Nothing to do with Seattle, but the basketball fan portion of my brain is somehow still in tact. Not sure how that wasn't lost in the settlement as well... maybe that's what we got for the basketball inflating machine?
Anyway, those who managed to catch the Redeem Team's impressive run at this year's Olympics (and weren't stymied by the USA network's unfathomably daft decision to air fucking ping-pong over Greece v. USA), had to be impressed by BronBron. In 24 minutes a game, he averaged 15.5 points, 5 boards, almost 4 assists, 2.3 steals and 1 block. He shot 60% from the field, including 46% from 3 (46.4% to be precise, which is 2 tenths higher than Kobe's field goal percentage... but I digress).
Without exaggeration, he was unguardable. As true hoop put it, Argentina switched to zone in the gold medal game to goad Kobe into chucking threes and avoid "LeBron James and his freight train of destruction at the rim." This slowed LeBron down, but didn't stop him.
So how do you stop him? Well, apparently with a few variations on the old Larry Bird behind the backboard shot and a granny shot.
David Kalb, famed nobody, beats LeBron James at HORSE. Twice. From the LATimes website:
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Why didn't Lebron just dunk five times in a row?
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