LOS ANGELES — LeBron James might have given Dillon Brooks an earful before the Lakers' 111-101 Game 3 win over the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday, but come tipoff, it was business as usual — a team player executing a game plan to try to win a basketball game. «I've been doing this too long.
I've made enough statements,» James said when asked if he was trying to make a point with his play. «No. We had an opportunity to come home and play well on our home floor, and we did that.
No statement was made. We just wanted to play well and got a win. And we want to try to do that in Game 4, as well. »But I don't need to make statements." The No.
7-seeded Lakers took a 2-1 lead on the second-seeded Grizzlies in their Western Conference first-round series. James finished with 25 points on 10-for-20 shooting, nine rebounds and five assists, and he added a double-clutch reverse dunk on a breakaway in the second half — the type of play that's argument enough against Brooks' assertion that James looks «old,» without needing to say anything about it in a news conference.