The Convergence of Media, Sports, Race, and the Arts
The signs all are there. The end of a news cycle. The end of a coaching tenure. The end of focused, team basketball in New York.
The end, that is, of Linsanity. And, for many reasons, the end of watchable professional basketball.
Jeremy Lin, Mike Woodson and Carmelo Anthony.
Ugh.
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What comes around, goes around.
Where and when I grew up, we’d say that so often, it became a way of life, a way of thinking and believing. A lot of NBA players come up in similar circumstances, so I can’t imagine that they didn’t also hear that bit of wisdom uttered a time or two.
LeBron: What Comes Around
I don’t know the guy. He came after I stopped covering the NBA. After 17 years, it had become, for me, a league of antics. You know what I mean: Whenever there’s a crowd of adults, some kid runs up to the hot microphone and starts singing, or some boy throws a frog into a flock of girls. After starting out knowing Larry Bird, Earvin Johnson and Michael Jordan as genuine people, the league for me had devolved into a silly show with its players clamoring for more and more attention, as if all the dollars weren’t enough.
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