LeBron on the ankle injury that kept him out against the Pelicans: “It’s called old… You just wake up with sh*t that you didn’t have the night before.”
LeThargic
This is the end of the LeJoke I think. It peaked right here.
End of Leline.
It just keeps on LeGoing!
Is that the girl that Dolly was singing about?
DolLeParton
LeGone
It’s not new
LeReddit army is here 🎺
Look, every time someone does the “Le____” all I picture is the RDC sketch where the coach is trying pronounce Lebron with a French accent so he can Lebron off Team USA.
Damn he’s really retiring next season.
I’m basically just like him now
Me too
When it came out that he had sciatica I made a point to send my wife probably 83 articles just so she understood that both me and Lebron James were peak athletes but sciatica is slowing us both down…equally.
He is LeTired
He is headed to LeTirement
Fire ze LeMissiles
Ohmygod it’s perfect
Forever will be the greatest Bron nickname next to LeBronze at the time
LeLullilby
Yeah, once you’re 23 years into your nba career, surprise injuries aren’t so surprising
This is why I decided not to even get close to 23 years in the nba. Unfortunately I still get surprise injuries from, like, turning my head in a weird way.
Or just sitting down in an office chair at the wrong angle.
I sneezed a while back and couldn’t move my neck for a couple of hours afterwards, aging sure is fun
That’s why i’ve started doing Yoga after thinking it was for women only for like 2 decades.
It’s really changed my life lmao.
stretching goes fucking crazy bro. It’s SO much more effective than i realized. like i been doin this shit and oh my lordt yall, if u sit in an office chair all day just do this set one time. I would say your lower back will thank you but it won’t even know what to do tbh
I sneezed one day and I felt something inside me pop. Nothing bad has happened yet but something’s definitely up.
It’s why I avoided the nba all together. Just couldn’t take that wear and tear.
Sneezed the other day and blew out my Back
Same.
I skipped the NBA because I’m not trying to tear my Achilles.
At 5’8” do you know how ridiculous I would look if I tore my Achilles???
I don’t care how much money they offer me.
LeGout
LeBrittle Bone Disease
LeRockjoint
LeConsumption
LeLumbago
Le Bones
Le Boner
I was about to say, Lebron wakes up with swollen ankles, just like me!
LeNotSoSurprising
it is if you’re still in denial and thinks you’re still in your 20s
We laugh. But at what point do lakers start to question spending 50mil a year on high risk for injury older player. Who no longer hustles.
He ain’t wrong. Worst is your back. Sleep wrong, cold draft, sneeze too hard and you’re done for 3 days
I’m 25 years old and have gotten the “sleep slightly wrong and your neck is sore” injury
The thing is it goes away pretty quickly. You get older and that shit lingers for what feels like forever
My shit lingers for at least a week, and the entire time I contemplate killing myself. Genuinely don’t understand how people can live with back/neck pain, shit had me losing my joy Jimmy Butler style.
Also I’m only 23 lmao. Pretty fit otherwise, but if I sleep wrong I am genuinely in hell for like two weeks.
I’d strongly recommend Stewart McGill’s books and/or physio.
Thanks for the book. Will check it out!
No physio sadly. Shit too expensive.
You tweak something when you’re older and it hurts for so long you don’t even remember when you hurt it.
You have a weak/ sensitive back. You should absolutely not have major back issues at 23 unless you have an injury. try looking up lowbackability on youtube
If you get this frequently, get a good ergonomic pillow, for example the tempur-pedic neck pillow.
Second this - no idea about that specific pillow though, but having a pillow size that actually fits me has done wonders for my back and neck. Also consider sleeping with a pillow between your thighs if you’re experiencing hip pain.
My neck hurt pretty bad for 4 days after I slept wrong. That’s when I started to appreciate my health because those 4 days were just a bitxx.
25 as well. I legit first tweaked my back by adjusting myself on the couch lol, then I was making my bed, my fkn bed, and the same tweak happened again. Nothing crazy but scary enough to be like woahh. I’m scared to do deadlifts now lol
If you’re lean and strong, you shouldn’t get this until 35 or so, unless you have other musculoskeletal issues or get in a car accident or whatever.
