{"id":1934601,"date":"2023-05-20T05:22:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T09:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lebrons-last-legs-nba-world-abuzz-after-james-struggles-in-ways-people-have-never-seen\/"},"modified":"2023-05-20T05:24:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T09:24:30","slug":"lebrons-last-legs-nba-world-abuzz-after-james-struggles-in-ways-people-have-never-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lebrons-last-legs-nba-world-abuzz-after-james-struggles-in-ways-people-have-never-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"Is LeBron on his last legs? NBA world buzzing as James struggles in unprecedented ways."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flebrons-last-legs-nba-world-abuzz-after-james-struggles-in-ways-people-have-never-seen%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1934601&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>LeBron James Struggles in Ways People Have Never Seen<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s no secret that Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James wants to play in the NBA one day with his eldest son, LeBron \u201cBronny\u201d James Jr., who will be eligible for the NBA draft next year. Given the 38-year-old\u2019s remarkable longevity, most NBA fans just assumed that a James and James pairing would be an inevitability.<\/p>\n<p>But after the Lakers lost 108-103 to the Denver Nuggets in Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals? Many fans saw a different kind of inevitability \u2014 the fact that, eventually, time and age catch up to every professional athlete.<\/p>\n<h3>James&#8217; Struggles on Display<\/h3>\n<p>For James Sr., that\u00a0inevitability was on display for all to see Thursday night. Remember, for all of the criticisms often hurled at James, it\u2019s undeniable that he\u2019s an athletic marvel. People that big (6-foot-9, 250 pounds) generally don\u2019t move that fast or jump that high. Even as a teenage rookie in 2003, James was throwing down thunderous dunks against stiff NBA competition with ease.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward 20 years and it\u2019s evident that all of that ease is gone. In the second quarter of Thursday\u2019s game, James blew a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-nba-player-who-forgot-how-to-shoot-the-ben-simmons-conundrum\/\" title=\"The NBA Player Who Forgot How To Shoot: The Ben Simmons Conundrum\">wide-open dunk<\/a>. As uncharacteristic and embarrassing as that botched dunk attempt was for James, it paled in comparison to a crucial missed layup\u00a0down the stretch of a close game.<\/p>\n<p>With the Lakers down four points with 34 seconds left, James, to his credit, got a positively Michael Jordan-esque steal. He then proceeded to blow the kind of finish you can see at your local YMCA. But it wasn\u2019t just those two missed shots.<\/p>\n<p>James also had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lebrons-last-legs-nba-world-abuzz-after-james-struggles-in-ways-people-have-never-seen\/\" title=\"Is LeBron on his last legs? NBA world buzzing as James struggles in unprecedented ways.\">careless turnover shortly<\/a> after that botched layup, with the Lakers still clinging to a distant hope of forcing overtime. And no, James\u2019 three-point shooting hasn\u2019t come anywhere close to making up for the blown dunks and missed layups. If anything, his late-game shooting has only exacerbated his woes.<\/p>\n<h3>Fans React<\/h3>\n<p>NBA fans across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-eric-swalwell-falls-for-failed-virginia-tiki-torch-hoax\/\" title=\"Rep. Eric Swalwell Falls for Failed Virginia Tiki Torch Hoax\u00a0\">social media called<\/a> out James\u2019 poor showing, including Lakers fans openly fretting that he may have finally hit the wall that every pro athlete eventually does.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LeBron might be washed omg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>James will have the chance to rectify his poor performance when the Western Conference Finals shifts to Los Angeles for Games 3 and 4. Game 3 takes place Saturday. The Lakers trail in the series 2-0.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is this the end of an era for LeBron James? Only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eventuality. LeBron James has expressed his desire to play in the NBA with his son, LeBron &#8220;Bronny&#8221; James Jr., who will be eligible for the draft next year. With his impressive longevity, many fans expect the father-son duo to eventually team up in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2015,"featured_media":1934602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[27195,5334,7815,9884,7873,10810,18464,6764],"class_list":["post-1934601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-buzzing","tag-james","tag-lebron","tag-legs","tag-nba","tag-struggles","tag-unprecedented","tag-ways"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1934602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}