Everyone’s Entitled to Pump Himself Up

Mark Heisler sits at his table at an arena that sold its name to a bank for money, looking at a scoreboard that charges season ticket-holders a couple of hundred dollars to say “Happy birthday,” writing about Magic’s friend Michael Jordan, who just pulled $30 million from NBA sales to line his pocket; and Heisler has the nerve to take a backhand swipe at Dee Brown, who tried to promote himself a little.

BARRY COOPER, Altadena