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Winning is one thing. Winning with your buddies is immeasurably better.
That is the basic message conveyed by “More Than A Game,’’ the extraordinary documentary about the core group of young men who began playing together as fifth-graders in a Salvation Army-owned gym on a linoleum floor and who, seven years later, found themselves acclaimed as the best high school basketball team in the land. It would have been a nice, heartwarming story under any circumstances. The fact that one of these youngsters was LeBron James takes the enterprise to another level.
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Here is today’s question: Do some people start to believe the narrative that others create for them? I ask this because we hear an awful lot in sports about “proving everybody wrong” and “playing for respect” and ... more »
The quiet, under-recognized lynchpin of this Heat season and its championship direction has been the ability — but first the willingness — of Dwyane Wade to step aside for the first time in his Miami career and let... more »
There was no fanfare. No standing ovation. No curtain call. No farewell speech. There wasn't even a goodbye wave. Just a disheartened coach walking somberly and silently off the floor at the Amway Center. Maybe for the last... more »
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