Say goodbye to the old Lebron. Say hello to Old Lebron.

[KG Living Legend]

 Over 37,000 minutes played already at age 30, he already has played more minutes than Isaiah, Bird or Magic. Next year he will pass Nash who played till he's 40.

 15 points for Lebron tonight on a night when Irving and Love didn't have it and they lost by 34 points at home to the Warrior's.

 Move over Lebron, there is a new Sheriff in town.

[DavorCroatiaFan]

Hope he's mad and he destroys Nets tommorow

[Who]

Lot of playoff minutes too. Moves LeBron even higher up the list.

[JSD]

I like knee jerk reactions based on 1 game.

[TheFlex]

82 games, no he's not the same LBJ (or at least is purposefully not exerting as much energy). Still averaging 25.5/7.5/6 on 50% shooting. In the playoffs? He'll be the same old LeBron - dominant.

[CFAN38]

I was not able to watch any of last nights game nor has I watched much of the Cavs this season. I do think its safe to say that do to miles on his body James is clearly entering the back 1/4 of his prime. With that he is still a dominate force and has many years of dominance ahead of him.

I personally think over the next 2-3 season James will be equally effected by physical breaks as he will be his puppet mask ways when it comes to personal moves. The two biggest moves he effected where the Love for Wiggins deal and the signing of Thompson to a bloated contract.

Hind site is 20/20 but its clear that the Cavs roster moves presumably dictate by James have turned a blind eye to the way the league is going. With the current dominate of small ball the cavs could have been ahead of the curve in retaining Wiggins. This should have been very clear given that the James lead he frequently used a 5 out lineup with Bosh as a stretch 5 and James at the 4. Instead of trying to emulate that previously successful model they Cavs instead traded for Love and then added a big traditional center in Mozgov. All three of their primary bigs have flaws when paired with James Moz and Thompson cant space the floor and Love can not give rim protection.

Going back and reworking a few moves could have easily seen the Cavs a year ahead of the league small ball trend. By still trading waiters the Cavs could have had the following basic rotation.

PG Irving
SG Shumpert
SF Wiggins
PF James
C  Thompson
6th Smith
7th Varejo
8th Dellavedova

With this roster they would still retain the 2 picks used to get Mozgov and the 1 to get Love. These picks would have to be used to upgrade the center position as this is clearly the teams weak link. Despite that weak link this team would be capable of switch everything spread out basketball.

 

[Celtics4ever]

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Lot of playoff minutes too. Moves LeBron even higher up the list.

Abuse of PEDS might factor in too, and lack of them might factor in too.  No more HGH for to use.

[SHAQATTACK]

I wouldn't want to be on the NETS their next game ......

Against the CAVS .


I predict possibly the worst blowout of the the season .

Cavs by 52



LeBron is obviously milking himself ,   He refuses to go into ULTIMATE WARRiOR mode these days unless he can win the game.   The GS game was obviously out of control , and not even LeBron could force a comeback  against a hot Curry.   So he just stayed at about 50 effort and rode the loss out.
I'm not worried ,  LeBron will put every once of muscle and energy in once the playoffs happen.

He is just trying to ride on the back of the rest of the team , till he can get to the playoffs , then take over . 

The problem with LeBrons strategy is two things .  He won't have home court advantage in the championship series.   Also ,   He becomes very ball dominate all of a sudden and the rest of the team stands around and watches .  The team concept fades away and all,the pressure is on him.

[Ed Hollison]

Abuse of PEDS might factor in too, and lack of them might factor in too.  No more HGH for to use.

Why do you say no more HGH to use? Is it because it's gotten harder to obtain HGH via prescription? To my knowledge the NBA's drug testing is still a joke.

[Eddie20]

 Over 37,000 minutes played already at age 30, he already has played more minutes than Isaiah, Bird or Magic. Next year he will pass Nash who played till he's 40.

 15 points for Lebron tonight on a night when Irving and Love didn't have it and they lost by 34 points at home to the Warrior's.

 Move over Lebron, there is a new Sheriff in town.

He's actually 31.

[csfansince60s]

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Lot of playoff minutes too. Moves LeBron even higher up the list.

Abuse of PEDS might factor in too, and lack of them might factor in too.  No more HGH for to use.

No worries. Another 2 week hiatus mid-season, just like last year when james visited FLA  for a trip to Ponce de Leon's place and he'll be ready for the second half of the season/playoffs, good as new.

Boy, he came back much stronger, didn't he.

[LilRip]

Wow, really? Yeah that was a bad loss but Lebron has still been pretty dominant this year. If there was a fantasy draft and you had the first overall pick, and it would be for this year only, most people would probably still take Lebron as first overall. Even with curry going nuclear this season.

[loco_91]

Lots of people have doubted LeBron over the years. Most of them have lived to regret it. If I'm a Cavs fan, I'm more worried about Kyrie and Love than about LeBron - he'll step up when the season's on the line, just like he always does.

[Donoghus]

#hotsportztake

[Eddie20]

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Lot of playoff minutes too. Moves LeBron even higher up the list.

Abuse of PEDS might factor in too, and lack of them might factor in too.  No more HGH for to use.

No worries. Another 2 week hiatus mid-season, just like last year when james visited FLA  for a trip to Ponce de Leon's place and he'll be ready for the second half of the season/playoffs, good as new.

Boy, he came back much stronger, didn't he.

I dislike the guy as much as anybody, but your opinion on how fast it takes for GH to actually have an effect is way off. I would strongly encourage you to do some research on it.