It was exactly 11:43 p.m. when LeBron James, wearing a crème-colored sweater and sneakers, walked through the exit door next to the loading dock and strode to his car for what may have been his final drive home from the place he has called home for seven years.
What you couldn’t get a reading on was how James was feeling inside his inner soul, the soul that he tried to claim had not been damaged by the ringing in his ears caused by the sound of boos during Cleveland’s 120-88 drubbing at the hands of the Boston Celtics, boos unlike anything James had ever heard before in Cleveland.
If this was his last home game here, that’s what they sent him off with.
“I spoil a lot of people with my play,” James said in one of the few borderline candid comments he made in his postgame interview. “When you have a bad game here or there, you’ve had three bad games in a seven-year career, then it’s easy to point that out. So you got to be better.”
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