The night before the men’s 4x100-meter freestyle relay at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Cullen Jones was in bed, not sleeping, when Michael Phelps, his megastar teammate, knocked on the door. “Michael’s like, ‘LeBron and all the N.B.A. guys are downstairs, and they want to say hi to us,’ ” Jones recalled. “I’m half asleep. I say, ‘What!?’ This is huge for me. Huge.” A group of N.B.A. players’ calling on a bunch of relay swimmers is equivalent to Obama’s dropping by a state assemblyman’s home. “So I pull on clothes and run downstairs,” Jones, who is 27, told me as he recovered after a practice on the black leather couch in his apartment in Charlotte, N.C. “Le-Bron is talking to Michael, saying: ‘Good luck. Trying to get eight gold medals? That’s crazy.’ And here I come racing in, I’m shaking guys’ hands. Then I hear LeBron go, ‘Wait, you got a brother on the team?’
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