Another day, another LeBron James story though this one doesn’t have to do with Kevin Love or his basketball ‘friends’.
In fact, this has to do with James himself and a report that he quit on his team.
The suggestion of such seems a little crazy, but ESPN’s Brian Windhorst appeared on Bill Simmons podcast and dropped the bombshell suggesting LeBron James quit on the Cavs.
“[Cavs GM] David Griffin tells the story,” Windhorst said, as noted by William Scott Davis of Business Insider. “He said that LeBron had been moping for weeks.
“It was LeBron’s birthday — it was December 30th. They were playing in Atlanta. It was before Atlanta went on their 20-game win streak, so it wasn’t really deemed a big game yet. And they thought LeBron was going to play, and LeBron just decided, ‘I’m not gonna play.’ Like, at the last minute, he told them, ‘I’m not playing.’ Didn’t even come out to the bench, just sat in the back, didn’t come out.”
Windhorst went on to say that LeBron James had essentially waived the ‘white flag’ and it was the first time in his career that he had done so. Then after the game the Cavs came to James and essentially told him to take the next two weeks off to rest his mind and body.
I wouldn’t put that beyond the Cavaliers given his importance to the franchise and the fact they want LeBron James healthy (both mentally and physically) for the NBA playoffs, but this does seem a little out there.
