Lakers star LeBron James complains about flying to Milwaukee for a preseason recreation

LeBron James isn’t proud of the Los Angeles Lakers’ preseason schedule.

Whereas 5 of their six video games are manageable, it was this week’s fast journey from Southern California to Milwaukee that appeared to set the 39-year-old off. James took to social media Wednesday morning forward of the staff’s practically four-hour flight from Los Angeles to Milwaukee for a preseason recreation with the Bucks on Thursday.

“Can somebody please clarify to me why we’re getting on a [plane] and heading to Milwaukee for one preseason recreation!?!?” he wrote, earlier than including that he was “stunned” at himself for even getting on the aircraft.

Naturally, the Bucks couldn’t assist however reply.

It was Greg, although, who had the very best rebuttal.

To start with, it’s not like James and the Lakers are flying commercially right here. They’re taking a chartered staff flight that may go on to Milwaukee, which makes the roughly 1,750-mile journey as straightforward because it presumably could possibly be.

And secondly, it’s not just like the Lakers are the one staff touring for preseason video games. The Bucks simply performed a preseason recreation in Detroit, for instance, they usually’ll head to Dallas for a recreation towards the Mavericks subsequent week. The Boston Celtics, who received the NBA title final season, flew to Abu Dhabi for a pair of preseason video games towards the Denver Nuggets earlier this month. That’s a roughly 6,700-mile journey a method. The Celtics may also fly to Toronto for a recreation towards the Raptors subsequent week.

The NBA doesn’t management groups’ preseason schedules, both. The Lakers constructed their very own, and there’s no minimal quantity of video games required to be performed. Groups are allowed to play as much as six. They’re touring to Milwaukee this preseason as a part of a home-and-home preseason collection after the Bucks traveled to Los Angeles for a recreation final October.

However in James’ protection, all six of the Lakers’ preseason video games are away from Crypto.com Enviornment — which is at present present process renovations. That’s additionally quickly displaced the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings, who will open their common season with seven straight street video games.

The Lakers opened their preseason with a pair of video games in Palm Desert, which sits about two hours east of downtown Los Angeles. After coming back from their recreation at Fiserv Discussion board, the Lakers will shut the preseason with a recreation towards the Golden State Warriors in Las Vegas, a recreation on the Phoenix Suns after which a last recreation towards the Warriors in San Francisco.

“Not a great preseason for us,” Lakers coach JJ Redick mentioned Tuesday about their journey schedule, via ESPN.

So whereas he might not prefer it, the Lakers’ journey to Milwaukee isn’t out of the abnormal by any means.

James and the Lakers will formally open their season Oct. 22 at Crypto.com Enviornment. It can mark James’ twenty second within the league, which matches an all-time report, and his first season taking part in along with his son, Bronny, whom the Lakers selected in the second round of the draft earlier this summer season. They are going to develop into the first father-son duo in history to play in an official NBA game as soon as they take the courtroom collectively this season.