Ethan Miller/Getty Images LeBron James left the Cleveland Cavaliers this offseason to join the Los Angeles Lakers, but it was all love between the four-time MVP and Cavs head coach Tyronn Lue when they ran into each other Sunday in Las Vegas. James watched the Lakers defeat the Detroit Pistons at summer league right before Lue's Cavaliers handed the Toronto Raptors a loss, and there was a courtside reunion in between games. Gilbert Manzano of the Las Vegas Review Journal shared the initial embrace, while Ben Golliver of Sports Illustrated passed along photos of the exchange: Lue coached James on the Cavaliers the last three years. They reached the NBA Finals all three times and won the championship in 2016 after overcoming a 3-1 deficit against the Golden State Warriors. Andrew Joseph of USA Today noted James didn't stay to watch the Cavaliers, although they will face his Lakers in the semifinals Monday. There will be an additional layer of intrigue if the King attends the contest between his old and new teams.<doc-sep>Josh Hart scored 37 points and grabbed nine rebounds to lead the Lakers to a 112-109 double-overtime victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday in the semifinals of the NBA Summer League. The Lakers advanced to the championship game for a second straight year after winning the 2017 title behind game MVP Kyle Kuzma and league MVP Lonzo Ball. The Lakers will play the winner of the second semifinal between Portland and Memphis. Xavier Rathan-Mayes made the play of the game when he snatched a loose ball and fed Jeff Ayres with a pretty touch pass under the basket with 45 seconds left in the second overtime. Rathan-Mayes followed Ayres’ layin with a slashing layup to put the Lakers up 110-106 with 22 seconds left. Advertisement Cleveland’s Billy Preston missed a three-pointer at the buzzer. Svi Mykhailiuk scored 31 points for the Lakers (6-0), while Ayres added 20. Collin Sexton led the Cavaliers with 27 points, while Jamel Artis and John Holland each scored 17. With the Lakers trailing 105-102 in the first overtime after Sexton made a short jumper, Rathan-Mayes buried a three-pointer to tie the score. Hart made it 106-105 by hitting the second of two free throws with 5.7 seconds remaining. Sexton did the same at the other end, splitting two free throws and tying it at 106 with 3.3 seconds left. The Cavaliers (5-2) erased an early 11-point deficit and tied the score at 95, when Vladimir Brodziansky buried a three-pointer with 2:00 left in regulation. After Mykhailiuk made one of two free throws to give the Lakers a 96-95 lead with a little more than a minute left, Hart grabbed a defensive rebound and at the other end dished to Mykhailiuk, who hit a running jumper just above the free-throw line to push the lead to 98-95. But Sexton answered with a three-pointer to tie the score with 26 seconds left. Hart missed a three-pointer with 3.0 seconds left, and Sexton missed one from long range at the buzzer. The Lakers went on an 18-2 run to take a 28-17 lead led by Mykhailiuk, who was four for four from long-range in the first quarter. The Lakers shot 50%t (nine for 18) in the opening period and was five for nine (55%) from beyond the three-point line. Advertisement Hart took over in the second quarter, scoring 10 of his 14 first-half points to help the Lakers take a 50-47 lead at halftime.<doc-sep>We were all Svitnesses as Svi Mykhailiuk and Josh Hart were once again the two best players on the court as they dealt the Cleveland Cavaliers their biggest lost since July 1, beating the Cavs 111-109 in overtime in the Las Vegas Summer League semifinals to advance to Tuesday’s championship contest. Mykhailiuk came out firing, hitting on his first five shots before finally missing a layup just to let everyone else feel better about themselves. What a dude. He finished with 31 points on 12-20 shooting and 6-11 from three to go with 4 rebounds. According to Chauncey Billups and Mark Jones, who were calling the game for ESPN, Miles Simon has been getting requests from Hart to guard the other team’s best player each night. Hart’s matchup Monday evening was No. 8 overall pick Collin Sexton, who led the way for Cleveland with 27 points on 9-22 shooting and 2 assists to 4 turnovers. It was a tough matchup given Sexton’s speed and position, but it’s still great to see Hart