In the two weeks since King James partnered with the Miami Heat, his image has taken an unprecedented pounding for an athlete or celebrity, without a criminal record, drug addiction, declining skills or mistress. ? It’s not hard to solve The Mystery of the Shrinking Reputation.? Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Charles Barkley have each railed against Lebron James’s apparent [&hellip

It’s been a week and the parodies have been rolling in from around the Internet.? Six years ago when Kobe Bryant shed his kid friendly McDonalds image in the wake of felony rape charges, he became a pariah off the hardwood but the severity of the accusations he faced tempered the punchlines.? In addition, Youtube was just launching into the [&hellip

Leave it to Jesse Jackson to turn a trivial billionaire’s temper tantrum into Dred Scott reincarnated. As Shaq once said, “One lucky shot deserves another”, and one dumb comment deserves a dumber response.? I wish Dan Gilbert would stay out of the liquor cabinet while he’s typing, but I also wish Jesse Jackson would leave his thoughts out of the [&hellip

I waited until the weekend to release my first thoughts on Miami’s big day because I was caught up in my website launch.? Unfortunately, unlike the Miami Heat, I could not afford strobe lights and fog but I do invite 30,000 people to attend.? The Heat presumably spent the remainder of their scant salary cap on their flashy introduction of [&hellip