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[QUOTE="Fireball Jr., post: 1777546, member: 404"]
LeBron, no doubt, is one of the leaders -- if not the leader -- in the major, nascent shift of power in the NBA from management having near-absolute control to the labor force increasingly having more sway on their careers.

His influence is enormous, and why shouldn't it be? He's a cash cow for the Cavs, The Association, Nike, Samsung, Kia, on and on, and of course he's rewarded handsomely, but he also backs it all up on the court. Forget the ridiculous g.o.a.t debate, I'd say he's, at least, all-time top 10, and probably best small forward ever. They ain't paying him bundles of gelt because he's just another pretty face. Do even the most-devout LBJ detractors think that he's in his sixth straight final -- with two different teams -- is coincidental?

Despite all that and public perception, which I'm sure has at least a strain of reality in it, I don't think LeBron's spending his time telling the gm, David Griffin, how to do his job. Is LBJ's input sought? Hell, yeah, why shouldn't it be? But Griffin seems to know what he's doing -- getting Swish, Shumpert and Mozgov for Dion and his late-season pickup of Channing Frye strokes of genius. Plus, he apparently is not living in fear of LeBron; Griffin called him in to hash things out when an article came out a few months ago with LeBron saying -- in most likely a casual, unrealistic, romanticized sense --  that he'd love to get his boys Carmelo, CP3 and DWade together one time in their twilight careers.

Phew. I'm exhausted. So, I leave you with this, quite possibly, this former newspaper sports scribe opines, the greatest press conference ever.

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