You’ve all seen it. During the preseason game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Miami Heat, LeBron James, now back in Cleveland. Had a little brain lag and ended up picking his own teammate giving his ex-teammate Norris Cole the room to get the play going.
Well after all the laughs we’ve had. LeBron James has come to kill off the thoughts that he picked the wrong person. As he says this to ESPN.com.
“How did I forgive? I’m a man,” James said. “Men, we all make mistakes.”
“For non-basketball people,” James began with a smirk when asked about the apparent blooper before the Cavs played the Indiana Pacers in Cincinnati on Wednesday, “our coverage is for me to show and for Delly [Dellavedova] to go under me and we just didn’t get the call right at the time. Delly was supposed to slide under me and we kind of ran into each other.
“So, for non-basketball people, they like to critique everything that I do. It’s stupid.”
Dellavedova had a similar account of the flubbed defensive coverage.
“My family sent me the link of it,” Dellavedova told ESPN.com. “He just showed out [on the ball handler] and I just needed to go under. So, it wasn’t really anything. I mean, you know how the media can get, right? It’s obviously more crazy with anything involving LeBron.“
Delladova knows. It’s LeBron James. Of course this is a thing. If his shoe comes off Twitter will explode.
It wasn’t a damaging play. Miami didn’t score on the play anyway and Cleveland won. He screwed up a play. Whoops.
