When LeBron got on TV and took a sledgehammer to the city of Cleveland, wheels started spinning all over the NBA.  

First and foremost, Dan Gilbert got busy with the Comic Sans and wrote the fans a letter.  Beat reporter Brian Windhorst scrambled to a broken record theory about the seven stages of grieving after a loss.  Guys like Skip Bayless and Adrian Wojnarowski were basking in a glow of “I told you so” and newfound respect around the city of Cleveland.  

One of the more memorable things that was written was Andy Baskin’s blog about how he and the rest of the local media missed the boat on LeBron so badly.  It was a refreshing take from Baskin, and it rang most true out of everything else that had been written up to that point.

A few weeks later, the reporting on LeBron finally started to ramp up.  Wojnarowski unleashed an unbelievable story of LeBron almost getting kicked off of Team USA.  He told us about how Jason Kidd was basically assigned to be LeBron’s babysitter and mentor.  Brian Windhorst followed up with some additional revelations of how the recruitment meetings went with LeBron and his posse leading up to his bolting for Miami.  These two articles alone were exciting.  We might have been burned by LeBron, but at least we might get the closure of finding out exactly what happened in that Boston series, right?  Wrong. [Read more...]