Location, loction, locaton

Location is everything. It’s a simple rule when starting a business.

Or when moving one.

With the announcement that LeBron James will end world hunger, childhood obesity and forge peace in the Middle East, the fact that word will come from the Boys and Girls Club of Greenwich, Conn., should mean little.

It’s not because ESPN, which is broadcasting the highly anticipated announcement, is in Connecticut. Greenwich and the network’s home in Bristol are further apart than Greenwich is to the Nets’ home arena in Newark.

It also doesn’t mean that James won’t stay home and continue playing for the Cavs. So why not just make the announcement there?

Or in South Beach if he’s to join Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh?

Yes, the announcement will take place miles from New York and even closer to the Knicks’ training facility, but what many are overlooking as they read tea leaves is that no matter who James ultimately signs with — Cleveland, Chicago, New Jersey, New York or Miami — he was going to be in New York anyway.

Friend and Denver star Carmello Anthony is getting married this weekend and James is a guest.

If new Knick Amare Stoudemire has his way, this won’t be the last time Anthony, scheduled for free agency next summer, and James are in New York together.

But maybe, just maybe James is looking to relocate his business to the biggest market possible. In that case, location is everything.

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Leave it to ESPN

In case you missed it, this was the headline and subhead on ESPN.com at 4:35 a.m. Friday:
“Surreal Night

On a day both Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died, the NBA draft was tipped off by the Clippers (who else?). Bill Simmons recaps a bewildering evening.”

Can someone tell me what does Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett dying have to do with the NBA Draft? Nothing. This was a poor attempt to put the draft on par with two celebrities who died on the same day. Love them or hate them, Jackson and Fawcett are bigger news than the draft. Shame on ESPN for trying to plug itself in its usual way.

I can see it now, the editor(s) who approved the above text must have had a Hills-like moment.

Editor 1: What do you think about this headline for the main page?

Editor 2: That’s good. Can you believe it, Jackson and Farrah die the same day as the draft?

Editor 1: That’s what I’m saying! Screw CNN. Only here can you be told how important it is these three events occurred on the same day.

End scene.

That two celebrities died the same day, especially considering Jackson’s death was unexpected, is surreal. But please — someone, anyone — explain to me what in the H-E-Double hockey sticks does the NBA Draft have to do with any of that.

Unless of course, ESPN was making reference to the urban legend that deaths come in threes.

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