The Cleveland star LeBron James, during a game against Minnesota, d & # 23 XE9, December 2014.
The Cleveland star LeBron James, during a game against Minnesota, 23 December 2014. – Mike Lawrie / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP

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This is a Christmas gift baskets placed at the foot of the NBA: Five months after his departure from Miami, LeBron James found Thursday Heat and its supporters who still have not digested his departure Cleveland. As is the tradition since 1947, Christmas Day is not busy for dozens of NBA players.

The most anticipated match will be held at 17:00 (11:00 p.m. French time) and oppose Miami Cleveland, 7th respectively (13 v-16 d) and 5 (17 v-10 d) of the Eastern Conference, with only one player featured: LeBron James. After four years, four finals in a row and two titles with Miami, “King James” is to AmericanAirlines Arena in an enemy jersey, the Cleveland Cavaliers

The person addresses the reunion without apprehension.: “Of course, it is especially back to where you played for a long time, but for me, for us, it’s a game like any other, we want to win and we want to see us lose,” said the four-MVP . “It is especially for the NBA that this is the most important day of the year,” he noted.



“He must be received before the game. Afterwards, when it begins, the fans will do what they have to do “

Although the two teams have already clashed in October in preparation for the match on neutral ground, James expects a stormy reception from the Heat’s fans who have not forgotten his “betrayal” of July 11, when he decided to “go home” to Cleveland to meet the team where he made his debut in the NBA in 2003.

His former partner of the “Big Three” and a great friend Dwyane Wade Miami hopes the public will remember the major contribution of “King James”. “This guy took us to a level that Miami had reached only once in its history before his arrival. I think it must be received prior to the game, “he said about the NBA titles won in 2012 and 2013, the second and third in the history of the Heat after the one in 2006.” Afterwards, when the game has started, the fans will do what they have to do, “smiled” D-Wade. “

A sixth consecutive away Christmas family

Wade will not make a gift to James, and the third member of the “Big Three”, Chris Bosh will be even less charitable mood if it is able to play: he very badly the departure of their leader with whom he fell out

However, this is the least of his worries. for the sixth time in his career, he will spend Christmas away from home. His wife and their three children, the eldest LeBron Jr., who starts at 10 years to make a name on the court, and Zhuri youngest, born in October, will remain in Ohio. “I’m often traveling Christmas is evil from the NBA,” he blurted, an annoyed strand.