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LeBron James posts comically swole photo on Instagram to joke about playing more center on the Lakers this season

It might seem hard to imagine LeBron James with more muscular. The new Lakers superstar is one of the most physically fit players in NBA history, with rippling muscles that seem as though they’d be much more at home on a comic book superhero than an actual, real person.

But when the first photos of James practicing in Lakers gear hit the internet, one of the photos stood out as even more ridiculously unrealistic than his rippling muscles appear normally:

Now, James already appears to be flexing at borderline-insane levels in that photo, but the internet is always happy to take things up a notch, which led to someone (I’m still not sure who) creating this photo edit imagining James with approximately all of the muscle that was floating around in a few places:

It seems the photo amused James as well, because he posted it to his Instagram story with the caption “Luke said I maybe playing more five this year.