Back in December, I called LeBron James impending free agency, "The story that's not really a story, but still kind of is a story, that everyone feels dirty for talking about, but can't stop talking about anyway."

Well here we are six months later, and that story that's not really a story, has now become the only story that anybody wants to talk about. Even as four teams are still battling for an NBA Championship.

Will LeBron go to Chicago? The Clippers? Take the Russian billionaire's money and hang out on the Jersey Shore?  Go to New York? Stay in Cleveland?

No one is quite sure where LeBron will sign or when, only that's it going to happen in the next few months (Although by the time the ink dries on James' contract it might feel like two decades...or more). But now, like the plot of any really bad Nic Cage action movie, a new name has emerged in the cyclone surrounding LeBron James upcoming NBA-nuptuals.

That's right folks, just when this story couldn't get any goofier, it just did, as here comes Kentucky coach John Calipari sauntering down the NBA's yellow brick road.
 
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At first glance it seems like LeBron and Calipari don't have all that much in common, making them an odder couple than Spencer and Heidi Pratt. After all, one is an NBA superstar who never played a second of college basketball, and the other a college basketball coach who couldn't have been forced out of the NBA a second sooner. Like Spencer and Heidi, what could they possibly see in each other?

The seeds of the relationship actually first came public this winter, when James showed up for a random, Saturday afternoon Kentucky game. I didn't think much of it at the time, as I distinctly remember sitting at a bar waiting for a dinner date, looking up at the screen, and thinking, "Hmm, LeBron. Whatever," before getting back to my beer and peanuts. Honestly, it wasn't all that long ago that James was seen at one of Stephen Curry's NCAA Tournament games, and I don't remember anyone reporting that Davidson coach Bob McKillop was headed to the NBA after that.

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Over the last couple weeks though, things started to fall a bit into place, and the puzzle pieces started to fit together easier. It was rumored that former Kentucky superstar John Wall- Who is all but certain to be the No. 1 pick in June's draft- was being courted heavily by a marketing company run by the friend of...wait for it...that's right, LeBron James. It was my "Ta-Da!" moment.

In journalism there's a saying that goes "There's no such thing as a free lunch," which is basically a nice way of saying that there are reasons behind everyone's actions. And with that, LeBron at the Kentucky game made sense: James shows up, smiles and takes a few pictures, while every 14, 15, 16-year-old big-time basketball player watches, and drools over the opportunity to go to UK, and hang out with "The King." Basically, it gave Coach Cal and his program a whole bunch of street cred; even though the school already had more of it than Jay-Z and Eminem combined. In turn of course, Calipari would flip his NBA-ready ballers to James, who would flip them to his buddy's marketing company. It was a match that could only be made in the sketchy, semi-seedy, world of underground basketball.

Since then of course, two interesting things have happened...

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