Lakers' LeBron James brushes off recent jabs by Grizzlies' Dillon Brooks: 'I'm ready to play and that's it'
"I'm not here for the bulls---," James said after practice Friday, cutting off his media availability after sidestepping Brooks-related questions for about five minutes. "I'm ready to play and that's it."
Following the No. 2-seeded Grizzlies' 103-93 win in Game 2 to even the series 1-1 against the No. 7 Lakers, the 27-year-old Brooks took aim at the 38-year-old James, doubting the 20-year veteran's effectiveness at this stage of his career.after staring down James on the floor when he hit a 3 in the fourth quarter. "I was waiting for that. I was expecting him to do that Game 4, Game 5. He wanted to say something when I got my fourth foul. He should have been saying that earlier on.
"I heard about it," Hachimura said Friday. "I'm not really into social media, but I heard about it. Honestly, that's all they can do. They're a young team. They just want to talk. We just don't really care. We're going to play our game and we're trying to win the games." James has used trash talk both real and imagined to motivate himself in the past. Heading into the 2021-22 season, he
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