BR1986FB wrote:
I think he shot it with the opposite hand to "stir it up." Lebron can be the master manipulator, at times, and I think he did it just to get people talking/thinking. If he shot the first one with his normal hand, you're going to tell me he didn't have the ability to shoot the second?
I kinda agree with you kinda don't. He shot the first one righty because that was the free throw that put us up 4, basically putting the game away. The 2nd free throw, while still relatively important if Chicago were to hit a 3 or quick 2, was much less meaningful so he shot it lefty, while shooting through the pain on the first one.
The injury to me sounds a lot like tendonitis. It doesn't show up on X rays, I'm not sure if it will on CAT scans but I doubt it because it's not really a structural injury. It's probably painful, but he's able to play through it, especially if he gets a shot to numb it before the game or at halftime.
If it is indeed tendonitis, I can see him playing the rest of the playoffs through it, albeit in pain, and then possibly opt for surgery after the season if it doesn't get better, although when I had it in high school I just took a few weeks off and it went away.
