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Posted: Wed 13:40, 28 Aug 2013 Post subject: Life and times of next Jordan Nike Blazer efhq |
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Life and times of next Jordan
Consider, for a moment,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], your idea of the average American high school kid - hanging out by the lockers; experimenting a little behind the bike sheds; doing a Saturday job to pay for those over-priced sneakers; worrying about dates and grades . . .
Maybe such a kid might have a mock-up Sports Illustrated cover on his bedroom wall with a picture of himself,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], saying "The next Michael Jordan".
Then consider the case of LeBron James, an 18-year-old pupil at St Vincent-St Mary High School in Akron,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Ohio. He used to have one of those mock-ups on his bedroom wall - until he really did make the cover of Sports Illustrated, and even Michael Jordan started to say he was the next Michael Jordan.
In June, James will be leaving school,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], almost certainly to become the No.1 pick in next season's National Basketball Association draft. He has just about stopped growing, at 6 foot 8 inches (203 cm). He is already the hottest young property in American sport,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and is about to become a multimillionaire. But in the meantime he is still a schoolboy, and there are people trying to treat him like one.
James was recently banned from high school sport forever for violating the amateurism rules of the Ohio High School Athletic Association by accepting a gift worth over $US100 ($A170) from a non-relative,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to wit two jerseys from a shopkeeper.
James said he thought they were a reward for his good grades in class.
A Cleveland judge, however, restored James' eligibility, but will make a further decision on February 19. No doubt James' school is relieved,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], for it had cashed in on his celebrity by switching its home games to the arena at the University of Akron,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], arranged a national fixture list and is copping the cash for them being shown on pay-per-view TV. When St V-St M played at the university on Sunday - one of the games James was forced to miss - the crowd spent more time watching James, sitting on the sidelines in a natty yellow suit,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], than it did watching the actual game.
James' nemesis is one Clair Muscaro (a bloke), the Ohio association commissioner, who had been forced to let him off on a previous charge of being given a $US50,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 four-wheel-drive car.
Unfortunately for Muscaro, the evidence was that the car was an 18th-birthday present from James' mother. Second time around, the commissioner was determined to impose his law. "LeBron James would be treated just like the other 300,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 high school athletes in Ohio," Muscaro insisted. "Skill level has nothing to do with it."
Oh, give over, you silly old jobsworth. When James arrived at Los Angeles airport the other week he was met, according to the Sports Illustrated account,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "by a 30ft-long white Cadillac Escalade complete with satellite TV, two wet bars, frosted windows, an eight-speaker stereo and room for 16 passengers. Wearing an And1 flannel jacket,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], vintage lo-top Nikes and an adidas backpack - a tease for the shoe companies vying to drop $US25 million in his lap - the most hyped high schooler ever piled into the land yacht with his personal security guard, his mother and his wide-eyed teammates."
Amateur status for the likes of James, who has agents hovering round him like wasps round a jam pot, is farcical. There are clearly people in Ohio who think that James is arrogant and greedy and uppity and needs some ritual humiliation.
And they reckon his mother, Gloria, who appears to go round acting like a lottery winner, is worse. Gloria was 16 when she gave birth to LeBron; he never knew his father; her boyfriend got jailed for cocaine dealing. "I saw drugs, guns,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], killings; it was crazy," said LeBron. "But my mom kept food in my mouth and clothes on my back."
Eventually, she let him live for a while with his basketball coach,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Eddie Walker, which he said changed his life. He became a national star at 13. And he really did start getting good grades.相关的主题文章:
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