INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — The creases in the forehead stay put no matter his expression now, a natural consequence after all the years of pressure from that mythical crown pushing down on him.
LeBron James, 30, began his 13th NBA season Monday at the Cleveland Cavaliers' media day in advance of training camp, and he did not even try to downplay the mileage his freight train feels every day.
James couldn't get more than a few words of a joke out about how he feels as spry as he did as an 18-year-old rookie. So he just exhaled and said: "I could definitely use a couple more months off."
Exponentially greater weariness, James confirmed, comes from laboring all the way to the end of the past two seasons without the only result anyone accepts from a longtime king.
"Every year that you lose in the Finals," he said, "it gets worse and worse." He said it again, just to be clear.
And because those last two failures to the San Antonio Spurs and Golden State Warriors tip James' NBA Finals scale from a passable 2-2 to a bottom-heavy 2-4, some shine has to come off him and that heartwarming 2014 decision t ...
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