That’s literally the start of it. All of a sudden you’re going to turn your neck too fast and you won’t be able to move your neck one way for 3 days.
I’ve got some bad news. It gets worse.
The sneeze is the worst part. I’m in far better shape than most guys my age and will feel really good about myself, and then an awkward sneeze will mean I have terrible back pain for a week. Like, what the actual fuck is the point of all that time in the gym if a goddamn sneeze almost sends me to the ER.
Anyone sneeze so hard they feel a tingle or knot in their taint? No just me??
That hasn’t happened to me from a sneeze, but I often get a jolt there when I land after a jump. And it’s only when I land from a jump when trying to touch the rim. It freaks me out.
Oh - my - god was gonna post that too, never heard of anyone else but it happens rarely with both.
But as a kid fuck would those long jumps hurt, usually onto concrete, fucking taint twisters I feel so vindicated lol.
You may have a prostate problem
That sounds almost like a hernia to me
Just when I cough, feels like my oesophagus drags my gooch up with a rope.
I once sneezed and nearly shit my pants and had my back nearly give out. I thought about just going back to bed at 10 am
I’m 40. Can confirm
LeWrongSideOfTheBed
Yeah, I used to wake up with a stiff neck and it’d be sore for the day but then like it never happened the next day. Now it takes like 3-4 days to feel better. Shit sucks.
Dude I woke up on my 29th birthday with back pain and got diagnosed with scoliosis. Didn’t even make it to 30 and now if I’m not very intentional with how I sleep I’m fucked for a week 😭
Diagnosed at 17, every year i feel 3 years older. Already feel 30+ years old, i really NEED more discipline about my PT exercises. It’s fucked when the central pillar of your body is off
I once got out of the couch wrong and the back gave out.
I slept there for the next 3 nights
Highly suggest strengthening your back and core with resistance training or calisthenics. I have erased my back pain and I sit all day at work.
Time to do some yoga my boi. I swear, stretching and being flexible is underrated.
Shit, I’m one year younger than LeBron and threw my back out catching a roll of toilet paper my wife threw up the stairs. Had to get a painkiller shot and Flexeril and still couldn’t stand up straight for 2 weeks.
I tweaked my back putting my kid into his car seat and I was hobbling for like 4 days. Mid 30s suck
Hamstring for me. Pull my right leg a lil’ bit one day, stretch it out for a bit. Wake up the next morning from an extreme charlie horse in my left leg.
Can’t “high knee” with my left leg until 3 or 4pm. Never find out why.
I messed up my back for 2 days by sleeping funny. Even worse, I had a cold so it hurt like hell every time I coughed. Shit was not fun.
Just 3?
And if you have nerve pain. Watch out. That shit comes and goes and it’s mother fucker.
3 days? You’re still young. 5 day minimum for me, and that’s with ice pack, aspirin, and lidocaine patches
I’m pushing forty and I fucked up my back over the weekend and I have no clue how. Laying on the floor on top of a heating pad as I type this.
Y’all need to do the McGill big 3.
I’m 39 and this started happening this year, I never thought it would happen but it finally caught up to me. I sleep wrong and my back is fucked up.
Im only 34, and I coughed hard and hurt my back for two days lmao. Had a heat pack and everything. Ridiculous.
dont forget about sitting for a bit too long in a single day
You know he gets off on doing this at 40. He enjoyed saying that
LeBron at 70 is gonna be like a caricature you see in a lot of martial arts movies of the old wizened master who hobbles around, but then shit goes down and it’s revealed he’s still fucking ripped and hamming it up for appearances.
So Master Roshi?
Uncle Iroh
LeIcyHot
LePson Salts
This might be my new favorite lmao
chef’s kiss
LePson printer
LeTigerBalm
LeShoto
Move over Shaq
LeTea’s gone cold, I’m wondering why I got out of bed at all
LeMorning James clouds up LeWindow.
And LeCan’t see at all
And even if LeCould, it’d all be James
But your picture on LeWall
It Leminds me that its not so bad
It’s not LeBad.
Guys… Thank you, this meant something to me.
It LeMinds me that it’s not so bad
LeOld
LeSimple. LeConcise.
Legettingtoooldforthis
LeThal Weapon
Proceeds to score 27 ppg in the next 25 games.
