Let's Not Worry about Worldwide Wes

LeBron took a trip across state lines last weekend to promote a new sneaker, watch a good college basketball game, and cheer on his friend, presumptive number one NBA draft pick John Wall, so of course we had to hear all week about James and Wall ending up together with the New Jersey Nets in 2010.  And of course we had to hear about the singularly mysterious Worldwide Wes (aka William Wesley) and the various connections between and among Wes, James, Nike, Nets owner Jay-Z, Wall, and Kentucky coach John Calipari. We had to hear it even though LeBron is as much an employee of Nike as he is of the Cleveland Cavaliers, and has excellent business reasons to nurture his relationships with Wall and the Kentucky basketball program (to say nothing of how much he must have enjoyed modeling that new sweater).  Of course, the insertion of Worldwide Wes into the story makes it much easier to traffic in this kind of speculation.  There's so much mystery surrounding Wes th...