LeBron James has been playing through left knee soreness for the better part of two months, and in a loss to the New Orleans Pelicans — a rollercoaster of a collapse that LeBron himself admitted was basically a microcosm of the Lakers’ entire season — he turned his left ankle in the second quarter, another malady for that already injured left leg.
James, as he tends to do, simply laced up his shoe tighter and played through the ankle inversion, using resistance bands at stoppages to keep the ankle moving and keep the ankle muscle activating.