Bad Guys Always Win

I’m not a professional basketball fan. But I am amused by the current NBA finals. As of last night, the best-of-seven series is tied at two games each. The Miami Heat are the “bad guys.” LeBron James, the best player in the game today, fled his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers last year for Miami in a brazen attempt to win NBA championships. Who can blame him? He had no chance to win in Cleveland, and now leads the best team money can buy. Only the Dallas Mavericks, the presumed “good guys” in this equation, stand in his way. Americans love to wax poetically about their sports gods. Tiger Woods. Kobe Bryant. Brett Favre. Reprehensible individuals, rich in money and celebrity, bankrupt otherwise. Professional sports is business. It’s theatre and nothing more. Always has been. There are no “good guys” – just entertainers and their handlers, all out to make as much as they can for as long as they can. Now, I can’t wait to read about who wins game five tomorrow night in Dallas!