The world according to Jim:

• LeBron James brings out emotional reactions in the rest of us, positive and negative, maybe because he tends to be so passive-aggressive that we can’t help but react. And so it was Thursday night in Toronto, when one pass – one game-winning pass, mind you, for Rui Hachimura’s buzzer-beating open corner 3-pointer for a Lakers victory – brought out the passive-aggressiveness in everybody else. …

• That pass, rather than LeBron taking the shot himself on the last possession of regulation with a 120-120 tie, broke a streak of 1,297 games – spanning 12 years and 11 months – in which he had scored in double figures in every game. Lakers TV broadcasters Bill MacDonald and Stu Lantz seemed mildly shocked. The tone from the rest of the public, for some reason, bord

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