LeBron no longer laughing Cavalier as end game nears

IF YOU were shaken from your slumber early last Friday morning by the walls rattling and the sound of a distant crash, it was probably just a giant falling to earth in a land far, far away.

Until now, LeBron James – The King to you and me – has danced out a fairytale career in basketball, in a swoosh-ified world bubbling with expensive champagne.

Though without a title, his was a career viewed under the soft lighting of that wonderful commodity: promise.