Lakers News: Insider Credits LeBron James For Making "Genius" Move
After operating as a one-man wrecking crew on offense for your Los Angeles Lakers in what wound up being their last game of the season Monday night, All-NBA small forward LeBron James decided to double as a one-man wrecking crew against the expected news cycle on Tuesday.
Following LA's 113-111 Game 4 loss to the Denver Nuggets, James strongly insinuated during his postgame presser that he was actually considering retirement, following a storied 20-year pro career with the Lakers, Cleveland Cavaliers and Miami Heat.
The 19-time All-Star, four-time champ and four-time league MVP instantly became the headliner among most sports media Tuesday, displacing Denver, en route to its first-ever NBA Finals berth since hopping over from the ABA in 1976.
Because James is who he is, and has achieved what he has, he dominated the sports world, over the Nuggets and the postseason ascent of probably the league's best player Nikola Jokic; over the reality that James' Lakers weren't just beaten, but were swept; and even over the retirement of James' friend and former Los Angeles (and Olympic) teammate Carmelo Anthony.
Brandon "Scoop B" Robinson of Bovada Sports hailed the play by James as a brilliant bit of clever self-marketing.
It's true, making himself the focus of the NBA conversation pivots the chat away from the Lakers' lackluster Western Conference Finals play, the rise of Denver and Jokic, and the fact that Russell Westbrook arguably enjoyed a better postseason than his replacement with the Lakers, D'Angelo Russell (Russell was terrible in the Conference Finals but solid in the prior two playoff rounds).
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