Lebron Once Allegedly Gained 7 Pounds DURING A Game

ESPN- In the past 15 years, stories about LeBron James‘ body have become a bit legendary with teammates.

Seeing him turn his ankle nearly 90 degrees only to tighten his shoelaces and finish with a triple-double. Watching him show up four hours before a playoff game to get in a sweat-soaked workout, then play more than 40 minutes and score 40 points. And the topper: the time James gained seven pounds during an Eastern Conference finals game.

Some Miami Heat teammates saw the scale and attest to it in amazement. James himself just shrugs and calls it “weird as hell.” The truly wild part is that it was from 271 pounds to 278 pounds, though James is much lighter these days.

Whelp, I guess that’s what happens when you’re taking enough HGH to turn a donkey into Seabiscuit. Lebron’s weight swings remind me of Chandler when he was going through his whole prescription pill phase.

No telling what you’ll eat/not eat when you’re chugging pill canisters like beers. Now, Lebron’s weight has fluctuated throughout his career. When he came into the league, he was fresh out of high school, where his diet probably consisted of tater tots and pizza from the cafeteria. Here’s what he looked like at 18:

By the time he was in Miami, he looked like this:

The biggest difference is in the shoulders. When he was in Miami, LBJ was clearly hitting that overhead press like he was training for whatever job The Rock had in San Andreas. Then, when he got to Cleveland, he slimmed back down because apparently he cut sugar out of his diet:

The point is, his weight is all over the place. It makes sense when you exercise that much. I don’t know how any of these guys keep weight on when they play 82+ games a year. In college, we would lift weights all fall in preparation for the spring. I would typically come in to the season around 218 lbs and by the time we had been bounced from any playoff contention (week 5), I’d be down around 205. It didn’t matter how many plates of popcorn shrimp I ate; we simply ran too much.

But GAINING 7 pounds DURING a game? That doesn’t make sense. Unless you’re cutting weight before the game and then you hydrate a ton on the bench, that seems like a tall-tale. Brian Windhorst is trying to justify the fact that the last time he hopped on a treadmill, he gained 7 pounds because he hydrated with eclairs.