On a day when The Donald
showed up with his hair in Trump Tower to announce he has decided to let the people
finally have a chance to vote for him, Trump's event was trumped by the largest
crowd since the glory days of Michael Jordan.
The Golden State Warriors trumped
LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA finals while Trumping Trump
and all the politicians for headlines.
In the process Stephen
Curry and the Warriors brought home their first title in 40 years while Coach Steve
Kerr, who was a teammate with Michael Jordan when MJ won his last of six titles
in 1998, became the second coach in history
to win the championship his first year coaching.
As if that was not enough,
this year the television ratings soared, up by around 25%, as the games
surpassed 20 million viewers and most likely it was the second largest audience
in history to, yes, the Michael Jordan 1998 title.
The only drawback to the
rags to riches story of the Warriors was the media fascination with crowning
LeBron James King James. There is no
doubt James is exceptional, but the media tended to go brain dead from a
historical standpoint and were very biased against the feel good team from out
west.
Crowning LeBron the best ever showed total
ignorance of some mighty powerful facts. Bill Russell won 11 NBA titles in 13 years
including eight in a row and ten out of twelve over one span. Thirty-eight players have won four or more
titles.
LeBron has been to the
finals six times and walked away with two titles. Michael Jordan won all six title games in
which he played. Most likely LeBron is
the greatest player currently playing but he is yet to elbow his way into the "greatest
of all time" club.
In terms of side stories
and intensity, it was one of the greatest series of games played in the
championship series and a far cry from the scandals plaguing other teams and
sports.
Along with the Triple
Crown victory of American Pharoah, the first in thirty-seven years, it was a good
month for sports to knock politics out of the headlines and consciousness of America .
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