LeBron James Wore His Schoolboy Shorts to Game 1 of the NBA Finals

King James or Head Boy?

LeBron James is facing off against the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals for the fourth consecutive year, and they’ve got him as nervous as a schoolboy.

Okay, probably not, seeing how this is his eighth appearance in a Finals series and he’s putting up the best post-season numbers of his career, with the weakest bench of fellow Cleveland Cavaliers ever.

Still, when he turned up to the Oracle Arena in Oakland today, he was sporting a suit-and-shorts combo that screams "private school summer uniform".

.@KingJames brought out the suit & shorts for Game 1 😯 (via @NBA)#NBAFinals pic.twitter.com/bl6Cu0OmvA

— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) May 31, 2018

LeBron has always been a natty, fashion-forward dresser. However, in this instance, the shorts are a clap-back at the criticism of the suits he had designed for the Cavs roster ahead of the playoffs; suits that have been mocked, mightily, for being ankle freezers.

LeBron and Kevin Love are back with the half-shrunken Thom Browne suits. Boston goes up 3-2.

— Myles Deering (@myles23thomas) May 23, 2018

@_JohnGonz The Cavs' suits were provided by @ThomBrowneNY, who is argusbly his generation best regarded sartorial designers. His signature twist is cutting the trousers high at the ankle (pretty sure he more or less invented that). Just thought you might like to know.

— Soren Romer (@SorenRomer) April 24, 2018

Even Drake, when he got in a skirmish with Cavs player Kendrick Perkins, joked he was just complimenting him on "the hem on his capris."

So, next time you decide to make fun of LeBron’s couture, just remember: the man can make cut-offs work.

If LeBron can normalize suits with shorts for summer weddings he’s better than Jordan https://t.co/1xDXIedHoe

— Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell) May 31, 2018

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Photo: Twitter (NBA on TNT)