One To Grow On
[This article will appear in the June 2006 edition of Black Sports The Magazine.]
It didn’t take long. It never usually does with the great ones. All it takes is growth, along with opportunity and a willingness to outpace your opponent. To go above and beyond.
Jordan had it. Kobe wants it. That ability to will themselves to the next level, that work ethic that carries over to those around them. Forces them to raise their game.
And now there’s LeBron. He’s got it. And this spring, he’s grown immensely. Out of Jordan’s, or anyone’s shadow. Now, he’s out of this world — with a potential for greatness never before seen in someone so young. He’s only 21. And no one let’s him forget that.
What those same people won’t forget is the way he carried his Cleveland Cavaliers on his back as they proceeded to make the Washington Wizards disappear, and take the defending conference champion Detroit Pistons to the brink.
