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VIDEO: Bored LeBron James Attempts Water Bottle Challenge During Knicks Blowout

LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers attempts water bottle challenge during blowout of the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden (Dec 7, 2016)
LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers attempts water bottle challenge during blowout of the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden (Dec 7, 2016)

*LeBron James added insult to injury last night when he began playing the water bottle challenge to kill time as his Cleveland Cavaliers were busy blowing out the New York Knicks.

Perhaps Bron was still a little salty from Knicks president Phil Jackson referring to his business team as a “posse” last month. Whatever the case, James scored 25 points to help his team crush the Knicks 126-94 at Madison Square Garden.

Up by 31 with less than a minute to go in the game, the camera caught James, Kyrie Irving and other Cavs on the bench flipping a water bottle and trying to have it land upright – a.k.a, the water-bottle challenge.

According to reports, Irving successfully landed a flip, but it wasn’t caught on camera.

The video that ended up going viral showed a few Cavs players taking several attempts and failing. At one point, James’ bottle flip landed on the court, prompting him to dive out and quickly grab it as play was happening on the opposite end of the court.

Watch below:

After the game, the players were grilled about it.

“Oh man, it’s just a social media craze,” Irving said. “The water bottle is just like — if you land it, you are just like a legend.”

“I was just trying to follow in the kids’ footsteps and really just put my mark on the water-bottle challenge, man,” Irving added of others posting videos of bottle flips online. “It was awesome. But hey, move on.”

James was asked after the blowout about how important it is to have fun like the Cavs did at the end of Wednesday’s contest.

“I always have fun,” James said. “The game of basketball is always fun for me. Obviously, when you lose a game, you feel a certain way about it, you think about what you could have done better. But the game of basketball is fun, and for me, once the game — I start showing up and I am not having fun no more, then I won’t be sitting talking to you guys postgame.”

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