Stugotz

This is uncomfortable every time you do this.

This is unpleasant.

This is a tryout.

I want a career in voiceover work, Dan, so bear with me here.

LeBron James, feeling gratitude after four years, in my opinion, by Dan LeBittard.

The letter in Sports Illustrated was super sweet.

Had a writer's touch.

Really nice.

Perfect, really.

So perfect.

Too perfect.

If you're cynical and embittered and hurt.

And the fairy tale story itself might even be somehow better than that.

Conquering Hero returns home to rebuild the shattered place.

It was all spun so well that even the Cleveland people, who were burning his jersey and urinating on cakes of his face in public restrooms, developed the inconsistent amnesia necessary to overlook the Conquering Hero's hand in shattering the place he now returns to rebuild.

Such a thin line in sports between thank you

And fuck you.

Wow.

If you were in the public relations business, which Sports Illustrated usually isn't, this is exactly the way you massage all of this.

To get the worship and mythology that purifies the polarizing image of a global icon who rented Miami for championships.