? With Joel Embiid
and Ben Simmons?
A change of scenery might
be just what James needs to
give him a new lease on life,
and another three or four
NBA titles.
Slap
Shots
• RJ Currie of sportsdeke.
com: “NHL prospect Carson
Meyer was ‘freaking out’
when he discovered a
25-inch tapeworm that had
been in his intestines for
almost a year. Talk about
gut-check time!”
• Comedy writer Jim
Barach, after Ilie Nastase,
71, was arrested on suspicion
of DUI and later for
driving without a licence ---
both on the same day: “Or in
tennis terms, he was called
for a double fault.”
• Dwight Perry of the
Seattle Times: “Police in
Linden, N.J. , say that when
they arrested Lenny
Dykstra for threatening an
Uber driver, the ex-outfielder
was also in
possession of cocaine, marijuana
and ecstasy. Or to put
the drug charges in baseball
terms, a three-bagger.”
• Reader Mike Soper of
Washington, D.C., asking a
question of columnist
Norman Chad: “After
serving his 80-game suspension,
how long do you think
it will take Robinson Cano
to regain his inability to run
hard to first base on ground
balls?”
• Comedy writer Alex
Kaseberg: “The White
House cancelled the
Philadelphia Eagles visit to
the White House. It was
awkward, when told the
Eagles weren’t coming,
Donald Trump said, ‘Big
deal. They haven’t had a hit
since Hotel California’.”
• Janice Hough of leftcoastsportsbabe.com:
“If the
NFL really gave a damn
about people showing
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From the Bleachers
anthem they’d order teams to
shut down concession stands
while it was played.”
• RJ Currie again: “TSN aired
Johnny Manziel’s CFL preseason
opener, with the
expected struggles, bad reads,
missed calls and confusion over
Canadian rules. And that’s just
play-by-play man Rod Black.”
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• Dwight Perry again: “This
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ESPN report of Russian involvement
in Capitals’ Stanley Cup
win.”
• Bob Molinaro of pilotonline.
com (Hampton, Va.) on the A’s
drawing their smallest home
crowd since 2003 — 6,295 — in
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“Steph Curry attracts more
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• Bucks forward Giannis
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“Just tried a corndog for
the first time ... Man, God Bless
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