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Lebron James: The Hero Has Fallen

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Lebron James: The Hero Has Fallen
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The higher we go, the more likely we are to fall. Most of us are very well aware of this in ourselves however when our focus is pointed outwards we seem to forget that.

This week has been one of the most memorable weeks in the National Basketball Association. It's the national finals of pro basketball. The two best teams in the country face off for the Larry O'Brien Championship trophy. This golden trophy is held in high esteem the players and the fans. It's such a big spectacle that all kinds of channels will postpone their regular shows in order to display this annual celebration of basketball. During this time the news channels will try and cover all kinds of different perspectives on what has happened behind the scenes. At the crosshairs of the reporter’s cameras is where we find our hero for sale, LeBron James. He has been having such monumental successes in his career until the last two games.

LeBron James is arguably one of the best known players of the basketball world. He has played for a total of 13 years and accumulated 26,833 points over his career. James is a role model to people of all ages, genders and backgrounds. Despite his many feats, as of last Tuesday his fans were figuratively throwing tomatoes at this hero. In the first two of five games that composes the final competition of the NBA, LeBron and the Cavaliers found themselves with their backs against the wall. Everything seemed to be going wrong for the team and LeBron James. He found himself causing fouls left and right, missing what should have been easy points and ultimately losing two very important games in the final series. It would be accurate to say that LeBron was definitely not at the top of his game.

As a result of his performance he received substantial amounts of criticism. The public anonymously agreed to shame and dethrone the hero LeBron James. This however is not just. What is not just about this situation is first uplifting him to be a hero and secondly tearing him down when he proved to be just human. A hero is a benevolent fictional character with superhuman powers. It is not right to place fictional characteristics and expectations onto our human role models. We are expecting our heroes to be a man without flaws, truth is we are not superhuman. We are mere men.

Christian hip-hop artist Andy Mineo comments about this topic in his song called Superhuman. He mentions that we are all searching for super humans and even striving to be superheroes. LeBron James became captive to this dilemma and experienced first hand that this notion is false. Lecrae, another well known rapper, talk about how the higher we go the more unforgiving people become towards our faults and failures. This is all too true. Another more humbling truth is that we will all prove that we are humans by our shortcomings. We will never be superhuman. Nevertheless the good news remains that there was only one superhuman and He died for us. Jesus. He is the only one we can rely on to never drop the ball or fail us. Therefore put your trust in the solid rock all other grounds are sinking sand.

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