LeBron James is NBA maestro
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Posted by Mark Barnes Apr 23, 2006 |
LeBron James is Under Review, Again.
While watching the NBA playoffs on Sunday, I could have sworn I saw LeBron James in the stands at the Q Arena, selling hot dogs and cotton candy. I'm pretty sure he tacked up a sagging playoff banner, and he zipped across three sections of fans to save an elderly woman from falling down the concrete steps. Did I hear LeBron practicing his own stylish rendition of the National Anthem, to regale us with at a future game?
It was all just a day at the office for LeBron James. Oh, he also found time to score 32 points, grab 11 rebounds and hand out 11 assists, en route to leading the Cavaliers to a sound thrashing of Washington in Cleveland's first playoff game in seven years. LeBron is just the second player since Magic Johnson to compose a triple double in his playoff debut.
What else would you expect from the 21-year-old boy genius? He may be known as King James, but he's more Superman than monarch, although he certainly fits the role of one-man show on most occasions.
James' detractors, those who say he's not the league's MVP, will argue that it's just one game. Certainly, some of the naysayers were transformed on Sunday, as pro basketball's maestro turned one simple refrain after another into a beautiful symphony of highlight-reel music.
As two weeks of the Cavs-Wizards series continues (that is, if Cleveland doesn't end it much sooner), the NBA's best composer will undoubtedly bring the remainder of the second-guessers into the fold.