Is LeBron James hit a game tying three late in regulation?

Then, you know he stopped toe.

Stop the team in overtime with the defense there for L.

A.

Against The Thunder James's line.

It featured 25.7 assists and six rebounds in that one point win after his minutes were down big time in January.

Quite a different story so far this season, I shouldn't say.

This month.

LeBron leads the MBA with nearly 41 minutes per game.

According to Elias, 36 year old LeBron is the oldest player in league history to play in three straight overtime games.

He's been Ella's leading score each time off the jumps.

Rachel Nichols joining us now with much more on this story.

So Rachel I mentioned his minutes were down after the first five weeks of the season.

What's the level of concern for the Lakers with LeBron's minutes going up this month?

The truth is, whatever the Lakers level of concern is, it doesn't really matter because this is LeBron James decision and you know that as well as all the other fans out there.

And look, LeBron knows his body better than anyone.

He's earned the right to make these kinds of choices, and he is also aware by the way that he is leading the M V P race right now.

Our colleague over at ESPN dot com Tim Bontemps does an annual straw poll at this time a year.

He surveys voters on who they're thinking of voting for right now, and LeBron is leading the race by quite a bit over Joel Embiid and Nikolay Yokich.

LeBron has heard in the past when he thought he should be winning M v P, that the perception of him coasting during the regular season, taking games off for maintenance.

That hurt his chances.

We found out last year after he lost out to Yanis just how badly he would like to win 1/5 MVP, and I think he is pretty determined to play as much as he can this year.

Well, they're rolling right now.

Let's go to the Eastern Conference, and it's a completely different story for the team that met the Lakers in the finals a year ago.

The heat Now they've won three games in a row, but there's still 10 and 14 overall currently outside the playoff picture there on the road in Houston tonight to face the Rockets as they start a seven game road trip.

Racial?

What's the outlook for them to turn things around right now?

Well, look, you're showing highlights from the game they played against the Knicks the other night.

Not quite at the level of the nineties Heat Knicks rivalry that I missed so much.

But it was really fun, and it was a reminder of what this Heat team can be.

They had such a difficult start.

One of the teams that has been hardest hit by coronavirus early in the season, Jimmy Butler missed about three weeks.

He lost £12 in about a week while he was dealing with Cove it through the entire team off bam!

Out of Bio, also adjusting to the fact that everyone knows he's coming this year.

Everyone is looking for him, but they do seem like they're finding their rhythm again.

And as you mentioned, they're not just out of the playoff picture right now.

They're not even in contention for the play in game that the N B A.

Is gonna have it the end of this season.

But I do expect that to change.

And as we saw last year, this is a team very comfortable playing from behind.

They play from behind and have one in a lot of games in themselves.

But they also have played from behind in the playoff bracket.

As you remember, they were the lower seed when they met the Bucks in the second round.

They were the lower seed in the conference finals and, of course, in the finals as well.

But they know how to play from behind.

They're gonna have to again this season, and the graphic we posted really said it all about Jimmy Butler.

This team is three and nine when he's not on the court, seven and five when he's playing.

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