As the 2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony unfolds in Paris, American tennis star Emma Navarro is soaking it all in. Or to be more specific, she's smiling through it all, in disbelief that this is actually her life. If there were ever a sports-related selfie to end all sports-related selfies, or a master flex to end all master flexes, Navarro might've pulled it off when she snapped a photo with LeBron James during Friday's festivities: https://twitter.com/NBCOlympics/status/1816919634052075924 LeBron is set to be one of two USA flag bearers today, along with Navarro's teammate and reigning U.S. Open women's singles champion Coco Gauff. That's about to be one hell of a moment to say the least. But even if Gauff is the Americans' best hope at a tennis gold medal, Navarro is atop the podium in our hearts in the aftermath of this post. In case you didn't know, Navarro is invoking the meme of LeBron in his pool with a caption that ages like fine wine — or if you will, The King's basketball career. https://twitter.com/reactjpg/status/1265512064136753157 I get the sense that the unfathomable scrutiny on LeBron is easing up ever so slightly. Impressive as it is that he's still playing at an elite level by NBA standards ahead of his 22nd season in the league for the Los Angeles Lakers, LeBron's Olympic run might be more mind-blowing than that. Only several months shy of 40 years old, you can't really argue that, at least through the Olympic showcase exhibition games, he's easily been Team USA's best player. In fact, if not for LeBron coming up huge in the clutch, the Americans likely would've lost
as 44-point favorites to South Sudan . Had he not delivered in that moment, exhibition stakes aside,
Skip Bayless and all the other haters would've been beyond insufferable.
And he came up big in the last quarter of a 92-88 win over Germany. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqRSeMwkM8I As long as USA basketball takes care of business on the hardwood and gets the gold, it'll only further LeBron's argument as the GOAT over Michael Jordan. I personally think it's cemented already, but that's a whole other exhausting, ceaseless conversation. Let's make like Emma Navarro and enjoy the moment instead of moving on to the next shiny big thing. We're all gonna miss LeBron in some way when he finally retires. However exciting Victor Wembanyama is, whatever your feelings are on the Bronny-Lakers situation, whichever side of the Bron-MJ GOAT debate you're on, we as Americans should unite, smile through it all, and be in awing disbelief that we have such a baller as LeBron Raymone James Sr. carrying that stars and stripes flag on behalf of our great country! Cue the
Team America theme... JK let's keep it classy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEtLL_UUSPI
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