NBA finals start tomorrow!  It’ll be an intense competition between the Lakers and the Magic in their quest to win the championship.  Unfortunately we won’t be able to watch the hyped up battle between the Black Mamba and King James (hopefully next year!).  I know that the media likes to compare Kobe’s skills against Lebron’s, and vice versa but I’ve gotta say that I really look up to Lebron even though his team was knocked out in the semis.

I thought that Lebron’s buzzer beater in game 2 of the semis was absolutely awesome.  The reason I look up to the guy is because I’ve heard from various people about the way he trains leading up to games.  One of my current coaches that went to Beijing for the Olympics told me about Lebron’s training sessions.  He said that it was clear that Lebron did more sets and more repetition than the rest of the guys on the Dream Team.  He just continued to work relentlessly in the corner of the gym.  When I heard about this, I was really inspired.  It told me that regardless of how good you are at what you do, more work could be done and that there is always a level above.  It also told me that it takes more than pure talent to become legendary.

I’m sure that most of you have seen the Kobe and Lebron puppet commercials but I think they are hilarious: