SAN FRANCISCO -- LeBron James never went to college, being suited after high school for a post-graduate honors course in basketball.
But there was some buzz about the possibility, with romantics, seeing in James another Larry Bird at Indiana State, suggesting the University of Akron as a choice. Just promote James' old high school coach, Keith Dambrot, quick enough to spare James the screaming of deafening Dan Hipsher, a Bobby Knight disciple.
It was never likely, though.
But if he had played for the Zips, the dynamic would not be what he faces as the fatigued, wounded, bloody-eyed but unbowed leader of the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2018 NBA Finals.