LeBron James wants to know if he looks tired. Well does he? Does he?

In an exercise in rhetoric, LeBron James asked a reporter if he looked tired after guarding Kevin Durant. Do I understand rhetorical questions?

Let’s just be honest here. The NBA season is long. There are a lot of games, and there are a lot of minutes, and there is a lot of running. Do you know how long an NBA court is? It’s like, 3 miles I think. NBA Players have to run up and down that thing a bunch of times during games. LeBron James, best known for his great running, is no exception.

In fact, LeBron led the league in minutes per game this year at 37.8. That load has only increased to 40.8 in the playoffs. That’s a lot for a 32 year old who has played more than 41,000 minutes in his career.

One wouldn’t fault him for being tired now. Summer is coming. It’s the perfect time to relax outside with a nice lemonade and your favorite Norah Jones tracks playing through a bluetooth speaker while dragonflies annoy you from 10 feet away with their buzzing and flitting and smug attitude. Instead, LeBron James is guarding Kevin Durant.

So one has to ask:

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LeBron James says no. LeBron James is not tired. He knows himself better than I do, certainly, but sometimes numbers happen. After all he has averaged a triple-double so far in this series. Except that, he’s done it mostly in the first half.

And sure maybe you can say he’s just taking what’s available to him. Maybe the Warriors have just locked down his teammates after the break. Well, unfortunately, if that’s the case LeBron hasn’t exactly taken advantage of whatever freedom this would allow.

So maybe it was just a rough stretch. LeBron has those. Everyone has those. That doesn’t mean he’s tired.

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But that probably does. I don’t like rhetorical questions.