The Lebron Phenomenon!

by Joel Leon

Basketball, of course after soccer (the real football), is the most fascinating sport ever. I love the game! I had the chance to see Magic Johnson, Hakeem Olajuwon, Allen Iverson, Kobe Bryant, Charles Barkley, Dennis Rodman, David Robinson, Clyde Drexler, Michael Jordan...play the game at the highest possible level.

Those fabulous players invented moves, created impossible blocks, made unimaginable dunks...However, they respected the game. They work hard, they realized things that we were witness of the amount of sacrifices invested on the field to reach fame and glory. Unanimously, pundits, coaches, players, writers admitted that Michael Jordan was the most exceptional player who ever played the game. We expected to see the Michael Jordan’s myth would go on for at least another millennium. Here comes Lebron James!

The players mentioned earlier, never trivialized the game. Lebron James is doing exactly that right now.

Watching Lebron James playing basketball is like drinking a bottle of water. It’s the meeting point of where force and fineness conjugate their emotions to conquer greatness. He predicted victories, he made it happen; he went to Miami Heat to win championships, he made it happen; he went back to Cleveland Cavaliers with a promise to win championships for his native people, he made it happen. Lebron James is just invincible!

Some people think that basketball has become an easier game because of less physical contact. This may explain Lebron’s phenomenal domination of the game. From my point of view, it’s just evolution. He is just changing the narrative of the game.

Actually, basketball reaches its golden age when there is no place for the average player. It’s the genuine time line of the game. This is a historical moment, just like the end of the world, the beginning of the new one. Today’s players are making sure that nobody beats their legacy until mankind reaches the infinite. It’s like the renaissance in Europe after the middle ages era during XIV, XV, XVI and XVII centuries. The surge of envy, not just to create or invent, but a passion to cultivate beauty in the extended form of visibility and surrealism. The domination of the limitless perspective.

My focus is Lebron James, but I am taking a look at the NBA as a whole. Every single player is a three-pointer, blocker, re-bounder, passer...We’re talking about the dimension where the game is total, that allows the players to do and be everything. Stephen Curry, Isaiah Thomas, Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant, Chris Paul, Blake Griffins, James Harden, Kawhli Leonard, just to name a few are reinventing the game in a direction that we never see or think before. Watching a game of basketball is like visiting an art gallery where the masters of art are having an exposition. This is where sport meets art.

Lebron James, from my perspective, is the most dangerous player in the game who’s making miracles happen on a daily basis. Even when he is not playing at his best, there is always a lesson to learn from his skills. The season is almost over. Cleveland is affronting Golden States in the finals for a 3^rd consecutive year. Whatever the outcome, the eternity of the basketball will be reinforced and maintained.

Joel Leon

(Thanks to Jayden June and Johanne Louis)