LeBron James will let fans decide if he returns to the chalk toss
Iconic pregame ritual to be decided by public reaction, James still undecided. Here's why he should go back to it.
By
Matt Moore
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LeBron James is still undecided on the chalk toss. James spoke with reporters Friday and said he's going to ask fans on social media whether he should return to his pregame ritual next Thursday in his first home opener back with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
"I may," James said Friday when asked if he has thought about resuming his patented powder poof. "I'm going to let the fans decide and see what they think. If they want me to, I will do it."
James said he will seek fan input on social media in order to make the call. Over the summer, James went a similar crowd-sourcing route to determine whether to wear his old No. 23 for the Cleveland Cavaliers, or stick to No. 6, the number he wore while winning two championships with the Miami Heat and two Olympic gold medals with USA Basketball.
He should go back to it. It's iconic. It was the giant banner outside. It's an awesome image, even if Kevin Garnett did it first, mimicking Michael Jordan.
It's really a moment that kind of defines the mythic quality he's come to embody in the NBA, and that's only exaggerated and emphasized by the legendary his return to the state he calls home has undergone. The chalk toss provides a moment where the fans can really revel in his return, in the healing of the wound created by his departure, and it allows him to carry the old him, the immature, sideline-dancing, caught-up-in-his own-hype self and merge it with the self-actualized, more mature, more considerate, more well-developed man that he returns home as.
Throw the chalk, 'Bron. You're home. You've earned it. They've earned it. Give the people what they want.
