» The Legendary Dunk on Lebron
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Great article on rivals.com about Lebron James confiscating tapes of a high school sophomore dunking on him. Everyone would have gotten a laugh out of it if the tapes had leaked and forgotten about it. But now:
But by censoring the tape, LeBron turns the dunk into a legend. On video, it’s just a dunk. Without video, the jam can reach mythic proportions. Because nobody can see it, the story of the dunk will grow in stature with each telling. Today, it was a simple two-handed slam. In a few days, it will be a 360-degree windmill. By the time Crawford makes his Xavier debut in October, he will have jumped off LeBron’s shoulders, flipped in the air, slammed the ball home with his left pinkie and then handed LeBron $3.99 for his dry cleaning.
