DALLAS — Call them an early-season disappointment. Brand them defensively challenged. Take it a step snarkier and dismiss them as creaky — or even flat-out old.
None of that noise is bound to get a reaction out of LeBron James the way accusing the Cleveland Cavaliers of falling prey to boredom does.
“I don’t even know where that comes from,” James said.
Here’s where: It’s a reflex reaction for pro basketball pundits, when a championship-level team starts the season as listlessly as the Cavaliers did, to suggest that the relative dullness and lack of consequence attached to games at the front of the N.