All-Star Game captains LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo exchanged tampering jabs during their All-Star Weekend team draft on Thursday night ... as James drafted a starting lineup made almost entirely of soon-to-be-free-agent players.
After LeBron picked Pelicans' Anthony Davis as his first reserve teammate, Giannis coyly asked the King, "Isn't that tampering?"
James played along saying, "The tampering rule does not apply on All-Star Weekend."
Antetokounmpo's question alluded to accusations that James had violated the NBA's tampering rule earlier this season when he told ESPN that it would be "incredible" to play with AD.