The King has spoken.
LeBron James made it clear who Christmas Day belongs to.
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It is the NBA’s day, not the NFL’s.
“I like the NFL, however Christmas is our day” James informed ESPN’s Lisa Salters, after the Los Angeles Lakers escaped with an exciting 115-113 win over Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors.
On a day that noticed Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs throttle the Pittsburgh Steelers, adopted up by Lamar Jackson breaking data in a Baltimore Ravens win over the Houston Texans, it was the NBA’s slate of video games that present probably the most leisure.
Certain, each NFL video games, which have been stay streamed on Netflix for the primary time ever, had loads of star energy, each video games have been blowouts and infrequently aggressive.
In the meantime, the NBA had wall-to-wall nice video games, beginning with the Spurs-Knicks, all the way in which to Austin Reaves’ game-winning basket with one second left over the Warriors.
From Victor Wembanyama’s huge day, to Mikal Bridges placing the Knicks on his again, to Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves getting revenge on the Dallas Mavericks, to Joel Embiid and the Philadelphia 76’ers holding off a livid Boston Celtics comeback at TD Backyard, it was a superb day of hoops.
The identical cannot be mentioned concerning the soccer that was performed, not even shut.
However that hasn’t stopped the NFL from attempting to take the vacation.
A day that has lengthy been related to the NBA, has seen the NFL attempt to take the highlight in recent times.
Even when Christmas Day fell on a Wednesday, in the course of every week, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell nonetheless discovered a technique to squeeze soccer on to our screens.
Whereas the NBA has misplaced steam, the NFL has solely turned larger and greater.
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Apart from in the present day.
On a day by which Beyoncé carried out at halftime of the Houston sport, it was the NBA that shined the brightest.
For sooner or later, the NBA was again on high.
For sooner or later, LeBron James reminded everybody that the NBA was king.