LeBron James has stepped onto the court for the Los Angeles Lakers in a regular season NBA game for the very first time, and it took him all of 2 and a half minutes to register his first points for the storied franchise.
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And he didn’t so much as pencil them in as he did more grind them into the book with a hot fire poker.
Ob-bloody-serve.
MEET THE NEW LEBRON, SAME AS THE OLD LEBRON 🔥
(via @NBA) pic.twitter.com/FLZNCGwvYI
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) October 19, 2018
Good god. Good god.
Look at that glorious thing. Marvel at it. It’s even bloody better in super slow-mo.
Poetry in motion… LeBron James’ first basket with the @Lakers! #PhantomCam pic.twitter.com/tnOQXXLJXH
— NBA (@NBA) October 19, 2018
But because that alone is simply never enough, literal seconds later he dropped another one. Almost identical. Play didn’t even stop. Look at this fucking absurd passage of play, for god’s sake.
When people say “they shoot too many threes in the NBA these days.” pic.twitter.com/pshnbbOKKu
— Leigh Ellis (@LeighEllis) October 19, 2018
I mean…
It’s just…
For the love of…
There’s really only one thing to say in times like this.
LeBron James.