CLEVELAND -- Forty-eight hours before the Cleveland Cavaliers lost at home to a sub-.500 Sacramento Kings team, LeBron James sat in front of his locker at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans and touched and twisted his overgrown black beard as he unloaded on the state of his team.
He had been growing it for months and taken a liking to it. James joked that it was going to keep him warm for the winter, that his wife liked it and that, "It's not like I can grow anything on top my head, so I might as well grow this.