Most of us have several watershed moments in our lives….those times when we remember exactly where we were when it happened. Sometimes it’s tragedy (I remember exactly where I was when I heard that Kurt Cobain had died, and who amongst us doesn’t remember where we were on 9/11?), but the really special moments are the positive moments we remember so dearly.

For me, one of the biggest and most uplifting, transcendent moments in my life was May 22, 2003. On that day, those magical NBA Draft Lottery balls spit out the numeric sequence that gave the Cavaliers the top pick in the 2003 Draft. More importantly, it was the day I knew that LeBron James would be a Cleveland Cavalier. It might have been in my pre-blogging days, but a friend of mine had a website that hosted different articles, and I wrote an article 2 days after the ann0uncement saying, “It’s only a matter of time now, and I am shaking with the eagerness that comes with the idea of what King James can bring to the table not just for the Cleveland Cavaliers, or even Cleveland sports in general, but for the entire city of Cleveland and the entire state of Ohio. LeBron James can, and will be, the savior of a franchise, a city, and a state.”

LeBron James has been all of that and more for the Cleveland area and Ohio in general, and in a season that has uplifted us to this point more than any other season in any other sport in decades, it’s only fitting that LeBron receive the ultimate validation of what he has meant to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Nothing will ever take the place of bringing a Championship to this starved city, but nothing makes us more happy and more proud today than to pass along the news that LeBron James has officially been named the 2008-09 NBA Most Valuable Player!   [Read more...]