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The Block That Saved Basketball

LeBron James block cemented his all-time great status. Bob Donnan - USA Today

Love and basketball can still exist as one.

I sat on the patio this morning thinking about the basketball game I watched the night before. Sweat began to collect near my temple, the casualty of unseasonably wet central Texas heat and a flood of caffeine from the morning’s coffee. And, in that mindset—the intersection of fever dream and reality—I began to wonder if my memory of the previous night’s events could be trusted.

How far away was our hero LeBron James when he transferred his body’s potential from the feet and into the ground and took to the air?