Dylan Hernandez: Who cares what LeBron James thinks about China? His critics certainly do.
BOSTON — A game can't just be a game anymore. So, when LeBron James returned to the Lakers' lineup against the Boston Celtics on Friday night, the story couldn't just be that the best player of his generation was coming back from an eight-game absence to take on his team's historic rival in its arena. Everything is now content to be consumed by a short-attention-span, social-media-addicted ...
by Dylan Hernandez, Los Angeles Times
Nov 21, 2021
3 minutes
BOSTON — A game can't just be a game anymore.
So, when LeBron James returned to the Lakers' lineup against the Boston Celtics on Friday night, the story couldn't just be that the best player of his generation was coming back from an eight-game absence to take on his team's historic rival in its arena.
Everything is now content to be consumed by a short-attention-span, social-media-addicted public.
Like, how Celtics center Enes Kanter was wearing shoes criticizing James' commercial ties to China.
Or how the game was staged on a
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