by Tania Ganguli
LeBron James realizes he didn’t handle himself in the best way after his Cleveland Cavaliers lost to the Orlando Magic in last season’s Eastern Conference finals.
He didn’t shake hands with players on the Magic and he didn’t do media afterward. And while James told NBA.com’s David Aldridge if he had to do that night over again, he would have spoken to the media, there’s one thing he doesn’t regret.
“I look at the handshake like this,” James said. “During the regular season, no one ever says anything. We play 82 regular-season games, eight preseason games, guys at the end of the game, no one ever shakes hands. Ever. And you move on to the next game. The congratulations, I congratulated Dwight (Howard) via e-mail, told him congratulations and good luck in the Finals. The shaking hands thing is really not a big thing for me. It’s not I’m a sore loser or anything like that. I’m just moving on. You guys beat me … I think sometimes people want you to accept losing, and I will never accept losing. There’s ways to handle it certain times, and shaking hands may be it. But I will never accept losing, at anything that I do.” OrlandoSentinel.com
