Allegedly the pic was taken at a signing event he did last week in Portsmouth, NH. Rondo just don’t care!
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Allegedly the pic was taken at a signing event he did last week in Portsmouth, NH. Rondo just don’t care!
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LeBron James rolls his ankle by stepping on a woman’s sandal during the game with the Lakers.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — LeBron James had 38 points and 11 rebounds and the Miami Heat resumed their season with a 107-93 rout of the Portland Trail Blazers on Thursday night, extending their winning streak to nine games.
Dwyane Wade added 33 points and 10 assists for the Heat, who at 28-7 are off to their best 35-game start in franchise history.
Miami was playing in its first game since the All-Star break. The Heat hadn’t played since a 102-88 victory at home over the New York Knicks last Thursday.
The Heat were without All-Star Chris Bosh because of a death in his family. He is also expected to miss Friday night’s game at Utah, but it is not yet known whether he will play Sunday when Miami visits the Los Angeles Lakers.
LaMarcus Aldridge had 20 points for the Blazers, who were coming off a 104-95 loss to the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday night. Portland (18-18) has lost eight of its last 12 games.
It was Miami’s fifth straight road win.
Before the game, the Blazers activated center Joel Przybilla, who was signed by the team earlier this week.
Przybilla, who spent more than six seasons in Portland before he was traded to Charlotte last season, has not played since last March. An 11-year NBA veteran, the 7-foot-1 center finished with four points, six rebounds and two blocked shots in 19 minutes.
A fan favorite, he was treated to a standing ovation by the Rose Garden crowd.
The Blazers jumped out to an early 14-6 lead, but the Heat came back to tie it on Wade’s lob pass to James for the dunk. James and Wade combined for all of Miami’s points to that point.
The Heat extended the lead to 30-21 on Mario Chalmers’ jumper. They kept the Blazers at bay the rest of the half, going up 45-34 on Udonis Haslem’s 15-foot jumper before taking a 60-42 lead into the break. James and Wade accounted for 41 of the team’s points.
The Heat led by as many as 25 points in the third quarter. James’ fast-break dunk put the Miami ahead 77-55.
James went to the bench in the fourth quarter with the Heat still holding a sizable lead. But the Blazers chipped away a bit, coming to within 91-78 on Wesley Matthews’ reverse layup.
James’ break was brief and the Blazers got as close as 95-85 on Nicolas Batum’s 3-pointer with 4:35 left. James answered on the other end with a 3-pointer of his own.
James has scored 30 or more points in 15 games this season. Wade has scored at least 20 points in 10 straight games.
Last season, James scored 44 points against the Blazers, a record-high for an opponent at the Rose Garden, in a 107-100 overtime victory for the Heat. The road team has won the last five games in the series.
Notes: Miami coach Erik Spoelstra was selected the NBA’s Eastern Conference coach of the month on Thursday after leading Miami to a league-best 11-2 record in February. It’s the third time he has earned the honor. … Former Blazer Scottie Pippen was at the game. … Batum cut his lip in the second half but returned. … The game was the only meeting between the Heat and the Blazers this season. … Portland placed C-F Kurt Thomas on the inactive list because of a concussion he sustained the night before in Portland’s loss at Denver.
LeBron James says he could picture returning to the place where his NBA journey began. Back in Cleveland. Imagine that.
After practicing in a gym where he refined his game for seven seasons, James said Thursday he would not rule out a return to the Cavaliers, the team he carried to the brink of a championship before he left his home region as a free agent for the Miami Heat in 2010.
Asked if he could play for the Cavs again, James initially paused before giving his answer.
“I don’t know. I think it would be great,” he said. “It would be fun to play in front of these fans again. I had a lot fun times in my seven years here. You can’t predict the future and hopefully I continue to stay healthy. I’m here as a Miami Heat player, and I’m happy where I am now, but I don’t rule that out in no sense.
Full story on USA Today
All-Star Game: Feb. 26 at Orlando, Fla.
(x-starter)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Starters
Years
Player Pos Ht Wt A-S
x-Carmelo Anthony, N.Y. F 6-8 230 5
x-Dwight Howard, Orl C 6-11 265 6
x-LeBron James, Mia F 6-8 250 8
x-Derrick Rose, Chi G 6-3 190 3
x-Dwyane Wade, Mia G 6-4 210 8
Reserves
Chris Bosh, Mia F-C 6-10 230 7
Luol Deng, Chi F 6-9 220 1
Roy Hibbert. Ind C 7-2 260 1
Andre Iguodala, Phi F-G 6-6 207 1
Joe Johnson, Atl G 6-7 235 6
Paul Pierce, Bos F 6-7 235 10
Deron Williams, N.J. G 6-3 209 3
Head Coach: Tom Thibodeau, Chicago
Assistant Coaches: TBA
Trainer: Keon Weise, Orlando
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Starters
Years
Player P Ht Wt A-S
x-Kobe Bryant, L.A.L. G 6-6 205 14
x-Andrew Bynum, L.A.L. C 7-0 285 1
x-Kevin Durant, Okl F 6-9 230 3
x-Blake Griffin, L.A.C. F 6-10 251 2
x-Chris Paul, L.A.C. G 6-0 175 5
Reserves
LaMarcus Aldridge, Por F 6-11 240 1
Marc Gasol, Mem C 7-1 265 1
Kevin Love, Min F-C 6-10 260 2
Steve Nash, Pho G 6-3 178 8
Dirk Nowitzki, Dal F 7-0 245 11
Tony Parker, S.A. G 6-2 185 4
Russell Westbrook, Okl G 6-3 211 2
Head Coach: Scott Brooks, Oklahoma City
Assistant Coaches: TBA
Trainer: Jay Jensen, Portland
The Heat cruised to a 106-89 victory over the Wizards on Friday, but from the sound of it LeBron James experienced plenty of frustration during the game anyway. According to NBC Sports writer Sarah Kogod, LeBron got into it with a Wizards fan over — what else — the Delonte West situation. The heckling over West and LeBron’s mom seems to follow him anywhere he goes, but he was reportedly in no mood to hear it in Washington.
