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Dramatic Life Of Lebron James

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The first few seconds of your first earthquake are disconcerting. You don’t know what’s happening. The undulation, the noise, the inability to focus -- it’s all disconcerting. But once you’ve been in a few, you know the feeling. You don’t relax, but you don’t panic, either. Such is another week in the dramatic life of LeBron James. Another ‘quake? Big deal. It’s like he lives in a village called Frackingtown. Kyrie Irving’s gone? Isaiah Thomas’ hip is jacked up worse than the Cavs thought? … Kevin Love’s shoulder? Irving’s knee? Dwyane Wade’s knee? For that matter, Larry Hughes’ foot? Guys go down next to James year after year, yet very little has stopped the party since 2007 -- and not at all since 2010. And while a whole lot of …show more content…

Irving had earned his stripes and James was expecting a grand pursuit of Paul George or Jimmy Butler this summer to close the gap with the Golden State Warriors, not losing one of his best teammates and having to scramble. James was floored when the trade demand surfaced, even before it went public. As such, JamesWorld views this as “a Kyrie thing,” not a LeBron and Kyrie thing, or a LeBron thing. This is all on Kyrie. His unhappiness at his secondary role to James is right out of the Stephon Marbury Chronicles, when the then-Wolves guard chafed at being Robin to Kevin Garnett’s Batman. (By contrast, Tom Gugliotta was just fine being Commissioner Gordon.) One can think Irving is nuts for wanting to leave James, yet understand his position as well. At 25, he’s already got a ring. And there is no doubt that playing with James is hard. Entire franchises bend like palm fronds in a gale to his every wish and desire. Things are done his way, all the time, every day. He’s not wrong to ask, because until last year, when Irving rose up over Stephen Curry in the last minute of Game 7, no one in wine and gold had done anything championship worthy other than him. 0:42Play In The 2016 FInals, Kyrie Irving sealed Cleveland's title with a clutch jumper. But now, Irving has. And he’s young enough to want to bend a few palm fronds his way. I think he’s still nuts

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