The NBA is a few weeks from playoff mode, and LeBron James has himself and the Los Angeles Lakers squarely in the mix to compete for championship.
FILE - In this March 10, 2020, file photo, Los Angeles Lakers' LeBron James dribbles during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Brooklyn Nets in Los Angeles. LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLA. -- LeBron James keeps hearing the same questions. How's it going? How's the bubble?"I just say it's 2020," James said. "Nothing is normal in 2020."
Everything else about this year has been most abnormal. A pandemic suspended play. David Stern, the NBA's commissioner emeritus, died. Kobe Bryant, who was the third-leading scorer in NBA history until James passed him on Jan. 25, died in a helicopter crash the following day. And now James, the Lakers and 21 other teams are at Walt Disney World, separated from the rest of the world, trying to salvage a season and decide a champion.
"A day doesn't go by when I don't think about him," James said. "A day doesn't go by where our organization does not remember him and think about not only Kob, but Gigi, Vanessa and their girls. They are a part of this family." "Obviously, it's been great having LeBron on our side after years of going against him," Vogel said. "But in particular, when we get to the playoff environment, I've just seen how he is this year in some of the bigger regular season games, how he's more mentally locked in, more vocal, more making sure everybody else is locked in. And I anticipate that come playoff time, we'll see that all being done at an enhanced level.
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