“Who knows how sore he would have been if wasn’t overtime, but I’m sure he still would have been sore. “He hadn’t been able to play a lot of basketball prior to that,” Walton said. Walton said there may be other times James could need days off for his body to recover. “It’s a possibility, but a lot of it will be dependent on how he’s feeling and what the schedule is like at those times,” Walton said. “Right now, it’s more just him being sore after five weeks of not playing basketball.

Source: New York Times February 03, 2019 01:18 UTC