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The LeBron Switch is Not About the Number

I like LeBron and think he is great for the NBA. But let’s get real, changing numbers is not about honoring anyone. It’s about positioning for next year and marketing. LeBron is a brand, and every once and awhile, brands need to be freshened up. So let’s not hide the fact that LeBron is a savvy marketer as well as an amazing athlete. Continue reading

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The San Antonio Stonecutters

“When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

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