LeBron James is an NBA champion and an NBA Finals MVP again, and it should briefly quell the usual, dreary harangues about his alleged shortcomings. Some of James’s critics can blame James for almost anything; to co-opt a term deployed by defenders of a certain, other someone, James triggers a kind of LeBron Derangement Syndrome. “I want my damn respect, too,” James said in the celebration after Sunday’s clincher over Miami, and the comment drew a bit of an eye-roll on social media: Who, at this point, doesn’t respect LeBron James? But the other part is: LeBron is kind of right—he still takes a lot of grief! With his agent, Rich Paul, James is already a behemoth in the world of athlete representation.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 12, 2020 16:23 UTC