LOS ANGELES -- Twenty years after LeBron James was the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA draft, the No. 3 selection in the league's most recent draft, Houston Rockets forward Jabari Smith Jr., told the Los Angeles Lakers star something to make him feel his age.
"Hey," Smith Jr. said in a video captured by the NBA TV cameras during the Lakers' 140-132 win on Monday night, "you played against my dad your first NBA game ever."
The 19-year-old Rockets rookie's father, Jabari Smith Sr., was indeed on the Kings' roster when James made his regular-season debut with the Cleveland Cavaliers on Oct.