All season long, and especially in recent weeks, LeBron James has been making it clear that he is sick and tired of playing losing basketball with the Lakers. From telling the media to ask general manager Rob Pelinka about potentially dealing the team’s tradeable first-round picks to a recent postgame diatribe in Miami in which he declared that “playing basketball at this level just to be playing basketball is not in my DNA,” James has hardly been subtle about his discontent with the current state of affairs in Los Angeles.
As friend of the site Jorge Sedano of ESPN and my colleague Anthony Irwin talked about on our podcast this week, James hasn’t just been leaving breadcrumbs, he’s been leaving the whole loaf of bread.