I stopped reading his essays when it was obvious he was just a blind hater.He cramped in the very first game of the 2012-2013 season and Brian Windhorst mentioned he's had problems cramping since high school, you just highlighted the only high profile cases of that shyt man.
LeBron is a 270lb man playing more game than anyone else, more minutes than everyone else, with more responsibility than anyone else, and he wants to claim that he cramped up from "anxiety".
The science of LeBron's cramping
"That's really a question of James losing maybe two or three liters of liquid every hour, which he's very capable [of] when you're the size of LeBron and playing hard and continuously. His sodium loss could be three, four or five thousand milligrams an hour."
"Everybody sweats at a different level," Bergeron said. "A guy like LeBron, I can imagine, must have a very, very high sweating rate, and, consequently, not only the fluid losses are extraordinary, which in of itself might not necessarily cause muscles to cramp, but he probably has enormous electrolyte losses primarily as it stems from sodium chloride.
"You can have players playing the same game, the same minutes. You might have a guard who is nowhere near the size of LeBron. He's going to sweat a lot less," Bergeron said.
That James suffers from cramps might seem like a systemic weakness to some, but not to Dr. James Wyss, who specializes in sports medicine at Hospital for Special Surgery and is the team physician for St. John's University athletics.
"I think it's the opposite," Wyss said. "He has such a higher metabolic requirement, and, because of his muscle mass and the way he's able to use his body, he utilizes fluids and energy resources at such a faster rate. Under those conditions, that's part of the reason you can't prevent it as well as a normal athlete."
To Wyss, this is just something that the four-time MVP will have to deal with.
"It's part of the fact that he's the most unique athlete on the planet," Wyss says. "And with that, and the way he uses his muscles beyond what other people can use it, probably makes him more prone to cramps."
But no, it's not that he's the biggest buy playing on the perimeter, that he plays the most minutes and has the most responsibilities. It must be "anxiety."
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