After a close game in Q Arena, the Cavaliers will be up 2 with 10 seconds left, Lebron has a 60/15/12 game, Jeff Green has 11,10, and 9. In the waning seconds he takes a layup on his own basket to get the rebound for the Ricky Davis style triple double, but it accidentally goes in, sending the game to overtime.
In OT, Steph shoots 7/7 from 3, shattering the record for 3s in an overtime period and 3s in a game at 19. After the game, Jeff Green is conspicuously absent from the stage pressers. The next day he’s reported as not attending shoot around. A search begins, but nothing is ever found. Being the great guy he is, Lebron offers to help raise his children, and puts them through their education as if they were his own.
Green is found 22 years later coaching high school in rural Montana under the name “Lou Blackman”, after one of his players recognizes him from a YouTube compilation titled “Shaqtin a Fool Greatest Hits: 2010 HD”, featuring the obligatory, even in 2040, commercial for Ball Hog Training Gloves.
After repeatedly denying being Jeff Green, he eventually caves to the media pressure. When pressed about why he disappeared, he only offered this vague answer: “It was either me or my kids. Someone had to disappear. I couldn’t let it be them. I’m so sorry.”
There’s an outcry to impeach President James from what remains of the Republican Party, now known as the Trump Union, who in 2040 control the Congress. They manage to get a successful vote to indict Lebron for threats and kidnapping, but in a move ironically inspired historically by Trump himself in 2019, Lebron pardons himself. In a public ceremony on the newly constructed “Mike Miller Court”, a basketball court build on the White House lawn named after James’ education secretary, Lebron dunks over two Supreme Court justices as he announces the decision. Vice President Dwayne Wade applauds from the grass. David Griffin watches from an orbiting space prison on a television set to only broadcast White House-approved programming. Due to technology developed at the end of Lebron’s career to keep his body in playing shape, the wealthy are now to able to live seemingly forever. James used this technology to insure Griffin serves an indefinite prison sentence, given to him by a James-appointed federal judge for the crime of “disrespecting the President.” He will never know death, he will only know the white walls he is imprisoned within, and the brief news he receives through the television, which he will never be able to know is true or false.
Green’s children, who have at this point adopted the last name “James” as a tribute to their adoptive father, never comment publicly outside of one pre recorded video which seems to be shot in an unfinished basement, in which they praise James and claim to have no interest in seeing their biological father. No one is sure if it’s coerced, but no one seems to care. The economy is booming, the annexation of Canada is going faster than expected, and unemployment is at a historical low due to the public works projects commissioned by James to have statues of himself built across both America’s mainland and its territories in the Middle East and South Asia.
God bless America
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