http://blog.shrub.com/archives/luke/2007-05-04_592 Because we care about stuff Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:51:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/luke/2007-05-04_592#comment-71517 The Old School Lunch » For once, Ira Newble > Lebron James Mon, 28 May 2007 23:24:30 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/luke/2007-05-04_592#comment-71517 [...] But i’m not going to sit here and bash the poor “soon to be richest athlete in the world” “kid” without saying that despite being another athlete/celeb caught up in the athlete/celeb game of “I just play ball. Don’t bother me.” he can use this incident and do enormous good here. He has that voice, especially in the playoffs, to bring attention to it, to admit his lack of awareness and to tell the skeptics about it. How big of a message would it be if Lebron stood up right in the middle of the Eastern conference finals and devote a large part of his media interviews to Darfur? Can you imagine how much attention he could bring if he said that from now on, instead of reading to kids, teaching kids to play ball in some completely athlete oriented charitable, safe, cop-out sort of way…that this was his issue? If he was the chosen one, at least in the NBA world for that issue, that’d be huge. [...] [...] But i’m not going to sit here and bash the poor “soon to be richest athlete in the world” “kid” without saying that despite being another athlete/celeb caught up in the athlete/celeb game of “I just play ball. Don’t bother me.” he can use this incident and do enormous good here. He has that voice, especially in the playoffs, to bring attention to it, to admit his lack of awareness and to tell the skeptics about it. How big of a message would it be if Lebron stood up right in the middle of the Eastern conference finals and devote a large part of his media interviews to Darfur? Can you imagine how much attention he could bring if he said that from now on, instead of reading to kids, teaching kids to play ball in some completely athlete oriented charitable, safe, cop-out sort of way…that this was his issue? If he was the chosen one, at least in the NBA world for that issue, that’d be huge. [...]

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