RealClearSports: Finals Are LeBron's Morality Play

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

It has gone from a sporting event to a morality play. Or maybe since last summer it always has been one.

We're not thinking of basketball in June, which is what should be the focus. We're trapped in a time warp. We're still caught up in that announcement last July. We'll never forgive LeBron James.

He did what was right, joining a team ...

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RealClearSports: NBA's All About Glamour Teams

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

So, Denver, the city and the team, symbolically lies bleeding and battered. It was overmatched and under-financed. The NBA is a league for the Big Guys, figuratively as well as literally.

In the so-called ultimate team game, everything is under the control of the individual.

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RealClearSports: Heat's On LeBron, Miami

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

"We're not having fun right now.'' The speaker was LeBron James. The same LeBron James who turned the end of his free agency into a parody and it was believed would turn the Miami Heat into the greatest team in the history of basketball. Or at least in the history of overhyped basketball players.

Nothing against Mr. James and the Heat, but some of us are having a great deal of fun.

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RealClearSports: Speculation on LeBron: We Do Overkill Well

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

Avery Johnson, the coach turned announcer, is "rooting for Cleveland.'' I'm rooting for a moratorium. Wishing there were not one mention of LeBron James until July. As if that's possible.

This will be the summer of our dyspepsia. We're going to be sick of the speculation. We already are.

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RealClearSports: There Are No Morals in These Stories

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

Was sport always this crazy? Did basketball players 30 years ago think they needed a bigger arsenal than Wyatt Earp?

Did football coaches leave town faster than a guy being chased by a sheriff and then get a royal welcome the next place they put down their clipboard?

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