Full story on Larry Brown Sports
MIAMI (AP)—LeBron James was sent home from Miami’s game-day shootaround practice to rest Thursday morning, and the Heat say he will be a game-time decision for that night’s matchup with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Meanwhile, the Lakers—and James’ former coach—fully expect him to play.
“When you talk about great players like him, those guys even though they’re sick or a little injured or whatever, they find a way to perform at a high level,” Lakers coach Mike Brown, one of James’ former coaches with the Cleveland Cavaliers, said Thursday afternoon. “I don’t think it’s any different for LeBron.”
James has been battling flu-like symptoms for much of this week. He said it affected him in the early minutes of Miami’s game against San Antonio on Tuesday, a contest where he started slowly and still finished with 33 points, 17 of those in a huge third-quarter run as the Heat turned a 14-point halftime deficit into a 22-point win.
James said he was feeling better Wednesday, though some symptoms apparently reappeared Wednesday night and into Thursday morning. Heat coach Erik Spoelstra indicated James was sent home only as a precaution.
“He’s feeling under the weather still,” Spoelstra said.
Miami will be without guard Dwyane Wade, whose sprained right ankle will keep him sidelined for the second straight game. It’s the fifth game Wade will miss in Miami’s first 14 this season because of injury, the first three of those caused by a sore left foot.
“The show still goes on,” Heat forward Chris Bosh said. “We’re still going to expect to win.”
Whether James plays or not, the Heat plan to use Shane Battier and James Jones defensively on Lakers star Kobe Bryant, at least some of the time.
“It’s always a luxury having such great players on your team,” Bosh said. “But sometimes they’re out. This is why we made moves this season, was to be a deeper team.”
The new year is already off to a hot start for Miami Heat forward LeBron James, who rang in 2012 by proposing to longtime girlfriend Savannah Brinson at his 27th birthday party Saturday night in Miami.
Brinson and James are high-school sweethearts, dating back to James’ days as a standout at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio. Brinson is the mother of LeBron’s two kids, LeBron, Jr., 7, and Bryce, 4.
LeBron turned 27 on Friday, and in addition to the engagement, Saturday night’s bash also featured the kind of extravagant birthday cake that you’d expect at a party thrown by King James, a towering rum cake adorned with edible 18-carat lions and Swarovski crystals.
NBA superstar LeBron James caused a stir on Twitter on Tuesday afternoon after he tweeted a question to ESPN’s John Clayton asking the deadline for NFL teams to sign free agents.
The cryptic message, which in no way was a publicity stunt on par with LeBron dressing in full pads at a high school football practice last week and slyly wondering whether he should get back on the field or not, was instantly met with reaction from around the world.
Fans sent hundreds of tweets in the minutes following James’ “question,” and opinion seemed divided on how the self-proclaimed King James would do in the NFL if he played while the NBA is in lockout mode.
Full story at Yahoo Sports
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — LeBron James has cut the ribbon to open a clubhouse for children in Ohio named for him.
In a gym he played in as a kid, the NBA superstar Tuesday opened the LeBron James Clubhouse at an Akron Boys & Girls Club, which was renovated with $240,000 he donated through his family foundation. James said he was humbled to be able to help area youth. The Miami Heat forward promised to keep giving back to a city that will “always be home no matter where I am.”
It likely will be an emotional day for James, who later will be inducted into the athletic Hall of Fame at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School, his alma mater. James said he was overwhelmed by the honor.
© 2011 The Associated Press
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — LeBron James says he is so “optimistic” that the coming NBA season will be played that he is not considering any possible international options – except for the 2012 Olympics.
In an interview with The Associated Press, James says he is committed to helping the United States defend its gold medal at next summer’s London Games. James has been working in Houston with Hakeem Olajuwon this offseason, and insists he will be “even better” this coming season for the Miami Heat, who lost in the NBA finals.
James was in his hometown Monday to open “Wheels for Education,” a program with State Farm to provide more than 300 third-graders from Akron Public Schools academic tools they need. The program will follow those kids through high school.
© 2011 The Associated Press
By now you’ve almost certainly read about and seen LeBron James’ vicious knockout dunk on an unsuspecting high school basketball camper over at Prep Rally’s brotherly NBA blog, Ball Don’t Lie (you can also see it below again, if you wish). Well, now we know who the victim was: 17-year-old Evan Mahone of Troy (Mich.) High School.
Read more at Yahoo Sports
photo © 2011 Deb Nystrom | more info (via: Wylio)
Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert got in one final shot after LeBron James fell short of an NBA title.
About 15 minutes after the Dallas Mavericks defeated James and the Miami Heat in Game 6 on Sunday night, Gilbert sent a message on his Twitter page to Mavericks owner Mark Cuban — a statement that included a jab at James.
“Congrats to Mark C.& entire Mavs org.,” Gilbert wrote. “Mavs NEVER stopped & now entire franchise gets rings. Old Lesson for all: There are NO SHORTCUTS. NONE.”
Dan Gilbert is right. LeBron tried to take the easy way out. Two different teams, same result, maybe the problem isn’t the team.
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