LBJ? Historians may cringe, but the only LBJ that matters this week more than 50 years after both the Civil Rights and the Voting Rights Acts isn’t the former president from the great state of Texas.
It’s the basketball player who skipped college.
LeBron James.
As I write this before Game 5 has even started, I must first admit to being a long-suffering Golden State Warriors fan. I remember being at college in Boston, doing the unthinkable — calling a sports talk show to gloat about a basketball team other than the Celtics. But I had to. The Warriors had just swept the Washington Bullets in the finals!
Even a reasonable man felt compelled to shout from the rooftops.
Forty years later, it could happen again.
But there’s just one man in the way — and just one man.
