Bill Plaschke: James goes all in with Lakers after debut season that was more of a dud
LOS ANGELES_The man who once seemed blithely detached now sounds deeply engaged.
"I'm very motivated, but I'm right now not in the talking-about-it mode," James said with a steely stare. "I've been very quiet this summer for a reason. My mother always told me, don't talk about it, be about, it, so that's where I'm at."
The man who once scoffed at a question about proving himself to Lakers fans answered a similar query with a pledge.
"I think as a team and myself, we need to get the Lakers back to where they're accustomed to over the years, so I'm excited about that," he said.
Five months after quietly fleeing the Lakers' locker room at the end of a tattered season, his commitment questioned, his durability in doubt,
