Wooing LeBron

It's a current sport with the media. Suggest reasons LeBron James should sign with their city's basketball team. It's not just New York, but that is where I get exposed to the blitz.

A day does not go by that MANY, somewhere weigh in on reasons for LeBron choosing City/Team X. They do this using all media formats. The only place I've felt insulated from the pitches is in the elevator. But that of course doesn't prevent someone from talking about LeBron.

Since it is now getting close to when a decision on his part is reasonably imminent, furious entreaties are going out. Billboards have become the canvas for convincing. Recently, the NY Nets occupied space within sight of Madison Square Garden, home of the NY Knicks, making a billboard pitch about their desirability. The Garden people got upset and filed a protest with the NBA. Senate hearings might be next.

But an end might be in sight. In today's WSJ, Jason Gay offers 25 absolutely last-ditch, non-financial inducements to LeBron as to why he should come to NY. Each offering is coveted, even if fulfillment is doubtful. Some surely are not in Mr. Gay's control, and some are really the wishes of ALL residents, regardless of their ability to bounce a ball and shoot it at an unguarded net.

No. 2 was especially gratifying to read. I was sure I wasn't alone in my weariness of Ms. Sara Jessica Parker and her female friends, but it was nice to see in print the value of an offer, that a multi-million dollar basketball star might take New York over any other city/team, because it can be guaranteed...

Nobody will make you watch "Sex and the City."

Mr. Gay's list is worth reading, re-ranking and perhaps adding to. It was however interesting to note that an offer to have Grimaldi's pizza home delivered was made, considering the last time, and the only time that was done was for Sinatra.

That would be a coup. Most interesting was what Mr. Gay left out: a table at Rao's. With food.

Some things are impossible. There are things even beyond divine intervention. Like when Lee Trevino remarked that when there was thunder and lightning on a golf course he'd start running toward the clubhouse waving a 1-iron over his head. Lee reasoned that made him safe, because even God can't hit a 1-iron.

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