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CHICAGO -- The most powerful person in the free world is not the President of the United States. If so, Barack Obama wouldn't be preoccupied, like everyone else, by an athlete who seems to have more power. For someone who roundly was accused of quitting on a postseason series and has yet to win a game in the NBA Finals, it's amazing how LeBron James has a way of making important people stand at attention.
Good God, we've created a LeBronster.
There's Phil Jackson, the most accomplished coach in the history of American team sports, reportedly planting seeds that he might leave the Los Angeles Lakers and return to Chicago if James signs with the Bulls. There are the Cleveland Cavaliers, dumping coach Mike Brown after successive 60-victory seasons in hopes of convincing James to stay. And then there's President Obama, lobbying LeBron for a second time to sign in Chicago.
"You know, like I said, I don't want to meddle," Obama told TNT in an interview airing Tuesday night. "I will say this: [Derrick] Rose, Joakim Noah -- it's a pretty good core. You know, you could see LeBron fitting in pretty well there. I think that the most important thing for LeBron right now is actually to find a structure where he's got a coach that he respects and is working hard with teammates who care about him, and if that's in Cleveland, then he should stay. If he doesn't feel like he can get it there, then someplace else."
Of course, only hours after Obama's comments were released publicly, the Cavaliers fired Brown. Later Monday, Jackson's people slipped a hint to ESPN that they've had back-channel talks with the Bulls about a return to the city where he won six championships with Michael Jordan. If Lakers owner Jerry Buss foolishly insists on slashing Jackson's salary from $12.5 million annually to a mere $5 million, then why wouldn't Phil consider a project where, potentially, he could have the two-time defending MVP, a star point guard in Rose and an emerging big man in Noah -- all in their mid-20s? "It wasn't until you got that framework around you that you could be a champion,'' said Obama, back in his Barry from Bethesda talk-show mode. "Same thing happened with Kobe [Bryant]. You know, I think that, first with Shaq [O'Neal] then later with [Pau] Gasol, you know, he's gotten that sense of a team around him, and I think LeBron hasn't quite been able to get that yet. That's what he needs to find."
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