All Ball Sports: LeBron, Life at 40, Army’s shining Black Knights
by Paul Teetor Over a four-game losing streak this week, LeBron James missed 20 consecutive three-point shots. Let me repeat that staggering statistic in Live Oak Park terms: LeBron bricked 20 straight threes. Dude was straight up shooting blanks. If that happened at Live Oak Park in Manhattan Beach or Clark Park in Hermosa Beach, his teammates would stop passing him the ball and tell him to take a seat on the bench. But he’s not playing on a Live Oak team. He’s playing on a team known as the Lakers – or the Fakers, based on their current form. What does that statistic suggest as LeBron approaches his 40th birthday on December 30? It suggests that his legs are tired from playing too many minutes, his million-dollar body is weary from carrying the Lakers, and he knows his team is going nowhere except to the bottom of the standings. The Lakers season is officially one quarter of the way through their schedule already. But unofficially their season already feels over. All that optimistic talk from new coach JJ Redick and rest of the Lakers organization early in the season – when they raced out to a 10-4 record while playing a soft schedule — has faded away into silence. As of Sunday…
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