It's finally here. The way that ESPN is bouncing from city to city on SportsCenter, taking the pulse of locals, feels a lot like New Year's Eve coverage during Y2K. As if a global event is about to go down. Crazy. It's incredible how LeBron has managed to control the media like a puppet master over the past week; somehow the King James camp has reporters from ESPN to NPR trying to read the tea leaves correctly and guess where James will end up. And he's done it all without a single leak from his people. If only the U.S. Military could run such a tight ship.
Brian Windhorst, the longtime Cavs beat writer from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, likened LeBron's departure form Cleveland to a nuclear bomb being dropped on the city. The franchise will be decimated and local businesses will take a massive hit. The city may never recover.
What began as a story about a local boy being the savior and the chosen one to heal Cleveland's collection of legendary sports wounds may ironically turn in to the biggest tragedy of all. The kid from Akron could end up wiping out generations of basketball fans.
We'll find out in about 20 minutes....
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