Skip Bayless created this little earworm and now the FBI’s gambling probe into the NBA is stoking those flames. Every injury in the league sounds like a plot device for scripted TV. LeBron James’ sciatica was reported before anyone could’ve imagined that the opening week of the 2025-26 would be marred with arrests. Now Bron’s medical situation takes on a new color. A few sceptics feel he might be weaponizing it.

Now Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce are hardly the unbiased LeBron cynics. They haven’t gotten over the Celtics-Heat rivalry to this day. They do see LeBron James as a great player though. So it’s hard for them to digest he’d miss the first three weeks of the season.

After that Hennessy debacle, KG was convinced that James is gearing up for retirement after the 2025-26 season. Yet

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