You may remember LeBron suggesting last November that the NBA retire the number 23 league-wide in honor of basketball icon Michael Jordan. He even said that he would lead the charge and change his own digits, a number seen stitched and sowed next to “LBJ” on millions of jerseys, blankets, and beach towels worldwide.
Believe it or not, he’s done it.
The King just barely made a Wednesday deadline to submit a number-change request to the NBA and ought be rocking six (his team USA number) next season. Cleveland fans are worried the change may be a sign that the ladder of 2010 will be a new beginning for LBJ, but such speculation’s the likes of a 17-year-old worried he got that chick from the public school pregnant last weekend by not implementing the “withdraw method” properly. Let’s just wait and see, fellas.
In my opinion the change is a good one. Lebron would have to win 7 championships compared to Jordan’s 6 for people to associate “23″ with “LeBron,” and if you want to be considered one of the best ever your name has to be synonymous with your number. Then again Bill Russell, the real number 6, won 11 rings… but that was in a time before awesome YouTube highlights, so “6″ it is.
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so hard to win the kind of rings jordan did, scary scary scary that they won that many consecutively… LBJ makes Cleveland one of the monsters, but not the monster like Jordan made daaaaaaa bulls. maybe some day
haha probably a patriotic decision made after these olympics. or just tryin to get people to BUY MORE JERSEYS!
gonna have a new number in a NEW CITY!!!! adios cleveland!!!!
not gonna happen “himself”……… gonna be a cleveland boi forever!
nooooooooo
LBJ is my dogg! I like #6 better than #23… and I WILL buy a new Lebron jersey when he changes
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