When it was announced on Wednesday that LeBron James would miss the Miami Heat’s road game against the Los Angeles Lakers in Downtown LA, joining Anthony Davis and Lonnie Walker in the injury list, what was supposed to be an instantaneous sigh of relief was instead a creeping horror of “uh-oh, here we go again.”
A few in California thought this had the potential to be a blowout. Those who’ve followed the Heat knew better: this had “trap game” written all over it. And how fitting it would be on ESPN.
True enough, the Heat squandered another contest they should have won hours later, 112-109.