LeBron Is Reading 'Hunger Games': Hilarious or Horrible?

What's three-time NBA MVP LeBron James reading these days before a crucial postseason game with his Miami Heat? If you thought “playbook” or “Maxim,” you were sadly mistaken. There's been times LeBron has been called a big kid -- for better or worse. Maybe he just wanted to brush up on his reading. Either way, Mr. MVP was seen by ABC cameras reading none other than Suzanne Collins' popular novel "The Hunger Games" that was released this year as a film.

Who knows what caused LeBron to all of a sudden get his reading game on, but perhaps he already breezed through the Harry Potter series. It looked like teammate Dwyane Wade and himself were Hunger Games tributes, outlasting the weaker, flustered Indiana Pacers tributes Danny Granger and Roy Hibbert. One of the main themes of "The Hunger Games" is that only the strongest and toughest will survive.

The Heat proved they were the strongest and toughest team Sunday afternoon in Game 4 to even up the Eastern Conference semifinal series with the Pacers at two games a piece. The Pacers looked like the team many expected them to be -- one not as good as the Heat. If the Heat win the next two games, "The Hunger Games" are over, along with their playoff lives in 2012 for the Pacers. Do you approve of LeBron's pre-game reading choice? Think it had anything to do with Game 4? Maybe he just wanted him to know the story before watching the movie. But it's fun to speculate anyway.