LOS ANGELES — The crowd got to cheer LeBron James one last time at home this season.
That the moment came when he walked out of the team’s tunnel in street clothes early in the first quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers game with the Oklahoma City Thunder seemed fitting.
The Lakers closed their season at Crypto.com Arena on Friday night — a 120-101 victory — with James on the bench, the team officially ruling him out for the rest of the season because of his sprained left ankle.