LeBron James felt as if the move to Los Angeles was necessary last summer, leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers at the height of their franchise history in order to rebuild the Lakers’ former glory.
Yet, as this season has shown (and even before the season began), the Los Angeles fan base hasn’t been kind to James and it’s because they don’t appreciate him. Not in the way that Northeast Ohio and the Cavs fan base does.
In Cleveland, LeBron is a superhero. He imagines himself as Batman and he is that in the Land. He falls in love with the characters in Mario Puzo’s “The Godfather” and to the people of Akron, he’s Don Corleone himself.