LeBron James probably had to live one of his most difficult nights to assimilate since who plays in the NBA after the elimination of the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of the league playoffs against the Denver Nuggets, finally being defeated in the series 4-1. Jamal Murray was once again the executioner of the Los Angeles team by scoring a double with less than 4 seconds left in the fifth game that ended with a score of 108-106.
Despite the Lakers’ elimination, James was once again the team’s leader in every sense., but unfortunately he suffered an action that went viral at the end of the day; In the middle of the third quarter of play that took place at the Ball Arena facilities in Denver, LeBron was charged with a foul under the rim when he was defending Serbian center Nikola Jokic, the Nuggets’ best player.
After the foul called by the judges, James was quite upset by the referee’s ruling. and in a video that went viral on social networks where you could see LeBron saying: “They (the referees) are fucking horrible,” while looking at the central table where the organizers are. In fact, James repeated it again and this resulted in a fan present having words for the player.
Hard crossing with a fan
James was going to defend Denver’s next offensive play and that was when he could see that a fan who was located in the first row at the edge of the court, shouted at him in a quite loud and defiant tone: “You are a damn crybaby.” At the same time, the woman makes a crying gesture with her hands. After that James stared at her and made a movement as if to scare her.
In the last shot of the audiovisual material you can see how James imitates the gesture which the woman in question did by pulling back and then, in the lip reading, she says “scary ass”, referring to the “fright” that the woman went through when she saw how James responded to her.
Apart from that, James finished the game being the best man on the part of the Lakers and he only lacked one rebound to achieve a triple dozen: 30 points, gave 11 assists and captured 9 rebounds. On the part of the winning team, Jamal Murray was the hero of the victory, he added 32 points and was the top scorer of the game.
Michael Porter Jr. followed him with another 26 points and Jokic had a very unique statistical sheet.He is top level with 25 points, 20 rebounds and 9 assists, also one scoring pass away from achieving the triple double.
Will James continue playing as a Laker next season?
In a post-game interview, LeBron was asked by the media about his continuity in the Los Angeles team., to which the NBA’s all-time leading scorer responded quite calmly and bluntly: “Have you thought that this could have been your last game with the Lakers?” a journalist asked him. What was the response of No. 23? “I’m not going to answer that (smile). Thank you very much”, and he said goodbye to everyone present in the room.
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