* I can’t say why I root against LeBron James. Maybe it’s because of the way he left Cleveland and dictated his own terms; maybe it’s because he never considered playing for the Knicks; or maybe it’s because of the sickening aura of invincibility he seems to emit from every pore of his body. But even I have to admit after his second consecutive championship and NBA Finals MVP award, he has carved his place in the pantheon of NBA greats. If only Kawhi Leonard had made that free throw in the fourth quarter of Game 6, the Spurs would be NBA champs and LeBron would still be LeBum. There’s such a miniscule difference between success and failure it boggles the imagination.
KEN DREXLER
North Woodmere, N.Y.
Hart-less choice
* How did the Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin win the Hart Trophy as the NHL’s MVP over the Islanders’ John Tavares? Tavares put the Islanders on his back night after night, and they made the playoffs for the first time in six years. NHL voters should be embarrassed for this travesty.
ANTHONY DePAOLA
Ridgewood, N.Y.
Been there? No
* Maybe the Mets were celebrating their come-from-behind win like winning the World Series because they haven’t experienced enough of them to “act like they’ve been there before.”
RICHARD SIEGELMAN
Plainview, N.Y.
Words don’t hurt
* The Post’s point of view on the New Jersey proposal to end trash-talking in high school sports is wrong [Kevin Kernan: “Taking out the trash: New policy is something to cheer about,” The Post and nypost.com, June 21] and the wussification of sports is wrong. Trash-talk is part of the game. When a player exacts an exceptionally savage hit on the ice, on the gridiron or sometimes on the diamond he tells the person with the different colored uniform what he thinks of his mother, his sister and his girlfriend — and that person does the same when he gets the chance. It’s called sports — not bullying. If the state Attorney General’s office wants to clean up New Jersey’s image, it may want to begin by attacking reality shows such as “Jersey Shore” and “Real Housewives of New Jersey,” which bully the human intellect. It seems New Jersey has taken the stupidity of political correctness to a new low.
ELIO VALENTI
Brooklyn