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Fine, I've been slacking alot at the beginning of this season and not posting any post-game blogs.  But I've noticed that the Cavs are quietly becoming one of the Eastern Conference powers this year.  Lebron and the rest of the gang aren't the so-so team they were last year, and may be poised to challenge the Celtics to represent the Eastern Conference come May.

Also, in case anybody else out there hasn't noticed, Lebron James is becoming the global icon he's always wanted to be.  If Cleveland is able to go to the Finals this year, the attention this guy will get is gonna be freakishly Jordan-esque.  So far, the Cavs are 13-3, and unbeaten at home, while King James is running all over people and making sick dunks night after night (scroll down a couple stories on this page).

It's too bad that the crappy Knicks and their fans are ruining the party with all of this talk of Lebron going to the Big Apple in 2010.  I say enjoy it while you can....

After less than two years, LeBron James' partnership with software and Internet giant Microsoft is over.

James and MSN, Microsoft's main web product, have terminated their contract, a source close to James said. As a result, the MSN web page upon which the two sides collaborated and James' personal page, LeBronJames.com, have been shut down.

Though the two sides said they had big marketing plans when the deal was announced over All-Star Weekend in Las Vegas in 2007, Microsoft never really activated the partnership. James had a brief cameo in a commercials for Windows Vista, Microsoft's latest operating system, but the child-targeted website was the only major project ever developed.

The user-friendly site won a Webby, the Internet's version of an Oscar, for "Best Visual Design" last year. It also featured a James' blog and question and answer area with fans.

The partnership started to fizzle last spring when Joanne Bradford, who was the head of MSN's marketing efforts and put the deal together with James, left Microsoft for another job.

Before Microsoft, James' personal website previously had an endorsement deal with Juice Batteries.
 

Seriously, which dunk was better? Lebron is a freak!!!