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July 10, 2010
The Daily News turns on a dime, spurning LeBron James after months of pulling for him, aching for him
Atlantic Yards Report
The Daily News, which launched a GetLeBron.com website as part of a months-long push to attract the superstar, today turned on a dime, editorializing James and the giant mistake: LeBron decides he can't make it here:
Who needed him, anyway?
Last night, with pomp even the queen couldn't muster, the man who's known as the King made the biggest mistake of his young life. Instead of having the courage to man up and build a real legacy in the big city, he's signing on with a ready-made dream team in Miami.
He can have his Crockett and Tubbs. We'll keep our Serpico and Sipowicz.
He can have his chain steakhouses and pizza places, and the Burger King headquarters. We'll take Peter Luger and Grimaldi's and enough others to give you a hundred delicious heart attacks.
He can have his glitzy beaches and palm trees and clubs filled with people who, if they can fake it there, they can fake it anywhere. We'll take Coney Island - freaks, cigarette butts and all. We'll take Central and Prospect and Crotona and Van Cortlandt parks....
NoLandGrab: The Daily News criticizes Miami as a place of "chain steakhouses and pizza places, and the Burger King headquarters" even as it has endorsed destroying a real Brooklyn neighborhood for the bland, corporate dreams of developer Bruce Ratner.
Posted by steve at July 10, 2010 8:26 AM