LeBron James, Lakers demolish exhausted Celtics with hot shooting: 6 takeaways

The Celtics looked like a team on the second night of a back-to-back on Thursday, falling in a 117-96 blowout to the Lakers.

Here are the takeaways.

LeBron James was up for Wednesday’s game.

Love him or hate him – and we say that acknowledging that most readers of the website Boston.com probably tilt towards the latter – LeBron James continues to defy complex existential concepts like “physics” and “time.”

James, somehow, is still doing it.