The all time worst was the 1989 Seoul Olympics 100m
Canada hung Ben Johnson out to dry, did a Parliamentary inquiry and destroyed his reputation. Meanwhile Carl Lewis was fully protected by the US.
Maybe we have the benefit of hindsight in this case, but it took 20+ years for the country to realize that the man was not some evil cheater (at least in the sense that "if everyone is cheating, is it still cheating?")
Even wilder is the potential that Carl Lewis' friend sabotaged the sample.
Lebron has been in the league long enough that he would have been caught at some point if he was up to something. Look at all of those guys who denied doping, Marion Jones, Lance Armstrong, all those 1989 Seoul runners in addition to Johnson (Linford Christie, Lewis, etc.). It will catch up to you.
Furthermore, the BBWA (Baseball Writers of America) is full of old conservative white guys. The MLB MVP award was named after an avowed racist up until 2020. Roberto Clemente was voted into the Hall of Fame by a special vote to waive the usual waiting period because
he died in a plane crash delivering humanitarian aid, but the vote was not unanimous. There was still like 50 guys who thought "tradition" was more important than honoring such a man.
