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LeBron James' 10th signature shoe is coming out soon, and rumors are swirling about the kicks commanding a price tag north of 300 bucks. While Nike has denied those rumors and made claims that a special version of the shoe will cost only $290 (what a deal!), that's still a lot of money to drop on a pair of shoes. So how did we get here? This handy chart tracks the prices of the most popular b-ball sneakers since the dawn of the Air Jordan (with a little Starbury thrown in for good measure). ...

After a hard-fought and completely deserved championship, the Miami Heat have a year to wear "Hi, Haters" t-shirts and enjoy bottle service in every club, or whatever else it is that awful human beings do nowadays. We sat down with Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra to find out what it's like to coach players like LeBron "Don't blame me if we lose, but give me the credit if we win" James, Dwayne "Why didn't you call that foul?" Wade, Chris "No, I'm not the mascot of Toys R Us" Bosh, and Juwan "Peach Basket" Howard. Mandatory: Coach Spoelstra, thanks for joining me today. Erik Spoelstra: No problem at all. And please call me E-Z Money. Mandatory: I'm sorry, I'm not calling you ...

When you are a player with the talent - "talents," even - of LeBron James, the expectation is not that you will someday win an NBA championship; the expectation is that you will win several. This has made LeBron's struggles - again, "struggles" - over the first nine years of his career both more intense and more formidable: Because he is expected to never lose, his rare failures loom far larger than his many successes. But those failures have themselves stacked up now, to the point that the consensus is that LeBron has earned a championship now. Tonight, he can get it. Related: LeBron and the Heat Are One Game Away From Their Title The Heat, up 3-1 in the NBA Finals over the Oklahoma ...