Lol game just started. Why do people think Grant is moving up to pick Lebron up at half court, especially when he’s not even the ball handler? The rest of the Mavs fall back into actual defensive positioning, like 99.9% of the NBA would do in this situation.
The only purpose of getting in his way and trying to impede his free movement at that spot at that time in the game is that Grant was trying to get under Lebron’s skin. Lebron responded by bumping him, Grant didn’t back down and put his hands on Lebron to help impede Lebron’s movement, Lebron bumped him harder, Grant put his hands up when refs got involved lol.
It’s fine if he wants to play the psychological game with Lebron. Not trying to say “who is Grant to try and do that to the King?!” or something. It just feels weird that everyone in this thread is making it seem like Lebron went out of his way to bully Grant lol
Ime is lame and the people commending him for this are just Lebron haters lol
Lebron didn’t get “owned”. Ime was in his feelings, started calling Lebron a bitch, Lebron responded calmly saying he shouldn’t call him and his team that word lightly, Ime doubled down, and got tossed.
There’s no way I don’t see Lebron as the winner of this interaction. Didn’t lose his cool, stayed in the game and help his team win, and didn’t say anything wrong. Also, he didn’t cheat on his beautiful wife and mother of his children and lose a lot because of it, so just a continued showing of maturity and common sense from Lebron > Udoka.