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"  July 8, 2010 I don&amp;#039;t slow down to gawk at highway wrecks, but I&amp;#039;ll be watching ESPN tonight. Nike nailed it: We are all Witnesses to the King. But Nike couldn&amp;#039;t have imagined that what we would be witnessing this summer was the transmogrification of LeBron James into Idi Amin, the Last King of Cleveland. Alea iacta est. The die is cast. Whatever James decides to do, whatever city he winds up playing in \u2014 right now, that looks like either Miami or Cleveland \u2014 he&amp;#039;ll be defined by a megalomania that will transcend and dwarf everything else he&amp;#039;ll ever do. The way this has played out has proved what was apparent to any fan back when LeBron wore a Yankees cap to Jacobs Field for the opening game of a playoff series against New York in 2007: He&amp;#039;s a fundamentally stupid kid. An hour of prime time, complete with a title \u2014 &amp;quot;The Decision&amp;quot; \u2014 could be a great goof, a Chappellesque satire. Instead, it&amp;#039;ll be a cloying, tone-deaf puppet show, a tribute to the lunacy that James&amp;#039;s self-mythologizing has become. I saw him tank on the court against the Celtics after years of talking about his leadership and passion for winning, and I&amp;#039;ve seen him try to rebuild his putative brand after that debacle by putting his team, town, and fans through needless hell. You want to go? Go. You want to stay? Fine. Either way, the decision itself says less about LeBron than his conduct \u2014 on and off the court \u2014 the past two months. He&amp;#039;s not a winner or a leader. He&amp;#039;s just a baller from Akron whose ego has run far ahead of his talent and his smarts. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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