LeBron James has petitioned the NBA to change his jersey number to #6 next season, out of respect to Michael Jordan. Good thing he picked #6, since no important players ever wore #6.

Kobe Bryant did this a couple of years ago and so did Amare Stoudamire. This is crap. When I run the world, I am going to insist that a player pick his number when he starts his career and he is tethered to that number for the duration of his career. He may not change it unless he is changing teams and that number is unavailable on his new team. Once his number is established on the new team, that is his number for the duration of his career.

If a player goes to a team and a retired player offers his retired number to the new player, I'm OK with that.

I really like basketball.