Fear of Mutiny

Loyalty is a big deal.

But most of the time it's totally unnecessary. We cling to ideas because they're what we always believed, when in reality - we should change our minds as new information becomes available. If I go to a bar that starts to suck, I stop going to that bar. 2+2 = 4, until it equals 5. Until something tells me it equals 5. But I'm open to that proposition, it's obvious that things can change and that's OK.

That leads directly to my next point - Lebron ain't Jordan. As hard as we push, and as much as we're in need for a new basketball Jesus, he's just not there. Greatness is spontanious. I don't know if anyone ever said that, but they should have. Jordan was an organic creature, he came out of relative obscurity in high school and over-acheived in college. Although he was college player of the year, apparently he wasn't as good as Sam Bowie. And this must have made him go insane. And that insanity lead to greatness. The drive to constantly be better, to constantly push himself, to constantly over-acheive. Jordan was his own worst enemy - he set the bar so hi, that sometimes we expected too much from him. He's the only person to win six titles that we say "probably should have won 8, or 9, or 10". It's insane. Most people can't win one. And that's what seperates him from everyone else. And that's what always will.

When I saw Lebron hit that shot on Friday I thought maybe I could be willing to let it go. To let the torch pass to the next generation. But I can't. I'm too stuborn and too loyal. Greatness isn't scripted, it doesn't show up on the front page of Sports Illustrated a thousand times before it's realized. Instead, it taps you on the shoulder and whispers in your ear, and by the time you turn around, it's gone.