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LeBron James Leaves Game 1 Due To Cramp, Because He's Human
You won't believe this. LeBron James, a human being, suffered a cramp and had to leave Game 1 of the Finals. He clearly can't win when his team needs him, or something. Stupid involuntary muscle spasms....

ESPN has run the numbers on LeBron's popularity, finding that there are a lot of white haters. James is the favorite player of 9.7 percent of white fans—down from 14.8 percent pre-Decision—while his support from black fans (21 to 23.5 percent) and Hispanic fans (10.7 to 12.4 percent) has grown. [ES...

These Animated NBA Playoff Highlights Are Cool As Hell
Richard Swarbick is an artist who's been turning sports highlights into awesome animations for a long time now, and now he's working his magic on cool moments from this year's NBA playoffs. ...

Last Night Belonged To Crazy-Ass Lance Stephenson
Aside from Paul George's second-half explosion and its madcap ending, last night's game between the Heat and Pacers was pretty damn unwatchable. That's what happens when the best player in the universe has to spend most of the game on the bench with the foul trouble and the Pacers decide to do... wh...

Hey, It's 5 Years (And A Day) Since LeBron's Game 2 Game Winner
We don't talk about it too much anymore, given the acrimony left behind in Ohio and LeBron's eventual success in Miami, but on May 22, 2009, his Game 2 winner tied the Eastern Conference Finals at 1-1, and shook off his rep of shying away from the big shots for good, or at least until whatever the h...

Lebron's Game 2 Buzzer Beater, 5 Years On
[LeBron James shoots the game winning three pointer over Hedo Turkoglu in Game Two of the Eastern Conference Finals during the 2009 Playoffs in Cleveland, Ohio five years ago today. Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images.]...

Bill Simmons Lays Out Nonsensical Theory About LeBron James
At the half during last night's Miami Heat-Indiana Pacers game, ESPN multiplatform presence Bill Simmons offered up a remarkable theory to explain why LeBron James came out slowly in the game. James, he speculated, may have been distracted by the results of the NBA draft lottery, in which his former...

Pacers Post-Game Live Shot Features Dude In "Fuck LeBron" T-Shirt
Spider-Man and a Pacers fan in a "Fuck LeBron" shirt made special appearances last night on WRTV, the Indianapolis ABC affiliate, during a live post-game shot following Indiana's 107-96 win over Miami....

Roger Mason's Comments About LeBron Boycotting Next Year Were Bullshit
So yesterday, we wrote about National Basketball Players Association VP Roger Mason, Jr., who last night appeared on Jim Rome on Showtime and declared quite emphatically that LeBron James was taking The Hard Stance. If Clippers owner Donald Sterling still had the team next year, the face of the leag...

Union: LeBron Won't Play If Sterling Still Owns The Clippers Next Year
After the Donald Sterling tape was leaked last month, NBA commissioner Adam Silver took swift action, fining the Los Angeles Clippers owner a $2.5 million fine and laying a lifetime ban on him, and other franchise owners lined up to vote him out. But as of right now, today, Sterling is still the own...

LeBron Is The Human Analytic, And He's Unstoppable
Last night's Game 4 between the Heat and Nets came down to a three-play sequence that was laced with a fun bit of irony. With just under two minutes to go, game tied at 94, the Heat—the team paced throughout the night by its star cannon-balling his way to 49 points—rode out the game's crisis point w...

Paul Pierce Got What He Asked For, And LeBron Went Off
Before last night's Game 4 between the Nets and Heat, Paul Pierce announced that he would be guarding LeBron James. It was an inspired bit of gamesmanship from the wily veteran. The likely idea was to get LeBron thinking about all those Celtics teams that stifled him in the playoffs—I'm an old dog, ...

What Sport Is This?
[Paul Pierce looks particularly zombie-like as he tries to prevent LeBron James from getting the easy bucket during Game 3 of Heat-Nets Saturday night. The scene doesn't appear to be from the sport of basketball, though. Photo by Julie Jacobson/AP]...

LeBron Stares Down Michael Jordan On Fast-Break Dunk
Michael Jordan was sitting to the left of the Bobcats bench and partially obscured by the backboard from the first angle (thus the red arrow), but it sure as shit looks like LeBron stared MJ down as he took off for this dunk in the third quarter of Miami's 98-85 win over Charlotte....

LeBron James: "There Is No Room For Donald Sterling In Our League"
Prior to Miami's game against the Charlotte Bobcats tonight, LeBron James was asked to comment on the growing Donald Sterling embarrassment. He did not disappoint. LeBron said the remarks were unacceptable, disrespectful, and wondered aloud whether he would boycott the team's games if he were in the...

Original LeBron Hater Sick Of All The Bandwagon Haters
This right here is a brilliant piece of satire. Comedian Matt Lieb adopts the character of someone who has been hating LeBron James way before you were hating LeBron James, and in the process captures everything that is annoying about scolding fans who never shut up about bandwagoners. There's also...

Josh McRoberts Gets Away With A Flying Elbow To LeBron's Throat
Josh McRoberts put an elbow in LeBron James's throat near the end of tonight's playoff game, but somehow, the Bobcat wasn't called for anything more than a shooting foul....

The Durant-LeBron Arms Race: Two Of The Best Seasons Of All Time
When we last took a look in February, LeBron James and Kevin Durant were both having monster seasons, with unprecedented combinations of offensive volume (usage percent) and efficiency (true shooting percent). There was still a lot of basektball left to play, but at the time we wrote that "if these ...