When you commit to being someone who protects the rim in the middle of an NBA defense, you generally have to come to terms with being dunked on. And for LeBron James, that reality didn’t show itself until the second half of Monday night’s game against the Boston Celtics.
As LeBron James and his Los Angeles Lakers squad were scrapping to stay in the game on Monday against the Celtics, Jaylen Brown had an emphatic dunk as if to show that the Celtics youngster is not the same player who lost to LeBron James in the Eastern Conference Finals a couple of years ago. After the dunk, Brown even picked up a technical foul for taunting.
James and the Lakers are being run out of the gym by the Lakers as it stands, trailing by 27 points late in the third quarter at the time of publishing. Monday is the first game that they’ve had Anthony Davis in the lineup since Jan. 7 but the Celtics have completely dominated them despite the fact the Lakers added one of their MVPs for this season.
