It will start soon enough. If LeBron James looks a pinky toe slow, if the Lakers drop a couple of these 2020-21 games coming Ferrari-fast on the heels of the Lakers’ 2019-20 title, if he doesn’t have enough red in his Christmas Day game sneakers, the critics will not wait to pounce.
Don’t take the bait. Don’t be sucked in by the negativity.
James has earned the benefit of every doubt.
As eye-opening an experience as it has been for Anthony Davis to team up with James and learn the ways of such a consistent performer and regular winner, consider one more way it has been a brow-raising revelation for Davis: “I know he gets criticized,” Davis said of James, “more than any basketball player ever.