LeBron James told reporters on Friday that he didn't mean any disrespect when he was spinning the ball in his hands prior to a three-point attempt in the second quarter of Game 2 against the Toronto Raptors.
Rather, James said it was a tactic to see if his defender Serge Ibaka would play him more aggressively at the three-point line.
"It's bait," James told ESPN.com's Dave McMenamin. "If [Ibaka] would have reached in, I would have put it on the floor.
"It was a mental thing. Everything I do is mental.