[Note: please post suggestions of who LeBron James of who he should dunk on next]
It's rare when athletes respond to a dreary, clichéd question with a stimulating answer. Thank you LeBron James. Maxim Magazine wanted to know who basketball's king would most like to dunk on. The reigning NBA MVP didn't name the towering Yao Ming or the "Bird Man" Chris Anderson. Instead he said, "If it doesn't have to be a basketball player, George W. Bush. I would dunk on his ass, break the rim, and shatter the glass."
Damn. LeBron, the most dynamically violent dunker since Dominique Wilkins, is going out of his way to show that he has a political ax to grind with the man who spearheaded both a war based on lies and the near collapse of our economy. James is clearly choosing to not go the way of his hero Michael Jordan who famously wouldn't stand up to Sen. Jesse Helms in 1990 because "Republicans buy sneakers too."
My one issue is his choice. Today George W. Bush is a remarkably feeble figure on the American scene. He is even speaking at a dreadful, cringe-worthy October 26th "business seminar" in Ft. Worth, Texas called "Get Motivated!" Other speakers include former NFL quarterback Terry Bradshaw, and "America's #1 Motivator Zig Ziglar! But the headliner at this craptastic event will be the 43rd President. Going to George W. Bush for business motivation is like asking Jon and Kate how to raise your kids.
Clearly, LeBron needs to seek a better class of villain for his dunking displays. Unfortunately, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, and the usual braying barnyard of bigots are just too obvious, and frankly their act is getting stale.
Maybe King James should instead start with some of the worst people in the world of sports. After all, there is a reason that Rush Limbaugh felt like he would blend right in to the ownership fraternity. How sweet it would be to see LeBron bring down the hammer on the heads of the following folk:
- Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones: His new $1.15 billion stadium in Arlington comes complete with cage-dancing cheerleaders, the widest flat screen television in the world, and special "party pass" tickets so people can stand outside the stadium and watch the game through osmosis. Jones took $350 million of public money to build the Cowboys stadium in a state where almost 1 in 4 children live in poverty. Even worse, Jones believes that just because he knows how to fleece the locals, he also possesses the know-how to draft players, hire coaches, and play General Manager. Keep in mind that the last quarterback to win a playoff game for Jerry Jones was Troy Aikman in 1996. Jones needs to get dunked on now.
These are my four. If you have your own choices, please mark them down and I will send suggestions to LeBron's people about who really deserves some King James Justice. After all, George W. Bush is simply yesterday's news.