Las Vegas Adult Entertainment: ESPN all too willing to turn network over LeBron Kingdom for one hour
July 9, 2010 by newsdoggiestyle
The Amazing LeBronathon, enabled by the flex of ESPN’s worldwide hype machine, milked 27 minutes and two full commercial breaks of a prime hour of our summer’s leisure Thursday night before announcing something that should have taken less than 140 characters on a Twitter post.
Jim Gray, we ask you as we sit on “pins and needles”: What’s wrong with this picture?
New-age ethics, protocol, narcissism, arrogance, ego, control freakishness, grandstanding and creating a situation where your own reporters have to work against your own pimping aside, the reality show that evolved into “Dancing With LeBron” finally reached a stinky climax. Stephen A. Smith’s wildest dream came true, having been one of the first to “report” it as “fact” June 28 despite James telling Gray that he just made up his mind Thursday morning to abandon Cleveland for Miami.