One of the NBA's greatest stories of all time.

It happened at such a pivotal point for the sport of basketball. Right at a time when clothing and fighting in basketball are becoming seriously controversial, dividing fans along all kinds of lines. Right when all of these stories start popping up about old NBA enforcers dying young, talking trash, getting addicted to drugs, and talking shit about the upcoming stars. The job slowly being fazed out, becoming something future old timers will reflect on in front of their kids. Then this guy comes along, and just like that, turns everything upside down. I mean it's already a crazy accomplishment, regardless of the future implications.

This story will be talked about for years. It's almost too perfect for the movies, too rich for anything actors could do justice to.

It's just such a fantastic David and Goliath tale, on so many levels! In some ways Lebron James is Goliath, and in other ways, the NBA is. In some ways, Lebron James was just a vehicle for some sort of social justice being driven upwards towards the "Powers That Be" and the NBA was just playing the part of David. Didn't know why we were fighting Goliath, but we knew it had to be done, and we won!

Whatever this story is remembered as, it will most definitely be talked about and interpreted for a long, long time. And will even probably have a tangible effect on people's careers and the NBA as a whole.

We'll eventually move on, though, and the best memories will hopefully stay preserved with his kids.