First, there was that time in the first quarter he picked up his dribble and just started walking with the ball, while Jazz forward Bojan Bogdanovic implored the ref for a traveling call that was not forthcoming.
“Probably one of the worst things I’ve ever done in my career. I didn’t even realize I did it until halftime, to be honest. One of my coaches showed me,” James told Kyle Goon of the Southern California News Group afterward. “… I think I was ready to pass the ball. And my brain just — I had a malfunction. I really had a malfunction.