As a sports fan, LeBron James is an unabashed front runner. Though he's from Ohio, a state with two baseball teams steeped in tradition and history (not all of it good), he roots for the New York Yankees. In football, he is a huge fan of the Dallas Cowboys. Seriously, I used to knock kids like this to the ground during recess. Leaving aside the fact that James is not old enough to remember professional basketball in the 1980s, the history he's picked up during his 26 years is almost certainly informed by this demonstrated tendency to jump on a bandwagon. So he probably knows about the Celtics and Lakers, maybe the Sixers, and doesn't recall how the league had to step in to save his former franchise--the Cavaliers--from mad man owner Ted Septien. Or how the Utah Jazz explored a merger with the Denver Nuggets. I'd wager that there are few people on Earth that love the 1980s era NBA more than I, but the idea that the league needs to revert back to that decade is ridiculous.
