When a particular brand of greatness persists for more than two decades, as LeBron James’s career has, certain real-time moments can feel like inadvertent communes with the past. Watching James freely and calmly dismantle the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday in the final game of the 2023-24 regular season, I found myself thinking about 2015 and the luxuries LeBron possesses today, at 39, that he couldn’t access then at the ripe old age of 30. In other words, I was beside myself after witnessing... Read this story
