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It’s tough being ‘‘King James.’’
Why, some days you even have to ride your bike to the gym to play a team such as the Bulls.
‘‘Forty minutes,’’ LeBron James said after the Miami Heat had edged the Bulls in a 97-93 thriller Sunday at American Airlines Arena.
That’s 40 minutes of pedaling to get him from his home to this raucous place off Biscayne Bay.
Nobody knows why James rode to the game. Get the heart rate up, perhaps. Be like the
99 percenters, maybe. But the bike sat protected away from the locker room after the game, and James wouldn’t say whether he would ride it home. (Here’s guessing a limo took them both.)
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