CLEVELAND — He knew. Somehow, he always does. Maybe he saw it on someone's social media stream, if between the final buzzer and his shower, he'd broken briefly from that boycott. But probably not. LeBron James is the rare athlete who has metric memory as well as muscle memory, and so, naturally, he was not surprised when he was reminded that he had taken more shots than in any playoff game since 2009.
"Yeah," James said, sharing a smile with Kyrie Irving, as they sat at the podium following a 106-91 victory to tie the second-round series with Chicago at one.