The point is James isn't honoring Michael Jordan. So the Jordan discussion is completely irrelevant and moot. The only thing this guy is honoring are his own jersey sales. When you're supposedly The King, and you can't even be #1 in NBA jersey sales in your own country, let alone can't even come close to #1 in NBA jersey sales in the rest of the world, then you've got to give the people a reason to buy your jersey. Again.

It's like my Iron Maiden albums. I bought them all the first time on vinyl. Then I bought them all when they came out on CD. Then I bought them all when they came out on remastered CD. Then they remastered the CDs all over again, and assured me it would sound even better than the first remaster. But it was all just slick marketing of the exact same product sold to blithering fools like me. I purchased the exact same thing four different times. Once on vinyl, three times on compact disc. The same damn thing, but in a different package. You'd have to be a freakin' service dog for the deaf to be able to hear the difference.

This, in a nutshell, is the always disingenuous LeBron James changing from number 23 to number 6. The dude is not honoring Michael Jordan. The dude is honoring Iron Maiden.

He was a good basketball player. Best ever? That's WAYYYYYYYYY open to debate. If Jerry Lucas had taken 35 shots a night, we'd be talking about HIM right now. This entire situation just shows how mentally immature LeBron is when it concerns "reality."

One more note on Jordan: Has any player in NBA history given a more inflammatory, revenge-filled, ungracious piece-of-crap diatribe than when he was inducted into the H.O.F. this summer? The classless dude FLEW IN PEOPLE from his past so he could intentionally mock and ridicule them. How quickly we forget, LBJ. Better find another "idol," one who's worthy of your adoration. (Shhhh…but you and I both know it's false, it's all for your own personal glorification, isn't it? You'd just LOVE for #23 to be retired league-wise, wouldn't ya, fella?)

Of all the numbers he could have chosen for playing wherever he's going to be playing, James could not have made a worse choice. None. But this egomaniac and his people are so gung-ho on self-promotion, I'll bet he doesn't have the foggiest clue. What a sham. A mockery. A shamockery.

Like Marc wrote, what a tool.

I don't think Michael Jordan is God. Far from it. But for the sake of this analogy, given how utterly fraudulent this James proclamation is, what he is doing is the equivalent of taking the Lord's name in vain.

I mean, this guy is just unbelievable. He's already paving the way for his escape from Cleveland, which includes a jersey number change. OK, fine. If you want to change your number for marketing purposes, then do it. Just like that Jesus thing you do with the chalk, it's all about marketing. I don't particularly care for it, but no harm, no foul.

However, he purports to be honoring the greatest guard to ever play the game by removing the jersey, and in the very next breath, he says he's going to put on the jersey of the very first black guy etched into the NBA's Mount Rushmore. Just incredible.

"Moral compass?" Thall, you actually used the term "moral compass?" With his money, James will be able to buy a compass. But this dude couldn't afford morals, even if he combined his net worth with every Swiss account in Bill Gates' portfolio.