He could do that but more likely it’ll be like 20/7/7 he’ll defer to Luka and Austin for scoring
Not off to a hot start
Me after a 40 hour work week in boots. Ankles/Achilles feel so tender and sore when I wake up on a Saturday.
LeYoga
Punk a$$ kid!
Wait till you get to 50!
For real. I looked old, but didn’t really feel old until about 44 or 45. Wait until LeTestosterone starts really dropping and see what happens.
LeBron seems to be having a lot of fun this year. All the expectations are on Luka instead of him. I wonder if being able to just be the 3rd or 4th option on a championship caliber team is enough to convince him to stay around longer.
Maybe.
His popularity, wealth, and business deals though give a ton of demands on his time.
Podcasts/broadcasting, he would probably be about the top guy. The number of businesses ties he has, certainly could be a full time job more closely managing them.
Hopefully, but it just doesn’t feel like a championship team. Star power only goes so far these days.
LeGeriatric.
Leretirementhome
Overnight injuries is crazy.
He’s just like me!
LeRanoutofPEDs
That smile looks so sarcastic lmao
Edit: LeMAO
Nah fr at 37, having played ball almost my entire life, there are days where I haven’t balled for a week and I just wake up ankles and knees sore for no reason. I do lots of mobility work now too, it helps but some days father time just fucks with me I guess.
his ass still sore from the beating Dillon Brooks gave him
LeArthritis
He’s just like me fr
DNP : Old
LeXcuse
I know we joke about it, but I feel like hes retiring after this year. Next year at the max - his drive has looked lackluster this year.
He’s nearing most played games of all time in the NBA either this season or early next so I feel like he breaks that last borderline untouchable record and calls it, but maybe he’s not even thinking about that kind of thing anymore.
LeElderly
T Duncan DNP - Old
Does this mean this fuckery won’t go on for much longer? 😭
LeLidocaine
LeDocaine
LeChuckling
LeGiggles
That’s what I said when he missed the start of the season with sciatica, he’s gone from having basketball injuries to just having old man injuries.
ReLetable
LeMiles. 200k ready for an engine swap.
LeMillenial
DNP - Old
At 40 in the NBA, you are entitled to a number of DNP - old days
NBA isn’t going to complain. he is a magnet for viewership and sponsorship dollars.
This is what Kevin hart was talking about. 🎤
LeGeriatric
LeTired
LeTirement
he just like me fr
I woke up one day and my index finger hurt when I bend it tight, like when I’m holding my fist. That was a year ago and it’s still not completely healed right now.
The shit that used to work, won’t work now. 🎶
He’s old when it’s convenient for him.
I feel this, in my back, every morning
Leincontinent.
LeDepends
Yeah that’s definitely what it’s like to be over 40. Just wake up and some new shit hurts.
Too relatable.
LeRelatable
LeDNP-Old
I can confirm
My boss doesn’t let me use this excuse…
Gave himself the Poppovich special, “DNP (old)”
Reporter is like “Hey why you include me in this”
My hip hurts.
LeTirement is soon coming 😢
Le old DNP-SYDHNB
I just sneezed and I’m aching
Real. I pulled my calf muscle getting out of bed. Right before the morning stretches I do to avoid this. Because I’m old
Damon Jones actually told me about this ankle injury a long time ago.
You wake up and don’t want to play the Pelicans.
shoulda sat last night too instead of a shameless statpad away from missing your precious streak.
That’s true - I’ll back that up.
My dude really bout to announce a retirement tour next summer. 24 years, a hell of a career
he’s definitely retiring after this season
I think he’ll go one more. Ain’t no way he doesn’t do a retirement tour
I like to imagine him as Murtaugh and Luka as Riggs. Austin Reaves is Leo Getz.
Dude’s played 23 seasons. That’s when you just say “ok” after they tell you they can’t play.
Can confirm. In my 40’s.
I know the feeling
But hey, you just gotta rest for a day or two then you can get back to catching half court lobs.
LeHuman
DNP-OLD
LeCareerAlmostDone
I’ve done that shit since puberty. Bron got to wait until he was 40?!
Please retire already, so Luka can get some actual help worth $52 million.
Leila
Looks like LeBron can’t defeat Father Time after all.