Few players in history had more fun playing basketball than LeBron James during that 2009–10 season. That February, I worried that everything came too easy to him, that for true greatness to manifest itself “you need to lose a few times, need to lick your wounds and taste your own blood, need to sit in silence in the locker room of another lost season wondering what went wrong, and then you need to say, ‘Never again, not ever, I am not letting this happen again.’ Given how easy basketball comes to him right now, given how many people probably kiss his rear end on a day-to-day basis, given how
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