By Jeff JacobsKevin Dineen had lost out on a number of NHL coaching jobs in recent years, but he never did lose his sense of humor. He knew where he was Wednesday. He knew exactly where he was.

In the middle of the biggest sports story of the year and, no, it wasn't his.

So when the voice on the other end of the phone asked if his first act as coach of the Florida Panthers would be to knock LeBron James off the cover of the South Florida dailies, Dineen didn't miss his check.

"That'll be really tough," he said, "LeBron is a big man, a big man. I was thinking of going down the path of his announcement there, 'The Decision.' But it was a little too much flash for me.

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