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Bike Activism Wins Championships

6:01 PM EDT on June 21, 2013

I normally root for the underdog in the NBA Finals unless the Knicks are the favorites (like that will ever happen). And I would have enjoyed seeing Tim Duncan claim one more ring. But I've had a soft spot for LeBron, Dwyane Wade, and Mario Chalmers since the news broke last year that they like to drop in on Miami Critical Mass when the schedule allows.

"It gave my body a different type of conditioning challenge," Wade told Men's Journal this spring. "I had one of my best games of the season after a Critical Mass bike ride." I'm glad these guys repeated.

So, now that the off-season is here, can the Heat's stars do something about Miami's awful, car-centric streets? By all accounts, the transportation bureaucracy in Miami is especially brutal for livable streets advocates -- layer upon stifling layer of different jurisdictions, with the heinous Florida Department of Transportation suffocating everything underneath them. If any celebrity spokesperson has the power to break through and shake up the street design status quo in South Florida, it's gotta be four-time MVP, two-time champion LeBron.

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