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Lakers star LeBron James' dance moves scrutinized a month after severe knee injury

It's clear that the Los Angeles Lakers legend can groove on the dance floor. Some fans now question the validity of his knee injury.
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The great injury debate over LeBron James continues.

Less than a month after getting mocked for missing the Met Gala with his wife Savannah because of the Los Angeles Lakers icon's knee injury, revealing he had a Grade 2 MCL sprain after their unexpected early exit in the NBA playoffs, another controversy has erupted with a dance video that dropped over the Memorial Day holiday weekend.

And yes, we have a hint of sarcasm when we say controversy.

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LeBron has been celebrating his younger son Bryce's prom and graduation from Sierra Canyon, so this video could possibly be one of those parties for their middle child's big day before playing at Arizona.

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"Shameless fraud" is way too harsh of course, but that's the modern day world of NBA Twitter debates. If it's not Steph Curry vs. LeBron, it's LeBron vs. Michael Jordan.

Every corner is entrenched with their opinion in these barstool debates, and the NBA's all-time leading scorer and four-time NBA champion sometimes does himself no favors by trying to control the narrative.

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But in this case, the dad-life dancing is amazingly overblown. The recovery time for a Grade 2 MCL sprain is usually two to four weeks. So even in a severe case, the four-time NBA MVP could be crushing the dancefloor given his last game for the Lakers was in their season-ending loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on April 30.

The bigger concern is moving forward for the 40 year old legend, who defied Father Time by making the All-NBA Second Team this season, but is trying to figure out how he and Luka Doncic can compete in a loaded Western Conference, with the much younger and stacked Oklahoma City Thunder on the verge of the NBA Finals.

That is much more worrisome for LeBron than dancing-while-injured controversies.

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MATTHEW GRAHAM

Matthew Graham has over 20 years of media experience and oversees The Athlete Lifestyle On SI. He has had previous leadership roles at NBC Sports, Yahoo, and USA TODAY, where he co-founded For The Win (named Best Mobile Site by Digiday). He has also written for ESPN, Cosmopolitan, US Weekly, People, E! Online, and FHM, covering major sports and entertainment events like the Oscars, the Golden Globes, NBA Finals, Super Bowl, and winning the Yahoo Superstar Award for coverage of the Olympics.

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