Did Lebron fake it?

Game 4 of the Finals....Lebron goes up and gets hard fouled by Bogut.
He comes down a little off balance, and in trying to catch his balance he falls into camera row and injures/cuts his head.

Question: Did he fake it? Did he run himself into the row of cameras in order to fake a more severe foul by Bogut? It looks to me that he could have just fallen down after foul but instead almost ran into the camera row.

What say you?

 

I say it's time to revisit letting cameramen sit on the floor under the hoop

 

My initial thought was that by making it look like a flagrant, he caused himself to be off balanced, which led to him landing on the camera.

 

I rewound and watched this several times. I don't think he faked it at all. He was trying not to go out of bounds. The whistle had been blown, but players movements are quick and instinctive. If you watch close, he is trying to leave the ball in bounds as he is falling out of bounds...out of balance.

 

No.

 

I agree! He just lost his footing when landing. So I guess he flopped himself right into the cameras.

 

I thought the same thing. Bogut's foul didn't create momentum in that direction. It looked like LeBron tried to drive forward with a couple steps to sell the contact.

 

I can't believe they let him play on with his skull carved like a Thanksgiving Turkey

 

That was my take, too. He exaggerated the force of the foul, which caused him to go careering into the cameras. The first thought that went through my head was "There he goes, Paul Piercing it."

 

I think he tried a little too hard to keep himself and/or the basketball in bounds, and ended up overbalancing. I think he pushed off and kind of dove because he was instinctively trying not to land on the basketball.

 

Clean block by Bogut, body contact and flop was instigated solely by out-of-control LeBron against a stationary Bogut, should have been GS ball.

 

I guess it was the only way to get a selfie snapshot while holding a basketball

 

He got fouled but embellished the contact at the end. There is no way he should've ended up near the cameraman.

Get your ass up and stop flopping LeBron!

 

Look familiar?

 

huh?

 

OK, this is the one I was looking for, but I couldn't find it by itself.

Go to 2:28 of the Lebron James flop compilation.

Do not look at the ball or the block. Lebron is in the key, in white. Watch him dive into the chairs on the baseline.

Look familiar?

 

I laughed pretty hard when the lady said "we don't want cameras" and immediately ESPN was like "screw you lady, we'll just go to the overhead."