OLD MAN LEBRON STILL GOT GAME

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Old man LeBron not old enough to be old.

If you watch sports for life lessons, then watching LeBron is a graduate course.

He’s been in the finals for six straight years and two different teams. So we think we know him.

And we’re wrong.

The only reason LeBron seems old is by the dewy young face of Steph Curry. He makes everyone look old. That happens when you’re a grown man who looks like a fourteen year old.

Cleveland Cavalier teammate Kyrie Irving looks older than LeBron even though he’s seven years younger. He looks older than Steph but he’s four years younger.

Kyrie’s got the Greg Oden hex of looking old as a young man.

That’s not old man LeBron. The only time he looked old was the off season he lost too much weight and wore beach clothes.

He looked old enough then to retire and move to Boca. He had the right wardrobe.

The mistake the Golden State Warriors make is thinking LeBron’s game got old.

An adage, and what adage is better than an old adage, says you shouldn’t murder a man busy killing himself.

LeBron might have followed that path in his career, might have let things slip, let the game get away from him and coasted into the next phase of his life.

He’s done it all. Like a great movie, LeBron’s made us laugh, made us cry, made us glad for the time we’ve had with him.

Beloved and hated in Cleveland. Beloved and hated in Miami. Loved again in Cleveland. And he’s won titles, just not for Cleveland.

He tried harder than anyone to bring a title to what seems like his hometown, or home city. He started looking resigned to the fate that it would never happen.

We let him off the hook. He’s older, wiser, ready to be dismissed as a one-time great.

Old man LeBron an NBA afterthought?

Then he got tapped by Draymond Green. First it was a step over.

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Green plays Lance Stephenson to LeBron’s high road gone low. Old Man LeBron would have let it go the way he let it go when Lance blew in his ear a few years back.

No need to lower oneself to that level? Yes there is if you want an NBA title. The rule is winners do what losers won’t do.

An annoying player falls down, you either go around, or step over. LeBron stepped over like a boss.

Draymond wasn’t having any of that. Alpha male behavior manual says you must retaliate if you think you’ve been disrespected.

Draymond is more alpha male than LeBron? Not when you reach out and rap a package.

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On one hand you get disrespected, in the other hand you get LeBron’s junk? Come on, Draymond. Who are you fooling with your south of the border play? Footsie and handsie?

The only handful you want from LeBron is a handshake. When a player has his own hands busy adjusting his business, you wait for the shake. Maybe a fist bump at the point.

Draymond got an earful.

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Just part of the game, right?

So is a suspension.

So is old man LeBron drinking from the fountain of youth for 41 points the next game.

How did Draymond take it?

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Was there lots of smiling from Draymond watching his team lose and head back to Cleveland?