Fuck Yea[h] NBA

There was a time when I would have missed this dunk becauase I was away from a computer all weekend and distracted at a bar. Not so with phones today. I played this a few times every couple hours on my phone, marveling at the Tom Chambers esque athletcism of it all; except, James jumped over John Lucas III, clean. He simply jumped over him like a particularly high hurdle, then said he “didn’t see him.” 

What sort of irrational hyperbole did we see about ‘Bron’s leap heard round the Internet even though LeBron impressing the Internet is—in itself—impressive?

So, double “wows” for LeBron: the initial “shit, he just jumped over him.” Followed by reading the headlines today, and realizing he impressed the Internet and others. Bam. Take that haters, still, lets listen to the King-crowning Hans Christain Anderson approved language floating around about this dunk today.

• Michael McMarthy at the USA Today, a simple news outlet, said it was the “BEST EVER!’
• Eric Freeman at BDL  brought up Vince’s dunk on France’s Frederic Weis. It’s germane, but lacking in flamboyance for not featuring black and white comparisons (corollary from Chuck Klostermannnnnnn: Larry Bird as Z-Bo, actually, spot on).
• Miami New Times’ Kyle Munzenrieder said it was the Most Awesomenest Dunk Ever…After Biking to Work. [ellipses mine]
• The Palm Beach Post’’s Ethan Skolnick went with “leaped” as the transitive verb. Conjuring up TMNT flashbacks from 4th grade.
• The UK Daily Mail’s Lee Moran also asked the obvious question trumpeted by the USA Today (too lazy to find who actually came up with the subjective question as headline idea; it was probably brobible or TMZ and I feel dirty knowing this without checking). Also our first instance of leapfrogging as a transitive verb, but not the last instance with amphibian-laced language.
• TMZ decided capitalization was the best way to get those delicious bing points (wait, you don’t use bing?) and went with the ubiquitous description “HE JUST JUMPED OVER A GUY!”
• The Grio also went with “leapfrog.” Again, I have no idea who came up with their headline first, but it is a logical SEO/descriptor title, and the most frequent YouTube entry of the dunk. But, frog imagery could have been avoided.
• I did check out Brobible’s title, and they went with the literal/figurative question since the “jumping over a guy” dunk mythology is grounded in a reality where this hardly ever happens and certainly not in the NBA, where guys are usually pretty large (John Lucas III is tiny at 5’11”). But, yes, ‘Bron did literally jump, hurdle, spring, vault, clear, overcome, capriole?, caper? cleanly over Lucas (the III). Tough break for John Lucas III because I haven’t heard his name in a while.  
• Deadspin’s Timothy Burke went with “hurdled.” DAMMIT! I thought mine was better.
• I like how Hardwood Paroxysm’s Jared Dubin just gave them a “Lion Face.” 
• International Business Times went with SEO wank fest+ everyone’s favorite crutch subject/adjective combo: “LeBron+’incredible’=$$$pageviews$$$”
• WPGC radio called it the DUNK OF THE week. Which was a welcome relief from the “all time” talk. 
• The Hollywood Gossip dot com described Lucas as “hapless” and then informed us John Lucas III was “trending on twitter.” I am not linking to this. Just trust me.
• I do want to inform my readers that a recent body building forum didn’t think it was all that special. 

The Heat won 97-93, and the budding rivalry competitive passion(?) between Rose and ‘Bron came to a crescendo when they both hit game winning free throws to seal the game for their team  missed free throws to either tie or clinch the game. Both free throws. They both missed both important free throws with under 10 seconds remaining.  

This is why we shouldn’t have lockouts.