Sometimes silence says more than a thousand words. LeBron James wasn’t on the hardwood at Chase Center on Sunday night. However, his Instagram comment might have been the loudest thing to come out of the Lakers’ 111-103 loss to the Warriors. As his son Bronny pulled off a viral putback slam dunk with one hand, King James had no words, literally. And while he did not actually say anything, he still made his message pretty clear.
The setup, the vertical reach, and the release under pressure? It was an isolation move, the kind of bucket that circulates on social media before the final buzzer even rings. King James had a wide smirk on his face as he sat back down after watching the slam. But there were no hype paragraphs in sight on social media, just “🐰🐰🔝” on the story re-post of B