take up the challenge on the night-by-night basis the way he has. Hart finished with 37 points on 13-28 shooting and 6-15 from three and 7 boards. The Lakers built an early double-digit lead but Cleveland fought their way back into it to force overtime. The first overtime saw neither team give any quarter, with Hart and Sexton both going 1-2 at the free-throw line in the closing seconds to leave the game tied and force a second overtime. But even amidst all the notable performances from Lakers fan favorites, it was Xavier Rathan-Mayes — who was forced into the starting lineup in Alex Caruso’s place as the latter dealt with some sort of illness that kept him from playing Monday night — who ended up being the hero of the game. The team missed Caruso’s ability to set up the offense and communicate on defense, but Rathan-Mayes played about as well as you would expect given the circumstances, and shined when it mattered most. He finished with 12 points on 5-11 shooting and 9 assists to 2 turnovers, including two of the game’s biggest plays: a tip pass assist to get the Lakers the lead and a layup to helped seal the deal in double overtime. With the late win in hand, Los Angeles will continue their title defense when they face the winner of Memphis and Portland in the Las Vegas Summer League championship Tuesday night at 7:00 p.m.<doc-sep>LeBron James took in the Los Angeles Lakers’ Summer League win against the Pistons on Sunday, which conveniently preceded the Cavs’ matchup with the Raptors. That bit of help from the Summer League schedulers made an impromptu reunion between LeBron and his former coach Tyronn Lue possible. Immediately following the Lakers’ win, Lue approached LeBron at his courtisde seat and the two shared a pleasant exchange. Lue remained with LeBron for several minutes. When LeBron announced he was joining the Lakers, Lue told NBA TV that he was shocked. Now that two weeks have gone by, if there were any sour grapes about LeBron’s move to Los Angeles, you wouldn’t have known that from Lue. It was all smiles from both sides. Lakers’ LeBron James & Cavaliers Coach Tyronn Lue chat before Cleveland’s Summer League game pic.twitter.com/0gflYmWgW2 — Ben Golliver (@BenGolliver) July 15, 2018 LeBron did not stay at the Thomas & Mack Center for his former team’s game, though. After speaking with Lue, LeBron made his way to the tunnel.<doc-sep>
Garrett Ellwood/Getty Images The Los Angeles Lakers landed LeBron James from the Cleveland Cavaliers and knocked out the four-time MVP's old team from summer league play this offseason. Thanks to a dominant performance by Josh Hart, the Lakers prevailed in Monday's double-overtime summer league semifinal game against the Cavaliers in Las Vegas, 112-109. Hart finished with 37 points and nine rebounds, serving as the go-to option in the offense for much of the contest: He also didn't hesitate to shoot, going 6-of-15 from three-point range in the win. That is exactly what fans of the Purple and Gold want to see in July, considering how many open looks he figures to see during the regular season playing alongside James. Few in NBA history find open teammates with the right passes when defenses collapse on them more effectively than James, and it will be up to Hart to hit those shots. He proved he can slash through the lane and turn defense into offense as well, though, and wasn't done working after the win: Video Play Button Videos you might like Hart wasn't the only impressive young playmaker on the floor Monday, as rookie Collin Sexton led the Cavaliers with 27 points, three rebounds, two assists and two steals. He drilled a three-pointer to tie it in the final 30 seconds of regulation and a free throw to knot the score again with three seconds remaining in the first overtime, inspiring nothing but love from Hart after the contest: The Cavaliers are going to need someone to lead them into the future after James departed, and Sexton flashed the potential to come through with the game hanging in the balance. While it was just summer league, it was the type of clutch play that will help the Alabama product live up to the expectations that come with being the No. 8 pick in the draft. As for Hart and the Lakers, they will face the winner of the showdown between the Memphis Grizzlies and Portland Trail Blazers in Tuesday's championship game.