LeBron and Curry are still here in the NBA playoffs

And I’m still here. To transform the past into the present and perhaps into the future. LeBron James and Steph Curry have revolutionized basketball, each in their own way, each with their own characteristics. Lebron put his physique at the service of his immense talent. Curry put his immense talent at the service of his physique. The result is that they have brought home four NBA titles each and today they are still here in the starting blocks of the playoffs after the Lakers came out alive from the play-in at theovertimeand with a thirty of James. They have little chance of regaining the ring with the Lakers and Warriors, number 7 and 6 on the West Coast, but after all, for them used to winning, it was already important to bring their respective teams to the only part of the NBA season that matters. Lebron gets there after 55 games averaging 28.9 points following the season in which he set a new league record for points by archiving Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s old record. Curry has played in 56 games thus far and averaged 29.4 points, nearly five higher than he averaged in 882 games played in his career. LeBron has already reached 1,421 games with 38,652 points. The numbers tell a lot about American sports, perhaps even too much. But behind it are men who have been able to go beyond their sport.

Men who are well told the two books just published by 66and2nd. Dario Costa wrote Steph Curry, joy and revolution; Simone Marcuzzi sent to bookstores with the new colored covers that characterize the “Unexpected Lives” series LeBron James is America. Already from the two titles it is clear how Curry and LeBron also bring their characters off the court. “Steph Curry is at the same time the child who savors the joy of the game and the relentless agonist who drags his team along, the player who on the pitch tries what others consider impossible, even at the risk of being laughed at, and the enigma that keeps the opposing defenses in check”. “LeBron is King (King James), he’s just a kid from Akron, Ohio (Just a Kid from Akron), he’s more than an Athlete. LeBron is all the slogans and hashtags of him that as a skilled communicator he uses for his story ”.

LeBron and Curry fill the field differently. LeBbron forcefully, Steph lightly. LeBron attacks the iron, even if he has now learned to hurt even from afar. Curry owns no man’s land. He passes half the field and with infinite lightness invents a lethal parable without even needing to see if the ball will go inside the retina or not. He knows it and almost always once again before hearing the tuft that makes his fans explode. James was a lead man in Cleveland, Miami, Los Angeles. He started in 2003. He’s been here for twenty years. Curry was man of only one franchise. He is the Golden State Warriors (told very well by Ethan Sherwood Strauss in another title published by 66thand2nd: Golden State Warriors. The victory machine), since 2009 he has only played and scored for them that he has dragged to four rings, leading them to live permanently in the NBA elite. LeBron James’ dream would be to one day find himself playing with Curry, something that has never happened even with the Dream Team jersey with which James won a bronze and two Olympic golds. “Besides my son Bronny – he said a few months ago – if I had to choose a player with whom I would like to share the locker room, the choice would fall on Stephen Curry. Despite the battles fought by opponents in the past, one cannot fail to esteem a boy who has forever revolutionized the game of basketball”. On the other hand, he was already the choosen one, the predestined one, when he arrived in Detroit to see him: “I still remember the day when he came to Detroit to attend the Sweet Sixteen NCAA and sat down on the sidelines to watch me play live with Davidson’s jersey… A future as LeBron’s teammate is fantasy; such a pairing can be done on NBA 2K, but at the cost of ending everyone’s fun, because it would be lethal ”. A video game cup, that’s what they could be.