Prior to the start of their first-round NBA playoff series against the Houston Rockets this weekend, the Los Angeles Lakers posted a video of LeBron James and the rest of the team preparing for the postseason grind.<\/p>\n
The video starts with the 41-year-old James pushing himself to the limit on a stationary bike before showing some behind-the-scenes footage of practice:<\/p>\n
L.A. is the No. 4 seed, but it enters the first round of the playoffs as a substantial underdog since Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and Austin Reaves are both injured, and it is unclear when they will be able to return.<\/p>\n
In order to get the better of Kevin Durant and the Rockets, the Lakers will likely need a vintage performance out of James, who has taken a backseat to Don\u010di\u0107 for much of the season.<\/p>\n
The Lakers can’t be completely counted out with James leading the way, though, as he is the NBA’s all-time leading scorer in addition to being a four-time NBA MVP, four-time NBA champion and four-time NBA Finals MVP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prior to the start of their first-round NBA playoff series against the Houston Rockets this weekend, the Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-613101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}