LeBron James got dunked on by Jordan Crawford at the LeBron James Skills Academy and Nike confiscated the video tape. Everybody knows about that. We should give up hoping the video will surface one day because the Nike people destroyed those tapes right after taking them from the cameramen.

Whether Nike has the tapes, or Conan O’Brien got his copy back, I spoke to a number of athletes about LeBron James releasing the video. The votes are heavy in one direction, but Kurt Warner makes the best case.

The majority opinion from my small sample size is for LeBron to do what he wants with the tape. It says something about the respect athletes have for James, but it also shows how powerful Nike is. Most of the people I talked to didn’t want to get on the bad side of LBJ or Nike, and Tim Tebow told me saying Release the tape LeBron is “political suicide.” There go Kurt Warner’s and Jared Allen’s political aspirations.