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Even off the court, LeBron James never misses an opportunity to call the shots.
Walking through the lobby of the Wynn hotel in Las Vegas well past midnight on Thursday morning, James and Chris Paul pull up to a $500 minimum-bet blackjack table and set up shop. It isn't long before James takes control of the table.
"C'mon Mike, you're my man, give me a nine," says James to the diminutive dealer. "Don't let me down."
For the most part, the dealer doesn't and James ends up buying Mike a drink before he's subbed out by another dealer, Traci, who ends up being the "closer" to the hot table, knocking out Paul and a couple of his friends. The only thing missing was the dramatic opening of the bullpen door and the soothing sounds of Enter Sandman as she stepped to the table. "I knew it was over when she came," says Paul. "I was done."
Across the way, James and Paul find comfort in cheering on a table full of high rollers, betting as much as $10,000 a hand, high-fiving the suits after every win. "There you go," says James. "Hit it again."
Further down the pit, Carmelo Anthony is playing blackjack at $200 a hand with his new teammate JR Smith, rocking a sideways Yankees cap. Shortly after seeing his stack of chips dwindle down to nothing, Anthony leaves the table, takes off his collared shirt, swings it over his shoulder and heads back to his room. "He played a lot," says Smith. "He just didn't win a lot."
Behind the table, Jermaine O'Neal took the smart route and watched his friends lose their money. Meanwhile, sitting next to a row of slot machines, Chris Bosh does the same as he walks up to James and Paul who return to the blackjack table after lucky Mike returns. A short time later, Dwyane Wade rolls up to the table to see how his boys are doing. "Are you playing?" asks James. "No, man, I'm not losing my money," responds Wade, wearing shorts and sandals as he heads back to his room. "I'm good."
While James and Paul do fairly well on their return, they close out, a little behind on the night but a little ahead on the trip.
"Blackjack's not my game, I play a little game called booray," says James who's had plenty of booray games at his ridiculously large suite in the Wynn since checking into the hotel last week. "That's my game. I'm the best booray player."
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