While the San Antonio Spurs managed to win Game 1 of the NBA Finals last night, the most talked about aspect of the game wasn’t the outcome or the winner, it was the broken air conditioning inside the AT&T Center that led to a broken LeBron James.
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LeBron cramped up bad at the end of the fourth quarter last night and it caused him to have to leave the game and not return. Things were so bad for LeBron that he had to get hooked up to an IV after the game to replenish fluids and loosen his muscles back up.
He spoke after the game and noted that the pain he was feeling was nearly off the charts.
This just goes to show the kind of competitor LeBron is, as despite feeling like his leg was going to explode in pain, he tried to come back in and help the Heat attempt to win. People like to hate on LeBron for not being an old school style of player, but wanting to play even when your leg feels like it’s going to fall off is about as old school as it gets.
What this also proves is that the theory being passed around that the cramp wasn’t real is utterly false. The fact of the matter is, as much as the tinfoil hat brigade want to believe LeBron was faking, it’s clear he wasn’t and it’s also clear that just about nothing can kill LeBron’s desire to play basketball — not even the most painful leg cramp ever.
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