LeBron James pulls himself from game, gets technical foul (Video)

LeBron James inexplicably walked off the floor during the middle of play Saturday, picking up a technical foul for it.

James was evidently frustrated with something, because he stormed to the bench in the middle of play. The problem is NBA teams must have five players on the floor, and the Cavaliers didn’t and couldn’t have a substitute ready, which meant they got hit with a technical foul.

LeBron casually quitting up 20 pic.twitter.com/LO5Rq6raFK

— Barstool Sports (@barstooltweets) November 22, 2015

The Cavs had a huge lead and they went on to win the game, so it didn’t matter too much in the grand scheme of things, but LeBron still apologized after the game.

LeBron apologized to his teammates for benching himself midway through the game. "I blew a gasket."

— Scott @ WFNY (@WFNYScott) November 22, 2015

David Blatt’s take on the incident was perhaps the best, though.

David Blatt with a great line about LeBron subbing himself out in the 3rd Q: "He thought we were playing hockey"

— Dave McMenamin (@mcten) November 22, 2015

Perhaps LeBron was just upset that he lost that bet to Draymond Green.