February 15, 2009

| Residential Rigidity >>

I really like this Jonathan Abrams article on LeBron James. It’s not about anything off-court. It’s not about his relationships with his teammates, coaches, or management. It’s not about a particular game or set of games. It’s not even really about him, except in a refreshingly limited way.

Instead, it’s a well-researched article featuring multiple interviews (mostly with James’s opponents) about a single aspect of his game — his unique and nearly unstoppable ability to drive to the basket.

This is a function of James’s size: