NO LOVE FOR LEBRON

That was ESPN’s lead tonight. How LeBron saw Kobe’s 61 point performance in New York and raised him…wait, um? How is that a headline? You’re supposed to raise the previous ante and if you can’t raise it then it’s not a headline. And really, he shouldn’t have been trying to raise him at all. This is a team game and your particular team is perfectly healthy. There was no need to play selfish tonight. The Cavs will play more teams after the Lakers play them. Is LeBron going to try to outscore Kobe in all of them? Maybe if ESPN tells him to.

It was almost like ESPN had predecided what their headline was going to be before LeBron even stepped on the court. And that’s not bronny’s fault. He’s just the king trying to get his crown to fit. He took the floor with the sole intention of trying to put up more points than Kobe Bryant. And it’s not like the Knicks are a good team either. They both took about the same amount of shots. Kobe played 38 minutes while LeBron played most of the game with 44. No other Cav even had more than 5 made field goals while Kobe had help from Gasol and Ariza, who put up 31 and 16 points respectively.

LeBron had a triple double. But only because a teammate told him he was one rebound shy of it prior to the last possession, where James grabbed his 10th board. Talk about playing for yourself.

During Sportscenter, Stuart Scott criticized David Lee for giving LeBron room for a jump shot. Read the scouting report. You can give LeBron all the room for jump shots in the world and he’ll take them all. He won’t make very many of them but he will take them. He shot about 50% on the night. It was the right defense.

Kobe still has the rings.