
HOUSTON — As one of the NBA’s greatest basketball players of all-time sat at a locker too small for his chiseled, 6-foot-8-inch frame, you could tell that he was a bit fatigued. However, he could still probably play another game, if that is what his team needed from him.
It was evident that Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James — whose triple-double (18 points, 10 rebounds, and 11 assists) helped his team defeat the young Rockets, 134-109 — was determined to will his team to a victory and push his team closer to a Western Conference playoff seed that might avoid the play-in tournament.