You know Lebron, you lost to a better team. No big deal. You really gotta come out and say you played with a broken hand? Really? Man.....I call BS. How the hell you out there throwing down dunks and shit, playing like you always do, with a broken hand? That hand wasn't swollen. Your motions didn't look any different. Nothing. Miss me with this drama king excuse. Had to come out there with a cast....smh.

Wait, what? He said that?
If he really did have a broken hand, he wouldn't and shouldn't have even been out there in the first place. 

Not backing him entirely, but everything I am reading backs it and it makes sense.  And it lines up with his...not sub par but sub LeBron play.  Doesn't seem like it was serious, just a hairline or deep bruise.  It's not like he played it up as a big factor or anything.  It probably just hurt like a son of a gun.  

Players have done far crazier things than play with a serious bruise or mild hairline fracture.  It probably just hurt like a bitch.

Ya, he came to the post game press conference with a cast on his hand and everything, told reporters he "basically played with a broken hand" after game one. Made jokes about it. One big circus act if you ask me.

I mean, it could be but it would be incredibly dumb since such an act could be easily and quickly exposed.  And it was a small soft cast used for minor injuries, not a hard one for serious stuff.

He still averaged like 30 and almost a triple double....how is that sub Lebron? Idk man.

Watching those games, the only reason he didn't have beefier numbers, was because for some inexplicable reason he didn't pull up over Curry like every time he got him one on one (which was all the fucking time). I mean seriously, the amount of times he back down Curry, only to kick it out to someone as soon as another defender took like one step towards him.….I couldn't believe it, frankly. He could have feasted on that all day.

I mean, as I already said, it doesn't seem to have been anything serious.  Even he didn't play it up as such.  Crazier numbers have been reached with worse.  At worst it probabl6 just took his edge off.  

Steph is a better defender than he is given credit for and he's tougher than he looks. Plus, it certainly helps having a Defensive Player of the Year (Draymond Green), 2 lockdown on-ball defenders (Klay Thompson and Andre Iguodala), and a 7 foot tall all-time great player with very long arms (Kevin Durant) backing you up. It was essentially 1 on 5, with someone always ready to rotate and help Steph by either contesting the shot and making it very difficult for LeBron to score in the paint or force him to kick it back out to a shooter and close out just in time.

Well that didn't take long.

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