LeBron's night, in pictures
Some people might ask whether this LeBron hatred stuff ever gets old, this reveling in the Wizards scoring one home win over another against a top-flight Cavs team no matter what their own record is.
No, is your answer. I mean, do fall Sundays ever get old? Do Dogfish Head limited releases ever get old? Do truth and justice and liberty ever get old? Does watching the final few seconds of George Mason's win over U-Conn. ever get old? Does staring at this absolutely perfect photo above ever get old?
"DeShawn meets LeBron," wrote the brilliant Paul Rovnak. "Sums up the game. DeShawn played can't-feel-my-face defense and LeBron's head got too big."
And yes, the Wiz were really handing out I-Can't-Feel-My-Face bobblehands Wednesday night. So anyhow, let's take a look at LeBron's night.
And, back to arms reverse-akimboing. Someone really needs to make the reverse-akimboing arms LeBron James Bobblehead. Or maybe a Bobblearm, like the DeShawn one above, except the arms bobble up and down to the side, asking the world "Whaaaaa??!?!?!?!" in comical oversized fashion. I'd buy one of those.
And to be serious for a second, the thing about LeBron that drives so many of us crazy is the self-importance, the lack of self-awareness, the uber-grandiosity with which he conducts himself. That's why Gilbert's recent heel turn into an angry, pouting, churlish recluse was so disappointing. If that was D.C.'s standard-bearer, how could we really complain?
Well, look. Gilbert's smiling again.
"We know we're better than this team when we play together and play hard," Arenas said in a postgame interview with CSN's Chris Miller. That's quite a claim, anyhow.
The fans also let LBJ have it. Sarah Schorno, for example, tweeted this: "Highlight of my night...getting called a [bad word] by LeBron....I told him to quit crying and take his fouls like a man. He looked at me and said '[Bleep] you.' Then it was on."
Anyhoo, I guess we're all still friends. The Cavs win in Cleveland, and the Wiz win in Washington, and the Cavs win in the postseason, and we can just hope that the Wizards manage to meet some other team in the first round this year. Still, five straight at home.
(Cue Cleveland fans commenting about how this isn't a rivalry.)
Of course, the night ended badly for LeBron; he hurt himself dunking too hard, during the time when he was really really really trying to show DeShawn who's boss. I mean, you hurt yourself dunking because you were trying to make some sort of statement against a team you don't consider in any way a rival?
"It's like you hit your funny bone, but it's not funny at all," LeBron said of the dunk.
Well, maybe that's a little funny, no?
