"And at the other forward, standing 6-foot-8, from St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio, number 23..."
That's what LeBron James' introduction sounded like in each home game he played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the crowd could rarely actually hear his name announced, because the roar was too loud by the end.
And if James wanted, he could have that once again.
Many around basketball are wondering whether this will be James' final season in the NBA. He just turned 41, and he's in the final season of his contract with the Los Angeles Lakers.
It certainly wouldn't be an unusual time to retire.
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But CBS Sports writer Sam Quinn has predicted something different. He thinks James will hit free agency this summer and sign with the Cavs.
"We haven't mentioned the idea of retirement yet," Quinn writes. "It's certainly possible, but would feel out of character if it came after this season. Does LeBron James seem like the sort of player who would go out quietly following an early playoff exit? Of course not. He'd want a retirement tour. He'd want a year of genuflection. He could get that as a Laker, but it would be different in Cleveland, where he wouldn't be taking such an obvious backseat to Dončić and the future. The team may belong to Donovan Mitchell, but the city is LeBron's, now and forever. If the Lakers really do move in another direction, there's just no other team that can give him the sort of ending he's going to want."
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LeBron will be eternally linked to Cleveland.
The kid from Akron ended up as the No. 1 overall pick by the Cavaliers and was every bit as good as advertised.
He left to find his way to a couple rings, but then he came back, and he did it for Cleveland, too.
James' block will forever be the single most iconic play in the history of Cavaliers basketball, so much so that this sentence needs no more details for you to picture it perfectly in your mind's eye.
This is just an early January prediction from one writer, but it's a wonderful idea. It'd be really cool to see LeBron end his career in Cleveland.
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