Clear. Unequivocal. And menacing. “I don’t want to finish my career playing at this level. I want to win. Playing just to play is not in my DNA.” To then add: “I know what they are still able to bring to any team that has the right pieces to aim high”. After the knockout in Miami, a future for LeBron James away from the Lakers no longer seems so risky.
The eternal charm of one last challenge, perhaps the most difficult of all: that of bringing the Knicks back to the title, which has been missing for 50 years. According to reports from Sky, fans would welcome LeBron as a real messiah, which Los Angeles has never done, still bewitched by love for Kobe Bryant. And there is no square (or market) in the world that needs and feeds on absolute superstars more than New York does.